Emily J. Rayfield

9.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
166 papers, 6.5k citations indexed

About

Emily J. Rayfield is a scholar working on Paleontology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Geometry and Topology. According to data from OpenAlex, Emily J. Rayfield has authored 166 papers receiving a total of 6.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 123 papers in Paleontology, 52 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 33 papers in Geometry and Topology. Recurrent topics in Emily J. Rayfield's work include Evolution and Paleontology Studies (109 papers), Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology (100 papers) and Ichthyology and Marine Biology (48 papers). Emily J. Rayfield is often cited by papers focused on Evolution and Paleontology Studies (109 papers), Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology (100 papers) and Ichthyology and Marine Biology (48 papers). Emily J. Rayfield collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Spain. Emily J. Rayfield's co-authors include Jen A. Bright, Stephanie E. Pierce, Paul M. Barrett, Stephan Lautenschlager, Kenneth D. Angielczyk, Philip S. L. Anderson, Jesús Marugán‐Lobón, Pamela G. Gill, Philip C. J. Donoghue and Michael J. Fagan and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and The Lancet.

In The Last Decade

Emily J. Rayfield

164 papers receiving 6.3k 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.

Finite Element Analysis and Understanding the Biomechanics and Evolution of Living and Fossil Organisms

2007 347 citations Emily J. Rayfield profile →
A virtual world of paleontology

2014 207 citations Stephan Lautenschlager, Emily J. Rayfield et al. profile →
The shapes of bird beaks are highly controlled by nondietary factors

2016 176 citations Jen A. Bright, Jesús Marugán‐Lobón et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Emily J. Rayfield United Kingdom	46	4.2k	1.7k	1.2k	769	762	166	6.5k
John R. Hutchinson United Kingdom	55	5.2k 1.2×	1.9k 1.1×	921 0.7×	1.1k 1.4×	1.4k 1.8×	235	10.8k
R. McN. Alexander United Kingdom	57	2.5k 0.6×	1.9k 1.1×	382 0.3×	2.0k 2.6×	1.1k 1.4×	138	11.5k
Stephen Wroe Australia	46	3.8k 0.9×	871 0.5×	1.1k 0.9×	1.5k 2.0×	445 0.6×	135	5.5k
Philipp Mitterœcker Austria	38	2.2k 0.5×	453 0.3×	4.0k 3.2×	826 1.1×	286 0.4×	96	6.8k
Stephen M. Gatesy United States	37	3.1k 0.7×	1.1k 0.7×	362 0.3×	709 0.9×	935 1.2×	78	4.8k
Philip J. Currie Canada	67	11.2k 2.6×	6.7k 3.9×	492 0.4×	645 0.8×	2.2k 2.9×	366	14.8k
David R. Carrier United States	41	1.1k 0.3×	685 0.4×	293 0.2×	1.1k 1.5×	585 0.8×	92	4.8k
H. David Sheets United States	23	2.1k 0.5×	812 0.5×	2.3k 1.9×	1.1k 1.4×	429 0.6×	70	4.9k
Zhe‐Xi Luo United States	47	5.4k 1.3×	1.4k 0.8×	529 0.4×	1.3k 1.6×	1.0k 1.3×	97	7.1k
Robert R. Reisz Canada	48	6.8k 1.6×	3.7k 2.2×	326 0.3×	386 0.5×	1.9k 2.6×	252	8.0k

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Panagiotopoulou, Olga, Justin W. Adams, David P. Hocking, et al.. (2025). Functional optimality underpins the repeated evolution of the extreme “saber-tooth” morphology. Current Biology. 35(3). 455–467.e6. 3 indexed citations

Martinelli, Agustín G., et al.. (2024). Brazilian fossils reveal homoplasy in the oldest mammalian jaw joint. Nature. 634(8033). 381–388. 6 indexed citations

Martinelli, Agustín G., Pamela G. Gill, Emily J. Rayfield, et al.. (2024). Anatomy of the maxillary canal of Riograndia guaibensis (Cynodontia, Probainognathia)—A prozostrodont from the Late Triassic of southern Brazil. The Anatomical Record. 308(3). 827–843. 4 indexed citations

Rayfield, Emily J., et al.. (2024). Finite element analysis of kangaroo astragali: A new angle on the ankle. Journal of Morphology. 285(5). e21707–e21707. 1 indexed citations

Rayfield, Emily J., et al.. (2024). Finite element and microstructural analyses indicate that pteraspid heterostracan oral plate microstructure was adapted to a mechanical function. Palaeontology. 67(6). 2 indexed citations

Porro, Laura B., Elizabeth Martin‐Silverstone, & Emily J. Rayfield. (2024). Descriptive anatomy and three-dimensional reconstruction of the skull of the tetrapod Eoherpeton watsoni Panchen, 1975 from the Carboniferous of Scotland. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 115(3-4). 164–184. 2 indexed citations

Lautenschlager, Stephan, et al.. (2023). Functional reorganisation of the cranial skeleton during the cynodont–mammaliaform transition. Communications Biology. 6(1). 367–367. 8 indexed citations

Benton, Michael J., et al.. (2022). Dental form and function in the early feeding diversification of dinosaurs. Science Advances. 8(50). eabq5201–eabq5201. 15 indexed citations

Esteve‐Altava, Borja, et al.. (2022). Early tetrapod cranial evolution is characterized by increased complexity, constraint, and an offset from fin-limb evolution. Science Advances. 8(36). eadc8875–eadc8875. 7 indexed citations

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Porro, Laura B., Emily J. Rayfield, & Jennifer A. Clack. (2022). Computed tomography and three-dimensional reconstruction of the skull of the stem tetrapodCrassigyrinus scoticusWatson, 1929. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 42(4). 4 indexed citations

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Martinelli, Agustín G., David I. Whiteside, Marina Bento Soares, et al.. (2021). The diversity of Triassic South American sphenodontians: a new basal form, clevosaurs, and a revision of rhynchocephalian phylogeny. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 19(11). 787–820. 14 indexed citations

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Nesbitt, Sterling J., Stephan Lautenschlager, Emily J. Rayfield, et al.. (2021). Cranial functional morphology of the pseudosuchian Effigia and implications for its ecological role in the Triassic. The Anatomical Record. 305(10). 2435–2462. 9 indexed citations

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Porro, Laura B., et al.. (2021). Osteology and digital reconstruction of the skull of the early tetrapod Whatcheeria deltae. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 41(2). 8 indexed citations

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Zhao, Qi, et al.. (2021). Testing for a dietary shift in the Early Cretaceous ceratopsian dinosaur Psittacosaurus lujiatunensis. Palaeontology. 64(3). 371–384. 5 indexed citations

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Hill, Jennifer J., et al.. (2019). The use of extruded finite-element models as a novel alternative to tomography-based models: a case study using early mammal jaws. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 16(161). 20190674–20190674. 29 indexed citations

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Martínez‐Pérez, Carlos, Mark A. Purnell, Emily J. Rayfield, & Philip C. J. Donoghue. (2016). Shedding light into the function of the earliest vertebrate skeleton. EGUGA. 1 indexed citations

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Lautenschlager, Stephan, Pamela G. Gill, Zhe‐Xi Luo, Michael J. Fagan, & Emily J. Rayfield. (2016). Morphological evolution of the mammalian jaw adductor complex. Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 92(4). 1910–1940. 52 indexed citations

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Bright, Jen A., Jesús Marugán‐Lobón, Samuel N. Cobb, & Emily J. Rayfield. (2016). The shapes of bird beaks are highly controlled by nondietary factors. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(19). 5352–5357. 176 indexed citations breakdown →

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Schmidt, Daniela N., et al.. (2015). Potential and limitations of finite element modelling in assessing structural integrity of coralline algae under future global change. Biogeosciences. 12(19). 5871–5883. 12 indexed citations

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Close, Roger A. & Emily J. Rayfield. (2012). Functional Morphometric Analysis of the Furcula in Mesozoic Birds. PLoS ONE. 7(5). e36664–e36664. 36 indexed citations

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