Mark A. Wilson

5.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
177 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

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Mark A. Wilson is a scholar working on Paleontology, Oceanography and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Mark A. Wilson has authored 177 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 107 papers in Paleontology, 85 papers in Oceanography and 49 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Mark A. Wilson's work include Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (102 papers), Marine Biology and Ecology Research (77 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (49 papers). Mark A. Wilson is often cited by papers focused on Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (102 papers), Marine Biology and Ecology Research (77 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (49 papers). Mark A. Wilson collaborates with scholars based in United States, Estonia and United Kingdom. Mark A. Wilson's co-authors include Paul D. Taylor, Timothy J. Palmer, Olev Vinn, Luís A. Buatois, M. Gabriela Mángano, H. Allen Curran, Brian White, Max Wisshak, David A. Miller and Ursula Toom and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Mark A. Wilson

169 papers receiving 3.6k 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.

Palaeoecology and evolution of marine hard substrate communities

2003 532 citations Paul D. Taylor, Mark A. Wilson Earth-Science Reviews profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mark A. Wilson United States	33	2.0k	1.6k	1.2k	843	807	177	3.9k
Christian Klug Switzerland	34	2.5k 1.2×	1.1k 0.7×	750 0.7×	266 0.3×	733 0.9×	170	3.6k
Koen Martens Belgium	44	2.6k 1.3×	2.1k 1.3×	1000 0.9×	245 0.3×	4.0k 4.9×	283	7.8k
André Desrochers Canada	42	1.1k 0.5×	310 0.2×	760 0.7×	247 0.3×	3.1k 3.9×	161	5.1k
Gilles Escarguel France	37	2.7k 1.3×	778 0.5×	1.3k 1.1×	243 0.3×	1.3k 1.6×	123	4.3k
Sunil Bajpai India	34	2.0k 1.0×	271 0.2×	822 0.7×	243 0.3×	1.1k 1.3×	120	3.6k
Mark D. Sutton United Kingdom	30	1.9k 0.9×	1.1k 0.7×	462 0.4×	125 0.1×	426 0.5×	91	2.8k
Laurel M. Bybell United States	23	791 0.4×	763 0.5×	1.4k 1.3×	425 0.5×	758 0.9×	93	2.5k
Robert J. Morley United Kingdom	26	910 0.5×	246 0.2×	925 0.8×	440 0.5×	836 1.0×	73	4.1k
J. C. Gutiérrez-Marco Spain	27	1.9k 0.9×	559 0.4×	978 0.8×	396 0.5×	131 0.2×	260	3.4k
Christopher M. Wade United Kingdom	32	446 0.2×	1.0k 0.7×	1.3k 1.1×	102 0.1×	2.1k 2.6×	79	3.5k

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Vinn, Olev, Mikołaj K. Zapalski, & Mark A. Wilson. (2025). Evolutionary paleoecology of macroscopic symbiotic endobionts in Phanerozoic corals. Earth-Science Reviews. 263. 105071–105071.

Gong, Enpu, et al.. (2024). Late Pennsylvanian (Gzhelian) Tubiphytes reef in southern Guizhou Province, China: new insights into a peculiar reef-building association and paleoenvironment changes. Paläontologische Zeitschrift. 98(4). 543–562. 1 indexed citations

Ausich, William I., Mark A. Wilson, & Ursula Toom. (2024). Early Silurian crinoid diversification on Baltica: Euspirocrinus varbolaensis sp. nov.. Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences Geology. 73(1). 37–44.

Wilson, Mark A., et al.. (2024). Traces of missing encrusters: borings reveal sclerobiont taphonomy in the Upper Ordovician (Katian) of the Cincinnati region, USA. Historical Biology. 37(3). 505–510. 1 indexed citations

Vinn, Olev, Mark A. Wilson, & Andrej Ernst. (2023). Macroscopic symbiotic endobionts in Phanerozoic bryozoans. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 615. 111453–111453. 1 indexed citations

Vinn, Olev, Mark A. Wilson, Andrej Ernst, & Ursula Toom. (2023). The Ordovician bioclaustration revolution. Geobios. 81. 145–151. 1 indexed citations

Wisshak, Max, Simon Schneider, Radek Mikuláš, et al.. (2023). Putative hydroid symbionts recorded by bioclaustrations in fossil molluscan shells: a revision and reinterpretation of the cecidogenusRodocanalis. Papers in Palaeontology. 9(2). 1 indexed citations

Lathuilière, Bernard, et al.. (2023). Transition from coral to stromatoporoid patch reefs in Middle Jurassic equatorial warm waters. Lethaia. 56(1). 1–21. 3 indexed citations

Gong, Enpu, et al.. (2023). Characteristics of Early Neoproterozoic Stromatolites from Southern Liaoning, North China: Insights into the Formation of Stromatolites. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering. 11(9). 1709–1709. 1 indexed citations

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Zapalski, Mikołaj K., Olev Vinn, Ursula Toom, Andrej Ernst, & Mark A. Wilson. (2022). Bryozoan–cnidarian mutualism triggered a new strategy for greater resource exploitation as early as the Late Silurian. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 15556–15556. 2 indexed citations

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Erhardt, Andrea M., Alexandra V. Turchyn, J. A. D. Dickson, et al.. (2020). Chemical Composition of Carbonate Hardground Cements as Reconstructive Tools for Phanerozoic Pore Fluids. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems. 21(3). 10 indexed citations

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Buatois, Luís A., M. Gabriela Mángano, Nicholas J. Minter, et al.. (2020). Quantifying ecospace utilization and ecosystem engineering during the early Phanerozoic—The role of bioturbation and bioerosion. Science Advances. 6(33). eabb0618–eabb0618. 80 indexed citations

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Wilson, Mark A.. (2017). Ethics for Peacebuilders: A Practical Guide. 27(2). 135–138.

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Vinn, Olev, Mark A. Wilson, & Ursula Toom. (2015). Bioerosion of Inorganic Hard Substrates in the Ordovician of Estonia (Baltica). PLoS ONE. 10(7). e0134279–e0134279. 18 indexed citations

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Murphy, Sharon, Per H. Hansen, Kenneth Lipartito, et al.. (2013). ESO volume 14 issue 3 Cover and Front matter. Enterprise & Society. 14(3). f1–f6. 1 indexed citations

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Vinn, Olev & Mark A. Wilson. (2012). Epi- and endobionts on the late Silurian (early Pridoli) stromatoporoids from Saaremaa Island, Estonia. Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae/Rocznik Polskiego Towarzystwa Geologicznego. 82(3). 195–200. 20 indexed citations

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Gong, Enpu, et al.. (2009). A large coral reef in the Pennsylvanian of Ziyun County, Guizhou (South China): The substrate and initial colonization environment of reef-building corals. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences. 37(4). 335–349. 15 indexed citations

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Barber, P., Sean P. Nair, Mark A. Wilson, Tatsuji Nishihara, & Brian E. Henderson. (1995). ELECTRON-MICROSCOPY OF A GROEL-LIKE PROTEIN FROM ACTINOBACILLUS-ACTINOMYCETEMCOMITANS. UCL Discovery (University College London). 1 indexed citations

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Palmer, Timothy J. & Mark A. Wilson. (1988). Parasitism of Ordovician bryozoans and the origin of pseudoborings. Biodiversity Heritage Library (Smithsonian Institution). 97 indexed citations

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Wilson, Mark A.. (1979). A new species of the trilobite Brachymetopus from the Cuyahoga Formation (Lower Mississippian) of northeastern Ohio. Journal of Paleontology. 53(1). 221–223. 4 indexed citations

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