Mark N. Puttick

4.0k citations

33 papers · 2.6k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 24

Impact in

Paleontology top 1%
- Evolution and Paleontology Studies
- Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology
- Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics top 1%
- Plant Diversity and Evolution
- Plant and animal studies

Papers in ⓘ

Paleontology 24
- Evolution and Paleontology Studies 21
- Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology 8
Molecular Biology 11
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies 10

Co-authors: Philip C. J. Donoghue (17 shared papers)Davide Pisani (12 shared papers)James Clark (7 shared papers)Charles H. Wellman (3 shared papers)Jennifer L. Morris (3 shared papers)Silvia Pressel (3 shared papers)Harald Schneider (3 shared papers)Paul Kenrick (3 shared papers)
Journals: Palaeontology (8 papers)Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences (4 papers)Evolution (3 papers)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2 papers)Methods in Ecology and Evolution (2 papers)
Partner nations: United Kingdom United States China

In The Last Decade

Mark N. Puttick

33 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Hit Papers

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The Interrelationships of Land Plants and the Nature of the Ancestral Embryophyte 2018 · 325 citations

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it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2018 Current Biology
2018 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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1	The timescale of early land plant evolution Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Jennifer L. Morris, Mark N. Puttick, James Clark, Dianne Edwards, Paul Kenrick, Silvia Pressel, Charles H. Wellman, Ziheng Yang, Harald Schneider, Philip C. J. Donoghue Hit paper breakdown →	2018	606
2	The Interrelationships of Land Plants and the Nature of the Ancestral Embryophyte Current Biology ·Mark N. Puttick, Jennifer L. Morris, Tom A. Williams, Cymon J. Cox, Dianne Edwards, Paul Kenrick, Silvia Pressel, Charles H. Wellman, Harald Schneider, Davide Pisani, Philip C. J. Donoghue Hit paper breakdown →	2018	325
3	Integrated genomic and fossil evidence illuminates life’s early evolution and eukaryote origin Nature Ecology & Evolution ·Holly C. Betts, Mark N. Puttick, James Clark, Tom A. Williams, Philip C. J. Donoghue, Davide Pisani	2018	245
4	Bayesian methods outperform parsimony but at the expense of precision in the estimation of phylogeny from discrete morphological data Biology Letters ·Joseph O’Reilly, Mark N. Puttick, Luke A. Parry, Alastair R. Tanner, James E. Tarver, James F. Fleming, Davide Pisani, Philip C. J. Donoghue	2016	169
5	MCMCtreeR: functions to prepare MCMCtree analyses and visualize posterior ages on trees Bioinformatics ·Mark N. Puttick	2019	157
6	A molecular palaeobiological exploration of arthropod terrestrialization Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·Jesús Lozano-Fernández, Robert Carton, Alastair R. Tanner, Mark N. Puttick, Mark Blaxter, Jakob Vinther, Jørgen Olesen, Gonzalo Giribet, Gregory D. Edgecombe, Davide Pisani	2016	109
7	Uncertain-tree: discriminating among competing approaches to the phylogenetic analysis of phenotype data Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·Mark N. Puttick, Joseph O’Reilly, Alastair R. Tanner, James F. Fleming, James Clark, Lucy Holloway, Jesús Lozano-Fernández, Luke A. Parry, James E. Tarver, Davide Pisani, Philip C. J. Donoghue	2017	106
8	Evolution of metazoan morphological disparity Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Bradley Deline, Jennifer M. Greenwood, James Clark, Mark N. Puttick, Kevin J. Peterson, Philip C. J. Donoghue	2018	73
9	Shifting spaces: Which disparity or dissimilarity measurement best summarize occupancy in multidimensional spaces? Ecology and Evolution ·Thomas Guillerme, Mark N. Puttick, Ariel E. Marcy, Vera Weisbecker	2020	68
10	Size is not everything: rates of genome size evolution, notC-value, correlate with speciation in angiosperms Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·Mark N. Puttick, James Clark, Philip C. J. Donoghue	2015	68
11	Probabilistic methods surpass parsimony when assessing clade support in phylogenetic analyses of discrete morphological data Palaeontology ·Joseph O’Reilly, Mark N. Puttick, Davide Pisani, Philip C. J. Donoghue	2017	65
12	HIGH RATES OF EVOLUTION PRECEDED THE ORIGIN OF BIRDS Evolution ·Mark N. Puttick, Gavin H. Thomas, Michael J. Benton	2014	59
13	Probabilistic methods outperform parsimony in the phylogenetic analysis of data simulated without a probabilistic model Palaeontology ·Mark N. Puttick, Joseph O’Reilly, Davide Pisani, Philip C. J. Donoghue	2018	54
14	A Cambrian–Ordovician Terrestrialization of Arachnids Frontiers in Genetics ·Jesús Lozano-Fernández, Alastair R. Tanner, Mark N. Puttick, Jakob Vinther, Gregory D. Edgecombe, Davide Pisani	2020	38
15	Arachnid monophyly: Morphological, palaeontological and molecular support for a single terrestrialization within Chelicerata Arthropod Structure & Development ·Richard J. Howard, Mark N. Puttick, Gregory D. Edgecombe, Jesús Lozano-Fernández	2020	37
16	Coevolution of enamel, ganoin, enameloid, and their matrix SCPP genes in osteichthyans iScience ·Kazuhiko Kawasaki, Joseph N. Keating, Mitsushiro Nakatomi, Monique Welten, Masato Mikami, Ichiro Sasagawa, Mark N. Puttick, Philip C. J. Donoghue, Mikio Ishiyama	2020	31
17	Well-Annotated microRNAomes Do Not Evidence Pervasive miRNA Loss Genome Biology and Evolution ·James E. Tarver, Richard S. Taylor, Mark N. Puttick, Graeme T. Lloyd, Walker Pett, Bastian Fromm, Bettina E. Schirrmeister, Davide Pisani, Kevin J. Peterson, Philip C. J. Donoghue	2018	30
18	Partially incorrect fossil data augment analyses of discrete trait evolution in living species Biology Letters ·Mark N. Puttick	2016	27
19	Evolution of jaw disparity in fishes Palaeontology ·Jennifer J. Hill, Mark N. Puttick, Thomas L. Stubbs, Emily J. Rayfield, Philip C. J. Donoghue	2018	26
20	Fossils and living taxa agree on patterns of body mass evolution: a case study with Afrotheria Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·Mark N. Puttick, Gavin H. Thomas	2015	26

About Mark N. Puttick

Mark N. Puttick is a scholar working on Paleontology, Molecular Biology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Genetics, having authored 33 papers that have together received 2.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Evolution and Paleontology Studies (21 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (10 papers), Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology (8 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (7 papers), Plant Diversity and Evolution (4 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (4 papers), Amphibian and Reptile Biology (4 papers) and Ichthyology and Marine Biology (4 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Paleontology (927 citations), Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (791 citations), Nature and Landscape Conservation (263 citations), Plant Science (714 citations) and Oceanography (182 citations). Mark N. Puttick has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and China. Frequent co-authors include Philip C. J. Donoghue, Davide Pisani, James Clark, Charles H. Wellman, Jennifer L. Morris, Silvia Pressel, Harald Schneider, Paul Kenrick, Dianne Edwards and Joseph O’Reilly. Their work appears in journals such as Palaeontology, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Evolution, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Methods in Ecology and Evolution.

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