Frances S. Dunn

874 total citations · 1 hit paper
22 papers, 652 citations indexed

About

Frances S. Dunn is a scholar working on Paleontology, Oceanography and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Frances S. Dunn has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 652 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Paleontology, 11 papers in Oceanography and 10 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Frances S. Dunn's work include Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (17 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (10 papers) and Marine Biology and Ecology Research (10 papers). Frances S. Dunn is often cited by papers focused on Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (17 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (10 papers) and Marine Biology and Ecology Research (10 papers). Frances S. Dunn collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Russia and United States. Frances S. Dunn's co-authors include Alexander Liu, Philip R. Wilby, Charlotte G. Kenchington, Philip C. J. Donoghue, Jennifer F. Hoyal Cuthill, Emily G. Mitchell, Amelia Penny, Fred Bowyer, Rachel Wood and Dmitriy Grazhdankin and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Current Biology and Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Frances S. Dunn

20 papers receiving 633 citations

Hit Papers

1 papers align trajectories

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.

Integrated records of environmental change and evolution challenge the Cambrian Explosion

2019 248 citations Rachel Wood, Alexander Liu et al. Nature Ecology & Evolution profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Frances S. Dunn United Kingdom	13	578	293	180	80	79	22	652
Jack Matthews United Kingdom	13	552 1.0×	349 1.2×	179 1.0×	78 1.0×	113 1.4×	34	686
Emily G. Mitchell United Kingdom	11	401 0.7×	215 0.7×	134 0.7×	73 0.9×	74 0.9×	23	508
Scott D. Evans United States	15	507 0.9×	345 1.2×	178 1.0×	39 0.5×	54 0.7×	26	607
Ben J. Slater Sweden	18	496 0.9×	307 1.0×	165 0.9×	44 0.6×	58 0.7×	36	737
Charlotte G. Kenchington United Kingdom	14	804 1.4×	482 1.6×	216 1.2×	105 1.3×	141 1.8×	20	883
Natalia Bykova Russia	15	659 1.1×	359 1.2×	183 1.0×	134 1.7×	167 2.1×	29	765
Martino Giorgioni Brazil	15	369 0.6×	350 1.2×	76 0.4×	122 1.5×	138 1.7×	31	541
Ben Waggoner United States	11	607 1.1×	356 1.2×	184 1.0×	55 0.7×	111 1.4×	17	666
Gérson Fauth Brazil	15	495 0.9×	311 1.1×	154 0.9×	58 0.7×	97 1.2×	78	637
Jih‐Pai Lin China	19	760 1.3×	320 1.1×	297 1.6×	66 0.8×	77 1.0×	63	879

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20 of 20 papers shown

Dunn, Frances S., Philip C. J. Donoghue, & Alexander Liu. (2025). Morphogenesis of Fractofusus andersoni and the nature of early animal development. Nature Communications. 16(1). 3439–3439.

Dunn, Frances S., et al.. (2025). A new Cambrian stem-group echinoderm reveals the evolution of the anteroposterior axis. Current Biology. 35(14). 3488–3495.e3. 1 indexed citations

Garwood, Russell J., Alan R.T. Spencer, Frances S. Dunn, et al.. (2024). TREvoSim v3: An individual based simulation forgenerating trees and character data. The Journal of Open Source Software. 9(101). 6722–6722.

Racicot, Rachel A., Frances S. Dunn, Imran A. Rahman, et al.. (2024). Functional morphology of the Ediacaran organism Tribrachidium heraldicum. Paleobiology. 50(3). 475–489. 3 indexed citations

Gutarra, Susana, Frances S. Dunn, Brandt M. Gibson, et al.. (2024). Ediacaran marine animal forests and the ventilation of the oceans. Current Biology. 34(11). 2528–2534.e3. 4 indexed citations

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

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

Parry, Luke A., Jakob Vinther, Frances S. Dunn, et al.. (2023). An early Cambrian polyp reveals a potential anemone‐like ancestor for medusozoan cnidarians. Palaeontology. 66(1). 2 indexed citations

Darroch, Simon A.F., Susana Gutarra, Brandt M. Gibson, et al.. (2023). The rangeomorph Pectinifrons abyssalis: Hydrodynamic function at the dawn of animal life. iScience. 26(2). 105989–105989. 8 indexed citations

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Dunn, Frances S., et al.. (2023). Decline and fall of the Ediacarans: late‐Neoproterozoic extinctions and the rise of the modern biosphere. Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 99(1). 110–130. 14 indexed citations

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Darroch, Simon A.F., Brandt M. Gibson, Imran A. Rahman, et al.. (2022). The life and times of Pteridinium simplex. Paleobiology. 48(4). 527–556. 12 indexed citations

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Kenchington, Charlotte G., et al.. (2021). Orientations of Mistaken Point Fronds Indicate Morphology Impacted Ability to Survive Turbulence. Frontiers in Earth Science. 9. 12 indexed citations

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Dunn, Frances S., Alexander Liu, Dmitriy Grazhdankin, et al.. (2021). The developmental biology of Charnia and the eumetazoan affinity of the Ediacaran rangeomorphs. Science Advances. 7(30). 59 indexed citations

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Liu, Alexander & Frances S. Dunn. (2020). Filamentous Connections between Ediacaran Fronds. Current Biology. 30(7). 1322–1328.e3. 25 indexed citations

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Wood, Rachel, Alexander Liu, Fred Bowyer, et al.. (2019). Integrated records of environmental change and evolution challenge the Cambrian Explosion. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 3(4). 528–538. 248 indexed citations breakdown →

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Dunn, Frances S. & Alexander Liu. (2019). Viewing the Ediacaran biota as a failed experiment is unhelpful. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 3(4). 512–514. 16 indexed citations

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Kenchington, Charlotte G., Frances S. Dunn, & Philip R. Wilby. (2018). Modularity and Overcompensatory Growth in Ediacaran Rangeomorphs Demonstrate Early Adaptations for Coping with Environmental Pressures. Current Biology. 28(20). 3330–3336.e2. 16 indexed citations

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Dunn, Frances S., Philip R. Wilby, Charlotte G. Kenchington, et al.. (2018). Anatomy of the Ediacaran rangeomorph Charnia masoni. Papers in Palaeontology. 5(1). 157–176. 26 indexed citations

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Hoekzema, Renee S., Martin D. Brasier, Frances S. Dunn, & Alexander Liu. (2017). Quantitative study of developmental biology confirms Dickinsonia as a metazoan. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 284(1862). 20171348–20171348. 34 indexed citations

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Dunn, Frances S., Alexander Liu, & Philip C. J. Donoghue. (2017). Ediacaran developmental biology. Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 93(2). 914–932. 86 indexed citations

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