Jonathan L. Payne

11.6k total citations · 5 hit papers
157 papers, 8.8k citations indexed

About

Jonathan L. Payne is a scholar working on Paleontology, Atmospheric Science and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Jonathan L. Payne has authored 157 papers receiving a total of 8.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 115 papers in Paleontology, 44 papers in Atmospheric Science and 37 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Jonathan L. Payne's work include Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (104 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (44 papers) and Marine Biology and Ecology Research (32 papers). Jonathan L. Payne is often cited by papers focused on Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (104 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (44 papers) and Marine Biology and Ecology Research (32 papers). Jonathan L. Payne collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Türkiye. Jonathan L. Payne's co-authors include Daniel J. Lehrmann, Andrew H. Knoll, Matthew E. Clapham, Seth Finnegan, Lee R. Kump, Jiayong Wei, Meiyi Yu, Michael J. Orchard, Noel A. Heim and Sara B. Pruss and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Jonathan L. Payne

148 papers receiving 8.5k 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.

Large Perturbations of the Carbon Cycle During Recovery from the End-Permian Extinction

2004 699 citations Jonathan L. Payne, Daniel J. Lehrmann et al. Science profile →
Paleophysiology and end-Permian mass extinction

2007 527 citations Jonathan L. Payne et al. profile →
Greater vulnerability to warming of marine versus terrestrial ectotherms

2019 474 citations Jonathan L. Payne et al. profile →
Temperature-dependent hypoxia explains biogeography and severity of end-Permian marine mass extinction

2018 229 citations Justin L. Penn, Curtis Deutsch et al. Science profile →
Body size downgrading of mammals over the late Quaternary

2018 211 citations Felisa A. Smith, S. Kathleen Lyons et al. Science profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Jonathan L. Payne	6.1k	2.2k	1.9k	1.9k	1.8k	157	8.8k
Richard J. Twitchett	6.3k 1.0×	2.3k 1.0×	1.6k 0.9×	2.0k 1.0×	717 0.4×	99	7.8k
David J. Bottjer	9.8k 1.6×	5.0k 2.2×	1.9k 1.0×	1.9k 1.0×	1.6k 0.9×	252	13.0k
Franz T. Fürsich	5.8k 0.9×	3.3k 1.5×	1.7k 0.9×	637 0.3×	1.2k 0.7×	282	8.4k
Andrew S. Gale	6.4k 1.0×	4.2k 1.9×	2.0k 1.0×	1.3k 0.7×	730 0.4×	235	8.5k
Richard D. Norris	5.4k 0.9×	6.2k 2.8×	1.3k 0.7×	837 0.4×	2.8k 1.5×	170	9.8k
Carlton E. Brett	5.6k 0.9×	2.9k 1.3×	947 0.5×	695 0.4×	1.2k 0.7×	217	7.5k
Kyger C. Lohmann	4.0k 0.6×	4.5k 2.0×	1.2k 0.6×	1.3k 0.7×	2.7k 1.5×	127	7.9k
Gregory J. Retallack	7.2k 1.2×	6.1k 2.7×	2.6k 1.3×	2.1k 1.1×	1.1k 0.6×	260	11.5k
Timothy J. Bralower	5.8k 1.0×	6.6k 3.0×	2.0k 1.1×	1.1k 0.6×	1.8k 1.0×	146	9.7k
Brian T. Huber	4.9k 0.8×	4.4k 2.0×	1.3k 0.7×	794 0.4×	1.0k 0.6×	131	6.7k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Wintner, Sabine P., Michael G. Newbrey, Jonathan L. Payne, et al.. (2025). Early gigantic lamniform marks the onset of mega-body size in modern shark evolution. Communications Biology. 8(1). 1499–1499. 1 indexed citations

Payne, Jonathan L., et al.. (2025). Inflation and Regulation of Government Debt: US Historical Evidence. Annual Review of Financial Economics. 17(1). 151–172.

McClain, Craig R., et al.. (2025). MOBS 1.0: A Database of Interspecific Variation in Marine Organismal Body Sizes. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 34(6).

Payne, Jonathan L., et al.. (2024). Deep Learning for Search and Matching Models. SSRN Electronic Journal.

McClain, Craig R., et al.. (2024). Size bias in the documentation of marine biodiversity. Oikos. 2025(1). 5 indexed citations

Heim, Noel A., et al.. (2023). Reduced strength and increased variability of extinction selectivity during mass extinctions. Royal Society Open Science. 10(9). 230795–230795. 10 indexed citations

Deutsch, Curtis, et al.. (2022). Impact of warming on aquatic body sizes explained by metabolic scaling from microbes to macrofauna. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(28). e2201345119–e2201345119. 35 indexed citations

Koeshidayatullah, Ardiansyah, Elizabeth J. Trower, Tapan Mukerji, et al.. (2022). Quantitative evaluation of the roles of ocean chemistry and climate on ooid size across the Phanerozoic: Global versus local controls. Sedimentology. 69(6). 2486–2506. 21 indexed citations

Heim, Noel A., et al.. (2021). Mass extinctions alter extinction and origination dynamics with respect to body size. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 288(1960). 20211681–20211681. 22 indexed citations

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Heim, Noel A., et al.. (2020). Respiratory medium and circulatory anatomy constrain size evolution in marine macrofauna. Paleobiology. 46(3). 288–303. 9 indexed citations

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Payne, Jonathan L., Aviv Bachan, Noel A. Heim, Pincelli M. Hull, & Matthew L. Knope. (2020). The evolution of complex life and the stabilization of the Earth system. Interface Focus. 10(4). 20190106–20190106. 13 indexed citations

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Knope, Matthew L., Andrew M. Bush, Luke O. Frishkoff, Noel A. Heim, & Jonathan L. Payne. (2020). Ecologically diverse clades dominate the oceans via extinction resistance. Science. 367(6481). 1035–1038. 21 indexed citations

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Bush, Andrew M., Steve C. Wang, Jonathan L. Payne, & Noel A. Heim. (2019). A framework for the integrated analysis of the magnitude, selectivity, and biotic effects of extinction and origination. Paleobiology. 46(1). 1–22. 19 indexed citations

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Smith, Felisa A., et al.. (2018). Body size downgrading of mammals over the late Quaternary. Science. 360(6386). 310–313. 211 indexed citations breakdown →

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Jost, A. B., Aviv Bachan, Bas van de Schootbrugge, et al.. (2017). Uranium isotope evidence for an expansion of marine anoxia during the end‐Triassic extinction. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems. 18(8). 3093–3108. 73 indexed citations

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Heim, Noel A., Jonathan L. Payne, Seth Finnegan, et al.. (2017). Hierarchical complexity and the size limits of life. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 284(1857). 20171039–20171039. 34 indexed citations

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Jost, A. B., Aviv Bachan, Bas van de Schootbrugge, et al.. (2016). Additive effects of acidification and mineralogy on calcium isotopes in Triassic/Jurassic boundary limestones. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems. 18(1). 113–124. 36 indexed citations

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Heim, Noel A., Matthew L. Knope, Ellen K. Schaal, Steve C. Wang, & Jonathan L. Payne. (2015). Cope’s rule in the evolution of marine animals. Science. 347(6224). 867–870. 141 indexed citations

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Payne, Jonathan L. & Matthew E. Clapham. (2012). End-Permian Mass Extinction in the Oceans: An Ancient Analog for the Twenty-First Century?. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences. 40(1). 89–111. 271 indexed citations

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Payne, Jonathan L., Alison G. Boyer, James H. Brown, et al.. (2008). Two-phase increase in the maximum size of life over 3.5 billion years reflects biological innovation and environmental opportunity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(1). 24–27. 185 indexed citations

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