Alexander Liu

5.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
132 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

Alexander Liu is a scholar working on Paleontology, Atmospheric Science and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexander Liu has authored 132 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 60 papers in Paleontology, 42 papers in Atmospheric Science and 23 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Alexander Liu's work include Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (55 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (42 papers) and Marine Biology and Ecology Research (21 papers). Alexander Liu is often cited by papers focused on Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (55 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (42 papers) and Marine Biology and Ecology Research (21 papers). Alexander Liu collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Canada. Alexander Liu's co-authors include Martin D. Brasier, Duncan McIlroy, Jack Matthews, Frances S. Dunn, Charlotte G. Kenchington, Philip C. J. Donoghue, Martin D. Brasier, Stefan Neubauer, Jonathan B. Antcliffe and Neil S. Davies and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Circulation.

In The Last Decade

Alexander Liu

129 papers receiving 3.8k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Integrated records of environmental change and evolution challenge the Cambrian Explosion

2019 248 citations Alexander Liu, Philip R. Wilby et al. Nature Ecology & Evolution profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alexander Liu United Kingdom	37	2.1k	1.3k	641	476	449	132	3.9k
J. A. Grant United States	49	267 0.1×	1.9k 1.5×	587 0.9×	29 0.1×	107 0.2×	346	8.9k
Christian Heine Germany	31	567 0.3×	568 0.4×	200 0.3×	16 0.0×	157 0.3×	86	4.1k
Charles A. Ross United States	27	1.9k 0.9×	2.0k 1.6×	378 0.6×	55 0.1×	21 0.0×	134	4.8k
Bruce A. Warren United States	40	122 0.1×	1.7k 1.3×	2.4k 3.7×	316 0.7×	114 0.3×	132	6.3k
Min Wang China	39	1.9k 0.9×	342 0.3×	42 0.1×	109 0.2×	29 0.1×	233	5.1k
David J. Reynolds United Kingdom	37	222 0.1×	753 0.6×	376 0.6×	74 0.2×	22 0.0×	112	3.7k
Mingsong Li China	28	1.4k 0.7×	1.8k 1.4×	129 0.2×	26 0.1×	12 0.0×	103	3.5k
Norbert Mercier France	47	3.6k 1.7×	2.4k 1.9×	156 0.2×	20 0.0×	26 0.1×	194	7.6k
Richard W. Jordan Japan	29	406 0.2×	968 0.8×	1.3k 2.0×	10 0.0×	33 0.1×	158	3.6k
Emma U. Hammarlund Sweden	28	2.0k 0.9×	877 0.7×	363 0.6×	6 0.0×	24 0.1×	70	3.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alexander Liu

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Wu, Chengxi, Alexander Liu, Yarong Liu, et al.. (2025). The Quanjishan Charnia assemblage from the northern Qaidam Basin, Tibetan Plateau, and implications for palaeoecology and taphonomy of Ediacaran fronds. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 665. 112816–112816. 4 indexed citations

Dunn, Frances S., Philip C. J. Donoghue, & Alexander Liu. (2025). Morphogenesis of Fractofusus andersoni and the nature of early animal development. Nature Communications. 16(1). 3439–3439.

Liu, Alexander, Raheel Ahmed, Kamleshun Ramphul, et al.. (2024). Outcomes of Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (CRT) in Cardiac Sarcoidosis Patients with a Range of Ejection Fractions. ESC Heart Failure. 12(1). 592–602. 6 indexed citations

Liu, Alexander, et al.. (2024). Clinical outcomes with cardiac resynchronization therapy in patients with Cardiac Sarcoidosis: A systematic review and proportional meta-analysis. Current Problems in Cardiology. 49(10). 102747–102747. 4 indexed citations

Liu, Alexander, et al.. (2024). ‘Conga lines’ of Ediacaran fronds: insights into the reproductive biology of early metazoans. Royal Society Open Science. 11(5). 231601–231601. 7 indexed citations

Liu, Alexander, et al.. (2023). Naturalistic food categories are driven by subjective estimates rather than objective measures of food qualities. Food Quality and Preference. 113. 105073–105073. 5 indexed citations

Donoghue, Philip C. J., Russell J. Garwood, Dmitriy Grazhdankin, et al.. (2023). Three‐dimensional reconstruction, taphonomic and petrological data suggest that the oldest record of bioturbation is a body fossil coquina. Papers in Palaeontology. 9(6). 6 indexed citations

Liu, Alexander, Robert Hammond, Kenneth Chan, et al.. (2023). Low CRB-65 Scores Effectively Rule out Adverse Clinical Outcomes in COVID-19 Irrespective of Chest Radiographic Abnormalities. Biomedicines. 11(9). 2423–2423. 2 indexed citations

Liu, Alexander, Robert Hammond, Kenneth Chan, et al.. (2023). Characterisation of Ferritin–Lymphocyte Ratio in COVID-19. Biomedicines. 11(10). 2819–2819. 4 indexed citations

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Rodriguez, Katherine Mizrahi, et al.. (2023). Engineering the Polymer–MOF Interface in Microporous Composites to Address Complex Mixture Separations. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 15(45). 52893–52907. 18 indexed citations

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Hu, Shixue, Fangchen Zhao, Alexander Liu, & Maoyan Zhu. (2022). A new Cambrian frondose organism: ‘Ediacaran survivor’ or convergent evolution?. Journal of the Geological Society. 180(2). 5 indexed citations

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Liu, Alexander, et al.. (2022). Cross-Modal Discrete Representation Learning. Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers). 3013–3035. 24 indexed citations

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Mitchell, Emily G., et al.. (2021). Palaeolatitudinal distribution of the Ediacaran macrobiota. Journal of the Geological Society. 179(1). 23 indexed citations

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Liu, Alexander, et al.. (2021). Harnessing the Potential of Primary Care Pharmacists to Improve Heart Failure Management. The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety. 48(1). 25–32. 7 indexed citations

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Dunn, Frances S., Alexander Liu, Dmitriy Grazhdankin, et al.. (2021). The developmental biology of Charnia and the eumetazoan affinity of the Ediacaran rangeomorphs. Science Advances. 7(30). 59 indexed citations

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Avery, Jason A., Alexander Liu, John E. Ingeholm, Stephen J. Gotts, & Alex Martin. (2020). Viewing images of foods evokes taste quality-specific activity in gustatory insular cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(2). 44 indexed citations

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Mitchell, Emily G., Natalia Bykova, A. V. Kolesnikov, et al.. (2020). The influence of environmental setting on the community ecology of Ediacaran organisms. Interface Focus. 10(4). 20190109–20190109. 37 indexed citations

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Liu, Alexander, et al.. (2020). Ediacaran macrofossils prior to the ~580 Ma Gaskiers glaciation in Newfoundland, Canada. Lethaia. 54(2). 260–270. 8 indexed citations

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Hoekzema, Renee S., Martin D. Brasier, Frances S. Dunn, & Alexander Liu. (2017). Quantitative study of developmental biology confirms Dickinsonia as a metazoan. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 284(1862). 20171348–20171348. 34 indexed citations

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Parry, Luke A., Paulo César Boggiani, Daniel J. Condon, et al.. (2017). Ichnological evidence for meiofaunal bilaterians from the terminal Ediacaran and earliest Cambrian of Brazil. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 1(10). 1455–1464. 115 indexed citations

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