David W. Bapst

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 953 citations indexed

About

David W. Bapst is a scholar working on Paleontology, Molecular Biology and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, David W. Bapst has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 953 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Paleontology, 3 papers in Molecular Biology and 3 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in David W. Bapst's work include Evolution and Paleontology Studies (9 papers), Morphological variations and asymmetry (3 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (3 papers). David W. Bapst is often cited by papers focused on Evolution and Paleontology Studies (9 papers), Morphological variations and asymmetry (3 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (3 papers). David W. Bapst collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Canada. David W. Bapst's co-authors include Melanie J. Hopkins, Michael J. Melchin, Nicholas J. Matzke, Katie E. Davis, Matt Friedman, H. David Sheets, Charles E. Mitchell, Graeme T. Lloyd, Rachel C. M. Warnock and Joëlle Barido‐Sottani and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics.

In The Last Decade

David W. Bapst

11 papers receiving 945 citations

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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.

paleotree: an R package for paleontological and phylogenetic analyses of evolution

2012 441 citations David W. Bapst Methods in Ecology and Evolution profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
David W. Bapst United States	10	830	231	171	151	137	11	953
Sylvain Gerber France	17	589 0.7×	131 0.6×	312 1.8×	286 1.9×	64 0.5×	32	972
Jonathan D. Marcot United States	13	532 0.6×	240 1.0×	59 0.3×	97 0.6×	86 0.6×	20	670
Thomas L. Stubbs United Kingdom	20	758 0.9×	318 1.4×	140 0.8×	78 0.5×	141 1.0×	44	856
Juan L. Cantalapiedra Spain	16	491 0.6×	270 1.2×	64 0.4×	213 1.4×	116 0.8×	45	884
Loïc Costeur Switzerland	21	917 1.1×	155 0.7×	226 1.3×	316 2.1×	76 0.6×	84	1.2k
А. В. Лопатин Russia	19	1.0k 1.2×	278 1.2×	55 0.3×	348 2.3×	124 0.9×	168	1.2k
Nicolás Mongiardino Koch United States	17	347 0.4×	93 0.4×	63 0.4×	158 1.0×	93 0.7×	40	696
Thomas Mörs Sweden	18	641 0.8×	315 1.4×	57 0.3×	209 1.4×	161 1.2×	90	920
Mark A. Bell United Kingdom	9	440 0.5×	188 0.8×	40 0.2×	103 0.7×	81 0.6×	10	584
Judd A. Case United States	19	1.2k 1.4×	304 1.3×	58 0.3×	377 2.5×	136 1.0×	29	1.3k

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11 of 11 papers shown

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Belanger, Christina L. & David W. Bapst. (2023). Simulating our ability to accurately detect abrupt changes in assemblage-based paleoenvironmental proxies. Palaeontologia Electronica. 2 indexed citations

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Wright, April, David W. Bapst, Joëlle Barido‐Sottani, & Rachel C. M. Warnock. (2022). Integrating Fossil Observations Into Phylogenetics Using the Fossilized Birth–Death Model. Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics. 53(1). 251–273. 37 indexed citations

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Bapst, David W., et al.. (2017). Combined Analysis of Extant Rhynchonellida (Brachiopoda) using Morphological and Molecular Data. Systematic Biology. 67(1). 32–48. 22 indexed citations

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Bapst, David W. & Melanie J. Hopkins. (2016). Comparing cal3 and other a posteriori time-scaling approaches in a case study with the pterocephaliid trilobites. Paleobiology. 43(1). 49–67. 45 indexed citations

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Lloyd, Graeme T., David W. Bapst, Matt Friedman, & Katie E. Davis. (2016). Probabilistic divergence time estimation without branch lengths: dating the origins of dinosaurs, avian flight and crown birds. Biology Letters. 12(11). 20160609–20160609. 64 indexed citations

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Bapst, David W., et al.. (2016). Topology, divergence dates, and macroevolutionary inferences vary between different tip-dating approaches applied to fossil theropods (Dinosauria). Biology Letters. 12(7). 20160237–20160237. 62 indexed citations

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Bapst, David W.. (2014). Assessing the effect of time-scaling methods on phylogeny-based analyses in the fossil record. Paleobiology. 40(3). 331–351. 64 indexed citations

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Bapst, David W.. (2013). When Can Clades Be Potentially Resolved with Morphology?. PLoS ONE. 8(4). e62312–e62312. 23 indexed citations

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Bapst, David W.. (2013). A stochastic rate‐calibrated method for time‐scaling phylogenies of fossil taxa. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 4(8). 724–733. 112 indexed citations

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Bapst, David W.. (2012). paleotree: an R package for paleontological and phylogenetic analyses of evolution. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 3(5). 803–807. 441 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bapst, David W., et al.. (2012). Graptoloid diversity and disparity became decoupled during the Ordovician mass extinction. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(9). 3428–3433. 81 indexed citations

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