Duncan Murdock

788 total citations
21 papers, 538 citations indexed

About

Duncan Murdock is a scholar working on Paleontology, Geometry and Topology and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Duncan Murdock has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 538 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Paleontology, 4 papers in Geometry and Topology and 3 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Duncan Murdock's work include Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology (12 papers), Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (11 papers) and Evolution and Paleontology Studies (10 papers). Duncan Murdock is often cited by papers focused on Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology (12 papers), Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (11 papers) and Evolution and Paleontology Studies (10 papers). Duncan Murdock collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Germany and Switzerland. Duncan Murdock's co-authors include Philip C. J. Donoghue, Sarah E. Gabbott, Mark A. Purnell, Federica Marone, Stefan Bengtson, John E. Repetski, Xiping Dong, Marco Stampanoni, Georg Mayer and Robert S. Sansom and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and Current Biology.

In The Last Decade

Duncan Murdock

20 papers receiving 527 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Duncan Murdock United Kingdom 11 364 109 86 84 63 21 538
Michael J. Vendrasco United States 13 537 1.5× 283 2.6× 141 1.6× 152 1.8× 132 2.1× 22 675
Andrew Davies United Kingdom 14 222 0.6× 47 0.4× 24 0.3× 225 2.7× 84 1.3× 43 699
James E. Sorauf United States 14 457 1.3× 169 1.6× 133 1.5× 115 1.4× 79 1.3× 46 679
Joseph G. Carter United States 15 447 1.2× 307 2.8× 128 1.5× 113 1.3× 84 1.3× 24 837
Thomas A. Hegna United States 16 469 1.3× 215 2.0× 17 0.2× 142 1.7× 146 2.3× 43 675
Manfred Krautter Germany 13 311 0.9× 234 2.1× 97 1.1× 114 1.4× 27 0.4× 22 822
Cemal Tünoğlu Türkiye 12 172 0.5× 197 1.8× 24 0.3× 193 2.3× 34 0.5× 52 460
Mike Reich Germany 14 476 1.3× 282 2.6× 14 0.2× 70 0.8× 55 0.9× 66 807
Gordon B. Curry United Kingdom 16 495 1.4× 326 3.0× 125 1.5× 248 3.0× 64 1.0× 48 879
Ratan Kar India 17 289 0.8× 28 0.3× 32 0.4× 390 4.6× 216 3.4× 53 752

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Duncan Murdock

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Clements, Thomas, Sarah E. Gabbott, Duncan Murdock, et al.. (2025). The relationship between microbial community succession, decay, and anatomical character loss in non‐biomineralized animals. Palaeontology. 68(5).
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Murdock, Duncan, John E. Repetski, Michel Bestmann, et al.. (2024). Increasing control over biomineralization in conodont evolution. Nature Communications. 15(1). 5273–5273. 3 indexed citations
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Smith, M. Paul, Jakob Vinther, Imran A. Rahman, et al.. (2024). A new interpretation of Pikaia reveals the origins of the chordate body plan. Current Biology. 34(13). 2980–2989.e2. 6 indexed citations
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Li, Yujing, Frances S. Dunn, Duncan Murdock, et al.. (2023). Cambrian stem-group ambulacrarians and the nature of the ancestral deuterostome. Current Biology. 33(12). 2359–2366.e2. 7 indexed citations
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Barido‐Sottani, Joëlle, et al.. (2023). Putting the F into FBD analysis: tree constraints or morphological data?. Palaeontology. 66(6). 10 indexed citations
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Murdock, Duncan, et al.. (2021). Growth and feeding ecology of coniform conodonts. PeerJ. 9. e12505–e12505. 9 indexed citations
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Murdock, Duncan & M. Paul Smith. (2021). Panderodus from the Waukesha Lagerstätte of Wisconsin, USA: a primitive macrophagous vertebrate predator. Papers in Palaeontology. 7(4). 1977–1993. 9 indexed citations
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Murdock, Duncan. (2020). The ‘biomineralization toolkit’ and the origin of animal skeletons. Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 95(5). 1372–1392. 107 indexed citations
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Purnell, Mark A., Philip C. J. Donoghue, Sarah E. Gabbott, et al.. (2018). Experimental analysis of soft‐tissue fossilization: opening the black box. Palaeontology. 61(3). 317–323. 54 indexed citations
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Murdock, Duncan, et al.. (2016). Beyond the bucket: testing the effect of experimental design on rate and sequence of decay. EGUGA. 1 indexed citations
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Murdock, Duncan, Sarah E. Gabbott, & Mark A. Purnell. (2016). The impact of taphonomic data on phylogenetic resolution: Helenodora inopinata (Carboniferous, Mazon Creek Lagerstätte) and the onychophoran stem lineage. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 16(1). 19–19. 18 indexed citations
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Murdock, Duncan, Sarah E. Gabbott, Georg Mayer, & Mark A. Purnell. (2014). Decay of velvet worms (Onychophora), and bias in the fossil record of lobopodians. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 14(1). 222–222. 46 indexed citations
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Murdock, Duncan, Stefan Bengtson, Federica Marone, Jenny M. Greenwood, & Philip C. J. Donoghue. (2014). Evaluating scenarios for the evolutionary assembly of the brachiopod body plan. Evolution & Development. 16(1). 13–24. 21 indexed citations
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Murdock, Duncan, Emily J. Rayfield, & Philip C. J. Donoghue. (2014). Functional adaptation underpinned the evolutionary assembly of the earliest vertebrate skeleton. Evolution & Development. 16(6). 354–361. 9 indexed citations
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Murdock, Duncan, Xiping Dong, John E. Repetski, et al.. (2013). The origin of conodonts and of vertebrate mineralized skeletons. Nature. 502(7472). 546–549. 75 indexed citations
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Aldridge, Richard J., Duncan Murdock, Sarah E. Gabbott, & Johannes N. Theron. (2013). A 17‐element conodont apparatus from the Soom Shale Lagerstätte (Upper Ordovician), South Africa. Palaeontology. 56(2). 261–276. 28 indexed citations
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Murdock, Duncan, Ivan J. Sansom, & Philip C. J. Donoghue. (2013). Cutting the first ‘teeth’: a new approach to functional analysis of conodont elements. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 280(1768). 20131524–20131524. 14 indexed citations
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Murdock, Duncan, Philip C. J. Donoghue, Stefan Bengtson, & Federica Marone. (2012). Ontogeny and microstructure of the enigmatic Cambrian tommotiid Sunnaginia Missarzhevsky, 1969. Palaeontology. 55(3). 661–676. 30 indexed citations
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Murdock, Duncan & Philip C. J. Donoghue. (2011). Evolutionary Origins of Animal Skeletal Biomineralization. Cells Tissues Organs. 194(2-4). 98–102. 72 indexed citations
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Kouchinsky, Artem, Stefan Bengtson, & Duncan Murdock. (2010). A New Tannuolinid Problematic from the Lower Cambrian of the Sukharikha River in Northern Siberia. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 55(2). 321–331. 16 indexed citations

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