Sam Giles

1.7k total citations
59 papers, 901 citations indexed

About

Sam Giles is a scholar working on Paleontology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Sam Giles has authored 59 papers receiving a total of 901 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Paleontology, 38 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 4 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Sam Giles's work include Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology (42 papers), Ichthyology and Marine Biology (36 papers) and Fish biology, ecology, and behavior (21 papers). Sam Giles is often cited by papers focused on Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology (42 papers), Ichthyology and Marine Biology (36 papers) and Fish biology, ecology, and behavior (21 papers). Sam Giles collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and France. Sam Giles's co-authors include Matt Friedman, Martin Brazeau, Christopher Jackson, N. R. Stephen, Martin Rücklin, Philip C. J. Donoghue, Guanghui Xu, Thomas J. Near, Jing Lü and Min Zhu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Sam Giles

54 papers receiving 880 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sam Giles United Kingdom 17 587 490 82 56 53 59 901
Aline M. Ghilardi Brazil 15 425 0.7× 283 0.6× 13 0.2× 10 0.2× 70 1.3× 44 576
Danielle A. Macdonald United States 18 333 0.6× 60 0.1× 20 0.2× 33 0.6× 43 0.8× 40 747
Richard Franz United States 16 171 0.3× 322 0.7× 57 0.7× 29 0.5× 328 6.2× 50 731
Mark B. Goodwin United States 20 1.1k 1.9× 529 1.1× 31 0.4× 5 0.1× 71 1.3× 38 1.4k
Qinqi Xu China 9 199 0.3× 43 0.1× 117 1.4× 16 0.3× 113 2.1× 13 658
Andrew Fleming United Kingdom 19 443 0.8× 71 0.1× 55 0.7× 108 1.9× 170 3.2× 64 1.0k
Rokus Awe Due Australia 12 822 1.4× 52 0.1× 39 0.5× 219 3.9× 160 3.0× 17 1.5k
Alessandro Mondanaro Italy 17 438 0.7× 108 0.2× 57 0.7× 13 0.2× 207 3.9× 50 802
Peter Murray Australia 16 563 1.0× 115 0.2× 36 0.4× 26 0.5× 153 2.9× 30 659
Michael A. Raath South Africa 14 998 1.7× 493 1.0× 14 0.2× 7 0.1× 53 1.0× 17 1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Sam Giles

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sam Giles

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sam Giles

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sam Giles. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sam Giles 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 Sam Giles. Sam Giles is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Higgins, Robert, Stephanie E. Pierce, Michael I. Coates, et al.. (2025). The lower jaw of Devonian ray‐finned fishes ( Actinopterygii ): Anatomy, relationships, and functional morphology. The Anatomical Record. 309(3). 550–602. 1 indexed citations
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Rogers, Steven, et al.. (2024). “you just look at rocks, and have beards” Perceptions of Geology From the United Kingdom: A Qualitative Analysis From an Online Survey. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(1). 7 indexed citations
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Giles, Sam, et al.. (2024). The three-dimensionally articulated oral apparatus of a Devonian heterostracan sheds light on feeding in Palaeozoic jawless fishes. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 291(2019). 20232258–20232258. 5 indexed citations
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Lawrence, Anya, Christopher Jackson, Rebecca Williams, et al.. (2024). The Equator Project Research School and Mentoring Network: Evaluated Interventions to Improve Equity in Geoscience Research. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(1).
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Weinschütz, Luiz Carlos, et al.. (2024). Soft-tissue fossilization illuminates the stepwise evolution of the ray-finned fish brain. Current Biology. 34(13). 2831–2840.e2.
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Fernando, Benjamin, Sam Giles, Christopher Jackson, et al.. (2023). Strategies for making geoscience PhD recruitment more equitable. Nature Geoscience. 16(8). 658–660. 4 indexed citations
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Knapp, Andrew, et al.. (2023). How to tuna fish: constraint, convergence, and integration in the neurocranium of pelagiarian fishes. Evolution. 77(6). 1277–1288. 4 indexed citations
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Kolmann, Matthew A., et al.. (2023). Exceptional fossil preservation and evolution of the ray-finned fish brain. Nature. 614(7948). 486–491. 7 indexed citations
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Giles, Sam, et al.. (2023). The oldest three-dimensionally preserved vertebrate neurocranium. Nature. 621(7980). 782–787. 6 indexed citations
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Zhu, You-an, Sam Giles, Gavin C. Young, et al.. (2021). Endocast and Bony Labyrinth of a Devonian “Placoderm” Challenges Stem Gnathostome Phylogeny. Current Biology. 31(5). 1112–1118.e4. 19 indexed citations
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Barclay, Jenni, Benjamin Fernando, Sam Giles, et al.. (2021). A UK perspective on tackling the geoscience racial diversity crisis in the Global North. Nature Geoscience. 14(5). 256–259. 50 indexed citations
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Friedman, Matt, et al.. (2020). Redescription of the cranial skeleton of the Early Devonian (Emsian) sarcopterygianDurialepis edentatusOtto (Dipnomorpha, Porolepiformes). Papers in Palaeontology. 7(2). 789–806. 5 indexed citations
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Giles, Sam, Christopher Jackson, & N. R. Stephen. (2020). Barriers to fieldwork in undergraduate geoscience degrees. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. 1(2). 77–78. 92 indexed citations
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Mackay, Anson W., David Adger, Alexander L. Bond, Sam Giles, & Erinma Ochu. (2019). Straight-washing ecological legacies. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 3(12). 1611–1611. 4 indexed citations
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Giles, Sam, et al.. (2017). Comparative anatomy of the gill skeleton of fossil Aulopiformes (Teleostei: Eurypterygii). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 16(14). 1221–1245. 13 indexed citations
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Rücklin, Martin, et al.. (2011). Teeth before jaws? Comparative analysis of the structure and development on the external and internal scales in the extinct jawless vertebrate Loganellia scotica.. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe). 1 indexed citations

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