T. Alexander Dececchi

1.3k total citations
30 papers, 661 citations indexed

About

T. Alexander Dececchi is a scholar working on Paleontology, Molecular Biology and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, T. Alexander Dececchi has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 661 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Paleontology, 7 papers in Molecular Biology and 7 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in T. Alexander Dececchi's work include Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology (15 papers), Evolution and Paleontology Studies (12 papers) and Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies (7 papers). T. Alexander Dececchi is often cited by papers focused on Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology (15 papers), Evolution and Paleontology Studies (12 papers) and Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies (7 papers). T. Alexander Dececchi collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and China. T. Alexander Dececchi's co-authors include Hans C. E. Larsson, Michael Habib, Paula Mabee, James P. Balhoff, Guy M. Narbonne, Hilmar Lapp, Wasila Dahdul, Thomas G. Kaye, Michael Pittman and Nizar Ibrahim and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and Current Biology.

In The Last Decade

T. Alexander Dececchi

30 papers receiving 641 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
T. Alexander Dececchi United States 16 421 188 132 70 69 30 661
David W. Bapst United States 10 830 2.0× 114 0.6× 231 1.8× 171 2.4× 137 2.0× 11 953
Jonathan D. Marcot United States 13 532 1.3× 56 0.3× 240 1.8× 59 0.8× 86 1.2× 20 670
Mark A. Bell United Kingdom 9 440 1.0× 49 0.3× 188 1.4× 40 0.6× 81 1.2× 10 584
Roger A. Close United Kingdom 15 630 1.5× 27 0.1× 220 1.7× 76 1.1× 123 1.8× 24 844
Sylvain Gerber France 17 589 1.4× 136 0.7× 131 1.0× 312 4.5× 64 0.9× 32 972
Juan Carlos Cisneros Brazil 22 1.0k 2.4× 71 0.4× 479 3.6× 26 0.4× 136 2.0× 49 1.2k
Victoria M. Egerton United Kingdom 14 441 1.0× 69 0.4× 181 1.4× 17 0.2× 68 1.0× 22 648
Nizar Ibrahim United Kingdom 19 793 1.9× 138 0.7× 525 4.0× 29 0.4× 113 1.6× 32 1.0k
Emma M. Dunne United Kingdom 14 400 1.0× 19 0.1× 156 1.2× 28 0.4× 97 1.4× 29 603
Katerina Vasileiadou Greece 13 126 0.3× 208 1.1× 85 0.6× 13 0.2× 107 1.6× 32 717

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of T. Alexander Dececchi

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All Works

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Wang, Xiaoli, Xiaoting Zheng, Thomas G. Kaye, et al.. (2025). New information on the Hind limb feathering, soft tissues and skeleton of Microraptor (Theropoda: Dromaeosauridae). BMC Ecology and Evolution. 25(1). 37–37. 1 indexed citations
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Dececchi, T. Alexander, Kyung Soo Kim, Martin G. Lockley, et al.. (2024). Theropod trackways as indirect evidence of pre-avian aerial behavior. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(44). e2413810121–e2413810121. 1 indexed citations
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Narbonne, Guy M., et al.. (2023). Elongate Ediacaran fronds from the Flinders Ranges, South Australia. Journal of Paleontology. 98(2). 249–265. 2 indexed citations
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Pittman, Michael, Thomas G. Kaye, Xiaoli Wang, et al.. (2022). Preserved soft anatomy confirms shoulder-powered upstroke of early theropod flyers, reveals enhanced early pygostylian upstroke, and explains early sternum loss. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(47). e2205476119–e2205476119. 13 indexed citations
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Hone, David W. E., T. Alexander Dececchi, Corwin Sullivan, Xing Xu, & Hans C. E. Larsson. (2022). Generalist diet of Microraptor zhaoianus included mammals. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 42(2). 7 indexed citations
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Pei, Rui, Michael Pittman, Pablo A. Goloboff, et al.. (2020). Potential for Powered Flight Neared by Most Close Avialan Relatives, but Few Crossed Its Thresholds. Current Biology. 30(20). 4033–4046.e8. 86 indexed citations
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Dececchi, T. Alexander, Aleksandra M. Mloszewska, Thomas R. Holtz, Michael Habib, & Hans C. E. Larsson. (2020). The fast and the frugal: Divergent locomotory strategies drive limb lengthening in theropod dinosaurs. PLoS ONE. 15(5). e0223698–e0223698. 20 indexed citations
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Dececchi, T. Alexander, Michael Pittman, Thomas G. Kaye, et al.. (2020). Aerodynamics Show Membranous-Winged Theropods Were a Poor Gliding Dead-End. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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Dececchi, T. Alexander, et al.. (2019). Cryogenian Aspidella from northwestern Canada. Precambrian Research. 336. 105507–105507. 18 indexed citations
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Dececchi, T. Alexander, Guy M. Narbonne, Carolyn Greentree, & Marc Laflamme. (2017). Relating Ediacaran Fronds. Paleobiology. 43(2). 171–180. 38 indexed citations
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Dececchi, T. Alexander, Hans C. E. Larsson, & Michael Habib. (2016). The wings before the bird: an evaluation of flapping-based locomotory hypotheses in bird antecedents. PeerJ. 4. e2159–e2159. 45 indexed citations
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Dececchi, T. Alexander, Paula Mabee, & David C. Blackburn. (2016). Data Sources for Trait Databases: Comparing the Phenomic Content of Monographs and Evolutionary Matrices. PLoS ONE. 11(5). e0155680–e0155680. 5 indexed citations
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Dececchi, T. Alexander, Guy M. Narbonne, Marc Laflamme, & Carolyn Greentree. (2016). RELATING EDIACARAN FRONDS. Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America. 1 indexed citations
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Balhoff, James P., Wasila Dahdul, T. Alexander Dececchi, et al.. (2014). Annotation of phenotypic diversity: decoupling data curation and ontology curation using Phenex. Journal of Biomedical Semantics. 5(1). 45–45. 11 indexed citations
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Haendel, Melissa, James P. Balhoff, Frederic Bastian, et al.. (2014). Unification of multi-species vertebrate anatomy ontologies for comparative biology in Uberon. Journal of Biomedical Semantics. 5(1). 21–21. 84 indexed citations
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Midford, Peter, T. Alexander Dececchi, James P. Balhoff, et al.. (2013). The vertebrate taxonomy ontology: a framework for reasoning across model organism and species phenotypes. Journal of Biomedical Semantics. 4(1). 34–34. 27 indexed citations
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Siler, Cameron D., et al.. (2013). Cryptic diversity and population genetic structure in the rare, endemic, forest-obligate, slender geckos of the Philippines. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 70. 204–209. 15 indexed citations
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Maxwell, Erin E. & T. Alexander Dececchi. (2013). Ontogenetic and stratigraphic influence on observed phenotypic integration in the limb skeleton of a fossil tetrapod. Paleobiology. 39(1). 123–134. 12 indexed citations
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Dececchi, T. Alexander & Hans C. E. Larsson. (2011). Assessing Arboreal Adaptations of Bird Antecedents: Testing the Ecological Setting of the Origin of the Avian Flight Stroke. PLoS ONE. 6(8). e22292–e22292. 41 indexed citations
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Dececchi, T. Alexander & Hans C. E. Larsson. (2009). Patristic evolutionary rates suggest a punctuated pattern in forelimb evolution before and after the origin of birds. Paleobiology. 35(1). 1–12. 20 indexed citations

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