Charles H. Wellman

6.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
127 papers, 5.1k citations indexed

About

Charles H. Wellman is a scholar working on Paleontology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Charles H. Wellman has authored 127 papers receiving a total of 5.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 71 papers in Paleontology, 69 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 61 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Charles H. Wellman's work include Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (67 papers), Plant Diversity and Evolution (63 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (61 papers). Charles H. Wellman is often cited by papers focused on Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (67 papers), Plant Diversity and Evolution (63 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (61 papers). Charles H. Wellman collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Belgium. Charles H. Wellman's co-authors include Dianne Edwards, Paul Kenrick, Peter Osterloff, Harald Schneider, Paul K. Strother, Philippe Steemans, John B. Richardson, Jennifer L. Morris, Jane Gray and Philip C. J. Donoghue and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Charles H. Wellman

124 papers receiving 4.9k citations

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Charles H. Wellman United Kingdom 34 2.3k 2.1k 1.6k 1.4k 1.4k 127 5.1k
Dianne Edwards United Kingdom 40 3.0k 1.3× 1.8k 0.9× 1.3k 0.8× 1.6k 1.2× 1.5k 1.1× 116 4.9k
Hans Kerp Germany 45 4.1k 1.8× 2.0k 1.0× 1.3k 0.8× 2.6k 1.9× 1.7k 1.2× 185 6.6k
Stephen McLoughlin Sweden 45 3.5k 1.5× 2.8k 1.3× 1.5k 0.9× 725 0.5× 1.3k 1.0× 177 5.8k
Torsten Utescher Germany 41 2.1k 0.9× 2.2k 1.1× 3.6k 2.2× 766 0.6× 646 0.5× 112 5.3k
Dana L. Royer United States 38 1.8k 0.8× 2.6k 1.2× 3.0k 1.9× 1.4k 1.0× 593 0.4× 81 6.8k
David J. Cantrill Australia 40 2.9k 1.2× 1.7k 0.8× 1.4k 0.8× 596 0.4× 1.2k 0.9× 132 4.7k
Conrad C. Labandeira United States 57 7.2k 3.1× 2.2k 1.0× 1.0k 0.6× 1.8k 1.3× 1.4k 1.1× 211 9.3k
Jack A. Wolfe United States 35 3.5k 1.5× 1.7k 0.8× 2.2k 1.3× 1.3k 1.0× 1.4k 1.0× 62 6.0k
Peter Wilf United States 52 6.5k 2.8× 2.3k 1.1× 2.0k 1.2× 2.2k 1.6× 2.2k 1.6× 130 9.6k
Paul Kenrick United Kingdom 34 2.8k 1.2× 1.0k 0.5× 716 0.4× 2.5k 1.8× 1.8k 1.3× 82 5.3k

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All Works

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Clayton, Geoffrey C., Marco Vecoli, Pan Luo, Robbie Goodhue, & Charles H. Wellman. (2024). Acritarch Palynomorph Darkness Index (PDI) as an indicator of thermal maturity in Silurian sections from Saudi Arabia. Marine and Petroleum Geology. 169. 107049–107049.
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Clark, James, Alexander J. Hetherington, Jennifer L. Morris, et al.. (2023). Evolution of phenotypic disparity in the plant kingdom. Nature Plants. 9(10). 1618–1626. 21 indexed citations
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Wellman, Charles H., Borja Cascales‐Miñana, & Thomas Servais. (2022). Terrestrialization in the Ordovician. Geological Society London Special Publications. 532(1). 171–190. 11 indexed citations
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Strother, Paul K., Martin D. Brasier, David Wacey, et al.. (2021). A possible billion-year-old holozoan with differentiated multicellularity. Current Biology. 31(12). 2658–2665.e2. 17 indexed citations
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Wellman, Charles H., et al.. (2020). Early land plant phytodebris. Geological Society London Special Publications. 511(1). 309–320. 11 indexed citations
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Morris, Jennifer L., Mark N. Puttick, James Clark, et al.. (2018). The timescale of early land plant evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(10). E2274–E2283. 606 indexed citations breakdown →
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Puttick, Mark N., Jennifer L. Morris, Tom A. Williams, et al.. (2018). The Interrelationships of Land Plants and the Nature of the Ancestral Embryophyte. Current Biology. 28(5). 733–745.e2. 325 indexed citations breakdown →
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Fraser, Wesley T., Barry H. Lomax, David J. Beerling, et al.. (2016). Episodic perturbations of end-Permian atmosphere recorded in plant spore chemistry. EGUGA. 2 indexed citations
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Strother, Paul K. & Charles H. Wellman. (2015). Palaeoecology of a billion‐year‐old non‐marine cyanobacterium from the Torridon Group and Nonesuch Formation. Palaeontology. 59(1). 89–108. 35 indexed citations
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Slater, Sam M. & Charles H. Wellman. (2015). A quantitative comparison of dispersed spore/pollen and plant megafossil assemblages from a Middle Jurassic plant bed from Yorkshire, UK. Paleobiology. 41(4). 640–660. 28 indexed citations
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Wellman, Charles H., Philippe Steemans, & Marco Vecoli. (2013). Chapter 29 Palaeophytogeography of Ordovician–Silurian land plants. Geological Society London Memoirs. 38(1). 461–476. 68 indexed citations
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Strother, Paul K., et al.. (2011). Earth’s earliest non-marine eukaryotes. Nature. 473(7348). 505–509. 139 indexed citations
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Wellman, Charles H., et al.. (2008). Trilete spores from the Ordovician of Saudi Arabia: earliest evidence for vascular plants and their immediate predecessors (“protracheophytes”). Open Repository and Bibliography (University of Liège). 2 indexed citations
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Steemans, Philippe, et al.. (2008). An Ordovician cryptospore and trilete spore assemblage from Saudi Arabia. Open Repository and Bibliography (University of Liège). 2 indexed citations
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Steemans, Philippe, Ken Higgs, & Charles H. Wellman. (2000). Cryptospores and trilete spores from the Llandovery, Nuayyim-2 Borehole, Saudi Arabia. Open Repository and Bibliography (University of Liège). 32 indexed citations
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Steemans, Philippe, Ken Higgs, & Charles H. Wellman. (2000). Analysis of continental palynomorphs from the Llandovery in Saudi Arabia. Open Repository and Bibliography (University of Liège). 1 indexed citations
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Wellman, Charles H.. (1998). Permanent dyads in sporangia and spore masses from the Lower Devonian of the Welsh Borderland. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 127(2). 117–147. 11 indexed citations
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Wellman, Charles H. & John B. Richardson. (1993). Terrestrial plant microfossils from Silurian iniliers of the Midland Valley of Scotland. Palaeontology. 36(1). 155–193. 81 indexed citations

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