Seth Finnegan

6.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
66 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

Seth Finnegan is a scholar working on Paleontology, Atmospheric Science and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Seth Finnegan has authored 66 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Paleontology, 31 papers in Atmospheric Science and 29 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Seth Finnegan's work include Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (37 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (31 papers) and Marine Biology and Ecology Research (27 papers). Seth Finnegan is often cited by papers focused on Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (37 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (31 papers) and Marine Biology and Ecology Research (27 papers). Seth Finnegan collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Seth Finnegan's co-authors include Jonathan L. Payne, Woodward W. Fischer, Jessica L. Blois, Phoebe L. Zarnetske, Matthew C. Fitzpatrick, David A. Fike, Kristin Bergmann, Shanan E. Peters, John M. Eiler and Craig R. McClain and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Seth Finnegan

64 papers receiving 3.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Climate Change and the Past, Present, and Future of Biotic Interactions

2013 596 citations Seth Finnegan et al. profile →
The Magnitude and Duration of Late Ordovician–Early Silurian Glaciation

2011 450 citations Seth Finnegan, Kristin Bergmann et al. profile →

Peers

Seth Finnegan

PALEO

ECOLO

OCEAN

GPC

Gilles Escarguel France

Adam Tomášových Slovakia

Bruce S. Lieberman United States

Shanan E. Peters United States

James S. Crampton New Zealand

Thomas Litt Germany

Richard K. Bambach United States

Gilles Ramstein France

Louis François Belgium

Francisco W. Cruz Brazil

Gilles Escarguel France

Seth Finnegan

2.7k ×1.3

PALEO

1.3k ×1.0

1.3k ×1.1

ECOLO

778 ×0.8

OCEAN

242 ×0.5

GPC

Citations per year, relative to Seth Finnegan Seth Finnegan (= 1×) peers Gilles Escarguel

Countries citing papers authored by Seth Finnegan

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Seth Finnegan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Seth Finnegan

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Bergmann, Kristin, et al.. (2025). Isotopic constraints on the peak of the Early Paleozoic Icehouse. Geological Society of America Bulletin. 137(11-12). 5291–5310.

Wang, Feng‐Yu, Seth Finnegan, Jacopo Dal Corso, et al.. (2025). Brachiopods and forams reduced calcification costs through morphological simplification during mass extinction events. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 9(8). 1456–1468. 1 indexed citations

Duijnstee, Ivo, et al.. (2024). An 800-year record of benthic foraminifer images and 2D morphometrics from the Santa Barbara Basin. Scientific Data. 11(1). 144–144. 1 indexed citations

Holland, Steven M., et al.. (2024). A high-resolution sequence stratigraphic framework for the eastern Ellis Bay Formation, Canada: A record of Hirnantian sea-level change. Geological Society of America Bulletin. 136(9-10). 3825–3849. 5 indexed citations

Pohl, Alexandre, Richard Stockey, Xu Dai, et al.. (2023). Why the Early Paleozoic was intrinsically prone to marine extinction. Science Advances. 9(35). eadg7679–eadg7679. 8 indexed citations

Stockey, Richard, Alexandre Pohl, Andy Ridgwell, Seth Finnegan, & Erik A. Sperling. (2021). Decreasing Phanerozoic extinction intensity as a consequence of Earth surface oxygenation and metazoan ecophysiology. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(41). 32 indexed citations

Pohl, Alexandre, Zunli Lu, Wanyi Lu, et al.. (2021). Vertical decoupling in Late Ordovician anoxia due to reorganization of ocean circulation. Nature Geoscience. 14(11). 868–873. 50 indexed citations

Finnegan, Seth, et al.. (2021). Controls on range shifts of coastal Californian bivalves during the peak of the last interglacial and baseline predictions for today. Paleobiology. 47(3). 418–431. 2 indexed citations

Holland, Steven M., et al.. (2020). Recognizing pulses of extinction from clusters of last occurrences. Palaeontology. 64(1). 1–20. 18 indexed citations

10.

Saupe, Erin E., Huijie Qiao, Yannick Donnadieu, et al.. (2019). Extinction intensity during Ordovician and Cenozoic glaciations explained by cooling and palaeogeography. Nature Geoscience. 13(1). 65–70. 48 indexed citations

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Moss, David K., Linda C. Ivany, Michał Kowalewski, et al.. (2019). Evaluating the influences of temperature, primary production, and evolutionary history on bivalve growth rates. Paleobiology. 45(3). 405–420. 27 indexed citations

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Finnegan, Seth, James G. Gehlîng, & Mary L. Droser. (2019). Unusually variable paleocommunity composition in the oldest metazoan fossil assemblages. Paleobiology. 45(2). 235–245. 24 indexed citations

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Heim, Noel A., Jonathan L. Payne, Seth Finnegan, et al.. (2017). Hierarchical complexity and the size limits of life. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 284(1857). 20171039–20171039. 34 indexed citations

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Kröger, Björn, et al.. (2017). The Ordovician succession adjacent to Hinlopenstretet, Ny Friesland, Spitsbergen. 1 indexed citations

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Finnegan, Seth, David A. Fike, David S. Jones, & Woodward W. Fischer. (2012). A Temperature-Dependent Positive Feedback on the Magnitude of Carbon Isotope Excursions. Geoscience Canada. 39(3). 12 indexed citations

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Harnik, Paul G., Heike K. Lotze, Sean C. Anderson, et al.. (2012). Extinctions in ancient and modern seas. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 27(11). 608–617. 195 indexed citations

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Finnegan, Seth, Craig R. McClain, Matthew A. Kosnik, & Jonathan L. Payne. (2011). Escargots through time: an energetic comparison of marine gastropod assemblages before and after the Mesozoic Marine Revolution. Paleobiology. 37(2). 252–269. 64 indexed citations

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Payne, Jonathan L., Alison G. Boyer, James H. Brown, et al.. (2008). Two-phase increase in the maximum size of life over 3.5 billion years reflects biological innovation and environmental opportunity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(1). 24–27. 185 indexed citations

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Finnegan, Seth & Mary L. Droser. (2008). Body size, energetics, and the Ordovician restructuring of marine ecosystems. Paleobiology. 34(3). 342–359. 35 indexed citations

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Finnegan, Seth, Jonathan L. Payne, & Steve C. Wang. (2008). The Red Queen revisited: reevaluating the age selectivity of Phanerozoic marine genus extinctions. Paleobiology. 34(3). 318–341. 63 indexed citations

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