Michael J. Novacek

Michael J. Novacek publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

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Michael J. Novacek D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

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Best Publications

• The Placental Mammal Ancestor and the Post–K-Pg Radiation of Placentals

  Maureen A. O'Leary;Maureen A. O'Leary;Jonathan I. Bloch;John J. Flynn;Timothy J. Gaudin

  1291
  Citations

• Mammalian phylogeny: shaking the tree.

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  835
  Citations

• The current biodiversity extinction event: Scenarios for mitigation and recovery

  Michael J. Novacek;Elsa E. Cleland

  469
  Citations

• The rise of oxygen over the past 205 million years and the evolution of large placental mammals.

  Paul G. Falkowski;Miriam E. Katz;Allen J. Milligan;Katja Fennel

  398
  Citations

• The skull of leptictid insectivorans and the higher-level classification of eutherian mammals. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 183, article 1

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  366
  Citations

• Cretaceous eutherians and Laurasian origin for placental mammals near the K/T boundary.

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  343
  Citations

• Taxic origin and temporal diversity: the effect of phylogeny

  Mark A. Norell;M. J. Novacek;Q. D. Wheeler

  331
  Citations

• Implications of Deltatheridium specimens for early marsupial history

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  318
  Citations

• Engaging the public in biodiversity issues

  Michael J. Novacek

  316
  Citations

• A Theropod Dinosaur Embryo and the Affinities of the Flaming Cliffs Dinosaur Eggs

  Mark A. Norell;James M. Clark;Dashzeveg Demberelyin;Barsbold Rhinchen

  294
  Citations

• Stem Lagomorpha and the antiquity of Glires.

  Robert J. Asher;Jin Meng;John R. Wible;Malcolm C. McKenna

  260
  Citations

• HIGHER‐LEVEL RELATIONSHIPS OF THE RECENT EUTHERIAN ORDERS: MORPHOLOGICAL EVIDENCE

  Michael J. Novacek;André R. Wyss;André R. Wyss

  259
  Citations

• Fossils, Topologies, Missing Data, and the Higher Level Phylogeny of Eutherian Mammals

  Unknown

  247
  Citations

• The Fossil Record and Evolution: Comparing Cladistic and Paleontologic Evidence for Vertebrate History

  Mark A. Norell;Michael J. Novacek

  232
  Citations

• The Eutherian Mammal Maelestes gobiensis from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia and the phylogeny of cretaceous eutheria

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  224
  Citations

• Extinction and the origin of species

  K. C. Nixon;Q. D. Wheeler;M. J. Novacek

  222
  Citations

• South America's earliest rodent and recognition of a new interval of mammalian evolution

  André R. Wyss;John J. Flynn;Mark A. Norell;Carl C. Swisher

  214
  Citations

• Mapping the biosphere: exploring species to understand the origin, organization and sustainability of biodiversity

  Q. D. Wheeler;Sandra Knapp;D. W. Stevenson;J. Stevenson

  213
  Citations

• Relationships of Endemic African Mammals and Their Fossil Relatives Based on Morphological and Molecular Evidence

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  206
  Citations

• Extinction and phylogeny

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  91
  Citations