2026 Jakob Vinther: Earth Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Earth Science	39	6064	5616	642	601	114	6912

Overview

Jakob Vinther is affiliated with the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom and has a research focus primarily in the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work spans several subfields, including Paleontology, Oceanography, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, and Ecology.

Their research topics cover a wide range of subjects related to paleontology and marine biology. Main topics include Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Cephalopods and Marine Biology, Evolution and Paleontology Studies, and Amphibian and Reptile Biology.

Vinther's recent publications highlight contributions to evolutionary biology and paleontology. Selected papers are:

"A draft genome sequence of the elusive giant squid, Architeuthis dux" (2020), published in GigaScience
"A Cambrian-Ordovician Terrestrialization of Arachnids" (2020), published in Frontiers in Genetics
"A Cambrian crown annelid reconciles phylogenomics and the fossil record" (2020), published in Nature
"MirGeneDB 3.0: improved taxonomic sampling, uniform nomenclature of novel conserved microRNA families and updated covariance models" (2024), published in Nucleic Acids Research
"MicroRNAs are deeply linked to the emergence of the complex octopus brain" (2022), published in Science Advances

Frequent coauthors contributing alongside Vinther include:

Luke A. Parry
Xianguang Hou
Morten Lunde Nielsen
Arne Thorshøj Nielsen
Kevin J. Peterson

Vinther's work is often published in several recurring scientific journals, with notable numbers of papers in:

Current Biology
Papers in Palaeontology
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Science Advances
Science

Best Publications

Recalibrating Equus evolution using the genome sequence of an early Middle Pleistocene horse.

Ludovic Orlando;Aurelien Ginolhac;Guojie Zhang;Duane Froese

987
Citations
Cephalopod origin and evolution: A congruent picture emerging from fossils, development and molecules: Extant cephalopods are younger than previously realised and were under major selection to become agile, shell-less predators.

Björn Kröger;Jakob Vinther;Dirk Fuchs

376
Citations
Ordovician faunas of Burgess Shale type

Peter Van Roy;Peter Van Roy;Patrick J. Orr;Joseph P. Botting;Lucy A. Muir

357
Citations
Constraints on the timescale of animal evolutionary history

Michael J. Benton;Philip C.J. Donoghue;Robert J. Asher;Matt Friedman

320
Citations
The colour of fossil feathers

Jakob Vinther;Derek E.G Briggs;Richard O Prum;Vinodkumar Saranathan

265
Citations
Reconstruction of Microraptor and the Evolution of Iridescent Plumage

Quanguo Li;Ke Qin Gao;Qingjin Meng;Julia Allison Clarke

246
Citations
Fossil Evidence for Evolution of the Shape and Color of Penguin Feathers

Julia A. Clarke;Daniel T. Ksepka;Daniel T. Ksepka;Rodolfo Salas-Gismondi;Ali J. Altamirano

226
Citations
Structural coloration in a fossil feather.

Jakob Vinther;Derek E.G. Briggs;Derek E.G. Briggs;Julia Allison Clarke;Julia Allison Clarke;Gerald Mayr

169
Citations
Molecular clocks indicate turnover and diversification of modern coleoid cephalopods during the Mesozoic marine revolution

Alastair R. Tanner;Dirk Fuchs;Inger E. Winkelmann;M. Thomas P. Gilbert;M. Thomas P. Gilbert;M. Thomas P. Gilbert

160
Citations
A suspension-feeding anomalocarid from the Early Cambrian

Jakob Vinther;Martin Stein;Nicholas R. Longrich;David A. T. Harper

155
Citations
A molecular palaeobiological exploration of arthropod terrestrialization

Jesus Lozano-Fernandez;Robert Carton;Alastair R. Tanner;Mark N. Puttick

150
Citations
Soft-Bodied Fossils Are Not Simply Rotten Carcasses – Toward a Holistic Understanding of Exceptional Fossil Preservation: Exceptional Fossil Preservation Is Complex and Involves the Interplay of Numerous Biological and Geological Processes

Luke A. Parry;Fiann Smithwick;Klara K. Nordén;Evan T. Saitta

145
Citations
Chemical, experimental, and morphological evidence for diagenetically altered melanin in exceptionally preserved fossils

Caitlin Colleary;Caitlin Colleary;Andrei D Dolocan;James E Gardner;Suresh Singh

141
Citations
The Early Cambrian Halkieria is a mollusc

Jakob Vinther;Claus Nielsen

138
Citations
Sophisticated digestive systems in early arthropods

Jean Vannier;Jianni Liu;Rudy Lerosey-Aubril;Jakob Vinther

132
Citations
A guide to the field of palaeo colour: Melanin and other pigments can fossilise: Reconstructing colour patterns from ancient organisms can give new insights to ecology and behaviour.

Jakob Vinther

129
Citations
A molecular palaeobiological hypothesis for the origin of aplacophoran molluscs and their derivation from chiton-like ancestors.

Jakob Vinther;Erik A. Sperling;Derek E. G. Briggs;Kevin J. Peterson;Kevin J. Peterson

127
Citations
Machaeridians are Palaeozoic armoured annelids

Jakob Vinther;Peter Van Roy;Peter Van Roy;Derek E. G. Briggs

126
Citations
An Exceptionally Preserved Three-Dimensional Armored Dinosaur Reveals Insights into Coloration and Cretaceous Predator-Prey Dynamics

Caleb M. Brown;Donald M. Henderson;Jakob Vinther;Ian Fletcher

113
Citations
The origins of molluscs

Jakob Vinther

113
Citations
3D Camouflage in an Ornithischian Dinosaur

Jakob Vinther;Robert Nicholls;Stephan Lautenschlager;Michael Pittman

108
Citations
Ancestral morphology of crown-group molluscs revealed by a new Ordovician stem aculiferan

Jakob Vinther;Luke Parry;Derek E. G. Briggs;Derek E. G. Briggs;Peter Van Roy;Peter Van Roy

102
Citations
The origin of annelids

Luke A Parry;Luke A Parry;Alastair Tanner;Jakob Vinther

98
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Derek E. G. Briggs Yale University

Gregory D. Edgecombe Natural History Museum

Roger E. Summons MIT

Davide Pisani University of Bristol

Gerald Mayr Senckenberg Naturmuseum

Liliana D'Alba Ghent University

Julia A. Clarke The University of Texas at Austin

Richard O. Prum Yale University

Mark A. Norell American Museum of Natural History

David A. T. Harper Durham University

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