Paul D. Taylor

9.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
367 papers, 6.5k citations indexed

About

Paul D. Taylor is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography and Ocean Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Paul D. Taylor has authored 367 papers receiving a total of 6.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 254 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 185 papers in Oceanography and 101 papers in Ocean Engineering. Recurrent topics in Paul D. Taylor's work include Marine Ecology and Invasive Species (247 papers), Marine Biology and Ecology Research (174 papers) and Marine Biology and Environmental Chemistry (101 papers). Paul D. Taylor is often cited by papers focused on Marine Ecology and Invasive Species (247 papers), Marine Biology and Ecology Research (174 papers) and Marine Biology and Environmental Chemistry (101 papers). Paul D. Taylor collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Paul D. Taylor's co-authors include Mark A. Wilson, Olev Vinn, Frank K. McKinney, Dennis P.‏ Gordon, Andrea Waeschenbach, Piotr Kukliński, Emanuela Di Martino, Michael J. Weedon, Michał Zatoń and Scott Lidgard and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Paul D. Taylor

353 papers receiving 6.1k citations

Hit Papers

Palaeoecology and evolution of marine hard substrate comm... 2003 2026 2010 2018 2003 100 200 300 400 500
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Palaeoecology and evolution of marine hard substrate communities
    2003 532 citations Paul D. Taylor, Mark A. Wilson profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Paul D. Taylor United Kingdom 42 3.5k 3.1k 2.3k 1.5k 1.3k 367 6.5k
Joachim Reitner Germany 53 1.7k 0.5× 948 0.3× 4.5k 2.0× 2.4k 1.6× 318 0.2× 287 10.5k
Erik A. Sperling United States 38 1.3k 0.4× 448 0.1× 4.1k 1.8× 825 0.5× 71 0.1× 86 6.0k
André Freiwald Germany 50 4.1k 1.2× 2.9k 0.9× 946 0.4× 5.5k 3.6× 245 0.2× 161 7.7k
Verena Tunnicliffe Canada 41 3.4k 1.0× 1.8k 0.6× 429 0.2× 3.0k 2.0× 258 0.2× 126 5.4k
Cindy Lee Van Dover United States 52 5.2k 1.5× 2.7k 0.9× 405 0.2× 5.1k 3.3× 403 0.3× 180 9.0k
Marco Taviani Italy 46 2.7k 0.8× 2.0k 0.6× 780 0.3× 3.4k 2.2× 151 0.1× 242 6.5k
Peter W. Glynn United States 50 6.4k 1.8× 5.0k 1.6× 307 0.1× 8.6k 5.7× 131 0.1× 128 10.1k
Campbell S. Nelson New Zealand 37 1.2k 0.4× 511 0.2× 1.7k 0.7× 956 0.6× 159 0.1× 158 4.8k
Gerald R. Dickens United States 52 2.1k 0.6× 2.4k 0.8× 4.3k 1.9× 2.2k 1.5× 107 0.1× 161 12.9k
Joan M. Bernhard United States 47 3.4k 1.0× 507 0.2× 1.2k 0.5× 3.4k 2.2× 50 0.0× 130 6.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Paul D. Taylor

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All Works

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Taylor, Paul D. & Andrei V. Grischenko. (2024). A new bryozoan genus from the Sea of Okhotsk and the taxonomy and geological history of ‘stratocormidial’ cyclostome bryozoans. Journal of Natural History. 58(41-44). 1917–1935.
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Grischenko, Andrei V., Dennis P.‏ Gordon, Paul D. Taylor, et al.. (2022). Taxonomy, ecology and zoogeography of the Recent species of Rhamphostomella Lorenz, 1886 and Mixtoscutella n. gen. (Bryozoa, Cheilostomata). Zootaxa. 5131(1). 1–115. 1 indexed citations
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Taylor, Paul D., Jean‐Georges Harmelin, Andrea Waeschenbach, & Claude Bouchon. (2021). Disporella guada sp. nov., an erect-ramose rectangulate cyclostome (Bryozoa, Stenolaemata) from the Caribbean Sea: convergent evolution in bryozoan colony morphology. European Journal of Taxonomy. 773.
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Zhang, Zhiliang, Zhifei Zhang, Junye Ma, et al.. (2021). Fossil evidence unveils an early Cambrian origin for Bryozoa. Nature. 599(7884). 251–255. 45 indexed citations
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Taylor, Paul D.. (2021). Pleistocene Bryozoans from the Clyde Clay Formation of Scotland, and the Holocene Retreat of Cold-Water Species. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(2). 69–82. 1 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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Taylor, Paul D., et al.. (2018). Colony growth strategies, dormancy and repair in some Late Cretaceous encrusting bryozoans: insights into the ecology of the Chalk seabed. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments. 99(3). 425–446. 5 indexed citations
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Taylor, Paul D.. (2012). Saligrams and Vishnu: ammonites in Hinduism. 39–44. 1 indexed citations
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Taylor, Paul D., et al.. (2009). The Influence of Privatisation on Irrigation Water Rights in NSW. Digital Library Of The Commons Repository (Indiana University). 1 indexed citations
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Taylor, Paul D., J. William Schopf, Scott L. Wing, et al.. (2004). Extinctions in the History of Life. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 7 indexed citations
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Taylor, Paul D., et al.. (2004). Bathymetric distributions of modern populations of some common Cenozoic Bryozoa from New Zealand, and paleodepth estimation. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics. 47(1). 57–69. 24 indexed citations
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Wawro, Geoffrey, et al.. (2004). Latin American Security Challenges: A Collaborative Inquiry from North and South. Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). 2 indexed citations
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Taylor, Paul D. & Dennis P.‏ Gordon. (2003). Endemic new cyclostome bryozoans from Spirits Bay, a New Zealand marine‐biodiversity “hotspot”. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. 37(3). 653–669. 14 indexed citations
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Crowley, Stephen F. & Paul D. Taylor. (2000). Stable isotope composition of modern bryozoan skeletal carbonate from the Otago Shelf, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. 34(2). 331–351. 18 indexed citations
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Taylor, Paul D., et al.. (1989). Marssonopora Lang 1914 Bryozoa Cheilostomata Proposed Designation Of Membranipora densispina Levinsen 1925 As The Type Species. The Bulletin of zoological nomenclature. 46. 88–90. 3 indexed citations
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Balson, Peter S. & Paul D. Taylor. (1982). Palaeobiology and systematics of large cyclostome bryozoans from the Pliocene Coralline Crag of Suffolk. Biodiversity Heritage Library (Smithsonian Institution). 19 indexed citations
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Vogt, Peter, et al.. (1981). Structure and Plate Tectonic Evolution of the Marine Arctic as Revealed by Aeromagnetics. Institutional Archive of Ifremer (French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea). 8 indexed citations

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