Mike Macphail

2.8k total citations
69 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Mike Macphail is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, Mike Macphail has authored 69 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Atmospheric Science, 30 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 23 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in Mike Macphail's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (39 papers), Plant Diversity and Evolution (27 papers) and Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions (11 papers). Mike Macphail is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (39 papers), Plant Diversity and Evolution (27 papers) and Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions (11 papers). Mike Macphail collaborates with scholars based in Australia, New Zealand and United States. Mike Macphail's co-authors include Robert S. Hill, Gregory J. Jordan, E. M. Truswell, Mike Pole, Raymond J. Carpenter, Andrew H. Thornhill, David J. Cantrill, EA Colhoun, Alan D. Partridge and Grahame L Walsh and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, PLoS ONE and New Phytologist.

In The Last Decade

Mike Macphail

68 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Mike Macphail Australia 24 823 801 543 358 322 69 1.9k
Vandana Prasad India 23 777 0.9× 552 0.7× 662 1.2× 296 0.8× 198 0.6× 64 1.9k
Angela A Bruch Germany 27 1.5k 1.8× 844 1.1× 1.3k 2.3× 255 0.7× 247 0.8× 73 2.6k
Helene A. Martin Australia 15 435 0.5× 406 0.5× 410 0.8× 162 0.5× 244 0.8× 50 1.2k
L. V. Hills Canada 23 575 0.7× 355 0.4× 800 1.5× 156 0.4× 199 0.6× 75 1.6k
Eduardo Barrón Spain 25 603 0.7× 1.4k 1.7× 843 1.6× 240 0.7× 97 0.3× 111 2.2k
Séverine Fauquette France 24 1.4k 1.7× 489 0.6× 706 1.3× 134 0.4× 276 0.9× 58 2.1k
Maria Léa Salgado‐Labouriau Brazil 20 892 1.1× 403 0.5× 281 0.5× 97 0.3× 417 1.3× 29 1.5k
Mirta E. Quattrocchio Argentina 21 806 1.0× 431 0.5× 764 1.4× 130 0.4× 291 0.9× 72 1.5k
W. Geoffrey Spaulding United States 15 682 0.8× 231 0.3× 463 0.9× 214 0.6× 661 2.1× 28 1.7k
Gongle Shi China 30 578 0.7× 1.4k 1.7× 751 1.4× 869 2.4× 193 0.6× 76 2.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Mike Macphail

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Fields of papers citing papers by Mike Macphail

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mike Macphail

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Mike Macphail. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Mike Macphail based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Mike Macphail. Mike Macphail is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Macphail, Mike & Geoff Hope. (2018). Natural Histories: An illustrated guide to fossil pollen and spores preserved in swamps and mires of the Southern Highlands, NSW. ANU Open Research (Australian National University). 2 indexed citations
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Wilson, Peter G., et al.. (2017). Two fossil species of Metrosideros (Myrtaceae) from the Oligo‐Miocene Golden Fleece locality in Tasmania, Australia. American Journal of Botany. 104(6). 891–904. 5 indexed citations
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Carpenter, Raymond J., Mike Macphail, Gregory J. Jordan, & Robert S. Hill. (2015). Fossil evidence for open, Proteaceae‐dominated heathlands and fire in the Late Cretaceous of Australia. American Journal of Botany. 102(12). 2092–2107. 62 indexed citations
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Macphail, Mike, Raymond J. Carpenter, Ari Iglesias, & Peter Wilf. (2013). First Evidence for Wollemi Pine-type Pollen (Dilwynites: Araucariaceae) in South America. PLoS ONE. 8(7). e69281–e69281. 27 indexed citations
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Macphail, Mike & Alan D. Partridge. (2012). First fossil pollen record of Auriculiidites Elsik, 1964 in Australia. Alcheringa An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology. 36(2). 283–286. 4 indexed citations
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Carpenter, Raymond J., Gregory J. Jordan, Mike Macphail, & Robert S. Hill. (2012). Near-tropical Early Eocene terrestrial temperatures at the Australo-Antarctic margin, western Tasmania. Geology. 40(3). 267–270. 55 indexed citations
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Macphail, Mike, et al.. (2008). "News from the Interior": what can we tell from plant microfossils preserved on historical archaeological sites in colonial Parramatta?. ANU Open Research (Australian National University). 26. 1 indexed citations
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Macphail, Mike. (2007). Australian Palaeoclimates: Cretaceous to Tertiary A Review of Palaeobotanical and related evidence to the year 2000. ANU Open Research (Australian National University). 63 indexed citations
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Macphail, Mike, et al.. (2005). Bridging a biogeographic 'gap': microfossil evidence for the quillwort Isoetes on the Cumberland Plain west of Sydney during the early Colonial period. Publication Server of Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (Goethe University Frankfurt). 1 indexed citations
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Truswell, E. M. & Mike Macphail. (2004). Carnivorous plants at high latitudes: Pollen evidence for Droseraceae growing in East Antarctica during the Late Eocene. ANU Open Research (Australian National University). 4 indexed citations
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Jordan, Gregory J. & Mike Macphail. (2003). A Middle‐Late Eocene inflorescence of Caryophyllaceae from Tasmania, Australia. American Journal of Botany. 90(5). 761–768. 49 indexed citations
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O’Brien, P.E., Alan K. Cooper, Carl Richter, Mike Macphail, & E. M. Truswell. (2000). Milestones in antarctic ice sheet history: Preliminary results from leg 188 drilling in Prydz Bay Antarctica. ANU Open Research (Australian National University). 26(2). 4–10. 4 indexed citations
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Macphail, Mike, et al.. (1997). Middle Miocene palaeotopography at Little Bay, near Maroubra, New South Wales. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences. 44(4). 509–518. 9 indexed citations
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Macphail, Mike. (1996). A habitat for the enigmaticWynyardia bassianaSpencer, 1901, Australia's first described Tertiary land mammal?. Alcheringa An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology. 20(3). 227–243. 7 indexed citations
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Macphail, Mike & EA Colhoun. (1985). Late last glacial vegetation, climates and fire activity in southwest Tasmania.. ANU Open Research (Australian National University). 38 indexed citations
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Macphail, Mike. (1980). Fossil and modern Beilschmiedia (lauraceae) pollen in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany. 18(4). 453–457. 33 indexed citations
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Macphail, Mike & Dallas C. Mildenhall. (1980). Dactylanthus taylori: in North‐West Nelson, New Zealand?. New Zealand Journal of Botany. 18(1). 149–152. 11 indexed citations
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Macphail, Mike. (1979). Two additional Australian pollen types in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany. 17(2). 221–223. 9 indexed citations

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