Thomas H. Boag

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
19 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

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Thomas H. Boag is a scholar working on Paleontology, Atmospheric Science and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas H. Boag has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Paleontology, 14 papers in Atmospheric Science and 9 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Thomas H. Boag's work include Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (14 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (14 papers) and Marine Biology and Ecology Research (7 papers). Thomas H. Boag is often cited by papers focused on Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (14 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (14 papers) and Marine Biology and Ecology Research (7 papers). Thomas H. Boag collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Thomas H. Boag's co-authors include Marc Laflamme, Simon A.F. Darroch, Erik A. Sperling, A.D. Muscente, James D. Schiffbauer, Rachel A. Racicot, Justin V. Strauss, James F. Busch, Sarah M. Tweedt and Douglas H. Erwin and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Current Biology.

In The Last Decade

Thomas H. Boag

19 papers receiving 992 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.

Calibrating the coevolution of Ediacaran life and environment

2020 170 citations Alan D. Rooney, Marjorie Cantine et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thomas H. Boag United States	13	905	510	241	184	142	19	1.0k
Charlotte G. Kenchington United Kingdom	14	804 0.9×	482 0.9×	216 0.9×	141 0.8×	105 0.7×	20	883
Yaoping Cai China	18	1.0k 1.1×	508 1.0×	239 1.0×	239 1.3×	291 2.0×	25	1.1k
Bin Wan China	20	902 1.0×	475 0.9×	181 0.8×	297 1.6×	205 1.4×	42	1.1k
Leho Ainsaar Estonia	18	788 0.9×	452 0.9×	157 0.7×	330 1.8×	201 1.4×	49	1.0k
Jonathan B. Antcliffe United Kingdom	18	1.1k 1.2×	588 1.2×	435 1.8×	111 0.6×	90 0.6×	38	1.3k
Juliana de Moraes Leme Brazil	18	878 1.0×	319 0.6×	243 1.0×	106 0.6×	103 0.7×	58	1.0k
Tõnu Meidla Estonia	15	726 0.8×	438 0.9×	170 0.7×	276 1.5×	182 1.3×	45	853
Amelia Penny United Kingdom	15	1.0k 1.1×	433 0.8×	248 1.0×	273 1.5×	403 2.8×	30	1.1k
Emily F. Smith United States	21	1.1k 1.2×	610 1.2×	174 0.7×	528 2.9×	243 1.7×	43	1.3k
A. Yu. Ivantsov Russia	23	1.3k 1.5×	712 1.4×	557 2.3×	163 0.9×	94 0.7×	54	1.5k

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19 of 19 papers shown

Boag, Thomas H., et al.. (2024). Deep‐water first occurrences of Ediacara biota prior to the Shuram carbon isotope excursion in the Wernecke Mountains, Yukon, Canada. Geobiology. 22(3). e12597–e12597. 9 indexed citations

Penn, Justin L., et al.. (2024). Thermal optima in the hypoxia tolerance of marine ectotherms: Physiological causes and biogeographic consequences. PLoS Biology. 22(1). e3002443–e3002443. 4 indexed citations

Duncan, Murray I., et al.. (2023). Oxygen availability and body mass modulate ectotherm responses to ocean warming. Nature Communications. 14(1). 3811–3811. 9 indexed citations

Busch, James F., Thomas H. Boag, Erik A. Sperling, et al.. (2023). Integrated Litho-, Chemo- and Sequence Stratigraphy of the Ediacaran Gametrail Formation Across a Shelf-Slope Transect in the Wernecke Mountains, Yukon, Canada. American Journal of Science. 323. 5 indexed citations

Sperling, Erik A., Thomas H. Boag, Murray I. Duncan, et al.. (2022). Breathless through Time: Oxygen and Animals across Earth’s History. Biological Bulletin. 243(2). 184–206. 32 indexed citations

Boag, Thomas H., William Gearty, & Richard Stockey. (2021). Metabolic tradeoffs control biodiversity gradients through geological time. Current Biology. 31(13). 2906–2913.e3. 20 indexed citations

Rooney, Alan D., Marjorie Cantine, Kristin Bergmann, et al.. (2020). Calibrating the coevolution of Ediacaran life and environment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(29). 16824–16830. 170 indexed citations breakdown →

Busch, James F., Thomas H. Boag, Erik A. Sperling, John A. Higgins, & Justin V. Strauss. (2020). INTEGRATED LITHO-, CHEMO- AND SEQUENCE-STRATIGRAPHY OF THE EDIACARAN GAMETRAIL FORMATION ACROSS A SHELF-SLOPE TRANSECT IN THE WERNECKE MOUNTAINS, YUKON, CANADA. Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America. 1 indexed citations

Boag, Thomas H., Brandt M. Gibson, Charlotte G. Kenchington, et al.. (2020). Paleoenvironmental analysis of Ernietta-bearing Ediacaran deposits in southern Namibia. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 556. 109884–109884. 14 indexed citations

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Muscente, A.D., Natalia Bykova, Thomas H. Boag, et al.. (2019). Ediacaran biozones identified with network analysis provide evidence for pulsed extinctions of early complex life. Nature Communications. 10(1). 911–911. 89 indexed citations

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Kenchington, Charlotte G., Brandt M. Gibson, Thomas H. Boag, et al.. (2019). Increase in metazoan ecosystem engineering prior to the Ediacaran–Cambrian boundary in the Nama Group, Namibia. Royal Society Open Science. 6(9). 190548–190548. 59 indexed citations

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Boag, Thomas H., Richard Stockey, Leanne E. Elder, Pincelli M. Hull, & Erik A. Sperling. (2018). Oxygen, temperature and the deep-marine stenothermal cradle of Ediacaran evolution. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 285(1893). 20181724–20181724. 61 indexed citations

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Muscente, A.D., Thomas H. Boag, Natalia Bykova, & James D. Schiffbauer. (2017). Environmental disturbance, resource availability, and biologic turnover at the dawn of animal life. Earth-Science Reviews. 177. 248–264. 58 indexed citations

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Muscente, A.D., James D. Schiffbauer, Jesse S. Broce, et al.. (2017). Exceptionally preserved fossil assemblages through geologic time and space. Gondwana Research. 48. 164–188. 138 indexed citations

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Boag, Thomas H., Simon A.F. Darroch, & Marc Laflamme. (2016). Ediacaran distributions in space and time: testing assemblage concepts of earliest macroscopic body fossils. Paleobiology. 42(4). 574–594. 105 indexed citations

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Muscente, A.D., Marc Laflamme, James D. Schiffbauer, et al.. (2016). EXCEPTIONALLY PRESERVED FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGES THROUGH GEOLOGIC TIME AND SPACE. Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America. 9 indexed citations

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Darroch, Simon A.F., Thomas H. Boag, Rachel A. Racicot, et al.. (2016). A mixed Ediacaran-metazoan assemblage from the Zaris Sub-basin, Namibia. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 459. 198–208. 70 indexed citations

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Darroch, Simon A.F., Erik A. Sperling, Thomas H. Boag, et al.. (2015). Biotic replacement and mass extinction of the Ediacara biota. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 282(1814). 20151003–20151003. 137 indexed citations

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Narbonne, Guy M., et al.. (2015). New Ediacaran fossils from the uppermost Blueflower Formation, northwest Canada: disentangling biostratigraphy and paleoecology. Journal of Paleontology. 89(2). 281–291. 23 indexed citations

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