Rita Cannas

3.1k total citations
134 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Rita Cannas is a scholar working on Ecology, Global and Planetary Change and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Rita Cannas has authored 134 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 60 papers in Ecology, 57 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 46 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Rita Cannas's work include Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (37 papers), Marine and fisheries research (37 papers) and Ichthyology and Marine Biology (36 papers). Rita Cannas is often cited by papers focused on Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (37 papers), Marine and fisheries research (37 papers) and Ichthyology and Marine Biology (36 papers). Rita Cannas collaborates with scholars based in Italy, France and Spain. Rita Cannas's co-authors include Maria Cristina Follesa, Alessandro Cau, Danila Cuccu, Davide Moccia, Simonepietro Canese, Angelo Cau, Marzia Bo, Anna Maria Deiana, Michela Angiolillo and Cristina Porcu and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Environmental Science & Technology and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Rita Cannas

132 papers receiving 2.0k citations

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rita Cannas Italy	23	1.1k	855	535	486	307	134	2.0k
Maria Cristina Follesa Italy	25	1.1k 1.1×	1.1k 1.3×	722 1.3×	446 0.9×	241 0.8×	177	2.4k
Alessandro Cau Italy	26	1.1k 1.0×	857 1.0×	516 1.0×	561 1.2×	194 0.6×	138	2.5k
Keiron P. P. Fraser United Kingdom	25	1.2k 1.1×	566 0.7×	195 0.4×	657 1.4×	272 0.9×	34	1.8k
F. Patricio Ojeda Chile	30	1.8k 1.7×	1.5k 1.8×	553 1.0×	1.4k 3.0×	232 0.8×	103	3.5k
Alberto Castelli Italy	29	1.2k 1.1×	1.1k 1.3×	188 0.4×	1.3k 2.8×	254 0.8×	114	2.3k
Ferruccio Maltagliati Italy	25	829 0.8×	706 0.8×	295 0.6×	704 1.4×	380 1.2×	76	1.7k
Porzia Maiorano Italy	29	1.6k 1.5×	1.6k 1.9×	420 0.8×	605 1.2×	146 0.5×	90	2.2k
Marc Kochzius Belgium	26	1.2k 1.1×	786 0.9×	441 0.8×	432 0.9×	536 1.7×	84	1.9k
Simon A. Morley United Kingdom	32	2.1k 2.0×	1.6k 1.8×	359 0.7×	1.8k 3.6×	128 0.4×	106	3.3k
Montserrat Demestre Spain	30	1.3k 1.2×	1.6k 1.9×	317 0.6×	594 1.2×	99 0.3×	81	2.3k

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Manousaki, Tereza, Aglaia Antoniou, Jon Bent Kristoffersen, et al.. (2025). Uncovering the Genetic Structure of European Anchovy Populations in Central and Western Mediterranean. Ecology and Evolution. 15(11). e72441–e72441.

Bellodi, Andrea, Pierluigi Carbonara, Danila Cuccu, et al.. (2024). I would like my privacy: insights on the possible presence of an important conservation site for the endemic skate Leucoraja melitensis (Clark, 1926). Hydrobiologia. 852(7). 1805–1823. 1 indexed citations

Cannas, Rita, R. W. Leslie, Fabrizio Serena, et al.. (2023). To Be, or Not to Be: That Is the Hamletic Question of Cryptic Evolution in the Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean Raja miraletus Species Complex. Animals. 13(13). 2139–2139. 2 indexed citations

Cariani, Alessia, Andrea Bellodi, Antonello Mulas, et al.. (2023). I Like This New Me: Unravelling Population Structure of Mediterranean Electric Rays and Taxonomic Uncertainties within Torpediniformes. Animals. 13(18). 2899–2899. 4 indexed citations

Antoniou, Aglaia, Tereza Manousaki, Francisco Ramı́rez, et al.. (2023). Sardines at a junction: Seascape genomics reveals ecological and oceanographic drivers of variation in the NW Mediterranean Sea. Molecular Ecology. 32(7). 1608–1628. 11 indexed citations

Cariani, Alessia, Laura Carugati, Maria Cristina Follesa, et al.. (2023). Baseline genetic distinctiveness supports structured populations of thornback ray in the Mediterranean Sea. Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. 33(5). 458–471. 6 indexed citations

Cariani, Alessia, Laura Carugati, Alessandro Cau, et al.. (2023). Commercial sharks under scrutiny: Baseline genetic distinctiveness supports structured populations of small-spotted catsharks in the Mediterranean Sea. Frontiers in Marine Science. 10. 6 indexed citations

Carugati, Laura, Davide Moccia, Lorenzo Bramanti, et al.. (2022). Deep-Dwelling Populations of Mediterranean Corallium rubrum and Eunicella cavolini: Distribution, Demography, and Co-Occurrence. Biology. 11(2). 333–333. 13 indexed citations

Carbonara, Pierluigi, Rita Cannas, Laura Carugati, et al.. (2021). First Integrative Morphological and Genetic Characterization of Tremoctopus violaceussensu stricto in the Mediterranean Sea. Animals. 12(1). 80–80. 5 indexed citations

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Cau, Alessandro, Simone Franceschini, Davide Moccia, et al.. (2021). Scattered accumulation hotspots of macro-litter on the seafloor: Insights for mitigation actions. Environmental Pollution. 292(Pt A). 118338–118338. 18 indexed citations

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Marongiu, Martina Francesca, Cristina Porcu, Andrea Bellodi, et al.. (2020). Abundance, distribution and reproduction of the Data-Deficient species (Squalus blainville) around Sardinia Island (central western Mediterranean Sea) as a contribution to its conservation. Marine and Freshwater Research. 72(1). 118–130. 10 indexed citations

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Moccia, Davide, Alessandro Cau, Lorenzo Bramanti, et al.. (2020). Spatial distribution and habitat characterization of marine animal forest assemblages along nine submarine canyons of Eastern Sardinia (central Mediterranean Sea). Deep Sea Research Part I Oceanographic Research Papers. 167. 103422–103422. 19 indexed citations

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Ferraresso, Serena, Luca Bargelloni, Massimiliano Babbucci, et al.. (2020). fshr: a fish sex-determining locus shows variable incomplete penetrance across flathead grey mullet populations. iScience. 24(1). 101886–101886. 14 indexed citations

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Mulas, Antonello, Andrea Bellodi, Rita Cannas, et al.. (2019). Resource partitioning among sympatric elasmobranchs in the central-western Mediterranean continental shelf. Marine Biology. 166(12). 24 indexed citations

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Follesa, Maria Cristina, Andrea Bellodi, Rita Cannas, et al.. (2019). The MEDITS maturity scales as a useful tool for investigating the reproductive traits of key species in the Mediterranean Sea. Scientia Marina. 83(S1). 235–256. 17 indexed citations

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Bo, Marzia, Giorgio Bavestrello, Michela Angiolillo, et al.. (2015). Persistence of Pristine Deep-Sea Coral Gardens in the Mediterranean Sea (SW Sardinia). PLoS ONE. 10(3). e0119393–e0119393. 102 indexed citations

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Salvadori, Susanna, et al.. (2012). Comparative cytogenetics in four species of Palinuridae: B chromosomes, ribosomal genes and telomeric sequences. Genetica. 140(10-12). 429–437. 8 indexed citations

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Cannas, Rita, Cecilia Mancusi, Maria Cristina Follesa, et al.. (2008). DISTRIBUTION, MOLECULAR SYSTEMATICS AND PHYLOGEOGRAPHY OF RAJA POLYSTIGMA AND RAJA MONTAGUI IN THE MEDITERRANEAN. UNICA IRIS Institutional Research Information System (University of Cagliari). 15(1). 188–191. 3 indexed citations

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Cannas, Rita, et al.. (2008). Isolation and characterization of 14 polymorphic microsatellite markers for the blue and red shrimp, Aristeus antennatus (Crustacea, Decapoda). Molecular Ecology Resources. 8(6). 1420–1422. 7 indexed citations

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Follesa, Maria Cristina, Danila Cuccu, Rita Cannas, & Angelo Cau. (2007). On the growth of the European spiny lobster, Palinurus elephas from Sardinian waters (central western Mediterranean Sea). New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. 41(4). 377–383. 10 indexed citations

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