William I. Sellers

5.5k total citations
147 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

William I. Sellers is a scholar working on Paleontology, Social Psychology and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, William I. Sellers has authored 147 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 49 papers in Paleontology, 33 papers in Social Psychology and 21 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in William I. Sellers's work include Evolution and Paleontology Studies (40 papers), Primate Behavior and Ecology (32 papers) and Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology (31 papers). William I. Sellers is often cited by papers focused on Evolution and Paleontology Studies (40 papers), Primate Behavior and Ecology (32 papers) and Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology (31 papers). William I. Sellers collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Japan. William I. Sellers's co-authors include Phillip L. Manning, Robin H. Crompton, Karl T. Bates, Charlotte Brassey, Andrew Chamberlain, Roy A. Wogelius, Lee Margetts, Susannah K. S. Thorpe, Uwe Bergmann and Russell Savage and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

William I. Sellers

141 papers receiving 3.7k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
William I. Sellers United Kingdom 37 1.4k 649 596 404 383 147 3.8k
Martin S. Fischer Germany 35 1.0k 0.7× 923 1.4× 421 0.7× 437 1.1× 252 0.7× 135 3.6k
David R. Carrier United States 41 1.1k 0.8× 921 1.4× 563 0.9× 585 1.4× 263 0.7× 92 4.8k
Kristiaan D’Août Belgium 30 574 0.4× 810 1.2× 895 1.5× 366 0.9× 159 0.4× 90 2.4k
Dennis M. Bramble United States 19 748 0.5× 850 1.3× 583 1.0× 345 0.9× 89 0.2× 24 3.7k
Stephen M. Gatesy United States 37 3.1k 2.2× 670 1.0× 165 0.3× 935 2.3× 402 1.0× 78 4.8k
John E. A. Bertram United States 39 527 0.4× 1.7k 2.6× 378 0.6× 294 0.7× 424 1.1× 120 5.9k
Milton Hildebrand United States 21 1.1k 0.8× 971 1.5× 683 1.1× 560 1.4× 270 0.7× 39 3.9k
Farish A. Jenkins United States 41 2.8k 2.0× 255 0.4× 438 0.7× 887 2.2× 212 0.6× 54 4.4k
R. McNeill Alexander United Kingdom 25 575 0.4× 1.6k 2.4× 330 0.6× 478 1.2× 721 1.9× 76 4.6k
Karl T. Bates United Kingdom 31 1.4k 1.0× 361 0.6× 129 0.2× 334 0.8× 71 0.2× 94 2.4k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William I. Sellers

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Charles, James P., et al.. (2025). Exploring the accuracy of palaeobiological modelling procedures in forward-dynamics simulations of maximum-effort vertical jumping. Royal Society Open Science. 12(5). 242109–242109.
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Chappell, Jackie, et al.. (2025). The locomotor ecology of wild western lowland gorillas: How does the largest ape exploit complex arboreal environments?. Journal of Anatomy. 248(2). 197–221. 1 indexed citations
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Bates, Karl T., et al.. (2024). Running performance in Australopithecus afarensis. Current Biology. 35(1). 224–230.e4. 3 indexed citations
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Ogawa, Hisayuki, et al.. (2024). Rethinking the four-wing problem in plesiosaur swimming using bio-inspired decentralized control. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 25333–25333. 1 indexed citations
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Brassey, Charlotte, et al.. (2023). Investigating the quadrupedal abilities of Scutellosaurus lawleri and its implications for locomotor behavior evolution among dinosaurs. The Anatomical Record. 306(10). 2514–2536. 5 indexed citations
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Casteren, Adam van, Jonathan R. Codd, Kornelius Kupczik, et al.. (2022). The cost of chewing: The energetics and evolutionary significance of mastication in humans. Science Advances. 8(33). eabn8351–eabn8351. 11 indexed citations
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Sellers, William I., et al.. (2021). Functional morphology of the forelimb musculature reflects flight and foraging styles in aquatic birds. Journal für Ornithologie. 162(3). 779–793. 7 indexed citations
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Brocklehurst, Robert J., Emma R. Schachner, Jonathan R. Codd, & William I. Sellers. (2020). Respiratory evolution in archosaurs. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 375(1793). 20190140–20190140. 23 indexed citations
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Manning, Phillip L., Nicholas P. Edwards, Uwe Bergmann, et al.. (2019). Pheomelanin pigment remnants mapped in fossils of an extinct mammal. Nature Communications. 10(1). 2250–2250. 34 indexed citations
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Pormann, Peter E., et al.. (2018). On Digamma and the Armenian Earth. Le Muséon. 131. 391–414. 1 indexed citations
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Knoll, Fabien, Luis M. Chiappe, Sophie Sanchez, et al.. (2018). A diminutive perinate European Enantiornithes reveals an asynchronous ossification pattern in early birds. Nature Communications. 9(1). 937–937. 33 indexed citations
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Sellers, William I., et al.. (2017). Investigating the running abilities of Tyrannosaurus rex using stress-constrained multibody dynamic analysis. PeerJ. 5. e3420–e3420. 54 indexed citations
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Brassey, Charlotte, et al.. (2017). A volumetric technique for fossil body mass estimation applied to Australopithecus afarensis. Journal of Human Evolution. 115. 47–64. 23 indexed citations
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Stafford, C. A., et al.. (2016). Know Your Monkey: Identifying Primate Conservation Challenges in an Indigenous Kichwa Community Using an Ethnoprimatological Approach. Folia Primatologica. 87(1). 31–47. 18 indexed citations
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Brassey, Charlotte, et al.. (2016). Convex-hull mass estimates of the dodo ( Raphus cucullatus) : application of a CT-based mass estimation technique. PeerJ. 4. e1432–e1432. 14 indexed citations
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Muscolo, Giovanni Gerardo, Carmine Tommaso Recchiuto, William I. Sellers, & Rezia Molfino. (2014). Towards a novel embodied robot bio-inspired by non-human primates. CINECA IRIS Institutional Research Information System (Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies). 1–7. 3 indexed citations
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Pataky, Todd C., Russell Savage, Karl T. Bates, William I. Sellers, & Robin H. Crompton. (2013). Short-term step-to-step correlation in plantar pressure distributions during treadmill walking, and implications for footprint trail analysis. Gait & Posture. 38(4). 1054–1057. 5 indexed citations
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Sellers, William I., Phillip L. Manning, Tyler R. Lyson, Kimberly A. Stevens, & Lee Margetts. (2009). Virtual palaeontology: Gait reconstruction of extinct vertebrates using high performance computing. Palaeontologia Electronica. 12(3). 54 indexed citations
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Pataky, Todd C., Paolo Caravaggi, Russell Savage, et al.. (2008). New insights into the plantar pressure correlates of walking speed using pedobarographic statistical parametric mapping (pSPM). Journal of Biomechanics. 41(9). 1987–1994. 108 indexed citations
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Sellers, William I., Louise A. Dennis, Weijie Wang, & Robin H. Crompton. (2004). Evaluating alternative gait strategies using evolutionary robotics. Journal of Anatomy. 204(5). 343–351. 35 indexed citations

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