David Sepkoski

719 total citations
30 papers, 340 citations indexed

About

David Sepkoski is a scholar working on History and Philosophy of Science, Anthropology and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, David Sepkoski has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 340 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in History and Philosophy of Science, 7 papers in Anthropology and 5 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in David Sepkoski's work include History of Science and Natural History (10 papers), Philosophy and History of Science (8 papers) and Evolution and Paleontology Studies (5 papers). David Sepkoski is often cited by papers focused on History of Science and Natural History (10 papers), Philosophy and History of Science (8 papers) and Evolution and Paleontology Studies (5 papers). David Sepkoski collaborates with scholars based in Germany and United States. David Sepkoski's co-authors include Michael Ruse, Christine von Oertzen, Elena Aronova and Mark E. Borrello and has published in prestigious journals such as Isis, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences and Journal of the History of Biology.

In The Last Decade

David Sepkoski

22 papers receiving 314 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
David Sepkoski Germany 11 120 99 47 43 42 30 340
Ronald Rainger United States 10 208 1.7× 64 0.6× 28 0.6× 46 1.1× 26 0.6× 27 402
Lynn K. Nyhart United States 9 203 1.7× 43 0.4× 26 0.6× 17 0.4× 26 0.6× 36 423
Derek Turner United States 13 232 1.9× 79 0.8× 134 2.9× 21 0.5× 33 0.8× 39 471
Todd A. Grantham United States 10 89 0.7× 60 0.6× 58 1.2× 8 0.2× 13 0.3× 17 264
David Quammen United States 6 37 0.3× 23 0.2× 46 1.0× 22 0.5× 20 0.5× 29 302
Keith R. Benson United States 12 180 1.5× 26 0.3× 37 0.8× 12 0.3× 19 0.5× 36 461
Georgy S. Levit Germany 14 222 1.9× 49 0.5× 107 2.3× 13 0.3× 6 0.1× 62 518
Fa‐ti Fan United States 11 126 1.1× 12 0.1× 147 3.1× 56 1.3× 27 0.6× 32 419
Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis United States 11 287 2.4× 31 0.3× 79 1.7× 12 0.3× 30 0.7× 60 593
Joel B. Hägen United States 13 125 1.0× 18 0.2× 40 0.9× 9 0.2× 39 0.9× 28 424

Countries citing papers authored by David Sepkoski

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Fields of papers citing papers by David Sepkoski

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Sepkoski

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

All Works

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Sepkoski, David & Mark E. Borrello. (2025). Sociobiology and the Politics of Objectivity. Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences. 55(1). 44–47. 1 indexed citations
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Sepkoski, David. (2018). The Unfinished Synthesis?: Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology in the 20th Century. Journal of the History of Biology. 52(4). 687–703. 7 indexed citations
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Sepkoski, David, et al.. (2017). Introduction: Towards a global history of paleontology: The paleontological reception of Darwin's thought. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences. 66. 1–2.
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Sepkoski, David. (2017). The Database before the Computer?. Osiris. 32(1). 175–201. 15 indexed citations
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Sepkoski, David. (2017). The Earth as Archive: Contingency, Narrative, and the History of Life. 53–83. 6 indexed citations
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Sepkoski, David. (2016). “Replaying Life's Tape”: Simulations, metaphors, and historicity in Stephen Jay Gould's view of life. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences. 58. 73–81. 13 indexed citations
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Sepkoski, David. (2013). Paleontology at the “high table”? Popularization and disciplinary status in recent paleontology. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences. 45. 133–138. 2 indexed citations
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Sepkoski, David. (2013). Trees of Life: A Visual History of Evolution - Theodore W. Pietsch. Centaurus. 55(4). 443–444.
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Sepkoski, David. (2012). Towards “A Natural History of Data”: Evolving Practices and Epistemologies of Data in Paleontology, 1800–2000. Journal of the History of Biology. 46(3). 401–444. 24 indexed citations
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Sepkoski, David. (2011). Philosophy among the fossils. Metascience. 21(2). 363–366.
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Sepkoski, David. (2009). The "delayed synthesis": Paleobiology in the 1970s. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. 99(1). 179–197. 3 indexed citations
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Sepkoski, David & Michael Ruse. (2009). The Paleobiological Revolution. 61 indexed citations
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Sepkoski, David. (2005). Stephen Jay Gould, Jack Sepkoski, and the ‘Quantitative Revolution’ in American Paleobiology. Journal of the History of Biology. 38(2). 209–237. 21 indexed citations
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Sepkoski, David. (2003). Nominalism and constructivism in seventeenth-century mathematical philosophy. Historia Mathematica. 32(1). 33–59. 11 indexed citations

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