Carl Simpson

3.4k total citations
37 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Carl Simpson is a scholar working on Ecology, Oceanography and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, Carl Simpson has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Ecology, 15 papers in Oceanography and 12 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in Carl Simpson's work include Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (16 papers), Marine Biology and Ecology Research (13 papers) and Marine Ecology and Invasive Species (6 papers). Carl Simpson is often cited by papers focused on Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (16 papers), Marine Biology and Ecology Research (13 papers) and Marine Ecology and Invasive Species (6 papers). Carl Simpson collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Carl Simpson's co-authors include Wolfgang Kiessling, Paul G. Harnik, Jonathan L. Payne, John Gage, Michael Foote, John M. Pandolfi, Sean C. Anderson, Jenny L. McGuire, Aaron O’Dea and Derek P. Tittensor and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Carl Simpson

36 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Carl Simpson United States 19 736 542 521 303 264 37 1.6k
Andrew Z. Krug United States 17 505 0.7× 488 0.9× 480 0.9× 233 0.8× 204 0.8× 22 1.1k
Jonathan A. Todd United Kingdom 20 846 1.1× 673 1.2× 725 1.4× 357 1.2× 279 1.1× 56 2.0k
Rowan Lockwood United States 21 868 1.2× 531 1.0× 360 0.7× 319 1.1× 248 0.9× 45 1.6k
Bruce A. Marshall New Zealand 21 659 0.9× 588 1.1× 806 1.5× 397 1.3× 153 0.6× 108 1.7k
Ivana Karanovic Australia 16 491 0.7× 740 1.4× 527 1.0× 107 0.4× 157 0.6× 79 1.2k
Laurel S. Collins United States 18 708 1.0× 451 0.8× 639 1.2× 228 0.8× 275 1.0× 39 1.7k
Gregory P. Dietl United States 23 995 1.4× 650 1.2× 829 1.6× 499 1.6× 228 0.9× 90 2.0k
Damià Jaume Spain 21 726 1.0× 596 1.1× 665 1.3× 283 0.9× 140 0.5× 104 1.3k
Matthew A. Kosnik Australia 23 731 1.0× 498 0.9× 500 1.0× 247 0.8× 185 0.7× 38 1.4k
Paul G. Harnik United States 14 411 0.6× 353 0.7× 261 0.5× 214 0.7× 200 0.8× 29 922

Countries citing papers authored by Carl Simpson

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Fields of papers citing papers by Carl Simpson

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Carl Simpson

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Simpson, Carl, et al.. (2024). Levels of selection and macroevolution in organisms, colonies, and species. Paleobiology. 51(1). 62–70. 3 indexed citations
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Trower, Elizabeth J., et al.. (2023). Tonian Low‐Latitude Marine Ecosystems Were Cold Before Snowball Earth. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(5). 6 indexed citations
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Simpson, Carl. (2023). Coming together to understand multicellularity. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 38(5). 385–386. 1 indexed citations
4.
Leslie, Andrew B., Carl Simpson, & Luke Mander. (2021). Reproductive innovations and pulsed rise in plant complexity. Science. 373(6561). 1368–1372. 20 indexed citations
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Hiebert, Laurel S., Leandro M. Vieira, Stefano Tiozzo, et al.. (2021). From the individual to the colony: Marine invertebrates as models to understand levels of biological organization. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B Molecular and Developmental Evolution. 336(3). 191–197. 3 indexed citations
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Simpson, Carl. (2020). An ecological driver for the macroevolution of morphological polymorphism within colonial invertebrates. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B Molecular and Developmental Evolution. 336(3). 231–238. 5 indexed citations
7.
Hiebert, Laurel S., Carl Simpson, & Stefano Tiozzo. (2020). Coloniality, clonality, and modularity in animals: The elephant in the room. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B Molecular and Developmental Evolution. 336(3). 198–211. 28 indexed citations
8.
Simpson, Carl, Maria Beger, Kim Friedman, et al.. (2015). Prioritisation of conservation research and monitoring for Western Australian protected areas and threatened species. UWA Profiles and Research Repository (UWA). 3 indexed citations
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Soreghan, Gerilyn S., Nicholas Heavens, Linda A. Hinnov, S. Aciego, & Carl Simpson. (2015). Reconstructing the Dust Cycle in Deep Time: the Case of the Late Paleozoic Icehouse. The Paleontological Society Papers. 21. 83–120. 9 indexed citations
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Nowak, Michael, Andrew B. Smith, Carl Simpson, & Derrick J. Zwickl. (2013). A Simple Method for Estimating Informative Node Age Priors for the Fossil Calibration of Molecular Divergence Time Analyses. PLoS ONE. 8(6). e66245–e66245. 38 indexed citations
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Kiessling, Wolfgang, et al.. (2012). Equatorial decline of reef corals during the last Pleistocene interglacial. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(52). 21378–21383. 83 indexed citations
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Harnik, Paul G., Heike K. Lotze, Sean C. Anderson, et al.. (2012). Extinctions in ancient and modern seas. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 27(11). 608–617. 195 indexed citations
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Simpson, Carl. (2011). The evolutionary history of division of labour. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 279(1726). 116–121. 59 indexed citations
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Liow, Lee Hsiang, Carl Simpson, Frédéric Bouchard, et al.. (2011). PIONEERING PARADIGMS AND MAGNIFICENT MANIFESTOS-LEIGH VAN VALEN'S PRICELESS CONTRIBUTIONS TO EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY. Evolution. 65(4). 917–922. 2 indexed citations
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Simpson, Carl. (2010). Species selection and driven mechanisms jointly generate a large-scale morphological trend in monobathrid crinoids. Paleobiology. 36(3). 481–496. 22 indexed citations
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Kiessling, Wolfgang & Carl Simpson. (2010). On the potential for ocean acidification to be a general cause of ancient reef crises. Global Change Biology. 17(1). 56–67. 195 indexed citations
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Kiessling, Wolfgang, Carl Simpson, & Michael Foote. (2010). Reefs as Cradles of Evolution and Sources of Biodiversity in the Phanerozoic. Science. 327(5962). 196–198. 143 indexed citations
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Simpson, Carl & Paul G. Harnik. (2009). Assessing the role of abundance in marine bivalve extinction over the post-Paleozoic. Paleobiology. 35(4). 631–647. 36 indexed citations
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Simpson, Carl & Wolfgang Kiessling. (2009). The role of extinction in large-scale diversity–stability relationships. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 277(1686). 1451–1456. 6 indexed citations
20.
Simpson, Carl, et al.. (1960). The Culture of Carp (Cyprinus Carpio L.) in Ponds in Uganda. East African Agricultural and Forestry Journal. 26(2). 111–116. 1 indexed citations

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