Roger S. Seymour

10.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
232 papers, 8.4k citations indexed

About

Roger S. Seymour is a scholar working on Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Roger S. Seymour has authored 232 papers receiving a total of 8.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 142 papers in Ecology, 71 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 60 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Roger S. Seymour's work include Physiological and biochemical adaptations (120 papers), Fish Ecology and Management Studies (32 papers) and Amphibian and Reptile Biology (29 papers). Roger S. Seymour is often cited by papers focused on Physiological and biochemical adaptations (120 papers), Fish Ecology and Management Studies (32 papers) and Amphibian and Reptile Biology (29 papers). Roger S. Seymour collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and South Africa. Roger S. Seymour's co-authors include Craig R. White, Paul Schultze–Motel, David F. Bradford, Philip G. D. Matthews, Edward P. Snelling, Harvey B. Lillywhite, Marc Gibernau, Kikukatsu Ito, Stefan K. Hetz and Casey A. Mueller and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Roger S. Seymour

230 papers receiving 7.9k citations

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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.

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Roger S. Seymour Australia	50	4.0k	3.0k	1.9k	1.7k	1.1k	232	8.4k
Craig R. White Australia	47	6.1k 1.5×	3.4k 1.1×	2.0k 1.0×	2.0k 1.2×	538 0.5×	202	9.2k
James F. Gillooly United States	37	9.1k 2.3×	3.7k 1.2×	4.5k 2.3×	3.9k 2.3×	736 0.7×	66	15.4k
Klaus Rohde Australia	52	6.2k 1.5×	1.4k 0.5×	1.8k 0.9×	1.7k 1.0×	490 0.5×	283	10.1k
Philip C. Withers Australia	48	5.8k 1.4×	4.0k 1.3×	1.2k 0.6×	2.3k 1.4×	760 0.7×	272	9.2k
Albert F. Bennett United States	65	6.5k 1.6×	4.9k 1.6×	2.2k 1.1×	4.1k 2.4×	699 0.7×	152	12.7k
Craig E. Franklin Australia	46	6.0k 1.5×	2.1k 0.7×	3.4k 1.8×	2.7k 1.6×	501 0.5×	343	9.8k
Frank Seebacher Australia	47	4.7k 1.2×	2.7k 0.9×	1.9k 1.0×	2.0k 1.2×	726 0.7×	187	8.2k
Robert Dudley United States	46	2.2k 0.5×	3.4k 1.1×	1.2k 0.6×	652 0.4×	742 0.7×	157	7.6k
Van M. Savage United States	45	9.7k 2.4×	4.2k 1.4×	4.8k 2.5×	4.4k 2.6×	546 0.5×	92	17.9k
Andrew Clarke United Kingdom	67	8.3k 2.0×	1.7k 0.6×	2.0k 1.0×	5.1k 3.0×	619 0.6×	189	13.8k

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Seymour, Roger S. & Edward P. Snelling. (2025). How long limbs reduce the energetic burden on the heart of the giraffe. Journal of Experimental Biology. 228(20).

Snelling, Edward P. & Roger S. Seymour. (2024). The hearts of large mammals generate higher pressures, are less efficient and use more energy than those of small mammals. Journal of Experimental Biology. 227(20). 4 indexed citations

Seymour, Roger S., et al.. (2023). Growth rate affects blood flow rate to the tibia of the dinosaur Maiasaura. Paleobiology. 50(1). 123–129. 3 indexed citations

Nelson, Thomas J., et al.. (2021). Regional femoral bone blood flow rates in laying and non-laying chickens estimated with fluorescent microspheres. Journal of Experimental Biology. 224(16). 10 indexed citations

Seymour, Roger S., et al.. (2019). Cerebral blood flow rates in recent great apes are greater than in Australopithecus species that had equal or larger brains. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 286(1915). 20192208–20192208. 5 indexed citations

Palci, Alessandro, et al.. (2019). Novel vascular plexus in the head of a sea snake (Elapidae, Hydrophiinae) revealed by high-resolution computed tomography and histology. Royal Society Open Science. 6(9). 191099–191099. 13 indexed citations

Snelling, Edward P., Roger S. Seymour, Leith C. R. Meyer, et al.. (2018). Ameliorating the adverse cardiorespiratory effects of chemical immobilization by inducing general anaesthesia in sheep and goats: implications for physiological studies of large wild mammals. Journal of Comparative Physiology B. 188(6). 991–1003. 8 indexed citations

Seymour, Roger S., et al.. (2016). Fossil skulls reveal that blood flow rate to the brain increased faster than brain volume during human evolution. Royal Society Open Science. 3(8). 160305–160305. 32 indexed citations

Seymour, Roger S.. (2013). OXYGEN DIFFUSION THROUGH THE JELLY CAPSULES OF AMPHIBIAN EGGS. Israel Journal of Zoology. 40. 493–506. 14 indexed citations

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Seymour, Roger S.. (2010). Scaling of heat production by thermogenic flowers: limits to floral size and maximum rate of respiration. Plant Cell & Environment. 33(9). no–no. 44 indexed citations

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Harper, G. S., et al.. (2004). Fascicular structure as a quantitative trait for bovine and ovine skeletal muscles. Journal of Animal Science. 82. 3 indexed citations

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Seymour, Roger S., Craig R. White, & Marc Gibernau. (2003). Heat reward for insect pollinators. Nature. 426(6964). 243–244. 183 indexed citations

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Seymour, Roger S. & Harvey B. Lillywhite. (2000). Hearts, neck posture and metabolic intensity of sauropod dinosaurs. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 267(1455). 1883–1887. 35 indexed citations

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Seymour, Roger S.. (1999). Pattern of respiration by intact inflorescences of the thermogenic arum lily Philodendron selloum. Journal of Experimental Botany. 50(335). 845–852. 15 indexed citations

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Seymour, Roger S.. (1998). Heat production by sacred lotus flowers depends on ambient temperature, not light cycle. Journal of Experimental Botany. 49(324). 1213–1217.

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Seymour, Roger S., Paul Schultze–Motel, & I. Lamprecht. (1998). Heat production by sacred lotus flowers depends on ambient temperature, not light cycle. Journal of Experimental Botany. 49(324). 1213–1217. 42 indexed citations

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Pedley, T. J., Bindi S. Brook, & Roger S. Seymour. (1996). Blood pressure and flow rate in the giraffe jugular vein. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 351(1342). 855–866. 72 indexed citations

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Seymour, Roger S., et al.. (1995). RESPIRATION OF EMBRYOS AND LARVAE OF THE TERRESTRIALLY BREEDING FROG KYARRANUS LOVERIDGEI. Herpetologica. 51(3). 369–376. 28 indexed citations

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Seymour, Roger S.. (1984). Respiration and metabolism of embryonic vertebrates : satellite symposium of the 29th International Congress of Physiological Sciences, Sydney, Australia, 1983. 2 indexed citations

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Seymour, Roger S., M. Christopher Barnhart, & George A. Bartholomew. (1984). Respiratory gas exchange during thermogenesis inPhilodendron selloum Koch. Planta. 161(3). 229–232. 20 indexed citations

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