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Tom L. Phillips 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 Tom L. Phillips sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 78 publications — 4th percentile

4% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Tom L. Phillips 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 Tom L. Phillips sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 38 D-Index — 12th percentile

12% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1999 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1975 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Tom L. Phillips is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research contributions primarily fall within the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, reflecting interdisciplinary interests that span Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Geochemistry and Petrology, Plant Science, Management Science and Operations Research, and Finance.

The scientist's recent publication record includes work on environmental deposition and demographic modeling. Notable recent papers include:

  • Environments of deposition-coal balls, cuticular shale, and gray-shale floras in Fountain and Parke Counties, Indiana (2022), published in IUScholarWorks (Indiana University)
  • A subsection of England and Wales EPC households, joined with PPD data, used for simulation modelling (2022), published in Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Their research topics encompass Lichen and fungal ecology, Mineralogy and Gemology Studies, Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies, demographic modeling and climate adaptation, as well as Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism.

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Donald L. Eggert
  • Ryan Jenkinson
  • Stephanie Chan
  • Daniel López García

Phillips's work appears in venues such as IUScholarWorks (Indiana University) and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), reflecting engagement with both traditional academic and open-access platforms.

Throughout their career, Tom L. Phillips has been recognized by professional organizations, including election as a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1999 and designation as a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1975.

Best Publications

  • Stratigraphic and interregional changes in Pennsylvanian coal-swamp vegetation: Environmental inferences

    Tom L. Phillips;Russel A. Peppers;William A. Dimichele

  • Changing patterns of Pennsylvanian coal-swamp vegetation and implications of climatic control on coal occurrence

    Tom L. Phillips;Russel A. Peppers

  • Paleobotanical and paleoecological constraints on models of peat formation in the Late Carboniferous of Euramerica

    William A. DiMichele;Tom L. Phillips

  • Comparative ecology and life-history biology of arborescent lycopsids in late carboniferous swamps of Euramerica

    Tom L Phillips;William A Dimichele

  • Reproduction of heterosporous arborescent lycopods in the Mississippian—Pennsylvanian of Euramerica

    Tom L Phillips

  • Fossil plants and coal: patterns of change in pennsylvanian coal swamps of the illinois basin.

    Tom L. Phillips;Russel A. Peppers;Matthew J. Avcin;Penelope F. Laughnan

  • Arborescent lycopod reproduction and paleoecology in a coal-swamp environment of late Middle Pennsylvanian age (herrin coal, Illinois, U.S.A.)

    William A Dimichele;William A Dimichele;Tom L Phillips;Tom L Phillips

  • Oribatid mites and the decomposition of plant tissues in Paleozoic coal-swamp forests

    Conrad C. Labandeira;Tom L. Phillips;Roy A. Norton

  • Evidence of non-vascular land plants from the early Silurian (Llandoverian) of Virginia, U.S.A.

    Lisa M. Pratt;Tom L. Phillips;John M. Dennison

  • Climate Change, Plant Extinctions, and Vegetational Recovery during the Middle-Late Pennsylvanian Transition: The Case of Tropical Peat-Forming Environments in North America

    William A. DiMichele;Tom L. Phillips

  • A Carboniferous insect gall: insight into early ecologic history of the Holometabola

    Conrad C. Labandeira;Tom L. Phillips

  • The ecology of Paleozoic ferns

    William A. DiMichele;Tom L. Phillips

  • Insect fluid-feeding on Upper Pennsylvanian tree ferns (Palaeodictyoptera, Marattiales) and the early history of the piercing-and-sucking functional feeding group

    Conrad C. Labandeira;Tom L. Phillips

  • Reinforcement and rate of litter depositing.

    Robert Kohlenberg;Thomas Phillips

  • Paleoecology of Late Paleozoic pteridosperms from tropical Euramerica1

    William A. DiMichele;Tom L. Phillips;Hermann W. Pfefferkorn

  • PALEOECOLOGY OF THE MIDDLE PENNSYLVANIAN-AGE HERRIN COAL SWAMP (ILLINOIS) NEAR A CONTEMPORANEOUS RIVER SYSTEM, THE WALSHVILLE PALEOCHANNEL

    William A. Dimichele;William A. Dimichele;Tom L. Phillips;Tom L. Phillips

  • Evolution of Vegetative Morphology in Coenopterid Ferns

    Tom L Phillips

  • Opportunistic evolution: Abiotic environmental stress and the fossil record of plants

    William A. DiMichele;Tom L. Phillips;Richard G. Olmstead

  • Clades, ecological amplitudes, and ecomorphs: phylogenetic effects and persistence of primitive plant communities in the Pennsylvanian-age tropical wetlands

    William A. DiMichele;Tom L. Phillips

  • Persistence of Late Carboniferous tropical vegetation during glacially driven climatic and sea-level fluctuations

    William A. DiMichele;Hermann W. Pfefferkorn;Tom L. Phillips

Frequent Co-Authors

William A. DiMichele
William A. DiMichele Smithsonian Institution
Karl J. Niklas
Karl J. Niklas Cornell University
Conrad C. Labandeira
Conrad C. Labandeira Smithsonian Institution
Robert A. Gastaldo
Robert A. Gastaldo Colby College
Howard J. Falcon-Lang
Howard J. Falcon-Lang Royal Holloway University of London
Cortland F. Eble
Cortland F. Eble University of Kentucky
Robert J. Kohlenberg
Robert J. Kohlenberg University of Washington
Debra A. Willard
Debra A. Willard United States Geological Survey
Philip E. LeBoit
Philip E. LeBoit University of California, San Francisco
Richard G. Olmstead
Richard G. Olmstead University of Washington

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