William Gearty

600 total citations
17 papers, 296 citations indexed

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William Gearty is a scholar working on Ecology, Paleontology and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, William Gearty has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 296 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Ecology, 6 papers in Paleontology and 4 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in William Gearty's work include Evolution and Paleontology Studies (5 papers), Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology (3 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (3 papers). William Gearty is often cited by papers focused on Evolution and Paleontology Studies (5 papers), Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology (3 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (3 papers). William Gearty collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Switzerland. William Gearty's co-authors include Jonathan L. Payne, Craig R. McClain, Lewis A. Jones, Thomas H. Boag, Richard Stockey, Jakob Vinther, Daniel J. Field, Samuel M. Webb, Matthew D. Shawkey and Liliana D’Alba and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and Current Biology.

In The Last Decade

William Gearty

14 papers receiving 294 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
William Gearty United States	10	130	117	66	56	48	17	296
Laura C. Soul United Kingdom	10	204 1.6×	81 0.7×	98 1.5×	29 0.5×	39 0.8×	16	304
Anikó B. Tóth United States	8	100 0.8×	142 1.2×	56 0.8×	23 0.4×	38 0.8×	12	245
Stewart M. Edie United States	12	135 1.0×	183 1.6×	79 1.2×	95 1.7×	84 1.8×	34	405
Aldo F. Rincón United States	12	300 2.3×	81 0.7×	130 2.0×	72 1.3×	121 2.5×	17	390
Advait M. Jukar United States	10	193 1.5×	132 1.1×	48 0.7×	33 0.6×	63 1.3×	23	313
Nicholas M. A. Crouch United States	10	80 0.6×	133 1.1×	74 1.1×	48 0.9×	127 2.6×	23	297
Ursula L. Shepherd United States	10	62 0.5×	221 1.9×	66 1.0×	34 0.6×	140 2.9×	15	350
Marcelo Stucchi Peru	10	244 1.9×	132 1.1×	178 2.7×	21 0.4×	49 1.0×	24	332
Paula Ann Spaeth United States	6	131 1.0×	156 1.3×	61 0.9×	22 0.4×	60 1.3×	7	363
Sean Haythorne Australia	6	51 0.4×	112 1.0×	56 0.8×	29 0.5×	32 0.7×	11	263

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17 of 17 papers shown

Jones, Lewis A., Bethany J. Allen, Harriet B. Drage, et al.. (2025). Ten simple rules to follow when cleaning occurrence data in palaeobiology. Palaeontology. 68(5).

Brook, Barry W., S. Kathleen Lyons, Benjamin E. Carter, et al.. (2025). Late Pleistocene faunal community patterns disrupted by Holocene human impacts. Biology Letters. 21(8). 20250151–20250151.

Gearty, William. (2025). deeptime: an R package that facilitates highly customizable and reproducible visualizations of data over geological time intervals. Big Earth Data. 1–17. 1 indexed citations

Gearty, William, Lawrence H. Uricchio, & S. Kathleen Lyons. (2024). Investigating the Biotic and Abiotic Drivers of Body Size Disparity in Communities of Non‐Volant Terrestrial Mammals. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 33(12). 1 indexed citations

Jones, Lewis A., et al.. (2024). rmacrostrat: An R package for accessing and retrieving data from the Macrostrat geological database. Geosphere. 20(6). 1456–1467. 3 indexed citations

Jones, Lewis A., William Gearty, Bethany J. Allen, et al.. (2023). palaeoverse: A community‐driven R package to support palaeobiological analysis. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 14(9). 2205–2215. 28 indexed citations

Gearty, William, Bethany J. Allen, Pedro L. Godoy, & Alfio Alessandro Chiarenza. (2023). INCLUDING FOSSIL TIPS OFTEN, BUT NOT ALWAYS, VASTLY IMPROVES THE RECONSTRUCTION OF TRAIT EVOLUTION USING PHYLOGENETIC COMPARATIVE METHODS. Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America.

Gearty, William & Lewis A. Jones. (2023). rphylopic: An R package for fetching, transforming, and visualising PhyloPic silhouettes. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 14(11). 2700–2708. 34 indexed citations

Cooke, Rob, William Gearty, Abbie S. A. Chapman, et al.. (2022). Anthropogenic disruptions to longstanding patterns of trophic-size structure in vertebrates. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 6(6). 684–692. 17 indexed citations

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Gearty, William, et al.. (2021). Our past creates our present: a brief overview of racism and colonialism in Western paleontology. Paleobiology. 48(2). 173–185. 37 indexed citations

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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

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Gearty, William, et al.. (2021). Ecological Filtering and Exaptation in the Evolution of Marine Snakes. The American Naturalist. 198(4). 506–521. 9 indexed citations

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Gearty, William & Jonathan L. Payne. (2020). Physiological constraints on body size distributions in Crocodyliformes. Evolution. 74(2). 245–255. 21 indexed citations

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Gearty, William, Craig R. McClain, & Jonathan L. Payne. (2018). Energetic tradeoffs control the size distribution of aquatic mammals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(16). 4194–4199. 73 indexed citations

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Gearty, William & Jonathan L. Payne. (2018). Convergent body size evolution of Crocodyliformes upon entering the aquatic realm. Insecta mundi. 1 indexed citations

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Racicot, Rachel A., William Gearty, Naoki Kohno, & John J. Flynn. (2016). Comparative anatomy of the bony labyrinth of extant and extinct porpoises (Cetacea: Phocoenidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 119(4). 831–846. 18 indexed citations

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Field, Daniel J., Liliana D’Alba, Jakob Vinther, et al.. (2013). Melanin Concentration Gradients in Modern and Fossil Feathers. PLoS ONE. 8(3). e59451–e59451. 33 indexed citations

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