Jen A. Bright

2.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
30 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Jen A. Bright is a scholar working on Paleontology, Geometry and Topology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Jen A. Bright has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Paleontology, 9 papers in Geometry and Topology and 8 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Jen A. Bright's work include Evolution and Paleontology Studies (18 papers), Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology (16 papers) and Morphological variations and asymmetry (9 papers). Jen A. Bright is often cited by papers focused on Evolution and Paleontology Studies (18 papers), Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology (16 papers) and Morphological variations and asymmetry (9 papers). Jen A. Bright collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Spain. Jen A. Bright's co-authors include Emily J. Rayfield, Jesús Marugán‐Lobón, Samuel N. Cobb, Christopher R. Cooney, Guillermo Navalón, Emma C. Hughes, Zoë K. Varley, Gavin H. Thomas, Christopher J. Moody and L. O. Nouri and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and The Lancet.

In The Last Decade

Jen A. Bright

30 papers receiving 1.4k 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.

Mega-evolutionary dynamics of the adaptive radiation of birds

2017 241 citations Christopher R. Cooney, Jen A. Bright et al. Nature profile →
The shapes of bird beaks are highly controlled by nondietary factors

2016 176 citations Jen A. Bright, Jesús Marugán‐Lobón et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jen A. Bright United Kingdom	17	753	327	293	229	216	30	1.4k
Laura A. B. Wilson Australia	24	689 0.9×	489 1.5×	149 0.5×	363 1.6×	289 1.3×	83	2.1k
Kristian J. Carlson United States	31	1.3k 1.7×	595 1.8×	64 0.2×	278 1.2×	183 0.8×	91	2.9k
Adrià Casinos Spain	23	656 0.9×	227 0.7×	133 0.5×	463 2.0×	309 1.4×	61	1.3k
Rui Cerqueira Brazil	23	499 0.7×	83 0.3×	190 0.6×	753 3.3×	260 1.2×	95	1.5k
Keith A. Metzger United States	12	406 0.5×	120 0.4×	258 0.9×	160 0.7×	158 0.7×	21	1.1k
Nicolai Konow United States	24	233 0.3×	49 0.1×	491 1.7×	392 1.7×	251 1.2×	68	1.8k
Per Christiansen Denmark	30	1.8k 2.4×	481 1.5×	342 1.2×	1.1k 5.0×	502 2.3×	67	2.5k
William E. H. Harcourt‐Smith United States	19	683 0.9×	323 1.0×	49 0.2×	192 0.8×	104 0.5×	37	1.4k
David B. Baier United States	11	398 0.5×	66 0.2×	221 0.8×	180 0.8×	120 0.6×	14	1.1k
David R. Begun Canada	31	1.6k 2.1×	268 0.8×	31 0.1×	347 1.5×	392 1.8×	87	2.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jen A. Bright

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Newham, Elis, Ian J. Corfe, Jen A. Bright, et al.. (2024). The origins of mammal growth patterns during the Jurassic mammalian radiation. Science Advances. 10(32). eado4555–eado4555. 2 indexed citations

Bright, Jen A., et al.. (2024). Synthetic analysis of trophic diversity and evolution in Enantiornithes with new insights from Bohaiornithidae. eLife. 12. 1 indexed citations

Bolland, Jonathan D., Andy D. Nunn, Colin E. Adams, et al.. (2023). Is shape in the eye of the beholder? Assessing landmarking error in geometric morphometric analyses on live fish. PeerJ. 11. e15545–e15545. 8 indexed citations

Pittman, Michael, et al.. (2023). Quantitative investigation of pengornithid enantiornithine diet reveals macrocarnivorous ecology evolved in birds by Early Cretaceous. iScience. 26(3). 106211–106211. 3 indexed citations

Bright, Jen A., et al.. (2023). Synthetic analysis of trophic diversity and evolution in Enantiornithes with new insights from Bohaiornithidae. eLife. 12. 3 indexed citations

Pittman, Michael, et al.. (2022). Diet of Mesozoic toothed birds (Longipterygidae) inferred from quantitative analysis of extant avian diet proxies. BMC Biology. 20(1). 101–101. 10 indexed citations

Navalón, Guillermo, Jen A. Bright, Matteo Fabbri, et al.. (2021). Craniofacial development illuminates the evolution of nightbirds (Strisores). Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 288(1948). 20210181–20210181. 15 indexed citations

Navalón, Guillermo, Jesús Marugán‐Lobón, Jen A. Bright, Christopher R. Cooney, & Emily J. Rayfield. (2020). The consequences of craniofacial integration for the adaptive radiations of Darwin’s finches and Hawaiian honeycreepers. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 4(2). 270–278. 62 indexed citations

Pittman, Michael, et al.. (2020). Disassociated rhamphotheca of fossil bird Confuciusornis informs early beak reconstruction, stress regime, and developmental patterns. Communications Biology. 3(1). 519–519. 15 indexed citations

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Chira, Angela M., Christopher R. Cooney, Jen A. Bright, et al.. (2020). The signature of competition in ecomorphological traits across the avian radiation. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 287(1938). 20201585–20201585. 9 indexed citations

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Navalón, Guillermo, Jen A. Bright, Jesús Marugán‐Lobón, & Emily J. Rayfield. (2018). The evolutionary relationship among beak shape, mechanical advantage, and feeding ecology in modern birds*. Evolution. 73(3). 422–435. 121 indexed citations

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Rayfield, Emily J., et al.. (2017). Scaling and functional morphology in strigiform hind limbs. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 44920–44920. 12 indexed citations

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Cooney, Christopher R., Jen A. Bright, J. R. Elliot, et al.. (2017). Mega-evolutionary dynamics of the adaptive radiation of birds. Nature. 542(7641). 344–347. 241 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bright, Jen A., Jesús Marugán‐Lobón, Samuel N. Cobb, & Emily J. Rayfield. (2016). The shapes of bird beaks are highly controlled by nondietary factors. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(19). 5352–5357. 176 indexed citations breakdown →

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Brunt, Lucy, et al.. (2015). Finite element modelling predicts changes in joint shape and cell behaviour due to loss of muscle strain in jaw development. Journal of Biomechanics. 48(12). 3112–3122. 33 indexed citations

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Bright, Jen A.. (2012). The Importance of Craniofacial Sutures in Biomechanical Finite Element Models of the Domestic Pig. PLoS ONE. 7(2). e31769–e31769. 30 indexed citations

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Gröning, Flora, Jen A. Bright, Michael J. Fagan, & Paul O’Higgins. (2012). Improving the validation of finite element models with quantitative full-field strain comparisons. Journal of Biomechanics. 45(8). 1498–1506. 21 indexed citations

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Andrews, Robert, Ashley R Cooper, Alan Montgomery, et al.. (2011). Diet or diet plus physical activity versus usual care in patients with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes: the Early ACTID randomised controlled trial. The Lancet. 378(9786). 129–139. 229 indexed citations

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Bright, Jen A. & Flora Gröning. (2011). Strain accommodation in the zygomatic arch of the pig: A validation study using digital speckle pattern interferometry and finite element analysis. Journal of Morphology. 272(11). 1388–1398. 30 indexed citations

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Bright, Jen A. & Emily J. Rayfield. (2011). The Response of Cranial Biomechanical Finite Element Models to Variations in Mesh Density. The Anatomical Record. 294(4). 610–620. 54 indexed citations

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