Ryan C. McKellar

2.3k total citations
76 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Ryan C. McKellar is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ryan C. McKellar has authored 76 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 64 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 31 papers in Genetics and 26 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in Ryan C. McKellar's work include Fossil Insects in Amber (63 papers), Plant and animal studies (34 papers) and Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (27 papers). Ryan C. McKellar is often cited by papers focused on Fossil Insects in Amber (63 papers), Plant and animal studies (34 papers) and Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (27 papers). Ryan C. McKellar collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and China. Ryan C. McKellar's co-authors include Alexander P. Wolfe, Michael S. Engel, Ralf Tappert, Lida Xing, Karlis Muehlenbachs, Karlis Muehlenbachs, Ming Bai, Jingmai K. O’Connor, Kuo‐Wei Tseng and Jaime Ortega-Blanco and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Ryan C. McKellar

73 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ryan C. McKellar Canada 20 1.1k 480 446 106 102 76 1.4k
Jes Rust Germany 22 1.2k 1.1× 464 1.0× 551 1.2× 155 1.5× 48 0.5× 64 1.6k
Hukam Singh India 20 730 0.7× 422 0.9× 221 0.5× 151 1.4× 115 1.1× 69 1.2k
Edmund A. Jarzembowski China 22 1.7k 1.6× 630 1.3× 659 1.5× 70 0.7× 27 0.3× 179 2.1k
Olivier Béthoux France 26 1.8k 1.6× 543 1.1× 740 1.7× 131 1.2× 24 0.2× 121 2.1k
Daran Zheng China 17 842 0.8× 561 1.2× 314 0.7× 64 0.6× 28 0.3× 109 1.2k
Sonja Wedmann Germany 17 675 0.6× 203 0.4× 299 0.7× 49 0.5× 23 0.2× 59 847
Markus Poschmann Germany 18 337 0.3× 645 1.3× 168 0.4× 182 1.7× 101 1.0× 82 926
Romain Garrouste France 17 902 0.8× 311 0.6× 292 0.7× 62 0.6× 16 0.2× 112 1.1k
Günter Bechly Germany 20 1.2k 1.1× 454 0.9× 753 1.7× 161 1.5× 45 0.4× 75 1.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ryan C. McKellar

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All Works

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Haug, Joachim T., Viktor Baranov, Jörg U. Hammel, et al.. (2025). New Amber Fossils Indicate That Larvae of Dermestidae Had Longer Defensive Structures in the Past. Insects. 16(7). 710–710.
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McKellar, Ryan C., et al.. (2024). Bonebed amber deposits: A review of taphonomy and palaeontological significance. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2. 100032–100032. 1 indexed citations
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McKellar, Ryan C., et al.. (2024). Prolonged faunal turnover in earliest ants revealed by North American Cretaceous amber. Current Biology. 34(8). 1755–1761.e6. 6 indexed citations
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Muehlenbachs, Karlis, Ralf Tappert, Art Borkent, et al.. (2024). New Canadian amber deposit fills gap in fossil record near end-Cretaceous mass extinction. Current Biology. 34(8). 1762–1771.e3. 3 indexed citations
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Luque, Javier, Lida Xing, Derek E. G. Briggs, et al.. (2021). Crab in amber reveals an early colonization of nonmarine environments during the Cretaceous. Science Advances. 7(43). eabj5689–eabj5689. 15 indexed citations
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McKellar, Ryan C., et al.. (2021). New genera Buserphites and Mesoserphites (Hymenoptera: Serphitidae) from mid-Cretaceous amber of Myanmar. Cretaceous Research. 130. 105025–105025. 1 indexed citations
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Alekseev, Vitalii I., et al.. (2021). The first described turtle beetles from Eocene Baltic amber, with notes on fossil Chelonariidae (Coleoptera: Byrrhoidea). Fossil record. 24(1). 19–32. 3 indexed citations
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Xing, Lida, Yu Liu, Ryan C. McKellar, et al.. (2021). The first shrimp preserved in mid-cretaceous Kachin amber: systematics, palaeoecology, and taphonomy. Science Bulletin. 66(17). 1723–1726. 6 indexed citations
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McKellar, Ryan C., Emma Jones, Michael S. Engel, et al.. (2019). A direct association between amber and dinosaur remains provides paleoecological insights. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 17916–17916. 10 indexed citations
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Xing, Lida, Ryan C. McKellar, Jingmai K. O’Connor, et al.. (2019). A fully feathered enantiornithine foot and wing fragment preserved in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 927–927. 21 indexed citations
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Xing, Lida, Benjamin Sames, Ryan C. McKellar, et al.. (2018). A gigantic marine ostracod (Crustacea: Myodocopa) trapped in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 1365–1365. 38 indexed citations
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Xing, Lida, Jingmai K. O’Connor, Ryan C. McKellar, et al.. (2018). A flattened enantiornithine in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber: morphology and preservation. Science Bulletin. 63(4). 235–243. 26 indexed citations
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Bukejs, Andris, et al.. (2017). Contributions to the palaeofauna of Ptinidae (Coleptera) known from Baltic amber. Zootaxa. 4344(1). 181–188. 5 indexed citations
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Xing, Lida, Ryan C. McKellar, Min Wang, et al.. (2016). Mummified precocial bird wings in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. Nature Communications. 7(1). 12089–12089. 65 indexed citations
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McKellar, Ryan C.. (2014). AMBER ASSOCIATED WITH LATE CRETACEOUS DINOSAUR BONEBEDS IN WESTERN CANADA. 2014 GSA Annual Meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia (19–22 October 2014). 1 indexed citations
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Wolfe, Alexander P., Adam Csank, Alberto V. Reyes, et al.. (2012). Pristine Early Eocene Wood Buried Deeply in Kimberlite from Northern Canada. PLoS ONE. 7(9). e45537–e45537. 40 indexed citations
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Engel, Michael S., Vincent Perrichot, Jaime Ortega-Blanco, et al.. (2011). New and revised maimetshid wasps from Cretaceous ambers (Hymenoptera, Maimetshidae). ZooKeys. 130(130). 421–453. 19 indexed citations
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Brown, Gerald R., et al.. (1999). PERTH'S PARKING POLICY: MANAGING PARKING AS AN ELEMENT OF THE URBAN TRANSPORT SYSTEM. Transport Research Forum. 2 indexed citations

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