Thierry Smith

5.0k total citations
159 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Thierry Smith is a scholar working on Paleontology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Thierry Smith has authored 159 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 138 papers in Paleontology, 56 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 43 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Thierry Smith's work include Evolution and Paleontology Studies (124 papers), Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology (68 papers) and Bat Biology and Ecology Studies (46 papers). Thierry Smith is often cited by papers focused on Evolution and Paleontology Studies (124 papers), Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology (68 papers) and Bat Biology and Ecology Studies (46 papers). Thierry Smith collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, United States and France. Thierry Smith's co-authors include Kenneth D. Rose, R. S. Rana, Charles W. Fowler, Philip D. Gingerich, Annelise Folie, Ashok Sahni, Pieter Missiaen, Vlad Codrea, Massimo Delfino and Richard Smith and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Thierry Smith

155 papers receiving 3.4k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Thierry Smith Belgium 33 2.6k 1.1k 933 917 689 159 3.6k
Alfredo A. Carlini Argentina 32 2.9k 1.1× 1.4k 1.3× 663 0.7× 1.0k 1.1× 384 0.6× 130 3.4k
Madelaine Böhme Germany 30 2.0k 0.8× 642 0.6× 700 0.8× 751 0.8× 647 0.9× 123 3.3k
Louis L. Jacobs United States 38 3.3k 1.3× 946 0.9× 1.2k 1.3× 1.1k 1.2× 600 0.9× 136 4.4k
André R. Wyss United States 37 2.7k 1.0× 1.1k 1.1× 697 0.7× 897 1.0× 308 0.4× 93 3.6k
David W. Krause United States 37 3.5k 1.3× 820 0.8× 1.5k 1.6× 483 0.5× 945 1.4× 121 4.3k
Francisco J. Goin Argentina 29 2.5k 1.0× 1.1k 1.0× 599 0.6× 542 0.6× 309 0.4× 115 2.8k
Sunil Bajpai India 34 2.0k 0.8× 805 0.7× 665 0.7× 1.1k 1.2× 440 0.6× 120 3.6k
Ashok Sahni India 34 2.2k 0.9× 994 0.9× 684 0.7× 423 0.5× 536 0.8× 94 3.1k
Christian de Muizon France 42 3.3k 1.3× 1.7k 1.6× 1.4k 1.5× 1.8k 2.0× 393 0.6× 121 4.4k
S. Kathleen Lyons United States 34 1.5k 0.6× 1.0k 0.9× 1.0k 1.1× 2.2k 2.4× 534 0.8× 68 4.1k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Thierry Smith

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thierry Smith

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Thierry Smith. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Thierry Smith based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Thierry Smith. Thierry Smith is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Orliac, Maëva J., et al.. (2024). Digital restoration of the snout of Khirtharia inflata (Raoellidae,  Artiodactyla) from the middle Eocene of northwest Himalaya. SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository. 10(2). e224–e224. 3 indexed citations
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Smith, Krister T., Margaret E. Collinson, Annelise Folie, et al.. (2024). The biodiversity of the Eocene Messel Pit. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments. 104(4). 859–940. 5 indexed citations
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Mayr, Gérald, Philip D. Gingerich, & Thierry Smith. (2020). Skeleton of a new owl from the early Eocene of North America (Aves, Strigiformes) with an accipitrid-like foot morphology. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 40(2). e1769116–e1769116. 9 indexed citations
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Martin, Jeremy E., et al.. (2020). Virtual reconstruction of the skull ofBernissartia fagesiiand current understanding of the neosuchian–eusuchian transition. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 18(13). 1079–1101. 15 indexed citations
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Mayr, Gérald & Thierry Smith. (2019). New Paleocene bird fossils from the North Sea Basin in Belgium and France. Geologica Belgica. 22(1-2). 35–46. 10 indexed citations
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Mayr, Gérald, Vanesa L. De Pietri, R. Paul Scofield, & Thierry Smith. (2018). A fossil heron from the early Oligocene of Belgium: the earliest temporally well‐constrained record of the Ardeidae. Ibis. 161(1). 79–90. 5 indexed citations
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Delfino, Massimo, Jeremy E. Martin, France de Lapparent de Broin, & Thierry Smith. (2017). Evidence for a pre-PETM dispersal of the earliest European crocodyloids. Historical Biology. 31(7). 845–852. 15 indexed citations
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Gunnell, Gregg F., Richard Smith, & Thierry Smith. (2017). 33 million year old Myotis (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) and the rapid global radiation of modern bats. PLoS ONE. 12(3). e0172621–e0172621. 17 indexed citations
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Putter, Thierry De, Florias Mees, Germain Bayon, et al.. (2017). Coupling between tectonics and surface processes in the Congo Basin: Cretaceous-Cenozoic sedimentation and erosion triggered by climatic and tectonic factors. EGUGA. 13815. 1 indexed citations
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Solé, Floréal, Thierry Smith, Rodolphe Tabuce, & Bernard Marandat. (2015). New dental elements of the oldest proviverrine mammal, Parvagula palulae, from the Early Eocene of Southern France support possible African origin of the subfamily. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 61. 9 indexed citations
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Rana, R. S., Marc Augé, Annelise Folie, et al.. (2013). High diversity of acrodontan lizards in the Early Eocene Vastan Lignite Mine of India. 16(4). 290–301. 20 indexed citations
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Missiaen, Pieter, et al.. (2011). Revision of Indobune and Cambaytherium from the early Eocene of Vastan (India), and their affinities with anthracobunid and perissodactyl mammals. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 1 indexed citations
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Rana, R. S., Kishor Kumar, Gilles Escarguel, et al.. (2008). An Ailuravine Rodent from the Lower Eocene Cambay Formation at Vastan, Western India, and Its Palaeobiogeographic Implications. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 53(1). 1–14. 52 indexed citations
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Missiaen, Pieter & Thierry Smith. (2007). General review of the Late Paleocene Subeng mammal site of Inner Mongolia, China. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 1 indexed citations
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Mayr, Gérald, R. S. Rana, Ashok Sahni, & Thierry Smith. (2007). Oldest fossil avian remains from the Indian subcontinental plate. Current Science. 92(9). 1266–1269. 26 indexed citations
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Smith, Thierry. (1996). Leptacodon dormaalensis (Mammalia, Lipotyphla), a primitive nyctitheriid from the Paleocene-Eocene transition of Belgium. Belgian journal of zoology. 126(2). 153–167. 8 indexed citations

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