Amelia Penny

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
30 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Amelia Penny is a scholar working on Paleontology, Oceanography and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Amelia Penny has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Paleontology, 14 papers in Oceanography and 11 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Amelia Penny's work include Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (19 papers), Marine Biology and Ecology Research (14 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (11 papers). Amelia Penny is often cited by papers focused on Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (19 papers), Marine Biology and Ecology Research (14 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (11 papers). Amelia Penny collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Finland and Russia. Amelia Penny's co-authors include Rachel Wood, Fred Bowyer, Rosalie Tostevin, Andrew Curtis, Matthew O Clarkson, Simon W. Poulton, Graham Shields, Emily G. Mitchell, K. H. Hoffmann and Charlotte G. Kenchington and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Amelia Penny

26 papers receiving 1.1k 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 Rachel Wood, Alexander Liu et al. Nature Ecology & Evolution profile →

Peers

Amelia Penny

PALEO

AS

GP

GEOPH

OCEAN

Yaoping Cai China

Cole T. Edwards United States

Bin Wan China

Ke Pang China

Phoebe Cohen United States

Rowan C. Martindale United States

Thomas H. Boag United States

Fred Bowyer United Kingdom

Emily F. Smith United States

Fabrice Minoletti France

Yaoping Cai China

Amelia Penny

1.0k ×1.0

PALEO

508 ×1.2

AS

291 ×0.7

GP

239 ×0.9

GEOPH

239 ×1.0

OCEAN

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Countries citing papers authored by Amelia Penny

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Fields of papers citing papers by Amelia Penny

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Amelia Penny. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Amelia Penny. The network helps show where Amelia Penny may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Amelia Penny

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Amelia Penny. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Amelia Penny based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Amelia Penny. Amelia Penny is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Butler, Ian B., et al.. (2025). Osteology and functional morphology of a transitional pterosaur Dearc sgiathanach from the Middle Jurassic (Bathonian) of Scotland. BMC Ecology and Evolution. 25(1). 9–9.

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Staples, Timothy L., Jessica L. Blois, Katie L. Cramer, et al.. (2025). A Conceptual Framework for Measuring Ecological Novelty. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 34(2). 1 indexed citations

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Penny, Amelia, María Dornelas, & Anne E. Magurran. (2023). Comparing temporal dynamics of compositional reorganization in long-term studies of birds and fish. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1 indexed citations

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Funston, Gregory F., Ian B. Butler, Thomas J. Challands, et al.. (2022). A skeleton from the Middle Jurassic of Scotland illuminates an earlier origin of large pterosaurs. Current Biology. 32(6). 1446–1453.e4. 19 indexed citations

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Zhuravlev, Andrey Yu., Emily G. Mitchell, Fred Bowyer, Rachel Wood, & Amelia Penny. (2022). Increases in reef size, habitat and metacommunity complexity associated with Cambrian radiation oxygenation pulses. Nature Communications. 13(1). 7523–7523. 17 indexed citations

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Gotelli, Nicholas J., Faye Moyes, Laura H. Antão, et al.. (2021). Long‐term changes in temperate marine fish assemblages are driven by a small subset of species. Global Change Biology. 28(1). 46–53. 19 indexed citations

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Penny, Amelia, Olle Hints, & Björn Kröger. (2021). Carbonate shelf development and early Paleozoic benthic diversity in Baltica: a hierarchical diversity partitioning approach using brachiopod data. Paleobiology. 48(1). 44–64. 6 indexed citations

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Kröger, Björn & Amelia Penny. (2020). Skeletal marine animal biodiversity is built by families with long macroevolutionary lag times. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 4(10). 1410–1415. 5 indexed citations

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Bowyer, Fred, Rachel Wood, Lewis Alcott, et al.. (2020). Regional nutrient decrease drove redox stabilisation and metazoan diversification in the late Ediacaran Nama Group, Namibia. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 2240–2240. 28 indexed citations

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Wood, Rachel, Alexander Liu, Fred Bowyer, et al.. (2019). Integrated records of environmental change and evolution challenge the Cambrian Explosion. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 3(4). 528–538. 248 indexed citations breakdown →

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Penny, Amelia & Björn Kröger. (2019). Impacts of spatial and environmental differentiation on early Palaeozoic marine biodiversity. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 3(12). 1655–1660. 12 indexed citations

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Tostevin, Rosalie, Harold J. Bradbury, Graham Shields, et al.. (2019). Calcium isotopes as a record of the marine calcium cycle versus carbonate diagenesis during the late Ediacaran. Chemical Geology. 529. 119319–119319. 8 indexed citations

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Kröger, Björn, et al.. (2019). Algae, calcitarchs and the Late Ordovician Baltic limestone facies of the Baltic Basin. Facies. 66(1). 12 indexed citations

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Penny, Amelia. (2018). Patterns in Palaeontology - the earliest skeletons. Palaeontology. 8(3). 1–10. 2 indexed citations

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Tostevin, Rosalie, Matthew O Clarkson, Graham Shields, et al.. (2018). Uranium isotope evidence for an expansion of anoxia in terminal Ediacaran oceans. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 506. 104–112. 100 indexed citations

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Wood, Rachel & Amelia Penny. (2018). Substrate growth dynamics and biomineralization of an Ediacaran encrusting poriferan. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 285(1870). 20171938–20171938. 16 indexed citations

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Tostevin, Rosalie, Tianchen He, Alexandra V. Turchyn, et al.. (2017). Constraints on the late Ediacaran sulfur cycle from carbonate associated sulfate. Precambrian Research. 290. 113–125. 39 indexed citations

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Tostevin, Rosalie, Rachel Wood, Graham Shields, et al.. (2016). Low-oxygen waters limited habitable space for early animals. Nature Communications. 7(1). 12818–12818. 172 indexed citations

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Penny, Amelia, et al.. (2014). Ediacaran metazoan reefs from the Nama Group, Namibia. Science. 344(6191). 1504–1506. 119 indexed citations

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Penny, Amelia, et al.. (1975). A Megalithic observatory on Dartmoor. Nature. 257(5523). 205–207.

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