Thomas J. Challands

533 total citations
22 papers, 405 citations indexed

About

Thomas J. Challands is a scholar working on Paleontology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas J. Challands has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 405 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Paleontology, 14 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 2 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Thomas J. Challands's work include Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology (18 papers), Evolution and Paleontology Studies (16 papers) and Ichthyology and Marine Biology (14 papers). Thomas J. Challands is often cited by papers focused on Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology (18 papers), Evolution and Paleontology Studies (16 papers) and Ichthyology and Marine Biology (14 papers). Thomas J. Challands collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Belgium and France. Thomas J. Challands's co-authors include Stephen L. Brusatte, Howard A. Armstrong, Mark Wilkinson, Davide Foffa, Thijs R.A. Vandenbroucke, Thomas Servais, Koen Sabbe, Jacques Verniers, Jaak Nõlvak and Mark Williams and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and Current Biology.

In The Last Decade

Thomas J. Challands

20 papers receiving 398 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Thomas J. Challands United Kingdom 14 374 172 97 44 39 22 405
Winand Brinkmann Switzerland 10 497 1.3× 208 1.2× 75 0.8× 42 1.0× 67 1.7× 20 536
Tom H Rich Australia 10 524 1.4× 235 1.4× 80 0.8× 26 0.6× 28 0.7× 16 551
Vachik Hairapetian Iran 14 509 1.4× 175 1.0× 128 1.3× 65 1.5× 56 1.4× 55 588
Jim Jenks Switzerland 7 405 1.1× 83 0.5× 77 0.8× 96 2.2× 50 1.3× 8 424
Helke Mocke South Africa 10 295 0.8× 78 0.5× 117 1.2× 43 1.0× 15 0.4× 21 325
Yuanyuan Sun China 10 227 0.6× 94 0.5× 133 1.4× 13 0.3× 30 0.8× 19 371
Emma C. Rainforth United States 6 402 1.1× 131 0.8× 86 0.9× 11 0.3× 43 1.1× 7 453
Michael J. Szajna United States 3 269 0.7× 66 0.4× 84 0.9× 12 0.3× 43 1.1× 6 317
Nora G. Cabaleri Argentina 13 322 0.9× 55 0.3× 118 1.2× 25 0.6× 29 0.7× 33 411
Pablo Suárez-González Spain 13 306 0.8× 49 0.3× 106 1.1× 20 0.5× 51 1.3× 29 399

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All Works

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Broeckhoven, Chris, Thomas J. Challands, Anton du Plessis, et al.. (2025). Palaeo-bioinspiration draws on the fossil record to advance innovation. Communications Biology. 8(1). 706–706.
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Challands, Thomas J., et al.. (2023). New postcranial remains from the Lealt Shale Formation of the Isle of Skye, Scotland, showcase hidden pterosaur diversity in the Middle Jurassic. Scottish Journal of Geology. 59(1-2). 5 indexed citations
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Challands, Thomas J., et al.. (2023). Dipnoan diversity in the early Pennsylvanian of Scotland: new lungfish from the Lower Coal Measures of North Lanarkshire. Scottish Journal of Geology. 59(1-2). 2 indexed citations
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Funston, Gregory F., Ian B. Butler, Thomas J. Challands, et al.. (2022). A skeleton from the Middle Jurassic of Scotland illuminates an earlier origin of large pterosaurs. Current Biology. 32(6). 1446–1453.e4. 19 indexed citations
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Clement, Alice M., et al.. (2021). Brain Reconstruction Across the Fish-Tetrapod Transition; Insights From Modern Amphibians. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 9. 12 indexed citations
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Challands, Thomas J., et al.. (2020). A Lungfish (Sarcopterygii, Dipnomorpha) Tooth Plate from the Lower Devonian of Vietnam and the Onset of Modern Dipnoan Dental Organization. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 40(1). e1772274–e1772274. 4 indexed citations
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Brusatte, Stephen L., Thomas J. Challands, Davide Foffa, et al.. (2020). Novel track morphotypes from new tracksites indicate increased Middle Jurassic dinosaur diversity on the Isle of Skye, Scotland. PLoS ONE. 15(3). e0229640–e0229640. 20 indexed citations
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Challands, Thomas J., Jason D. Pardo, & Alice M. Clement. (2020). Mandibular musculature constrains brain–endocast disparity between sarcopterygians. Royal Society Open Science. 7(9). 200933–200933. 13 indexed citations
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Smithson, Timothy R., et al.. (2019). Traquair's lungfish from Loanhead: dipnoan diversity and tooth plate growth in the late Mississippian. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 109(1-2). 49–59. 6 indexed citations
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Clack, Jennifer A., et al.. (2018). Newly recognized Famennian lungfishes from East Greenland reveal tooth plate diversity and blur the Devonian–Carboniferous boundary. Papers in Palaeontology. 5(2). 261–279. 13 indexed citations
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Brusatte, Stephen L., et al.. (2018). A sauropod-dominated tracksite from Rubha nam Brathairean (Brothers’ Point), Isle of Skye, Scotland. Scottish Journal of Geology. 54(1). 1–12. 15 indexed citations
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Yi, Hongyu, Jonathan Tennant, Mark T. Young, et al.. (2016). An unusual small-bodied crocodyliform from the Middle Jurassic of Scotland, UK, and potential evidence for an early diversification of advanced neosuchians. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 107(1). 1–12. 19 indexed citations
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Young, Mark T., Jonathan Tennant, Stephen L. Brusatte, et al.. (2015). The first definitive Middle Jurassic atoposaurid (Crocodylomorpha, Neosuchia), and a discussion on the genus T heriosuchus. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 176(2). 443–462. 28 indexed citations
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Challands, Thomas J.. (2015). The cranial endocast of the Middle Devonian dipnoan Dipterus valenciennesi and a fossilized dipnoan otoconial mass. Papers in Palaeontology. 1(3). 289–317. 13 indexed citations
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Brusatte, Stephen L., Mark T. Young, Thomas J. Challands, et al.. (2015). Ichthyosaurs from the Jurassic of Skye, Scotland. Scottish Journal of Geology. 51(1). 43–55. 13 indexed citations
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Brusatte, Stephen L., et al.. (2015). Sauropod dinosaur trackways in a Middle Jurassic lagoon on the Isle of Skye, Scotland. Scottish Journal of Geology. 52(1). 1–9. 24 indexed citations
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Challands, Thomas J., Thijs R.A. Vandenbroucke, Howard A. Armstrong, & Jeremy Davies. (2014). Chitinozoan biozonation in the upper Katian and Hirnantian of the Welsh Basin, UK. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 210. 1–21. 13 indexed citations
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Vandenbroucke, Thijs R.A., Howard A. Armstrong, Mark Williams, et al.. (2010). Polar front shift and atmospheric CO 2 during the glacial maximum of the Early Paleozoic Icehouse. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(34). 14983–14986. 101 indexed citations
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Baldini, James U.L., et al.. (2007). Response of the Intertropical Convergence Zone to Southern Hemisphere cooling during Ordovician glaciation. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2007. 1 indexed citations

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