Jason Hilton

5.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
176 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Jason Hilton is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Paleontology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jason Hilton has authored 176 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 111 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 90 papers in Paleontology and 73 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Jason Hilton's work include Plant Diversity and Evolution (108 papers), Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (84 papers) and Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions (69 papers). Jason Hilton is often cited by papers focused on Plant Diversity and Evolution (108 papers), Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (84 papers) and Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions (69 papers). Jason Hilton collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, China and United States. Jason Hilton's co-authors include Richard M. Bateman, Paul M. Barrett, Zhonghe Zhou, Shi‐Jun Wang, Longyi Shao, Jean Galtier, Christopher J. Cleal, Ben J. Slater, Stephen McLoughlin and Paula J. Rudall and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Jason Hilton

162 papers receiving 4.4k 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.

An exceptionally preserved Lower Cretaceous ecosystem

2003 547 citations Jason Hilton et al. profile →
Environmental crises at the Permian–Triassic mass extinction

2022 120 citations Jacopo Dal Corso, Jason Hilton et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jason Hilton United Kingdom	34	2.5k	2.1k	1.5k	850	570	176	4.5k
Stephen McLoughlin Sweden	45	3.5k 1.4×	2.8k 1.3×	1.3k 0.9×	1.5k 1.7×	725 1.3×	177	5.8k
Dieter Uhl Germany	30	1.4k 0.6×	1.1k 0.5×	540 0.4×	1.4k 1.7×	470 0.8×	177	3.6k
Christopher J. Cleal United Kingdom	36	2.2k 0.9×	1.7k 0.8×	657 0.4×	1.6k 1.9×	761 1.3×	180	4.1k
Johanna H.A. van Konijnenburg‐van Cittert Netherlands	30	2.1k 0.8×	1.6k 0.8×	1.0k 0.7×	758 0.9×	437 0.8×	130	3.2k
Torsten Utescher Germany	41	2.1k 0.8×	2.2k 1.1×	646 0.4×	3.6k 4.2×	766 1.3×	112	5.3k
Vivi Vajda Sweden	34	1.2k 0.5×	2.5k 1.2×	402 0.3×	1.4k 1.7×	223 0.4×	145	3.6k
Cindy V. Looy United States	30	1.1k 0.4×	2.4k 1.2×	327 0.2×	1.3k 1.5×	235 0.4×	67	3.4k
Dianne Edwards United Kingdom	40	3.0k 1.2×	1.8k 0.9×	1.5k 1.0×	1.3k 1.5×	1.6k 2.9×	116	4.9k
Howard J. Falcon‐Lang United Kingdom	44	2.1k 0.8×	1.8k 0.9×	648 0.4×	2.3k 2.7×	468 0.8×	125	4.4k
Volker Wilde Germany	29	1.3k 0.5×	696 0.3×	799 0.5×	776 0.9×	528 0.9×	116	2.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Jason Hilton

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jason Hilton

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jason Hilton

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Jason Hilton. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Jason Hilton 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 Jason Hilton. Jason Hilton is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Smith, Peter, et al.. (2025). A mathematical framework for time-variant multi-state kinship modelling. Theoretical Population Biology. 163. 1–12.

Yu, Jianxin, Hongfu Yin, Andrew Merdith, et al.. (2025). Early Triassic super-greenhouse climate driven by vegetation collapse. Nature Communications. 16(1). 5400–5400. 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Peixin, Minfang Yang, Jacopo Dal Corso, et al.. (2025). Repeated pulses of volcanism drove the Late Triassic Carnian Pluvial episode. Global and Planetary Change. 255. 105112–105112. 1 indexed citations

Yang, Minfang, Xiao-Xuan Wu, Wanqing Wang, et al.. (2025). Pliensbachian (Early Jurassic) deep-time peatland evolution in Northwest China driven by climate change. International Journal of Coal Geology. 310. 104871–104871. 1 indexed citations

Yang, Minfang, Jing Lu, Xiao Hu, et al.. (2025). Onset of large-scale terrestrial organic carbon burial driven by Early Devonian changes in vascular plants and environments. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 674. 113039–113039. 1 indexed citations

Shao, Longyi, et al.. (2025). Multi-proxy records of wildfires and climate-vegetation-wildfire mechanisms during the Middle Jurassic of the Yili Basin, Northwest China. Global and Planetary Change. 254. 104991–104991.

Lu, Jing, Minfang Yang, Kai Zhou, et al.. (2025). Two episodes of Gzhelian (latest Carboniferous) volcanism immediately predate Asselian (early Permian) cooling and glaciation. Global and Planetary Change. 256. 105129–105129.

Shao, Longyi, Timothy Peter Jones, Yangyang Huang, et al.. (2024). Mechanisms of inertinite enrichment in Jurassic coals: Insights from a Big Data-driven review. Earth-Science Reviews. 257. 104889–104889. 5 indexed citations

Zhang, Peixin, Minfang Yang, Jing Lu, et al.. (2024). Terrestrial mercury anomalies across the Permian-Triassic transition in North China linked to volcanism. Chemical Geology. 673. 122555–122555. 3 indexed citations

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Zhou, Weiming, et al.. (2024). Scolecopteris oxydonta sp. nov., a new marattialean fern from the early Permian Wuda Tuff Flora. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 332. 105231–105231.

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Zhou, Kai, Shuo Zhang, Minfang Yang, et al.. (2023). Palaeoclimatic influence on lake palaeoenvironment and organic matter accumulation in the Middle Jurassic Shimengou formation (Qaidam basin, NW China). Geoenergy Science and Engineering. 233. 212581–212581. 3 indexed citations

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Li, Dandan, et al.. (2023). A pioneering riparian community dominated by Nystroemiaceae gymnosperms from the Guadalupian (middle Permian) of China. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 316. 104918–104918. 1 indexed citations

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Zhang, Peixin, Minfang Yang, Jing Lu, et al.. (2023). Floral response to the Late Triassic Carnian Pluvial Episode. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 11. 7 indexed citations

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Shao, Longyi, Bo Lan, Shuai Wang, et al.. (2020). Continental chemical weathering during the Early Cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Event (OAE1b): a case study from the Fuxin fluvio-lacustrine basin, Liaoning Province, NE China. Journal of Palaeogeography. 9(1). 23 indexed citations

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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

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Hilton, Jason, et al.. (2013). Reforging the Wedding Ring: Exploring a Semi-Artificial Model of Population for the United Kingdom with Gaussian process emulators. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4 indexed citations

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Rudall, Paula J., Jason Hilton, & Richard M. Bateman. (2013). Several developmental and morphogenetic factors govern the evolution of stomatal patterning in land plants. New Phytologist. 200(3). 598–614. 78 indexed citations

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Spencer, Alan R.T., et al.. (2012). 570 Tomography old and new : comparison of 3D reconstruction techniques for fossil plants. 58. 257. 1 indexed citations

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McLoughlin, Stephen, Ben J. Slater, Jason Hilton, & Rose Prevec. (2011). New vistas on animal-plant-fungal interactions in the Permian-Triassic of Gondwana. University of Birmingham Research Portal (University of Birmingham). 133. 66–67. 3 indexed citations

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Hilton, Jason. (1998). Review of the Fossil Evidence for the Origin and Earliest Evolution of the Seed-plants. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology. 40(11). 10 indexed citations

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