Peter L. Forey

4.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
61 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Peter L. Forey is a scholar working on Paleontology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Aquatic Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter L. Forey has authored 61 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Paleontology, 32 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 14 papers in Aquatic Science. Recurrent topics in Peter L. Forey's work include Ichthyology and Marine Biology (29 papers), Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology (27 papers) and Fish biology, ecology, and behavior (14 papers). Peter L. Forey is often cited by papers focused on Ichthyology and Marine Biology (29 papers), Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology (27 papers) and Fish biology, ecology, and behavior (14 papers). Peter L. Forey collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and France. Peter L. Forey's co-authors include Philippe Janvier, Richard J. Aldridge, Philip C. J. Donoghue, Colin Patterson, B. G. Gardiner, Lionel Cavin, Donn Eric Rosen, Erik Jarvik, Eric J. Hilton and Lance Grande and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Trends in Ecology & Evolution and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Peter L. Forey

59 papers receiving 3.1k citations

Hit Papers

Fish evolution and systematics: Evidence from Spermatozoa 1992 2026 2003 2014 1992 100 200 300 400
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. Fish evolution and systematics: Evidence from Spermatozoa
    1992 477 citations Peter L. Forey profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Peter L. Forey United Kingdom 30 1.7k 1.6k 538 513 408 61 3.3k
Lynne R. Parenti United States 26 633 0.4× 1.9k 1.2× 1.3k 2.4× 504 1.0× 614 1.5× 99 3.1k
William E. Bemis United States 32 1.1k 0.7× 2.3k 1.5× 777 1.4× 470 0.9× 424 1.0× 70 3.6k
Philippe Janvier France 34 2.7k 1.5× 2.1k 1.3× 234 0.4× 1.2k 2.4× 473 1.2× 158 4.5k
Stanley H. Weitzman United States 31 689 0.4× 3.5k 2.2× 2.6k 4.9× 461 0.9× 258 0.6× 79 4.2k
Jun Inoue Japan 31 686 0.4× 1.9k 1.2× 1.1k 2.0× 2.4k 4.7× 1.2k 3.0× 78 4.6k
Lance Grande United States 32 1.6k 0.9× 2.4k 1.5× 919 1.7× 317 0.6× 279 0.7× 74 3.2k
Gloria Arratia United States 28 1.5k 0.8× 2.6k 1.6× 1.1k 2.1× 534 1.0× 254 0.6× 97 3.4k
Marvalee H. Wake United States 36 602 0.4× 857 0.5× 98 0.2× 608 1.2× 687 1.7× 109 3.5k
Prosanta Chakrabarty United States 25 498 0.3× 1.6k 1.0× 953 1.8× 569 1.1× 566 1.4× 102 2.6k
Joseph S. Nelson Canada 24 425 0.2× 3.8k 2.4× 1.9k 3.6× 898 1.8× 1.0k 2.5× 81 5.4k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Peter L. Forey

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Peter L. Forey

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Forey, Peter L.. (2015). Smith Woodward's ideas on fish classification. Geological Society London Special Publications. 430(1). 115–127. 3 indexed citations
2.
Forey, Peter L., et al.. (2011). A New Species of Lepidotes (Actinopterygii: Semiontiformes) from the Cenomanian (Upper Cretaceous) of Morocco. Palaeontologia Electronica. 14(1). 21 indexed citations
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Cavin, Lionel & Peter L. Forey. (2007). Using ghost lineages to identify diversification events in the fossil record. Biology Letters. 3(2). 201–204. 45 indexed citations
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Forey, Peter L.. (2005). Naming the World: Is There Anything Left of Linnaeus?. Biodiversity Heritage Library (Smithsonian Institution). 1 indexed citations
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Forey, Peter L.. (2001). The Phylocodec Description And Commentary. The Bulletin of zoological nomenclature. 58. 81–96. 21 indexed citations
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Milner, Angela C., et al.. (2001). Caveat emptor– fake fossils from the Far East. Geology Today. 17(2). 52–58. 1 indexed citations
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Cavin, Lionel & Peter L. Forey. (2001). Osteology and systematic affinities of Forey 1997 (Teleostei: Osteoglossomorpha). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 133(1). 25–52. 4 indexed citations
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Donoghue, Philip C. J., Peter L. Forey, & Richard J. Aldridge. (2000). Conodont affinity and chordate phylogeny. Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 75(2). 191–251. 247 indexed citations
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Donoghue, Philip C. J., Peter L. Forey, & Richard J. Aldridge. (2000). Conodont affinity and chordate phylogeny. Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 75(2). 191–251. 99 indexed citations
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Forey, Peter L. & Lance Grande. (1998). An African twin to the Brazilian Calamopleurus (Actinopterygii: Amiidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 123(2). 179–195. 42 indexed citations
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Forey, Peter L.. (1997). History of the Coelacanth Fishes. 168 indexed citations
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Luther, Pradeep K., John M. Squire, & Peter L. Forey. (1996). Evolution of myosin filament arrangements in vertebrate skeletal muscle. Journal of Morphology. 229(3). 325–335. 28 indexed citations
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Forey, Peter L.. (1995). Agnathans recent and fossil, and the origin of jawed vertebrates. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries. 5(3). 267–303. 43 indexed citations
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Forey, Peter L.. (1995). Interpreting the hierarchy of nature. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 15(4). 861–863. 93 indexed citations
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Forey, Peter L., Michael J. Novacek, & Quentin D. Wheeler. (1994). Guest Review Article: Little Comfort for Advocates of Saltational Evolution and Mass Extinctions. Journal of Biogeography. 21(4). 353–353.
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Forey, Peter L. & Philippe Janvier. (1993). Agnathans and the origin of jawed vertebrates. Nature. 361(6408). 129–134. 312 indexed citations
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Forey, Peter L.. (1991). Blood lines of the coelacanth. Nature. 351(6325). 347–348. 14 indexed citations
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Forey, Peter L., et al.. (1985). Acanthodian and coelacanth fish from the Dinantian of Foulden, Berwickshire, Scotland. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Earth Sciences. 76(1). 53–59. 12 indexed citations
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Forey, Peter L.. (1984). Yet more reflections on agnathan-gnathostome relationships. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 4(3). 330–343. 56 indexed citations
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Forey, Peter L.. (1977). The Osteology of Notelops Woodward, Rhacopepis Agassiz and pachyrhizodus Dixon ( Pisces: Teleostei). 28(2). 123–204. 20 indexed citations

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