John A. Cunningham

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
36 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

John A. Cunningham is a scholar working on Paleontology, Molecular Biology and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, John A. Cunningham has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Paleontology, 7 papers in Molecular Biology and 7 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in John A. Cunningham's work include Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (22 papers), Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology (12 papers) and Evolution and Paleontology Studies (8 papers). John A. Cunningham is often cited by papers focused on Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (22 papers), Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology (12 papers) and Evolution and Paleontology Studies (8 papers). John A. Cunningham collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Sweden and China. John A. Cunningham's co-authors include Philip C. J. Donoghue, Stefan Bengtson, Marco Stampanoni, Chongyu Yin, Federica Marone, Therese Huldtgren, Xiping Dong, Stephan Lautenschlager, Emily J. Rayfield and Imran A. Rahman and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Trends in Ecology & Evolution.

In The Last Decade

John A. Cunningham

36 papers receiving 1.5k 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.

A virtual world of paleontology

2014 207 citations John A. Cunningham, Imran A. Rahman et al. Trends in Ecology & Evolution profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
John A. Cunningham United Kingdom	20	1.1k	412	411	232	205	36	1.5k
Xiping Dong China	21	1.3k 1.2×	472 1.1×	603 1.5×	111 0.5×	211 1.0×	49	1.5k
Jianni Liu China	26	1.0k 0.9×	441 1.1×	575 1.4×	133 0.6×	212 1.0×	52	1.6k
Stephen Q. Dornbos United States	19	1.2k 1.1×	492 1.2×	505 1.2×	101 0.4×	115 0.6×	33	1.4k
Norman MacLeod United Kingdom	24	1.3k 1.2×	642 1.6×	283 0.7×	197 0.8×	250 1.2×	80	2.4k
Deg Briggs United Kingdom	21	1.1k 1.0×	453 1.1×	524 1.3×	90 0.4×	272 1.3×	47	1.6k
A. B. Smith United Kingdom	23	846 0.8×	253 0.6×	615 1.5×	147 0.6×	172 0.8×	49	1.9k
George R. McGhee United States	21	1.4k 1.2×	497 1.2×	474 1.2×	116 0.5×	271 1.3×	61	2.0k
Luke A. Parry United Kingdom	18	882 0.8×	223 0.5×	348 0.8×	179 0.8×	216 1.1×	38	1.2k
Joseph P. Botting China	23	1.5k 1.4×	427 1.0×	678 1.6×	155 0.7×	68 0.3×	86	1.9k
Jonathan M. Adrain United States	22	1.4k 1.3×	568 1.4×	516 1.3×	72 0.3×	113 0.6×	92	1.5k

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Rücklin, Martin, Benedict King, John A. Cunningham, et al.. (2021). Acanthodian dental development and the origin of gnathostome dentitions. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 5(7). 919–926. 12 indexed citations

Cunningham, John A.. (2021). The use of photogrammetric fossil models in palaeontology education. Evolution Education and Outreach. 14(1). 1–1. 10 indexed citations

Carlisle, Emily, et al.. (2021). Experimental taphonomy of organelles and the fossil record of early eukaryote evolution. Science Advances. 7(5). 22 indexed citations

Yin, Zongjun, John A. Cunningham, Stefan Bengtson, et al.. (2019). The Early Ediacaran Caveasphaera Foreshadows the Evolutionary Origin of Animal-like Embryology. Current Biology. 29(24). 4307–4314.e2. 22 indexed citations

Dong, Xiping, et al.. (2017). The early Cambrian fossil embryoPseudooidesis a direct-developing cnidarian, not an early ecdysozoan. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 284(1869). 20172188–20172188. 20 indexed citations

Cunningham, John A., et al.. (2016). A multicellular organism with embedded cell clusters from the Ediacaran Weng'an biota (Doushantuo Formation, South China). Evolution & Development. 18(5-6). 308–316. 5 indexed citations

Dong, Xiping, John A. Cunningham, Huaqiao Zhang, et al.. (2016). Developmental biology of the early Cambrian cnidarian Olivooides. Palaeontology. 59(3). 387–407. 27 indexed citations

Cunningham, John A., Pengju Liu, Veneta Belivanova, et al.. (2015). Critical appraisal of tubular putative eumetazoans from the Ediacaran Weng'an Doushantuo biota. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 282(1812). 20151169–20151169. 22 indexed citations

Cunningham, John A., et al.. (2015). Experimental taphonomy of Artemia reveals the role of endogenous microbes in mediating decay and fossilization. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 282(1808). 20150476–20150476. 79 indexed citations

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Cunningham, John A., Imran A. Rahman, Stephan Lautenschlager, Emily J. Rayfield, & Philip C. J. Donoghue. (2014). A virtual world of paleontology. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 29(6). 347–357. 207 indexed citations breakdown →

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Li, Mei, et al.. (2014). Nanoparticle-Based Membrane Assembly and Silicification in Coacervate Microdroplets as a Route to Complex Colloidosomes. Langmuir. 30(48). 14591–14596. 28 indexed citations

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Rücklin, Martin, Philip C. J. Donoghue, John A. Cunningham, Federica Marone, & Marco Stampanoni. (2014). Developmental paleobiology of the vertebrate skeleton. Journal of Paleontology. 88(4). 676–683. 11 indexed citations

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Bengtson, Stefan, John A. Cunningham, Chongyu Yin, & Philip C. J. Donoghue. (2012). A merciful death for the “earliest bilaterian,” Vernanimalcula. Evolution & Development. 14(5). 421–427. 36 indexed citations

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Cunningham, John A., Stefan Bengtson, Federica Marone, et al.. (2011). Experimental taphonomy of giant sulphur bacteria: implications for the interpretation of the embryo-like Ediacaran Doushantuo fossils. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 279(1734). 1857–1864. 41 indexed citations

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Cunningham, John A., Cees H.J. Hof, & Simon J. Braddy. (2008). Lenisquilla californiensis, a new species of stomatopod crustacean. Journal of Paleontology. 82(2). 431–435. 2 indexed citations

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Donoghue, Philip C. J., Stefan Bengtson, Neil J. Gostling, et al.. (2006). Synchrotron X-ray tomographic microscopy of fossil embryos. Nature. 442(7103). 680–683. 214 indexed citations

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Donoghue, Philip C. J., Artem Kouchinsky, Dieter Waloszek, et al.. (2006). Fossilized embryos are widespread but the record is temporally and taxonomically biased. Evolution & Development. 8(2). 232–238. 77 indexed citations

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Dong, Xiping, Philip C. J. Donoghue, John A. Cunningham, Jianbo Liu, & Hong Cheng. (2005). The anatomy, affinity, and phylogenetic significance of Markuelia. Evolution & Development. 7(5). 468–482. 61 indexed citations

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Sobell, Mark B., Linda C. Sobell, John A. Cunningham, & Sangeeta Agrawal. (1998). Natural Recovery Over the Lifespan. NSUWorks (Nova Southeastern University). 3 indexed citations

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Cunningham, John A. & C. F. Quate. (1972). HIGH-RESOLUTION, HIGH-CONTRAST ACOUSTIC IMAGING. Le Journal de Physique Colloques. 33(C6). C6–42. 1 indexed citations

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