Rafael Varas-Malca

708 total citations
24 papers, 500 citations indexed

About

Rafael Varas-Malca is a scholar working on Paleontology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Rafael Varas-Malca has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 500 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Paleontology, 16 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 12 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Rafael Varas-Malca's work include Ichthyology and Marine Biology (14 papers), Evolution and Paleontology Studies (12 papers) and Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology (10 papers). Rafael Varas-Malca is often cited by papers focused on Ichthyology and Marine Biology (14 papers), Evolution and Paleontology Studies (12 papers) and Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology (10 papers). Rafael Varas-Malca collaborates with scholars based in Peru, France and Italy. Rafael Varas-Malca's co-authors include Alberto Collareta, Giovanni Bianucci, Mario Urbina, Olivier Lambert, Elisa Malinverno, Claudio Di Celma, Walter Landini, Anna Gioncada, Karen Gariboldi and Giulia Bosio and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology.

In The Last Decade

Rafael Varas-Malca

22 papers receiving 483 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rafael Varas-Malca Peru	13	293	265	256	124	65	24	500
Javier Luque Panama	16	213 0.7×	291 1.1×	372 1.5×	112 0.9×	192 3.0×	47	662
Carolina S. Gutstein Chile	15	304 1.0×	288 1.1×	309 1.2×	127 1.0×	80 1.2×	29	559
Leandro M. Pérez Argentina	10	250 0.9×	121 0.5×	66 0.3×	78 0.6×	35 0.5×	49	367
Michelangelo Bisconti Italy	18	353 1.2×	253 1.0×	567 2.2×	229 1.8×	246 3.8×	45	747
Theodore Gill	4	256 0.9×	52 0.2×	100 0.4×	94 0.8×	34 0.5×	5	297
Dana J. Ehret United States	10	395 1.3×	429 1.6×	176 0.7×	57 0.5×	27 0.4×	21	591
Humberto Astibia Spain	14	672 2.3×	230 0.9×	102 0.4×	68 0.5×	50 0.8×	63	768
Ainara Badiola Spain	15	474 1.6×	193 0.7×	72 0.3×	62 0.5×	25 0.4×	43	520
Tomáš Přikryl Czechia	13	258 0.9×	260 1.0×	71 0.3×	130 1.0×	28 0.4×	53	515
Oldřich Fejfar Czechia	15	449 1.5×	80 0.3×	185 0.7×	157 1.3×	15 0.2×	38	514

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rafael Varas-Malca

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Pujos, François, Lionel Hautier, Pierre‐Olivier Antoine, et al.. (2025). Unexpected pampatheriid from the early Oligocene of Peruvian Amazonia: insights into the tropical differentiation of cingulate xenarthrans. Historical Biology. 38(3). 778–785. 1 indexed citations

Bosio, Giulia, Alberto Collareta, Pietro Paolo Pierantoni, et al.. (2025). Miocene stratigraphy and vertebrate paleontology along the western side of Cerros Cadena de los Zanjones (East Pisco Basin, Peru). Journal of Maps. 21(1).

Pujos, François, Lionel Hautier, Pierre‐Olivier Antoine, et al.. (2025). 3D models related to the publication: Unexpected pampatheriid from the early Oligocene of Peruvian Amazonia: insights into the tropical differentiation of cingulate xenarthrans.. SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository. 11(1). e251–e251. 1 indexed citations

Collareta, Alberto, Giorgio Carnevale, Giovanni Bianucci, et al.. (2023). A puzzling occurrence of the bite mark ichnogenus Linichnus from the Lower Miocene Chilcatay Formation of Peru. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen. 308(2). 171–180. 2 indexed citations

Valenzuela‐Toro, Ana M., et al.. (2022). A new marine mammal assemblage from central Chile reveals the Pliocene survival of true seals in South America. Historical Biology. 34(11). 2205–2217. 4 indexed citations

Collareta, Alberto, Rafael Varas-Malca, Giulia Bosio, Mario Urbina, & Giovanni Coletti. (2022). Ghosts of the Holobiont: Borings on a Miocene Turtle Carapace from the Pisco Formation (Peru) as Witnesses of Ancient Symbiosis. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering. 11(1). 45–45. 5 indexed citations

Boivin, Myriam, Laurent Marivaux, Guillaume Billet, et al.. (2021). Late middle Miocene caviomorph rodents from Tarapoto, Peruvian Amazonia. PLoS ONE. 16(11). e0258455–e0258455. 10 indexed citations

Bosio, Giulia, Alberto Collareta, Claudio Di Celma, et al.. (2021). Taphonomy of marine vertebrates of the Pisco Formation (Miocene, Peru): Insights into the origin of an outstanding Fossil-Lagerstätte. PLoS ONE. 16(7). e0254395–e0254395. 30 indexed citations

Lambert, Olivier, Christian de Muizon, Rafael Varas-Malca, Mario Urbina, & Giovanni Bianucci. (2021). EURHINODELPHINIDS FROM THE EARLY MIOCENE OF PERU: FIRST UNAMBIGUOUS RECORDS OF THESE HYPER-LONGIROSTRINE DOLPHINS OUTSIDE THE NORTH ATLANTIC REALM. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1 indexed citations

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Marivaux, Laurent, Guillaume Billet, Myriam Boivin, et al.. (2020). New record of Neosaimiri (Cebidae, Platyrrhini) from the late Middle Miocene of Peruvian Amazonia. Journal of Human Evolution. 146. 102835–102835. 14 indexed citations

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Fauquette, Séverine, Camila Martínez, Federico Moreno, et al.. (2019). Depositional environments and landscapes of the upper Miocene Ipururo Formation at Shumanza, Subandean Zone, northern Peru. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments. 100(3). 719–735. 6 indexed citations

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Collareta, Alberto, Giovanni Coletti, Giulia Bosio, et al.. (2019). A new barnacle (Cirripedia: Neobalanoformes) from the early Miocene of Peru: Palaeoecological and palaeobiogeographical implications. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen. 292(3). 321–338. 12 indexed citations

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Celma, Claudio Di, Pietro Paolo Pierantoni, Elisa Malinverno, et al.. (2019). Allostratigraphy and paleontology of the lower Miocene Chilcatay Formation in the Zamaca area, East Pisco basin, southern Peru. Journal of Maps. 15(2). 393–405. 27 indexed citations

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Boivin, Myriam, Laurent Marivaux, François Pujos, et al.. (2018). Early Oligocene caviomorph rodents from Shapaja, Peruvian Amazonia. Palaeontographica Abteilung A. 311(1-6). 87–156. 23 indexed citations

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Bianucci, Giovanni, Alberto Collareta, Giulia Bosio, et al.. (2018). Taphonomy and palaeoecology of the lower Miocene marine vertebrate assemblage of Ullujaya (Chilcatay Formation, East Pisco Basin, southern Peru). Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 511. 256–279. 43 indexed citations

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Celma, Claudio Di, Elisa Malinverno, Giulia Bosio, et al.. (2017). SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY AND PALEONTOLOGY OF THE UPPER MIOCENE PISCO FORMATION ALONG THE WESTERN SIDE OF THE LOWER ICA VALLEY (ICA DESERT, PERU). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 63 indexed citations

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Collareta, Alberto, Olivier Lambert, Walter Landini, et al.. (2017). Did the giant extinct shark Carcharocles megalodon target small prey? Bite marks on marine mammal remains from the late Miocene of Peru. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 469. 84–91. 68 indexed citations

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Stucchi, Marcelo, et al.. (2015). New Miocene sulid birds from Peru and considerations on their Neogene fossil record in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 19 indexed citations

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Stucchi, Marcelo, et al.. (2015). A new late Miocene condor (Aves, Cathartidae) from Peru and the origin of South American Condors. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 35(5). e972507–e972507. 16 indexed citations

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Valenzuela‐Toro, Ana M., Carolina S. Gutstein, Rafael Varas-Malca, Mario E. Suárez, & Nicholas D. Pyenson. (2013). Pinniped turnover in the South Pacific Ocean: new evidence from the Plio-Pleistocene of the Atacama Desert, Chile. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 33(1). 216–223. 54 indexed citations

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