Emma M. Dunne

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
29 papers, 603 citations indexed

About

Emma M. Dunne is a scholar working on Paleontology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Emma M. Dunne has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 603 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Paleontology, 7 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 6 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Emma M. Dunne's work include Evolution and Paleontology Studies (19 papers), Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology (18 papers) and Ichthyology and Marine Biology (6 papers). Emma M. Dunne is often cited by papers focused on Evolution and Paleontology Studies (19 papers), Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology (18 papers) and Ichthyology and Marine Biology (6 papers). Emma M. Dunne collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Germany and United States. Emma M. Dunne's co-authors include Richard J. Butler, Nussaïbah B. Raja, Aline M. Ghilardi, Devapriya Chattopadhyay, Roger A. Close, Paulina Nätscher, Tasnuva Ming Khan, Neil Brocklehurst, Alexander Farnsworth and Daniel J. Lunt and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and Current Biology.

In The Last Decade

Emma M. Dunne

27 papers receiving 588 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Colonial history and global economics distort our understanding of deep-time biodiversity

2021 136 citations Nussaïbah B. Raja, Emma M. Dunne et al. Nature Ecology & Evolution profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Emma M. Dunne United Kingdom	14	400	156	97	90	76	29	603
Alfio Alessandro Chiarenza United Kingdom	14	402 1.0×	187 1.2×	103 1.1×	52 0.6×	48 0.6×	30	515
Jonathan D. Marcot United States	13	532 1.3×	240 1.5×	86 0.9×	93 1.0×	35 0.5×	20	670
Sarda Sahney United Kingdom	6	420 1.1×	127 0.8×	74 0.8×	135 1.5×	29 0.4×	6	639
Aline M. Ghilardi Brazil	15	425 1.1×	283 1.8×	67 0.7×	70 0.8×	35 0.5×	44	576
Sergio A. Restrepo-Moreno Colombia	9	144 0.4×	103 0.7×	55 0.6×	92 1.0×	40 0.5×	21	691
Lina C. Pérez-Ángel United States	8	169 0.4×	117 0.8×	73 0.8×	123 1.4×	34 0.4×	13	623
Carolina Ayala Colombia	6	155 0.4×	101 0.6×	57 0.6×	101 1.1×	29 0.4×	12	679
David W. Farris United States	11	147 0.4×	94 0.6×	54 0.6×	92 1.0×	38 0.5×	16	720
Anne Weil United States	12	450 1.1×	163 1.0×	87 0.9×	78 0.9×	12 0.2×	20	635
Majid Mirzaie Ataabadi Iran	13	342 0.9×	39 0.3×	30 0.3×	140 1.6×	34 0.4×	40	481

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Emma M. Dunne

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Dunne, Emma M., Devapriya Chattopadhyay, Erin Dillon, et al.. (2025). Data equity in paleobiology: progress, challenges, and future outlook. Paleobiology. 51(1). 237–249. 1 indexed citations

Dunne, Emma M., et al.. (2024). Impact of environmental barriers on temnospondyl biogeography and dispersal during the Middle–Late Triassic. Palaeontology. 67(5). 3 indexed citations

Dunne, Emma M., et al.. (2024). Rise and diversification of chondrichthyans in the Paleozoic. Paleobiology. 50(2). 271–284. 3 indexed citations

Godoy, Pedro L., Emma M. Dunne, Alexander Farnsworth, et al.. (2024). The role of climate on the emergence of giant caimanines (Crocodylia, Alligatoroidea) from the Miocene western Amazonian region. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 656. 112582–112582. 1 indexed citations

Dillon, Erin, et al.. (2023). Challenges and directions in analytical paleobiology. Paleobiology. 49(3). 377–393. 18 indexed citations

Smith, Jansen A., Nussaïbah B. Raja, Thomas Clements, et al.. (2023). Increasing the equitability of data citation in paleontology: capacity building for the big data future. Paleobiology. 50(2). 165–176. 6 indexed citations

Uhen, Mark D., Bethany J. Allen, Matthew E. Clapham, et al.. (2023). Paleobiology Database User Guide Version 1.0. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 40(11). 22 indexed citations

Dunne, Emma M., et al.. (2023). Mechanistic neutral models show that sampling biases drive the apparent explosion of early tetrapod diversity. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 7(9). 1480–1489. 6 indexed citations

Edgar, Kirsty M., et al.. (2023). Stratigraphic and geographic distribution of dinosaur tracks in the UK. Journal of the Geological Society. 180(4). 2 indexed citations

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Raja, Nussaïbah B., et al.. (2022). The Return of Fossils Removed Under Colonial Rule. Research Publications (Maastricht University). 8(2). 89–114. 3 indexed citations

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Cisneros, Juan Carlos, Nussaïbah B. Raja, Aline M. Ghilardi, et al.. (2022). Digging deeper into colonial palaeontological practices in modern day Mexico and Brazil. Royal Society Open Science. 9(3). 210898–210898. 43 indexed citations

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Dunne, Emma M., et al.. (2022). Pediatric trauma mortality in India and the United States: A comparison and risk-adjusted analysis. Journal of Pediatric Surgery. 58(1). 99–105. 9 indexed citations

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Foffa, Davide, Emma M. Dunne, Sterling J. Nesbitt, et al.. (2022). Scleromochlus and the early evolution of Pterosauromorpha. Nature. 610(7931). 313–318. 22 indexed citations

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Dunne, Emma M., et al.. (2022). Ethics, law, and politics in palaeontological research: The case of Myanmar amber. Communications Biology. 5(1). 1023–1023. 12 indexed citations

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Dunne, Emma M., Alexander Farnsworth, Roger Benson, et al.. (2022). Climatic controls on the ecological ascendancy of dinosaurs. Current Biology. 33(1). 206–214.e4. 22 indexed citations

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Raja, Nussaïbah B., Emma M. Dunne, Tasnuva Ming Khan, et al.. (2021). Colonial history and global economics distort our understanding of deep-time biodiversity. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 6(2). 145–154. 136 indexed citations breakdown →

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Close, Roger A., Roger Benson, John Alroy, et al.. (2019). Diversity dynamics of Phanerozoic terrestrial tetrapods at the local-community scale. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 3(4). 590–597. 46 indexed citations

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Dunne, Emma M., Roger A. Close, David J. Button, et al.. (2018). Diversity change during the rise of tetrapods and the impact of the ‘Carboniferous rainforest collapse’. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 285(1872). 20172730–20172730. 54 indexed citations

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Brocklehurst, Neil, et al.. (2018). Physical and environmental drivers of Paleozoic tetrapod dispersal across Pangaea. Nature Communications. 9(1). 5216–5216. 32 indexed citations

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Dunne, Emma M., et al.. (2015). What can we do? How we position ourselves as trainees when it comes to social exclusion. Clinical Psychology Forum. 1(265). 46–48.

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