William Wayt Thomas

6.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
122 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

William Wayt Thomas is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, William Wayt Thomas has authored 122 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 84 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 73 papers in Plant Science and 29 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in William Wayt Thomas's work include Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies (63 papers), Plant and animal studies (60 papers) and Plant Diversity and Evolution (30 papers). William Wayt Thomas is often cited by papers focused on Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies (63 papers), Plant and animal studies (60 papers) and Plant Diversity and Evolution (30 papers). William Wayt Thomas collaborates with scholars based in United States, Brazil and United Kingdom. William Wayt Thomas's co-authors include Mary E. Barkworth, Khidir W. Hilu, Thomas R. Soderstrom, Christopher S. Campbell, André M. Amorim, Luiz Antônio Martinelli, Foster Brown, Marcelo Zacharias Moreira, Marccus Alves and Maria Regina de Vasconcellos Barbosa and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Oecologia and Frontiers in Plant Science.

In The Last Decade

William Wayt Thomas

114 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

Grass Systematics and Evolution. 1988 2026 2000 2013 1988 100 200 300 400 500
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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.

  1. Grass Systematics and Evolution.
    1988 526 citations William Wayt Thomas et al. Brittonia profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
William Wayt Thomas United States 23 1.5k 1.1k 778 426 424 122 2.6k
Alberto Búrquez Mexico 26 1.1k 0.7× 838 0.8× 667 0.9× 323 0.8× 470 1.1× 77 2.2k
Marcelo Fragomeni Simon Brazil 26 1.6k 1.1× 1.4k 1.3× 909 1.2× 548 1.3× 468 1.1× 91 3.4k
Rodolphe Spichiger Switzerland 18 1.0k 0.6× 580 0.5× 745 1.0× 481 1.1× 374 0.9× 44 2.0k
John Dickie United Kingdom 23 1.3k 0.8× 1.9k 1.7× 1.5k 1.9× 514 1.2× 327 0.8× 52 3.2k
G. Anthony Verboom South Africa 30 1.5k 1.0× 1.4k 1.3× 1.1k 1.5× 444 1.0× 523 1.2× 90 3.0k
José G. García‐Franco Mexico 26 1.7k 1.1× 887 0.8× 571 0.7× 310 0.7× 320 0.8× 129 2.6k
Stefan Porembski Germany 32 1.8k 1.1× 1.3k 1.2× 1.1k 1.4× 461 1.1× 630 1.5× 119 3.3k
Heidrun Huber Netherlands 27 931 0.6× 1.6k 1.5× 1.0k 1.3× 258 0.6× 384 0.9× 49 2.5k
Giuseppe Fenu Italy 32 1.3k 0.8× 1.4k 1.3× 1.1k 1.5× 348 0.8× 284 0.7× 170 3.1k
František Krahulec Czechia 30 1.4k 0.9× 1.6k 1.5× 1.0k 1.3× 273 0.6× 160 0.4× 92 2.4k

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Fields of papers citing papers by William Wayt Thomas

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William Wayt Thomas

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All Works

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Milet‐Pinheiro, Paulo, et al.. (2024). Ambophily and evidence of hydrophily as a new pollination strategy in Eleocharis (l.) Roem. & Schult (Cyperaceae). Plant Ecology & Diversity. 17(3-4). 135–151.
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Machado, Isabel Cristina, et al.. (2023). Inherit the wind: evolution of reproductive traits in Cyperaceae. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 205(4). 379–390. 2 indexed citations
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Elliott, Tammy L., František Zedek, Russell L. Barrett, et al.. (2022). Chromosome size matters: genome evolution in the cyperid clade. Annals of Botany. 130(7). 999–1014. 18 indexed citations
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Barbosa, Maria Regina de Vasconcellos, et al.. (2022). Taxonomic study of Myrtaceae in forest fragments in Amazonian Maranhão, Brazil. Phytotaxa. 568(1). 27–60.
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Devecchi, Marcelo Fernando, William Wayt Thomas, & José Rubens Pirani. (2022). Flora of the Reserva Ducke, Amazonas, Brazil: Simaroubaceae. Rodriguésia. 73. 1 indexed citations
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Costa, Lucas, André Marques, Christopher E. Buddenhagen, et al.. (2021). Aiming off the target: recycling target capture sequencing reads for investigating repetitive DNA. Annals of Botany. 128(7). 835–848. 11 indexed citations
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Thomas, William Wayt, Nancy Hensold, Robin B. Foster, Richard H. Ree, & Raimundo Luciano Soares Neto. (2021). Aenigmanu, a new genus of Picramniaceae from Western Amazonia. Taxon. 70(6). 1239–1247. 2 indexed citations
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Neto, Raimundo Luciano Soares, William Wayt Thomas, Maria Regina de Vasconcellos Barbosa, & Eric H. Roalson. (2020). Diversification of New World Cleomaceae with emphasis on Tarenaya and the description of Iltisiella, a new genus. Taxon. 69(2). 321–336. 6 indexed citations
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Piotto, Daniel, Dylan Craven, Florencia Montagnini, et al.. (2019). Successional, spatial, and seasonal changes in seed rain in the Atlantic forest of southern Bahia, Brazil. PLoS ONE. 14(12). e0226474–e0226474. 25 indexed citations
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Neto, Raimundo Luciano Soares, William Wayt Thomas, Maria Regina de Vasconcellos Barbosa, & Eric H. Roalson. (2018). New combinations and taxonomic notes for Tarenaya (Cleomaceae). Acta Botanica Brasilica. 32(4). 540–545. 7 indexed citations
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Costa, Suzana Maria, et al.. (2018). What about Cryptangieae (Cyperaceae)—a molecular hypothesis about its tribal status and circumscription. Phytotaxa. 347(2). 4 indexed citations
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Devecchi, Marcelo Fernando, William Wayt Thomas, & José Rubens Pirani. (2018). Taxonomic revision of the neotropical genus Homalolepis Turcz. (Simaroubaceae). Phytotaxa. 366(1). 13 indexed citations
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Devecchi, Marcelo Fernando, William Wayt Thomas, Gregory M. Plunkett, & José Rubens Pirani. (2017). Testing the monophyly of Simaba (Simaroubaceae): Evidence from five molecular regions and morphology. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 120. 63–82. 16 indexed citations
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Ribeiro, Tiago, Christopher E. Buddenhagen, William Wayt Thomas, Gustavo Souza, & Andrea Pedrosa‐Harand. (2017). Are holocentrics doomed to change? Limited chromosome number variation in Rhynchospora Vahl (Cyperaceae). PROTOPLASMA. 255(1). 263–272. 14 indexed citations
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Alves, Marccus, Ana Cláudia Araújo, Ana Paula do Nascimento Prata, et al.. (2009). Diversidade de cyperaceae no Brasil. LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas). 56 indexed citations
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Peck, James, Jeffrey C. Nekola, & William Wayt Thomas. (1997). Additions to the Pteridophyte Flora of Iowa-IV. UNI ScholarWorks (University of Northern Iowa). 104(4). 77–81. 2 indexed citations
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Thomas, William Wayt. (1982). The Systematics of Rhynchospora Section Dichromena (Cyperaceae).. Deep Blue (University of Michigan).

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