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John D. Taylor publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where John D. Taylor sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 690+

This scientist: 108 publications — 17th percentile

17% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 690 publications or more.

John D. Taylor D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where John D. Taylor sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 43 D-Index — 29th percentile

29% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 126 D-Index or more.

Overview

John D. Taylor is affiliated with the Natural History Museum in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with an emphasis on ecology. Within this broad field, their work spans several subfields including molecular biology, oceanography, plant science, and pollution.

Their research topics reflect a strong interest in microbial community ecology and physiology, environmental DNA in biodiversity studies, and protist diversity and phylogeny. Other notable areas of study include microplastics and plastic pollution, prostate cancer treatment and research, marine biology and ecology research, and marine and coastal plant biology.

Some of their recent published papers include the following:

  • Soil fungal networks maintain local dominance of ectomycorrhizal trees, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Diverse groups of fungi are associated with plastics in the surface waters of the Western South Atlantic and the Antarctic Peninsula, 2020, Molecular Ecology
  • Mechanistic strategies of microbial communities regulating lignocellulose deconstruction in a UK salt marsh, 2021, Microbiome
  • Floating plastics and their associated biota in the Western South Atlantic, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • Parasites, pathogens, and other symbionts of copepods, 2021, Trends in Parasitology

Frequent co-authors with whom John D. Taylor has collaborated include:

  • Maíra Proietti
  • Ana Luzia Lacerda
  • Martyn Kelly
  • Kerry Walsh
  • Daniel S. Read

Their research contributions appear in multiple publication venues, notably:

  • Nature Communications
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Journal of Molluscan Studies
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Best Publications

  • The shell structure and mineralogy of the bivalvia, Introduction. Nuculacea-Trigonacea.

    John David Taylor;William James Kennedy;Anthony Hall

  • The shell structure and mineralogy of the Bivalvia

    John David Taylor;W. J. Kennedy;Anthony Hall

  • The mechanical behaviour of some molluscan hard tissues

    J. D. Currey;J. D. Taylor

  • Origin and evolutionary radiation of the Mollusca

    John David Taylor

  • Investigating the Bivalve Tree of Life -- an exemplar-based approach combining molecular and novel morphological characters.

    Rüdiger Bieler;Paula M. Mikkelsen;Timothy M. Collins;Emily A. Glover

  • The mechanical properties of bivalve (Mollusca) shell structures

    John D. Taylor;Martin Layman

  • The evolutionary biology of the bivalvia

    Elizabeth M. Harper;John D. Taylor;J. A. Crame

  • Food specialization and the evolution of predatory prosobranch gastropods

    John D Taylor;Noel J Morris;Cynthia N Taylor

  • THE SHELL STRUCTURE AND MINERALOGY OF THE BIVALVIA. II. LUCINACEA-CLAVAGELLACEA. CONCLUSIONS

    John David Taylor;William James Kennedy

  • Foregut anatomy, feeding mechanisms, relationships and classification of the Conoidea (=Toxoglossa) (Gastropoda)

    John D Taylor;Yuri I Kantor;Alexander Sysoev

  • Environmental and biological controls on bivalve shell mineralogy.

    William James Kennedy;John David Taylor;Anthony Hall

  • A molecular phylogeny of heterodont bivalves (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Heterodonta): new analyses of 18S and 28S rRNA genes

    John D. Taylor;Suzanne T. Williams;Emily A. Glover;Patricia Dyal

  • Lucinidae (Bivalvia) – the most diverse group of chemosymbiotic molluscs

    John D. Taylor;Emily A. Glover

  • Functional anatomy, chemosymbiosis and evolution of the Lucinidae

    John D. Taylor;Emily A. Glover

  • Coral Reef and Associated Invertebrate Communities (Mainly Molluscan) Around Mahe, Seychelles

    J. D. Taylor

  • A family-level Tree of Life for bivalves based on a Sanger-sequencing approach

    David J. Combosch;Timothy M. Collins;Emily A. Glover;Daniel L. Graf

  • Biology of the Hyolitha

    Bruce Runnegar;John Pojeta;Noel J. Morris;John D. Taylor

  • A phylogenetic backbone for Bivalvia: an RNA-seq approach

    Vanessa L. González;Sónia C. S. Andrade;Rüdiger Bieler;Timothy M. Collins

  • The evolution of an atoll: the depositional and erosional history of Aldabra

    C. J. R. Braithwaite;J. D. Taylor;W. J. Kennedy

  • The influence of the periostracum on the shell structure of bivalve molluscs.

    J D Taylor;W J Kennedy

  • A cladistic phylogeny of the family Patellidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda)

    S. A. Ridgway;S. A. Ridgway;D. G. Reid;J. D. Taylor;G. M. Branch

  • MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY OF THE LUCINOIDEA (BIVALVIA): NON‐MONOPHYLY AND SEPARATE ACQUISITION OF BACTERIAL CHEMOSYMBIOSIS

    Suzanne T Williams;John D. Taylor;Emily A. Glover

  • Geomorphology of Aldabra Atoll

    D. R. Stoddart;J. D. Taylor;F. R. Fosberg;G. E. Farrow

  • Shell microstructure and mineralogy of the Littorinidae: ecological and evolutionary significance

    John D. Taylor;David G. Reid

  • Feeding habits of predatory gastropods in a Tertiary (Eocene) molluscan assemblage from the Paris Basin

    John D Taylor

Frequent Co-Authors

Suzanne T. Williams
Suzanne T. Williams Natural History Museum
Gonzalo Giribet
Gonzalo Giribet Harvard University
Elizabeth M. Harper
Elizabeth M. Harper University of Cambridge
William James Kennedy
William James Kennedy University of Oxford
Matthias Meyer
Matthias Meyer Max Planck Society
David R. Stoddart
David R. Stoddart University of California, Berkeley
Willem Renema
Willem Renema Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Christopher A. Richardson
Christopher A. Richardson Bangor University
Frank P. Wesselingh
Frank P. Wesselingh Naturalis Biodiversity Center
John D. Currey
John D. Currey University of York

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