Margaret K. Thayer

2.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
42 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Margaret K. Thayer is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, Margaret K. Thayer has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 18 papers in Genetics and 17 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in Margaret K. Thayer's work include Coleoptera Taxonomy and Distribution (39 papers), Fossil Insects in Amber (22 papers) and Scarabaeidae Beetle Taxonomy and Biogeography (17 papers). Margaret K. Thayer is often cited by papers focused on Coleoptera Taxonomy and Distribution (39 papers), Fossil Insects in Amber (22 papers) and Scarabaeidae Beetle Taxonomy and Biogeography (17 papers). Margaret K. Thayer collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and United Kingdom. Margaret K. Thayer's co-authors include Alfred F. Newton, John F. Lawrence, Adam Ślipiński, Ainsley E. Seago, Adriana E. Marvaldi, Chenyang Cai, Diying Huang, Oliver Betz, Liang Lü and Erik Tihelka and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Scientific Reports and Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Margaret K. Thayer

42 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.

Phylogeny of the Coleoptera Based on Morphological Characters of Adults and Larvae

2011 537 citations John F. Lawrence, Adam Ślipiński et al. Annales Zoologici profile →
Integrated phylogenomics and fossil data illuminate the evolution of beetles

2022 180 citations Chenyang Cai, Erik Tihelka et al. Royal Society Open Science profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Margaret K. Thayer United States	18	1.5k	766	452	355	306	42	1.6k
Robin Kundrata Czechia	20	1.4k 1.0×	634 0.8×	415 0.9×	532 1.5×	235 0.8×	124	1.6k
Vasily V. Grebennikov Canada	19	857 0.6×	409 0.5×	267 0.6×	472 1.3×	381 1.2×	94	1.1k
Milada Bocáková Czechia	17	1.4k 1.0×	572 0.7×	446 1.0×	671 1.9×	351 1.1×	59	1.7k
Alexander G. Kirejtshuk Russia	19	1.4k 1.0×	759 1.0×	363 0.8×	221 0.6×	184 0.6×	129	1.5k
Anthony Davies Canada	8	1.0k 0.7×	569 0.7×	242 0.5×	352 1.0×	284 0.9×	13	1.2k
S A Slipinski Poland	14	956 0.7×	472 0.6×	237 0.5×	313 0.9×	387 1.3×	53	1.2k
Andrew E. Z. Short United States	19	1.2k 0.8×	640 0.8×	495 1.1×	462 1.3×	287 0.9×	101	1.5k
Miguel A. Alonso-Zarazaga Spain	15	1.6k 1.1×	795 1.0×	305 0.7×	641 1.8×	514 1.7×	90	1.9k
Alexey Solodovnikov Denmark	20	1.3k 0.9×	586 0.8×	605 1.3×	176 0.5×	338 1.1×	115	1.4k
Erik Tihelka United Kingdom	14	701 0.5×	309 0.4×	287 0.6×	98 0.3×	210 0.7×	75	849

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Newton, Alfred F., et al.. (2024). Comparative morphology of the feeding apparatus of Staphylinine beetles (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny. 82. 267–303. 2 indexed citations

Sikes, Derek S., Margaret K. Thayer, & Alfred F. Newton. (2024). Large carrion and burying beetles evolved from Staphylinidae (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Silphinae): a review of the evidence. ZooKeys. 1200. 159–182. 7 indexed citations

Cai, Chenyang, Erik Tihelka, Mattia Giacomelli, et al.. (2022). Integrated phylogenomics and fossil data illuminate the evolution of beetles. Royal Society Open Science. 9(3). 211771–211771. 180 indexed citations breakdown →

Fikáček, Martin, Rolf G. Beutel, Chenyang Cai, et al.. (2019). Reliable placement of beetle fossils via phylogenetic analyses – Triassic Leehermania as a case study (Staphylinidae or Myxophaga?). Systematic Entomology. 45(1). 175–187. 50 indexed citations

Cai, Chenyang, et al.. (2019). Congruence of morphological and molecular phylogenies of the rove beetle subfamily Staphylininae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Scientific Reports. 9(1). 15137–15137. 14 indexed citations

Cai, Chenyang, et al.. (2016). First Piestine Rove Beetle in Eocene Baltic Amber (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Piestinae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society. 89(4). 345–357. 7 indexed citations

Cai, Chenyang, Alfred F. Newton, Margaret K. Thayer, Richard A. B. Leschen, & Diying Huang. (2016). Specialized proteinine rove beetles shed light on insect–fungal associations in the Cretaceous. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 283(1845). 20161439–20161439. 18 indexed citations

McKenna, Duane D., Brian D. Farrell, Michael S. Caterino, et al.. (2014). Phylogeny and evolution of S taphyliniformia and S carabaeiformia: forest litter as a stepping stone for diversification of nonphytophagous beetles. Systematic Entomology. 40(1). 35–60. 144 indexed citations

Peris, David, Margaret K. Thayer, & Didier Néraudeau. (2014). Oldest Omaliini (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Omaliinae) Discovered in the Opaque Cretaceous Amber of Charentes. Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 107(5). 902–910. 10 indexed citations

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Cai, Chenyang, Diying Huang, Margaret K. Thayer, & Alfred F. Newton. (2012). Glypholomatine Rove Beetles (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae): a Southern Hemisphere Recent Group Recorded from the Middle Jurassic of China. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society. 85(3). 239–244. 29 indexed citations

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Thayer, Margaret K., et al.. (2012). Comparative morphology of the tentorium and hypopharyngeal–premental sclerites in sporophagous and non‐sporophagous adult Aleocharinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Acta Zoologica. 95(1). 84–110. 10 indexed citations

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Thayer, Margaret K., et al.. (2010). Comparative morphology of the head of selected sporophagous and non‐sporophagous aleocharinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae): Musculature and hypopharynx‐prementum complex. Journal of Morphology. 271(8). 910–931. 11 indexed citations

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Thayer, Margaret K.. (2000). Glypholoma larvae at last: phylogenetic implications for basal Staphylinidae? (Coleoptera : Staphylinidae : Glypholomatinae). Invertebrate taxonomy. 14(6). 741–754. 25 indexed citations

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Ballard, J. William O., et al.. (1998). Data Sets, Partitions, and Characters: Philosophies and Procedures for Analyzing Multiple Data Sets. Systematic Biology. 47(3). 367–396. 36 indexed citations

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Thayer, Margaret K.. (1997). Proglypholoma aenigma gen.et sp.nov., Glypholoma spp.nov. and new records, and a phylogenetic analysis of Glypholomatinae [Coleoptera: Staphylinidae]. Annales Zoologici. 47. 11 indexed citations

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Klimaszewski, Jan, Alfred F. Newton, & Margaret K. Thayer. (1996). A review of the New Zealand rove beetles (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). New Zealand Journal of Zoology. 23(2). 143–160. 41 indexed citations

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Thayer, Margaret K., et al.. (1993). Revision der Bolitobius setiger - Gruppe (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae: Tachyporinae). Revue suisse de zoologie. 100. 751–772. 2 indexed citations

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Thayer, Margaret K.. (1992). Discovery of Sexual Wing Dimorphism in Staphylinidae (Coleoptera): 'Omalium' flavidum, and a Discussion of Wing Dimorphism in Insects. Biodiversity Heritage Library (Smithsonian Institution). 34 indexed citations

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Thayer, Margaret K.. (1987). Biology and phylogenetic relationships of Neophonus bruchi, an anomalous south Andean staphylinid (Coleoptera). Systematic Entomology. 12(3). 389–404. 20 indexed citations

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Thayer, Margaret K.. (1985). Micralymma Marinum (Stroem) in North America: Biological Notes and NewDistributional Records(Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Psyche A Journal of Entomology. 92(1). 49–55. 6 indexed citations

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