Erik A. Sperling

8.3k total citations · 4 hit papers
86 papers, 6.0k citations indexed

About

Erik A. Sperling is a scholar working on Paleontology, Atmospheric Science and Geochemistry and Petrology. According to data from OpenAlex, Erik A. Sperling has authored 86 papers receiving a total of 6.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 57 papers in Paleontology, 27 papers in Atmospheric Science and 26 papers in Geochemistry and Petrology. Recurrent topics in Erik A. Sperling's work include Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (53 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (27 papers) and Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis (26 papers). Erik A. Sperling is often cited by papers focused on Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (53 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (27 papers) and Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis (26 papers). Erik A. Sperling collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Erik A. Sperling's co-authors include Kevin J. Peterson, Davide Pisani, Marc Laflamme, Douglas H. Erwin, Andrew H. Knoll, Sarah M. Tweedt, David T. Johnston, Francis A. Macdonald, Galen P. Halverson and Jakob Vinther and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Erik A. Sperling

84 papers receiving 5.8k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

The Cambrian Conundrum: Early Divergence and Later Ecological Success in the Early History of Animals

2011 983 citations Douglas H. Erwin, Marc Laflamme et al. Science profile →
Statistical analysis of iron geochemical data suggests limited late Proterozoic oxygenation

2015 523 citations Erik A. Sperling, Benjamin C. Gill et al. profile →
Temperature-dependent hypoxia explains biogeography and severity of end-Permian marine mass extinction

2018 229 citations Justin L. Penn, Curtis Deutsch et al. Science profile →
Calibrating the coevolution of Ediacaran life and environment

2020 170 citations Alan D. Rooney, Marjorie Cantine et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers

Erik A. Sperling

PALEO

OCEAN

Stefan Bengtson Sweden

Nicholas J. Butterfield United Kingdom

Degan Shu China

Jian Han China

Derek E. G. Briggs United States

Derek E. G. Briggs United Kingdom

Bruce Runnegar United States

Thomas Servais France

Christopher R. Scotese United States

Jonathan L. Payne United States

Stefan Bengtson Sweden

Erik A. Sperling

5.5k ×1.3

PALEO

2.3k ×1.3

857 ×0.6

1.8k ×1.4

OCEAN

881 ×0.9

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Erik A. Sperling

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Ostrander, Chadlin M., Richard Stockey, Justin V. Strauss, et al.. (2025). Dynamic deep marine oxygenation during the Early and Middle Paleozoic. Science Advances. 11(36). eadw5878–eadw5878.

Scheirer, Allegra Hosford, et al.. (2024). Prediction of organic geochemical parameters from inorganic geochemical data in the Cretaceous-Danian Moreno Formation, San Joaquin Basin, California. Chemical Geology. 674. 122551–122551. 1 indexed citations

Schoepfer, Shane D., et al.. (2024). The relationship between total organic carbon and bottom water redox state in North American black shales. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 649. 112266–112266. 9 indexed citations

Boag, Thomas H., et al.. (2024). Deep‐water first occurrences of Ediacara biota prior to the Shuram carbon isotope excursion in the Wernecke Mountains, Yukon, Canada. Geobiology. 22(3). e12597–e12597. 9 indexed citations

Wei, Guang‐Yi, Mingyu Zhao, Erik A. Sperling, et al.. (2024). Lithium isotopic constraints on the evolution of continental clay mineral factory and marine oxygenation in the earliest Paleozoic Era. Science Advances. 10(13). eadk2152–eadk2152. 21 indexed citations

Mills, Daniel B., Rachel L. Simister, Taylor R. Sehein, et al.. (2024). Constraining the oxygen requirements for modern microbial eukaryote diversity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(2). e2303754120–e2303754120. 8 indexed citations

Duncan, Murray I., et al.. (2023). Oxygen availability and body mass modulate ectotherm responses to ocean warming. Nature Communications. 14(1). 3811–3811. 9 indexed citations

Spinks, Sam, Erik A. Sperling, Robert Thorne, et al.. (2022). Mesoproterozoic surface oxygenation accompanied major sedimentary manganese deposition at 1.4 and 1.1 Ga. Geobiology. 21(1). 28–43. 16 indexed citations

Stockey, Richard, Alexandre Pohl, Andy Ridgwell, Seth Finnegan, & Erik A. Sperling. (2021). Decreasing Phanerozoic extinction intensity as a consequence of Earth surface oxygenation and metazoan ecophysiology. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(41). 32 indexed citations

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Trower, Elizabeth J., Justin V. Strauss, Erik A. Sperling, & Woodward W. Fischer. (2021). Isotopic analyses of Ordovician–Silurian siliceous skeletons indicate silica‐depleted Paleozoic oceans. Geobiology. 19(5). 460–472. 24 indexed citations

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Sperling, Erik A., Michael J. Melchin, Tiffani Fraser, et al.. (2021). A long-term record of early to mid-Paleozoic marine redox change. Science Advances. 7(28). 60 indexed citations

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Rooney, Alan D., Marjorie Cantine, Kristin Bergmann, et al.. (2020). Calibrating the coevolution of Ediacaran life and environment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(29). 16824–16830. 170 indexed citations breakdown →

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Cole, Devon B., Daniel B. Mills, Douglas H. Erwin, et al.. (2020). On the co‐evolution of surface oxygen levels and animals. Geobiology. 18(3). 260–281. 109 indexed citations

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Sperling, Erik A., et al.. (2019). Statistical inference and reproducibility in geobiology. Geobiology. 17(3). 261–271. 2 indexed citations

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Boag, Thomas H., Richard Stockey, Leanne E. Elder, Pincelli M. Hull, & Erik A. Sperling. (2018). Oxygen, temperature and the deep-marine stenothermal cradle of Ediacaran evolution. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 285(1893). 20181724–20181724. 61 indexed citations

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Zumberge, J. Alex, Gordon D. Love, Paco Cárdenas, et al.. (2018). Demosponge steroid biomarker 26-methylstigmastane provides evidence for Neoproterozoic animals. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 2(11). 1709–1714. 86 indexed citations

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Penn, Justin L., Curtis Deutsch, Jonathan L. Payne, & Erik A. Sperling. (2016). Aerobic Marine Habitat Loss During the Late Permian Extinction. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2016. 1 indexed citations

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Tarver, James E., Erik A. Sperling, Alysha M. Heimberg, et al.. (2013). miRNAs: Small Genes with Big Potential in Metazoan Phylogenetics. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 30(11). 2369–2382. 99 indexed citations

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Farrell, Úna C., Derek E. G. Briggs, Emma U. Hammarlund, Erik A. Sperling, & Robert R. Gaines. (2013). Paleoredox and pyritization of soft-bodied fossils in the Ordovician Frankfort Shale of New York. American Journal of Science. 313(5). 452–489. 36 indexed citations

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Erwin, Douglas H., Marc Laflamme, Sarah M. Tweedt, et al.. (2011). The Cambrian Conundrum: Early Divergence and Later Ecological Success in the Early History of Animals. Science. 334(6059). 1091–1097. 983 indexed citations breakdown →

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