Gar W. Rothwell

9.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
278 papers, 7.5k citations indexed

About

Gar W. Rothwell is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Molecular Biology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Gar W. Rothwell has authored 278 papers receiving a total of 7.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 247 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 128 papers in Molecular Biology and 104 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Gar W. Rothwell's work include Plant Diversity and Evolution (220 papers), Fern and Epiphyte Biology (120 papers) and Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions (112 papers). Gar W. Rothwell is often cited by papers focused on Plant Diversity and Evolution (220 papers), Fern and Epiphyte Biology (120 papers) and Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions (112 papers). Gar W. Rothwell collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Gar W. Rothwell's co-authors include Ruth A. Stockey, Gene Mapes, Wilson N. Stewart, Rudolph Serbet, Genaro R. Hernandez‐Castillo, Alexandru M. F. Tomescu, Kathleen B. Pigg, James F. Basinger, Diane M. Erwin and Jason Hilton and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Geology.

In The Last Decade

Gar W. Rothwell

272 papers receiving 7.2k 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.

Paleobotany and the Evolution of Plants

1994 689 citations Wilson N. Stewart, Gar W. Rothwell et al. The Bryologist profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gar W. Rothwell United States	43	6.5k	3.4k	2.2k	1.5k	891	278	7.5k
Else Marie Friis Sweden	53	6.9k 1.1×	4.5k 1.3×	2.0k 0.9×	2.1k 1.4×	716 0.8×	138	8.3k
Leo Hickey United States	31	4.0k 0.6×	1.9k 0.6×	1.8k 0.8×	1.2k 0.8×	1.1k 1.2×	74	5.9k
Richard M. Bateman United Kingdom	46	4.7k 0.7×	2.8k 0.8×	2.5k 1.1×	594 0.4×	436 0.5×	183	6.4k
Hans Kerp Germany	45	4.1k 0.6×	1.7k 0.5×	2.6k 1.2×	2.0k 1.3×	1.3k 1.5×	185	6.6k
Steven R. Manchester United States	47	7.3k 1.1×	4.7k 1.4×	3.3k 1.5×	1.1k 0.7×	766 0.9×	278	9.0k
Ruth A. Stockey Canada	36	4.4k 0.7×	2.5k 0.7×	1.6k 0.7×	708 0.5×	359 0.4×	215	5.0k
Paul Kenrick United Kingdom	34	2.8k 0.4×	1.8k 0.5×	2.5k 1.1×	1.0k 0.7×	716 0.8×	82	5.3k
Jack A. Wolfe United States	35	3.5k 0.5×	1.4k 0.4×	1.3k 0.6×	1.7k 1.1×	2.2k 2.5×	62	6.0k
Bruce H. Tiffney United States	32	3.2k 0.5×	1.5k 0.4×	1.3k 0.6×	821 0.5×	413 0.5×	65	4.4k
Zhe‐Kun Zhou China	45	3.8k 0.6×	2.7k 0.8×	1.5k 0.7×	1.1k 0.7×	1.8k 2.0×	235	6.6k

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Stockey, Ruth A., et al.. (2024). The state of the art on tricostate mosses, with description of a new species of Tricostaceae. Taxon. 74(1). 155–173.

Rothwell, Gar W. & Ruth A. Stockey. (2023). Toward an understanding of gleicheniaceous fern evolution; organismal concept for an Eocene species from western North America. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 320. 105016–105016. 1 indexed citations

Rothwell, Gar W. & Ruth A. Stockey. (2023). Anatomically preserved early Cretaceous lycophyte shoots; enriching the paleontological record of Lycopodiales and Selaginellales. Acta Palaeobotanica. 63(2). 119–128.

Tomescu, Alexandru M. F. & Gar W. Rothwell. (2022). Fossils and plant evolution: structural fingerprints and modularity in the evo-devo paradigm. EvoDevo. 13(1). 8–8. 11 indexed citations

Rothwell, Gar W., Ruth A. Stockey, & Selena Y. Smith. (2020). Revisiting the Late Cretaceous Parataxodium wigginsii flora from the North Slope of Alaska, a high-latitude temperate forest. Cretaceous Research. 116. 104592–104592. 6 indexed citations

Escapa, Ignacio H., et al.. (2018). Origin of Equisetum: Evolution of horsetails (Equisetales) within the major euphyllophyte clade Sphenopsida. American Journal of Botany. 105(8). 1286–1303. 43 indexed citations

Spencer, Alan R.T., et al.. (2017). New insights into Mesozoic cycad evolution: an exploration of anatomically preserved Cycadaceae seeds from the Jurassic Oxford Clay biota. PeerJ. 5. e3723–e3723. 8 indexed citations

Stockey, Ruth A., Ignacio H. Escapa, & Gar W. Rothwell. (2012). 497 Reproductive anatomy of the conifer family Cheirolepidiaceae. 58. 224–225. 1 indexed citations

Tomescu, Alexandru M. F., Rosmarie Honegger, & Gar W. Rothwell. (2008). Earliest fossil record of bacterial–cyanobacterial mat consortia: the early Silurian Passage Creek biota (440 Ma, Virginia, USA). Geobiology. 6(2). 120–124. 24 indexed citations

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Jud, Nathan A., Gar W. Rothwell, & Ruth A. Stockey. (2008). Todea from the Lower Cretaceous of western North America: implications for the phylogeny, systematics, and evolution of modern Osmundaceae. American Journal of Botany. 95(3). 330–339. 31 indexed citations

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Rothwell, Gar W., et al.. (2003). Molecular phylogenetic relationships among Lemnaceae and Araceae using the chloroplast trnL–trnF intergenic spacer. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 30(2). 378–385. 47 indexed citations

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Smith, Selena Y., Gar W. Rothwell, & Ruth A. Stockey. (2003). Cyathea cranhamii sp. nov. (Cyatheaceae), anatomically preserved tree fern sori from the Lower Cretaceous of Vancouver Island, British Columbia. American Journal of Botany. 90(5). 755–760. 31 indexed citations

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Rothwell, Gar W., Edith L. Taylor, & Thomas N. Taylor. (2002). Ashicaulis woolfei n. sp.: additional evidence for the antiquity of osmundaceous ferns from the Triassic of Antarctica. American Journal of Botany. 89(2). 352–361. 30 indexed citations

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Rothwell, Gar W. & Gene Mapes. (2001). Barthelia furcatagen. et sp. nov., with a Review of Paleozoic Coniferophytes and a Discussion of Coniferophyte Systematics. International Journal of Plant Sciences. 162(3). 637–667. 54 indexed citations

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Serbet, Rudolph & Gar W. Rothwell. (1995). Functional morphology and homologies of gymnospermous ovules: evidence from a new species of Stephanospermum (Medullosales). Canadian Journal of Botany. 73(4). 650–661. 32 indexed citations

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Stewart, Wilson N., et al.. (1994). Paleobotany and the Evolution of Plants. The Bryologist. 97(4). 463–463. 689 indexed citations breakdown →

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Rothwell, Gar W., et al.. (1985). Sentistrobus goodii n. gen. and sp. , a permineralized sphenophyllalean cone from the Upper Pennsylvanian of the Appalachian basin. Journal of Paleontology. 59(5). 1194–1202. 13 indexed citations

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Knoll, Andrew H. & Gar W. Rothwell. (1981). Paleobotany: Perspectives in 1980. Paleobiology. 7(1). 7–35. 22 indexed citations

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Mapes, Gene & Gar W. Rothwell. (1980). QUAESTORA AMPLECTA GEN. ET SP. N., A STRUCTURALLY SIMPLE MEDULLOSAN STEM FROM THE UPPER MISSISSIPPIAN OF ARKANSAS. American Journal of Botany. 67(5). 636–647. 34 indexed citations

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Rothwell, Gar W., et al.. (1979). On the structural similarity of the Paleozoic ovules Conostoma platyspermum and C. Leptospermum. Journal of Paleontology. 53(1). 49–54. 3 indexed citations

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