Fred Bowyer

2.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
47 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Fred Bowyer is a scholar working on Paleontology, Atmospheric Science and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Fred Bowyer has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Paleontology, 21 papers in Atmospheric Science and 20 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Fred Bowyer's work include Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (44 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (21 papers) and Marine Biology and Ecology Research (20 papers). Fred Bowyer is often cited by papers focused on Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (44 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (21 papers) and Marine Biology and Ecology Research (20 papers). Fred Bowyer collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, China and Russia. Fred Bowyer's co-authors include Rachel Wood, Amelia Penny, Simon W. Poulton, Andrew Curtis, Rosalie Tostevin, Matthew O Clarkson, Graham Shields, Emily G. Mitchell, Andrey Yu. Zhuravlev and Maoyan Zhu and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Fred Bowyer

40 papers receiving 1.6k 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.

Integrated records of environmental change and evolution challenge the Cambrian Explosion

2019 248 citations Rachel Wood, Alexander Liu et al. Nature Ecology & Evolution profile →
The tempo of Ediacaran evolution

2021 138 citations Chuan Yang, Daniel J. Condon et al. Science Advances profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Fred Bowyer United Kingdom	19	1.5k	658	649	472	303	47	1.7k
Meiyi Yu China	21	1.3k 0.8×	477 0.7×	498 0.8×	499 1.1×	223 0.7×	44	1.5k
Leiming Yin China	20	1.4k 0.9×	781 1.2×	382 0.6×	587 1.2×	183 0.6×	48	1.8k
Maya Elrick United States	25	1.4k 0.9×	903 1.4×	473 0.7×	557 1.2×	134 0.4×	40	1.7k
Amelia Penny United Kingdom	15	1.0k 0.7×	433 0.7×	403 0.6×	273 0.6×	248 0.8×	30	1.1k
Tianchen He China	17	1.1k 0.7×	445 0.7×	750 1.2×	569 1.2×	105 0.3×	43	1.4k
Kathleen A. McFadden United States	7	1.2k 0.8×	576 0.9×	626 1.0×	351 0.7×	106 0.3×	8	1.3k
Xinqiang Wang China	21	1.5k 1.0×	698 1.1×	978 1.5×	537 1.1×	107 0.4×	44	1.8k
Alan D. Rooney United States	23	1.7k 1.1×	988 1.5×	723 1.1×	1.1k 2.4×	123 0.4×	48	2.3k
Julie K. Bartley United States	16	1.1k 0.7×	496 0.8×	588 0.9×	499 1.1×	80 0.3×	34	1.4k
Shane D. Schoepfer United States	20	1.4k 0.9×	515 0.8×	971 1.5×	534 1.1×	143 0.5×	33	1.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Fred Bowyer

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Fields of papers citing papers by Fred Bowyer

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Fred Bowyer

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Fred Bowyer. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Fred Bowyer based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Fred Bowyer. Fred Bowyer is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Chen, Xin, Ying Zhou, Simon W. Poulton, et al.. (2025). A mid‐Proterozoic coupled Sr and Li isotope excursion and its potential connection to enhanced weathering and ocean oxygenation at 1.57 Ga. California Digital Library.

Wei, Tao, Chunfang Cai, Yijun Xiong, Fred Bowyer, & Simon W. Poulton. (2025). Environmental controls on Early Cambrian macroevolution: Insights from the Tarim Basin, Northwest China. Geological Society of America Bulletin. 137(7-8). 3571–3586. 1 indexed citations

Bowyer, Fred, Rachel Wood, Ulf Linnemann, et al.. (2025). Foundational uncertainties in terminal Ediacaran chronostratigraphy revealed by high-precision zircon U-Pb geochronology of the Nama Group, Namibia. Earth-Science Reviews. 268. 105169–105169. 2 indexed citations

Curtis, Andrew, et al.. (2025). Natural sampling and aliasing of marine geochemical signals. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 760–760.

Wei, Tao, Chunfang Cai, Yijun Xiong, Fred Bowyer, & Simon W. Poulton. (2025). A nutrient control on fluctuating oceanic redox conditions during the Early Cambrian radiation of animals. Geological Society of America Bulletin.

Errami, Ezzoura, et al.. (2025). Ediacaran-Cambrian Boundary in the Anti-Atlas belt (Morocco): A review of biostratigraphy, chemostratigraphy and geochronology. 2 indexed citations

Errami, Ezzoura, et al.. (2024). Ediacaran-Cambrian Boundary in the Anti-Atlas belt (Morocco): A review of biostratigraphy, chemostratigraphy and geochronology. Earth-Science Reviews. 261. 105010–105010. 5 indexed citations

Bowyer, Fred, Maoyan Zhu, Yijun Xiong, et al.. (2024). Marine redox and nutrient dynamics linked to the Cambrian radiation of animals. Geology. 52(9). 729–734. 9 indexed citations

Bowyer, Fred, et al.. (2024). Sea level controls on Ediacaran-Cambrian animal radiations. Science Advances. 10(31). eado6462–eado6462. 24 indexed citations

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Yang, Xiuqing, Jingwen Mao, Fred Bowyer, et al.. (2024). A phosphate-rich marine reservoir in the redox stratified Ediacaran ocean. Communications Earth & Environment. 5(1). 2 indexed citations

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Yang, Chuan, Fred Bowyer, Daniel J. Condon, Xian‐Hua Li, & Maoyan Zhu. (2023). New U-Pb age from the Shuijingtuo Formation (Yangtze Gorges area) and its implications for the Cambrian timescale. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 616. 111477–111477. 14 indexed citations

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Bowyer, Fred, Benjamin Mills, Andrew Merdith, et al.. (2023). Dynamic redox and nutrient cycling response to climate forcing in the Mesoproterozoic ocean. Nature Communications. 14(1). 6640–6640. 14 indexed citations

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Bowyer, Fred, et al.. (2023). Constraining the onset and environmental setting of metazoan biomineralization: The Ediacaran Nama Group of the Tsaus Mountains, Namibia. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 620. 118336–118336. 15 indexed citations

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Bowyer, Fred, Alexander J. Krause, Kang‐Jun Huang, et al.. (2023). Biological diversification linked to environmental stabilization following the Sturtian Snowball glaciation. Science Advances. 9(34). eadf9999–eadf9999. 18 indexed citations

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Bowyer, Fred, et al.. (2023). Insights Into the Terminal Ediacaran Marine Carbonate Record From Shale-Hosted Carbonate Carbon Isotopes. American Journal of Science. 323. 1 indexed citations

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Wood, Rachel, et al.. (2023). New Ediacaran biota from the oldest Nama Group, Namibia (Tsaus Mountains), and re-definition of the Nama Assemblage. Geological Magazine. 160(9). 1673–1686. 9 indexed citations

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Long, Xiaoping, Fred Bowyer, Benjamin Mills, et al.. (2021). Pulsed oxygenation events drove progressive oxygenation of the early Mesoproterozoic ocean. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 559. 116754–116754. 44 indexed citations

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Wood, Rachel, Ian B. Butler, Andrey Yu. Zhuravlev, et al.. (2021). Ediacaran metazoan reveals lophotrochozoan affinity and deepens root of Cambrian Explosion. Science Advances. 7(1). 22 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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Clarkson, Matthew O, Rachel Wood, Simon W. Poulton, et al.. (2016). Dynamic anoxic ferruginous conditions during the end-Permian mass extinction and recovery. Nature Communications. 7(1). 12236–12236. 100 indexed citations

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