Gregory D. Edgecombe

19.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
318 papers, 14.2k citations indexed

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Gregory D. Edgecombe is a scholar working on Paleontology, Oceanography and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Gregory D. Edgecombe has authored 318 papers receiving a total of 14.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 259 papers in Paleontology, 108 papers in Oceanography and 86 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Gregory D. Edgecombe's work include Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (131 papers), Marine Biology and Ecology Research (106 papers) and Subterranean biodiversity and taxonomy (99 papers). Gregory D. Edgecombe is often cited by papers focused on Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (131 papers), Marine Biology and Ecology Research (106 papers) and Subterranean biodiversity and taxonomy (99 papers). Gregory D. Edgecombe collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and United States. Gregory D. Edgecombe's co-authors include Gonzalo Giribet, Ward C. Wheeler, John R. Paterson, Casey W. Dunn, Lars Ramsköld, Andreas Hejnol, David Legg, Xianguang Hou, Allison C. Daley and Diego C. García‐Bellido and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Gregory D. Edgecombe

308 papers receiving 13.8k citations

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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.

Broad phylogenomic sampling improves resolution of the animal tree of life

2008 1.4k citations Gregory D. Edgecombe, Ward C. Wheeler et al. profile →
Histone H3 and U2 snRNA DNA sequences and arthropod molecular evolution

1999 835 citations Gregory D. Edgecombe et al. profile →
Assessing the root of bilaterian animals with scalable phylogenomic methods

2009 555 citations Gregory D. Edgecombe, Ward C. Wheeler et al. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gregory D. Edgecombe United Kingdom	55	8.0k	4.2k	3.6k	3.6k	2.8k	318	14.2k
Philip C. J. Donoghue United Kingdom	71	8.2k 1.0×	1.7k 0.4×	3.1k 0.9×	5.0k 1.4×	2.0k 0.7×	273	15.9k
Douglas H. Erwin United States	59	8.5k 1.1×	2.3k 0.6×	1.3k 0.3×	2.3k 0.6×	1.3k 0.5×	162	13.5k
Gonzalo Giribet United States	75	7.1k 0.9×	6.1k 1.4×	5.4k 1.5×	6.6k 1.8×	5.1k 1.8×	396	19.9k
Davide Pisani United Kingdom	54	3.6k 0.4×	1.2k 0.3×	2.1k 0.6×	3.2k 0.9×	1.6k 0.6×	117	8.5k
Kevin J. Peterson United States	53	3.5k 0.4×	1.8k 0.4×	991 0.3×	4.5k 1.3×	1.0k 0.4×	92	9.9k
Greg W. Rouse United States	47	2.0k 0.3×	6.3k 1.5×	1.9k 0.5×	2.4k 0.7×	969 0.3×	299	11.2k
Mark E. Siddall United States	52	1.7k 0.2×	1.8k 0.4×	1.9k 0.5×	2.0k 0.6×	1.5k 0.5×	225	11.9k
Ward C. Wheeler United States	63	4.1k 0.5×	2.0k 0.5×	6.6k 1.8×	5.6k 1.6×	5.5k 2.0×	171	17.4k
David Jablonski United States	62	5.2k 0.6×	3.8k 0.9×	1.8k 0.5×	690 0.2×	1.6k 0.6×	152	11.2k
Kenneth M. Halanych United States	54	1.7k 0.2×	4.6k 1.1×	1.3k 0.3×	2.7k 0.8×	1.2k 0.4×	217	9.2k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Bicknell, Russell D. C., et al.. (2025). Gregarious behaviour in Carboniferous cyclidan crustaceans. Biology Letters. 21(3). 20240734–20240734.

Edgecombe, Gregory D., et al.. (2024). A passage through India: The biotic ferry model supports the build‐up of Indo‐Australian biodiversity of an ancient soil arthropod clade. Journal of Biogeography. 51(12). 2395–2411. 2 indexed citations

Williams, Mark, et al.. (2024). The early Cambrian Bushizheia yangi and head segmentation in upper stem‐group euarthropods. Papers in Palaeontology. 10(3). 3 indexed citations

Bicknell, Russell D. C., Imran A. Rahman, Gregory D. Edgecombe, et al.. (2023). Raptorial appendages of the Cambrian apex predator Anomalocaris canadensis are built for soft prey and speed. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 290(2002). 20230638–20230638. 15 indexed citations

Edgecombe, Gregory D., et al.. (2023). Genetic diversity varies with species traits and latitude in predatory soil arthropods (Myriapoda: Chilopoda). Global Ecology and Biogeography. 32(9). 1508–1521. 6 indexed citations

Edgecombe, Gregory D., et al.. (2022). Serial Homology and Segment Identity in the Arthropod Head. Integrative Organismal Biology. 4(1). obac015–obac015. 20 indexed citations

Chagas, Amazonas, Gregory D. Edgecombe, & Alessandro Minelli. (2022). An unknown segment number in centipedes: a new species of Scolopocryptops (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha) from Trinidad with 25 leg-bearing segments. Organisms Diversity & Evolution. 23(2). 369–380. 3 indexed citations

Liu, Yu, Gregory D. Edgecombe, Roland R. Melzer, et al.. (2021). Exites in Cambrian arthropods and homology of arthropod limb branches. Nature Communications. 12(1). 4619–4619. 19 indexed citations

Hilken, Gero, Jörg Rosenberg, Gregory D. Edgecombe, et al.. (2020). The tracheal system of scutigeromorph centipedes and the evolution of respiratory systems of myriapods. Arthropod Structure & Development. 60. 101006–101006. 3 indexed citations

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Edgecombe, Gregory D., et al.. (2020). Phylogenetic response of naraoiid arthropods to early–middle Cambrian environmental change. Palaeontology. 64(1). 161–177. 6 indexed citations

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Edgecombe, Gregory D., Christine Strullu‐Derrien, Tomasz Góral, et al.. (2020). Aquatic stem group myriapods close a gap between molecular divergence dates and the terrestrial fossil record. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(16). 8966–8972. 26 indexed citations

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Zhai, Dayou, et al.. (2019). Fine-scale appendage structure of the Cambrian trilobitomorphNaraoia spinosaand its ontogenetic and ecological implications. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 286(1916). 20192371–20192371. 27 indexed citations

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Edgecombe, Gregory D., et al.. (2019). Blind scolopendrid centipedes of the genus Cormocephalus from subterranean habitats in Western Australia (Myriapoda: Scolopendromorpha: Scolopendridae). Invertebrate Systematics. 33(6). 807–824. 5 indexed citations

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Garwood, Russell J., et al.. (2016). Carboniferous Onychophora from Montceau-les-Mines, France: Constraining the timing of onychophoran terrestrialization. Invertebrate Biology. 1 indexed citations

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Daley, Allison C., Graham E. Budd, Jean‐Bernard Caron, Gregory D. Edgecombe, & Desmond Collins. (2009). The Burgess Shale Anomalocaridid Hurdia and Its Significance for Early Euarthropod Evolution. Science. 323(5921). 1597–1600. 150 indexed citations

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Edgecombe, Gregory D. & B. D. Webby. (2007). Ordovician trilobites with eastern Gondwanan affinities from central-west New South Wales and Tasmania. 34(34). 255–281. 13 indexed citations

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Edgecombe, Gregory D.. (2002). Morphology and distribution of Australobius scabrior (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha: Lithobiidae). Biodiversity Heritage Library (Smithsonian Institution). 10 indexed citations

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Edgecombe, Gregory D.. (2000). Arthropod Cladistics: Combined Analysis of Histone H3 and U2 snRNA Sequences and Morphology. Cladistics. 16(2). 155–203. 15 indexed citations

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Giribet, Gonzalo, Ward C. Wheeler, & Gregory D. Edgecombe. (1999). Sistemática y filogenia de artrópodos: estado de la cuestión con énfasis en análisis de datos moleculares. Boletín de la SEA. 197–212. 2 indexed citations

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Edgecombe, Gregory D. & Brian D. E. Chatterton. (1990). Mackenziurus, a new genus of the Silurian "Encrinurus" variolaris Plexus (Trilobita). Biodiversity Heritage Library (Smithsonian Institution). 13 indexed citations

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