Brian Swartz

4.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
7 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Brian Swartz is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Paleontology and Ecological Modeling. According to data from OpenAlex, Brian Swartz has authored 7 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 3 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 3 papers in Paleontology and 2 papers in Ecological Modeling. Recurrent topics in Brian Swartz's work include Evolution and Paleontology Studies (3 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (2 papers) and Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology (2 papers). Brian Swartz is often cited by papers focused on Evolution and Paleontology Studies (3 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (2 papers) and Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology (2 papers). Brian Swartz collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Australia. Brian Swartz's co-authors include Nicholas J. Matzke, Guinevere O. U. Wogan, Kaitlin C. Maguire, Anthony D. Barnosky, Emily Lindsey, Jenny L. McGuire, Charles R. Marshall, Susumu Tomiya, Tiago B. Quental and Markos A. Alexandrou and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, PLoS ONE and Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.

In The Last Decade

Brian Swartz

7 papers receiving 2.6k 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.

Has the Earth’s sixth mass extinction already arrived?

2011 2.6k citations Anthony D. Barnosky, Nicholas J. Matzke et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Brian Swartz United States	7	1.1k	846	774	665	514	7	2.8k
Susumu Tomiya United States	7	1.1k 1.0×	784 0.9×	777 1.0×	649 1.0×	541 1.1×	13	2.7k
Kaitlin C. Maguire United States	11	1.3k 1.2×	970 1.1×	1.1k 1.4×	723 1.1×	603 1.2×	20	3.1k
Emily Lindsey United States	13	1.3k 1.2×	839 1.0×	828 1.1×	718 1.1×	597 1.2×	30	3.3k
Guinevere O. U. Wogan United States	16	1.4k 1.2×	933 1.1×	1.1k 1.4×	974 1.5×	705 1.4×	36	3.4k
Andrés García Mexico	14	1.7k 1.6×	1.1k 1.3×	1.3k 1.7×	1.1k 1.6×	860 1.7×	34	3.8k
Simone Des Roches United States	16	998 0.9×	880 1.0×	436 0.6×	692 1.0×	844 1.6×	27	2.7k
Ivan Jarić Czechia	31	1.6k 1.5×	1.2k 1.5×	750 1.0×	620 0.9×	535 1.0×	130	4.1k
Marcelo M. Rivadeneira Chile	26	1.8k 1.6×	1.0k 1.2×	675 0.9×	772 1.2×	666 1.3×	80	3.9k
James Rosindell United Kingdom	23	1.2k 1.1×	1.4k 1.6×	716 0.9×	564 0.8×	968 1.9×	49	2.9k
Justin Gerlach United Kingdom	17	1.1k 1.0×	1.1k 1.3×	782 1.0×	946 1.4×	705 1.4×	55	2.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Brian Swartz

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Fields of papers citing papers by Brian Swartz

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This network shows the impact of papers produced by Brian Swartz. 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 Brian Swartz. The network helps show where Brian Swartz may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Brian Swartz

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Brian Swartz. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Brian Swartz 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 Brian Swartz. Brian Swartz is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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7 of 7 papers shown

1.

Swartz, Brian & Brent D. Mishler. (2022). Speciesism in Biology and Culture. 6 indexed citations

2.

Jørgensen, Peter Søgaard, Frédéric Barraquand, Vincent Bonhomme, et al.. (2015). Connecting people and ideas from around the world: global innovation platforms for next‐generation ecology and beyond. Ecosphere. 6(4). 1–11. 7 indexed citations

3.

Barnosky, Anthony D., Michael Holmes, Emily Lindsey, et al.. (2014). Prelude to the Anthropocene: Two new North American Land Mammal Ages (NALMAs). The Anthropocene Review. 1(3). 225–242. 38 indexed citations

4.

Alexandrou, Markos A., Brian Swartz, Nicholas J. Matzke, & Todd H. Oakley. (2013). Genome duplication and multiple evolutionary origins of complex migratory behavior in Salmonidae. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 69(3). 514–523. 80 indexed citations

5.

Swartz, Brian. (2012). A Marine Stem-Tetrapod from the Devonian of Western North America. PLoS ONE. 7(3). e33683–e33683. 47 indexed citations

6.

Barnosky, Anthony D., Nicholas J. Matzke, Susumu Tomiya, et al.. (2011). Has the Earth’s sixth mass extinction already arrived?. Nature. 471(7336). 51–57. 2567 indexed citations breakdown →

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Swartz, Brian. (2009). Devonian actinopterygian phylogeny and evolution based on a redescription ofStegotrachelus finlayi. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 156(4). 750–784. 21 indexed citations

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