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ArticleNature2022

Cretaceous ornithurine supports a neognathous crown bird ancestor.

Juan Benito, Pei-Chen Kuo, Klara E Widrig, John W M Jagt, Daniel J Field

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Article in Nature, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
27citing papers in PubMed
31.3field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

27 citing papers in PubMed, 61 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Shouldering the challenge of deciphering avian palate evolution.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  5. Reply to Benito et al.: Problems in the Cretaceous evolution of the avian palatobasal joint.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  9. Avian cranial kinesis is the result of increased encephalization during the origin of birds.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  10. The influence of soft tissue volume on estimates of skeletal pneumaticity: implications for fossil archosaurs.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 3 countries.

Juan BenitoDepartment of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. jb2284@cam.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4497-2058
Pei-Chen KuoDepartment of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Klara E WidrigDepartment of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6224-0558
John W M JagtNatuurhistorisch Museum Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Daniel J FieldDepartment of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. djf70@cam.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1786-0352
University of Cambridge · GBNatural History Museum Rotterdam · NL

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/S032177/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The bony palate diagnoses the two deepest clades of extant birds: Neognathae and Palaeognathae

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