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K. Padian

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K. Padian — researcher profile on SciRah

h-index: 48
Works: 232
Citations: 7,684

Most-cited papers

A Late Triassic Dinosauromorph Assemblage from New Mexico and the Rise of Dinosaurs
R. Irmis, S. Nesbitt, K. Padian, N. Smith +3 more
2007Science254 citations
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On the origin of high growth rates in archosaurs and their ancient relatives: Complementary histological studies on Triassic archosauriforms and the problem of a “phylogenetic signal” in bone histology
A. D. de Ricqlès, K. Padian, Fabien Knoll, J. Horner
2008165 citations
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Cretaceous extinctions: multiple causes.
J. Archibald, W. Clemens, K. Padian, T. Rowe +25 more
2010Science144 citations
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The evolution and function of thyreophoran dinosaur scutes: implications for plate function in stegosaurs
R. Main, A. D. de Ricqlès, J. Horner, K. Padian
2005Paleobiology133 citations
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The evolution of ‘bizarre structures’ in dinosaurs: biomechanics, sexual selection, social selection or species recognition?
K. Padian, J. Horner
2011127 citations Open access
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Vertebrate Skeletal Histology and Paleohistology
V. de Buffrénil, L. Zylberberg, A. D. de Ricqlès, K. Padian +2 more
2021107 citations
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Bone Histology of Fossil Tetrapods: Advancing Methods, Analysis, and Interpretation
K. Padian, Ellen-Thérèse Lamm
2013107 citations
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The opisthotonic posture of vertebrate skeletons: postmortem contraction or death throes?
C. Faux, K. Padian
2007Paleobiology74 citations
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ROM mapping of ligamentous constraints on avian hip mobility: implications for extinct ornithodirans
A. Manafzadeh, K. Padian
2018Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences69 citations Open access
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Comparative Long Bone Histology and Growth of the “Hypsilophodontid” Dinosaurs Orodromeus makelai, Dryosaurus altus, and Tenontosaurus tillettii (Ornythlschla: Euornithopoda)
J. Horner, A. D. de Ricqlès, K. Padian, Rodney D. Scheetz
200968 citations
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THE SMALLEST KNOWN TRICERATOPS SKULL: NEW OBSERVATIONS ON CERATOPSID CRANIAL ANATOMY AND ONTOGENY
M. Goodwin, W. Clemens, J. Horner, K. Padian
200667 citations
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Bone Histology of Fossil Tetrapods
K. Padian, Ellen-Thérèse Lamm
201765 citations
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Ontogenetic change and adult body size of the early ornithischian dinosaur Lesothosaurus diagnosticus: Implications for basal ornithischian taxonomy
Fabien Knoll, K. Padian, A. D. de Ricqlès
201057 citations
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A hypothesis of differential secondary bone formation in dinosaurs
K. Padian, Sarah Werning, J. Horner
201656 citations
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The trackmaker of Apatopus (Late Triassic, North America): implications for the evolution of archosaur stance and gait
K. Padian, Cheng Li, Julia L Pchelnikova
201049 citations
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On the Nature of Limbs: A Discourse
R. Owen, R. Amundson, B. Hall, M. Winsor +2 more
200845 citations
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How to Win the Evolution War: Teach Macroevolution!
K. Padian
2010Evolution: Education and Outreach40 citations Open access
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The definition of sexual selection and its implications for dinosaurian biology
K. Padian, J. Horner
201138 citations Open access
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Misconceptions of sexual selection and species recognition: a response to Knell et al. and to Mendelson and Shaw.
K. Padian, J. Horner
2013Trends in Ecology & Evolution34 citations
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The species recognition hypothesis explains exaggerated structures in non-avialan dinosaurs better than sexual selection does
K. Padian, J. Horner
201431 citations
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The problem of dinosaur origins: integrating three approaches to the rise of Dinosauria
K. Padian
2012Earth and environmental science transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh31 citations
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First record of a pterosaur landing trackway
J. Mazin, J. Billon-Bruyat, K. Padian
2009Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences30 citations Open access
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THE ORIGIN OF PTEROSAURS
K. Padian
200728 citations
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Darwin's enduring legacy
K. Padian
2008Nature27 citations Open access
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Were pterosaur ancestors bipedal or quadrupedal?: Morphometric, functional, and phylogenetic considerations
K. Padian
200827 citations
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Narrative and "Anti-narrative" in Science: How Scientists Tell Stories, and Don't.
K. Padian
2018Integrative and Comparative Biology26 citations
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Ratite Footprints and the Stance and Gait of Mesozoic Theropods
K. Padian, P. Olsen
200726 citations
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Summer books
Nathaniel Comfort, K. Padian, M. Harris, Jane Maienschein +12 more
2015Nature22 citations
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Trickle-down evolution: an approach to getting major evolutionary adaptive changes into textbooks and curricula.
K. Padian
2008Integrative and Comparative Biology22 citations Open access
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Functional Morphology of Quetzalcoatlus Lawson 1975 (Pterodactyloidea: Azhdarchoidea)
K. Padian, James R. Cunningham, W. Langston, J. Conway
2021Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology20 citations Open access
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Inferring the physiological regimes of extinct vertebrates: methods, limits and framework
K. Padian, A. D. de Ricqlès
2020Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences19 citations Open access
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Measuring Biodiversity and Extinction-Present and Past.
J. Sigwart, K. Bennett, S. Edie, Luke Mander +5 more
2018Integrative and Comparative Biology18 citations Open access
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Correcting some common misrepresentations of evolution in textbooks and the media
K. Padian
2013Evolution: Education and Outreach18 citations Open access
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On the Unnecessary and Misleading Taxon “Cetartiodactyla”
D. Prothero, D. Domning, R. Fordyce, Scott E. Foss +12 more
2021Journal of mammalian evolution16 citations Open access
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Darwin, Dover, 'Intelligent Design' and textbooks.
K. Padian, N. Matzke
2009Biochemical Journal16 citations
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The case of creation
K. Padian
2007Nature13 citations
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Vertebrate palaeohistology then and now: A retrospective in the light of the contributions of Armand de Ricqlès
K. Padian
201112 citations
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Structure and Evolution of the Ankle Bones in Pterosaurs and Other Ornithodirans
K. Padian
2017Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology11 citations
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Evolutionary physiology: A bone for all seasons
K. Padian
2012Nature11 citations
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The evolution of creationists in the United States: where are they now, and where are they going?
K. Padian
2009Comptes rendus. Biologies11 citations Open access
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Archosauromorpha: Avemetatarsalia – Dinosaurs and Their Relatives
K. Padian, H. Woodward
20219 citations
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Measuring and Comparing Extinction Events: Reconsidering Diversity Crises and Concepts.
K. Padian
2018Integrative and Comparative Biology8 citations
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“Transitional forms” versus transitional features
K. Padian, K. Angielczyk
20078 citations
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Why tyrannosaur forelimbs were so short: an integrative hypothesis
K. Padian
2022Acta Palaeontologica Polonica7 citations Open access
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/ 20 Earliest records of d Batrachopus from the southwestern United States , and a revision of some Early Mesozoic crocodylomorph ichnogenera
P. Olsen, K. Padian
20077 citations
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The interpretation of dinosaur growth patterns.
A. D. de Ricqlès, J. Horner, K. Padian
2006Trends in Ecology & Evolution7 citations
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General palaeontology, systematics and evolution (Evolution patterns and macroevolution) Darwin's sexual selection: Understanding his ideas in context
K. Padian, J. Horner
20146 citations
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Research applications and integration
K. Padian, Maria de Boef Miara, H. Larsson, Laura E. Wilson +1 more
20136 citations
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Ten Myths about Charles Darwin
K. Padian
20096 citations
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The growth trajectory and adult size of Lesothosaurus diagnosticus (Dinosauria: Ornithischia): taxonomic implications
Fabien Knoll, K. Padian, A. D. de Ricqlès
20075 citations
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