Robert W. Gess

1.0k total citations
36 papers, 769 citations indexed

About

Robert W. Gess is a scholar working on Paleontology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert W. Gess has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 769 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Paleontology, 13 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 12 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Robert W. Gess's work include Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology (23 papers), Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (20 papers) and Ichthyology and Marine Biology (12 papers). Robert W. Gess is often cited by papers focused on Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology (23 papers), Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (20 papers) and Ichthyology and Marine Biology (12 papers). Robert W. Gess collaborates with scholars based in South Africa, United States and Belgium. Robert W. Gess's co-authors include Michael I. Coates, Bruce S. Rubidge, Cyrille Prestianni, Norton Hiller, Heidi M. Anderson, Alan K. Whitfield, M. Eric Anderson, John A. Long, Per Ahlberg and Tetsuto Miyashita and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Robert W. Gess

34 papers receiving 738 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Robert W. Gess South Africa 16 543 370 150 137 74 36 769
Desui Miao United States 11 344 0.6× 202 0.5× 127 0.8× 56 0.4× 62 0.8× 12 533
Niels Bonde Denmark 17 915 1.7× 825 2.2× 64 0.4× 76 0.6× 138 1.9× 46 1.3k
Alex Ritchie Australia 14 502 0.9× 310 0.8× 51 0.3× 56 0.4× 39 0.5× 18 616
R. E. Barwick Australia 20 723 1.3× 560 1.5× 82 0.5× 38 0.3× 104 1.4× 42 927
Markus Poschmann Germany 18 645 1.2× 182 0.5× 337 2.2× 74 0.5× 110 1.5× 82 926
Tetsuto Miyashita Canada 17 545 1.0× 388 1.0× 94 0.6× 109 0.8× 62 0.8× 32 797
Tuo Qiao China 15 666 1.2× 510 1.4× 38 0.3× 121 0.9× 56 0.8× 23 870
Xavier Valentin France 22 875 1.6× 426 1.2× 286 1.9× 28 0.2× 185 2.5× 57 1.1k
Allison Perrigo Sweden 8 128 0.2× 254 0.7× 281 1.9× 141 1.0× 173 2.3× 18 707
Christopher B. Cameron Canada 18 305 0.6× 171 0.5× 109 0.7× 297 2.2× 343 4.6× 45 1.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Robert W. Gess

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Gess, Robert W. & Carole J. Burrow. (2025). Acanthodian fauna of the Upper Devonian Waterloo Farm Lagerstätte, South Africa. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 45(1).
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Gess, Robert W. & Christopher M. Berry. (2024). Archaeopteris trees at high southern latitudes in the late Devonian. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 331. 105212–105212. 2 indexed citations
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Gess, Robert W. & Carole J. Burrow. (2023). A new gyracanthid (stem Chondrichthyes) from the Late Devonian (Famennian) of the Eastern Cape, South Africa. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 43(4). 2 indexed citations
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Gess, Robert W. & Per Ahlberg. (2023). A high latitude Gondwanan species of the Late Devonian tristichopterid Hyneria (Osteichthyes: Sarcopterygii). PLoS ONE. 18(2). e0281333–e0281333. 4 indexed citations
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Miyashita, Tetsuto, et al.. (2021). Non-ammocoete larvae of Palaeozoic stem lampreys. Nature. 591(7850). 408–412. 43 indexed citations
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Gess, Robert W., et al.. (2021). Coombs Hill: A Late Devonian fossil locality in the Witpoort Formation (Witteberg Group, South Africa). South African Journal of Science. 117(3/4). 3 indexed citations
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Gess, Robert W. & Alan K. Whitfield. (2020). Estuarine fish and tetrapod evolution: insights from a Late Devonian (Famennian) Gondwanan estuarine lake and a southern African Holocene equivalent. Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 95(4). 865–888. 28 indexed citations
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Gess, Robert W. & Per Ahlberg. (2018). A tetrapod fauna from within the Devonian Antarctic Circle. Science. 360(6393). 1120–1124. 20 indexed citations
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Prestianni, Cyrille & Robert W. Gess. (2018). Rinistachya hilleri gen. et sp. nov. (Sphenophyllales), from the upper Devonian of South Africa. Organisms Diversity & Evolution. 19(1). 1–11. 12 indexed citations
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Gess, Robert W. & Kate Trinajstic. (2017). New morphological information on, and species of placoderm fish Africanaspis (Arthrodira, Placodermi) from the Late Devonian of South Africa. PLoS ONE. 12(4). e0173169–e0173169. 15 indexed citations
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Coates, Michael I., et al.. (2017). A symmoriiform chondrichthyan braincase and the origin of chimaeroid fishes. Nature. 541(7636). 208–211. 56 indexed citations
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Gess, Robert W. & Cyrille Prestianni. (2017). Kowieria alveoformis gen. nov. sp. nov., a new heterosporous lycophyte from the Latest Devonian of Southern Africa. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 249. 1–8. 9 indexed citations
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Gess, Robert W. & Michael I. Coates. (2015). Fossil juvenile coelacanths from the Devonian of South Africa shed light on the order of character acquisition in actinistians. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 175(2). 360–383. 26 indexed citations
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Prestianni, Cyrille & Robert W. Gess. (2014). The rooting system of Leptophloeum Dawson: New material from the Upper Devonian, Famennian Witpoort Formation of South Africa. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 209. 35–40. 23 indexed citations
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Coates, Michael I. & Robert W. Gess. (2007). A NEW RECONSTRUCTION OFONYCHOSELACHE TRAQUAIRI, COMMENTS ON EARLY CHONDRICHTHYAN PECTORAL GIRDLES AND HYBODONTIFORM PHYLOGENY. Palaeontology. 50(6). 1421–1446. 60 indexed citations
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Gess, Robert W., Michael I. Coates, & Bruce S. Rubidge. (2006). A lamprey from the Devonian period of South Africa. Nature. 443(7114). 981–984. 192 indexed citations
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Anderson, M. Eric, et al.. (1999). An unusual new fossil shark (Pisces: Chondrichthyes> from the Late Devonian of South Africa. 57. 151–156. 12 indexed citations
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Gess, Sarah K., et al.. (1995). An Australian Masarine, Rolandia angulata (Richards) (Hymenoptera: Vespidae): Nesting and evaluation of association with Goodenia (Goodeniaceae). Biodiversity Heritage Library (Smithsonian Institution). 7 indexed citations
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Gess, Robert W., et al.. (1995). Late Devonian charophytes from the Witteberg Group, South Africa. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 89(3-4). 417–428. 17 indexed citations

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