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Jean-Claude Rage

Jean-Claude Rage

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
41
Citations
7494
World Ranking
7645
National Ranking
334

Jean-Claude Rage publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jean-Claude Rage sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 138 publications — 35th percentile

35% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Jean-Claude Rage D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jean-Claude Rage sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 41 D-Index — 22nd percentile

22% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

Jean-Claude Rage was affiliated with Université Paris Cité in France. Their research primarily focused on Environmental Science, with investigations spanning Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Paleontology, and Genetics.

Their scholarly contributions centered on several main topics including Amphibian and Reptile Biology, Turtle Biology and Conservation, Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology, Ichthyology and Marine Biology, Spider Taxonomy and Behavior Studies, and Evolution and Paleontology Studies.

Jean-Claude Rage published in a variety of scientific venues. These included Vertebrate paleobiology and paleoanthroplogy series/Vertebrate paleobiology and paleoanthropology series, Geodiversitas, Palaeovertebrata, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

Their recent papers encompassed the following works:

  • Anuran Lissamphibian and Squamate Reptiles from the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Deccan Intertrappean Sites in Central India, with a Review of Lissamphibian and Squamate Diversity in the Northward Drifting Indian Plate (2020) - Vertebrate paleobiology and paleoanthroplogy series/Vertebrate paleobiology and paleoanthropology series
  • Latest Early-early Middle Eocene deposits of Algeria (Glib Zegdou, HGL50), yield the richest and most diverse fauna of amphibians and squamate reptiles from the Palaeogene of Africa (2021) - Palaeovertebrata

Jean-Claude Rage collaborated frequently with other researchers. Notable co-authors included Salvador Bailón, Guntupalli V. R. Prasad, Omkar Verma, Ashu Khosla, and Varun Parmar.

Best Publications

  • A new hominid from the Upper Miocene of Chad, Central Africa

    Michel Brunet;Franck Guy;Franck Guy;David Pilbeam;Hassane Taisso Mackaye

  • Geology and palaeontology of the Upper Miocene Toros-Menalla hominid locality, Chad

    Patrick Vignaud;Philippe Duringer;Hassane Taïsso Mackaye;Andossa Likius;Andossa Likius

  • Paleobiogeography of Africa: How distinct from Gondwana and Laurasia?

    Emmanuel Gheerbrant;Jean-Claude Rage

  • The fossil vertebrates from Lano (Basque Country, Spain); new evidence on the composition and affinities of the Late Cretaceous continental faunas of Europe

    H. Astibia;E. Buffetaut;A.D. Buscalioni;H. Cappetta

  • A 60-million-year Cenozoic history of western Amazonian ecosystems in Contamana, eastern Peru

    Pierre Olivier Antoine;M. Alejandra Abello;Sylvain Adnet;Ali J. Altamirano Sierra

  • Evolution of anuran assemblages in the Tertiary and Quaternary of Europe, in the context of palaeoclimate and palaeogeography

    Zbyněk Roček;Jean-Claude Rage

  • Mesozoic marine reptile palaeobiogeography in response to drifting plates

    N. Bardet;J. Falconnet;V. Fischer;A. Houssaye

  • Un gisement sparnacien exceptionnel à plantes, arthropodes et vertébrés (Éocène basal, MP7): Le Quesnoy (Oise, France)

    André Nel;Gaël de Plöeg;Jean Dejax;Didier Dutheil

  • Mesozoic and Cenozoic squamates of Europe

    Jean-Claude Rage

  • Photography-based taxonomy is inadequate, unnecessary, and potentially harmful for biological sciences

    Luis M.P. Ceríaco;Luis M.P. Ceríaco;Eliécer E. Gutiérrez;Eliécer E. Gutiérrez;Alain Dubois;Cristian Simón Abdala

  • Chad: discovery of a vertebrate fauna close to the Mio-Pliocene boundary

    Michel Brunet

  • Découverte d’un dépôt paralique à bois fossiles, ambre insectifère et restes d’Iguanodontidae (Dinosauria, Ornithopoda) dans le Cénomanien inférieur de Fouras (Charente-Maritime, Sud-Ouest de la France)

    Didier Néraudeau;Ronan Allain;Vincent Perrichot;Blaise Videt

  • Endoglyphs and other major venomous snakes of the world : a checklist

    Phillippe Golay;Hobart Muir Smith;Donald G Broadley;James Ray Dixon

  • Mid-Cretaceous (Cenomanian) snakes from Wadi Abu Hashim, Sudan: the earliest snake assemblage

    J C Rage;C Werner

  • Les continents péri-atlantiques au crétacé supérieur: Migrations des faunes continentales et problèmes paléogéographiques

    J.-C. Rage

  • An Early Campanian vertebrate fauna from the Villeveyrac Basin (Hérault, Southern France)

    Eric Buffetaut;Guy Costa;Jean Le Loeuff;Michel Martin

  • Middle Maastrichtian vertebrates (fishes, amphibians, dinosaurs and other reptiles, mammals) from Pajcha Pata (Bolivia). Biostratigraphic, palaeoecologic and palaeobiogeographic implications

    Mireille Gayet;Larry G. Marshall;Thierry Sempere;François J. Meunier

  • Guelb el Ahmar (Bathonian, Anoual Syncline, eastern Morocco): First continental flora and fauna including mammals from the Middle Jurassic of Africa

    Hamid Haddoumi;Ronan Allain;Said Meslouh;Grégoire Metais

  • Fossil snakes from the Palaeocene of São José de Itaborai, Brazil. Part I. Madtsoiidae, Aniliidae

    Jean-Claude Rage

  • Eocene aridity in southwestern Africa: timing of onset and biological consequences

    Martin Pickford;Brigitte Senut;Helke Mocke;Cécile Mourer-Chauviré

  • West Palearctic cobras of the genus Naja (Serpentes: Elapidae): interrelationships among extinct and extant species

    Jean-Claude Rage;Zbigniew Szyndlar

  • A Diverse Snake Fauna from the Early Eocene of Vastan Lignite Mine, Gujarat, India

    Jean Claude Rage;Annelise Folie;Rajendra S. Rana;Hukam Singh

  • The Early Miocene squamates of Amöneburg (Germany): the first stages of modern squamates in Europe

    Andrej Čerňanský;Jean-Claude Rage;Jozef Klembara

  • The Cenomanian-Turonian (late Cretaceous) radiation of marine squamates (Reptilia): the role of the Mediterranean Tethys

    Nathalie Bardet;Alexandra Houssaye;Jean-Claude Rage;Xabier Pereda Suberbiola

Frequent Co-Authors

Nathalie Bardet
Nathalie Bardet Université Paris Cité
Xabier Pereda Suberbiola
Xabier Pereda Suberbiola University of the Basque Country
Eric Buffetaut
Eric Buffetaut École Normale Supérieure
Henri Cappetta
Henri Cappetta University of Montpellier
Michel Laurin
Michel Laurin Sorbonne University
Didier Néraudeau
Didier Néraudeau University of Rennes
Patrick Vignaud
Patrick Vignaud University of Poitiers
Gilles Escarguel
Gilles Escarguel Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Michel Brunet
Michel Brunet University of Poitiers
Antoine Zazzo
Antoine Zazzo French National Museum of Natural History

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