Alan R.T. Spencer

487 total citations
29 papers, 348 citations indexed

About

Alan R.T. Spencer is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Paleontology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Alan R.T. Spencer has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 348 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 10 papers in Paleontology and 6 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Alan R.T. Spencer's work include Plant Diversity and Evolution (16 papers), Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (9 papers) and Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions (6 papers). Alan R.T. Spencer is often cited by papers focused on Plant Diversity and Evolution (16 papers), Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (9 papers) and Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions (6 papers). Alan R.T. Spencer collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and France. Alan R.T. Spencer's co-authors include Russell J. Garwood, Jason Hilton, Christine Strullu‐Derrien, Paul Kenrick, Richard M. Bateman, Mark D. Sutton, Gar W. Rothwell, Gene Mapes, Tomasz Góral and Shi‐Jun Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Alan R.T. Spencer

26 papers receiving 341 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alan R.T. Spencer United Kingdom 11 191 109 101 95 52 29 348
Diane M. Erwin United States 14 331 1.7× 152 1.4× 73 0.7× 152 1.6× 138 2.7× 24 510
Svetlana Popova Russia 11 210 1.1× 91 0.8× 100 1.0× 105 1.1× 180 3.5× 17 377
Swati Tripathi India 13 164 0.9× 89 0.8× 129 1.3× 40 0.4× 182 3.5× 42 458
Uwe Kaulfuß New Zealand 15 331 1.7× 85 0.8× 132 1.3× 52 0.5× 122 2.3× 46 488
Juan L. García Massini Argentina 13 308 1.6× 147 1.3× 120 1.2× 103 1.1× 83 1.6× 32 396
Bandana Samant India 12 262 1.4× 170 1.6× 222 2.2× 127 1.3× 180 3.5× 32 562
Xiangchuan Li China 10 295 1.5× 203 1.9× 81 0.8× 120 1.3× 100 1.9× 33 439
Emanuel Palamarev Bulgaria 7 196 1.0× 68 0.6× 106 1.0× 164 1.7× 168 3.2× 9 408
Jakub Sakala Czechia 13 351 1.8× 181 1.7× 117 1.2× 122 1.3× 139 2.7× 45 473
Junye Ma China 13 139 0.7× 85 0.8× 208 2.1× 36 0.4× 45 0.9× 46 480

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Garwood, Russell J., Alan R.T. Spencer, Frances S. Dunn, et al.. (2024). TREvoSim v3: An individual based simulation forgenerating trees and character data. The Journal of Open Source Software. 9(101). 6722–6722.
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Cleal, Christopher J., Christine Strullu‐Derrien, & Alan R.T. Spencer. (2024). Early coal swamp vegetation from the Serpukhovian lower Clackmannan Group of Scotland. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 80(1). 35–67. 1 indexed citations
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Strullu‐Derrien, Christine, Tomasz Góral, Alan R.T. Spencer, et al.. (2023). A fungal plant pathogen discovered in the Devonian Rhynie Chert. Nature Communications. 14(1). 7932–7932. 10 indexed citations
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Strullu‐Derrien, Christine, Michel Ballèvre, Alan R.T. Spencer, et al.. (2023). The Carboniferous (Serpukhovian) macroflora from the “Coteaux du Pont Barré”, Beaulieu-sur-Layon (Maine-et-Loire), South of the Armorican Massif, France. Botany Letters. 170(2). 183–193. 2 indexed citations
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Steart, David C., et al.. (2023). New evidence of the architecture and affinity of fossil trees from the Jurassic Purbeck Forest of southern England. Botany Letters. 170(2). 165–182. 3 indexed citations
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Spencer, Alan R.T., et al.. (2023). Quantitative constraints on flood variability in the rock record. Nature Communications. 14(1). 3362–3362. 10 indexed citations
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Strullu‐Derrien, Christine, Alan R.T. Spencer, Paul Kenrick, et al.. (2022). Revisions to the Eocene carpoflora of Anjou, western France, with new data from X-ray tomography. Botany Letters. 169(4). 454–465. 3 indexed citations
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Strullu‐Derrien, Christine, Marc Gèze, Alan R.T. Spencer, et al.. (2021). An expanded diversity of oomycetes in Carboniferous forests: Reinterpretation of Oochytrium lepidodendri (Renault 1894) from the Esnost chert, Massif Central, France. PLoS ONE. 16(3). e0247849–e0247849. 2 indexed citations
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Strullu‐Derrien, Christine, Alain Le Hérissé, Tomasz Góral, Alan R.T. Spencer, & Paul Kenrick. (2020). The overlooked aquatic green algal component of early terrestrial environments: Triskelia scotlandica gen. et sp. nov. from the Rhynie cherts. Papers in Palaeontology. 7(2). 709–719. 10 indexed citations
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Strullu‐Derrien, Christine, et al.. (2020). A rare late Mississippian flora from Northwestern Europe (Maine-et-Loire Coalfield, Pays de la Loire, France). Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 285. 104359–104359. 11 indexed citations
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Garwood, Russell J., Alan R.T. Spencer, & Mark D. Sutton. (2019). REvoSim: Organism‐level simulation of macro and microevolution. Palaeontology. 62(3). 339–355. 11 indexed citations
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Garwood, Russell J., et al.. (2019). An introduction to the Rhynie chert. Geological Magazine. 157(1). 47–64. 42 indexed citations
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Strullu‐Derrien, Christine, Sylvain Bernard, Alan R.T. Spencer, et al.. (2019). On the structure and chemistry of fossils of the earliest woody plant. Palaeontology. 62(6). 1015–1026. 7 indexed citations
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Burca, Genoveva, Imran A. Rahman, Russell J. Garwood, et al.. (2018). Exploring the potential of neutron imaging for life sciences on IMAT. Journal of Microscopy. 272(3). 242–247. 16 indexed citations
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Strullu‐Derrien, Christine, Alan R.T. Spencer, Tomasz Góral, et al.. (2017). New insights into the evolutionary history of Fungi from a 407 Ma Blastocladiomycota fossil showing a complex hyphal thallus. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 373(1739). 20160502–20160502. 32 indexed citations
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Wang, Shi‐Jun, Richard M. Bateman, Alan R.T. Spencer, et al.. (2017). Anatomically preserved “strobili” and leaves from the Permian of China (Dorsalistachyaceae, fam. nov.) broaden knowledge of Noeggerathiales and constrain their possible taxonomic affinities. American Journal of Botany. 104(1). 127–149. 29 indexed citations
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Spencer, Alan R.T., Gene Mapes, Richard M. Bateman, Jason Hilton, & Gar W. Rothwell. (2015). Middle Jurassic evidence for the origin of Cupressaceae: A paleobotanical context for the roles of regulatory genetics and development in the evolution of conifer seed cones. American Journal of Botany. 102(6). 942–961. 38 indexed citations
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Spencer, Alan R.T., et al.. (2013). Species of the medullosan ovule Stephanospermum from the Lopingian (late Permian) floras of China. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 76. 59–69. 9 indexed citations
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Spencer, Alan R.T., et al.. (2012). 570 Tomography old and new : comparison of 3D reconstruction techniques for fossil plants. 58. 257. 1 indexed citations

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