All peer reviewed articles are Open Access (free to read, re-use, and share). Where applicable, the raw/treated data and code are also freely available, and I’m happy to provide additional resources or details upon request. For articles in review/prep or in press, message me, and I’ll be happy to send along the most up-to-date version in advance (although they are usually made available below). My PhD thesis is also freely available on Figshare here.
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Published papers
Tennant, J. P. et al. (2019) Ten hot topics around scholarly publishing (DOI, preprint)
Tennant, J. P. and Lomax, D. (accepted) How ‘open’ are paleontology journals? (email for copy, journal submitted to prohibits preprints)
Besançon, L., Rönnberg, N., Löwgren, J., Tennant, J. P., and Cooper, M. (in review) Open Up: A Survey on Open and Non-anonymized Peer Reviewing (preprint, URL)
Tennant, J. P. et al. (2019) Boon, bias or bane? The potential influence of reviewer recommendations on editorial decision-making (DOI)
Tennant, J. P. et al. (2019) Foundations for Open Scholarship Strategy Development (Version 2) (DOI)
Tennant, J. P. and Farke, A. (2019) Open Science and dinosaur paleontology, (DOI) (submitted as a book chapter)
Illingworth, S., Stewart, I., Tennant, J. and von Elverfeldt, K. (2018) Geoscience Communication – Building bridges, not walls (DOI)
Tennant, J. P. (2018) The state of the art in peer review, (DOI) (preprint)
Tennant, J. P. Chiarenza, A. A. and Baron, M. (2018) How has our knowledge of dinosaur diversity through geologic time changed through research history? (DOI) (preprint, postprint) (blog post, CNET)
Tennant, J. P. et al. (2017) A multi-disciplinary perspective on emergent and future innovations in peer review [version 3; referees: 2 approved] (DOI) (Overleaf link; link). (LSE Impact Blog) (PDF)
Tennant, J. P. (2017) The dark side of peer review (DOI) (PDF)
Yi, H., Tennant, J. P., Young, M. T., Challands, T. J., Foffa, D., Hudson, J. D., Ross, D. A. and Brusatte, S. L. (2017) An unusual small-bodied crocodyliform from the Middle Jurassic of Scotland, UK, and potential evidence for an early diversification of advanced neosuchians (DOI) (preprint, corrected proofs)
Tennant, J. P., Mannion, P. D., Upchurch, P. U. (2016) Sea level regulated tetrapod diversity dynamics through the Jurassic/Cretaceous interval (DOI) (blog coverage)
Tennant, J. P., Mannion, P. D., Upchurch, P. U. (2016) Evolutionary relationships and systematics of Atoposauridae (Crocodylomorpha: Neosuchia): implications for the rise of Eusuchia (DOI)
Tennant, J. P., François Waldner, Damien C. Jacques, Paola Masuzzo, Lauren B. Collister, Chris. H. J. Hartgerink (2016) The academic, economic and societal impacts of Open Access: an evidence-based review (DOI) (blog post)
Tennant, J. P., Mannion, P. D., Upchurch, P. U. (2016) Environmental drivers of crocodyliform extinction across the Jurassic/Cretaceous boundary (DOI) (press release, IFLS).
Tennant, J. P., Mannion, P. D., Upchurch, P. U., Sutton, M. and Price, G. (2016) Biotic and environmental dynamics across the Jurassic/Cretaceous boundary: evidence for a protracted period of faunal and ecological turnover (DOI) (blog post).
Mannion, P. D., Benson, R. B. J., Carrano, M. T., Tennant, J. P., Judd, J. Butler, R. J. (2015) Climate constrains the evolutionary history and biodiversity of crocodylians (DOI) (Forbes, The Mirror, TakePart).
Young, M. T., Tennant, J. P., Brusatte, S. (2016) The first definitive Middle Jurassic atoposaurid (Crocodylomorpha, Neosuchia), and a discussion on the genus Theriosuchus (DOI) (Forbes) (blog post).
Martone, M., Murray-Rust, P., Molloy, J., Arrow, T., MacGillivray, M., Kittel, C., Kasberger, S., Steel, G., Oppenheim, C., Ranganathan, A. and Tennant, J. P., 2016. ContentMine/Hypothes. is Proposal (DOI) (press coverage).
Tennant, J. P. and Mannion, P. D. (2014) Revision of the Late Jurassic crocodyliform Alligatorellus, and evidence for allopatric speciation driving high diversity in western European atoposaurids (DOI) (National Geographic, European Geosciences Union).
Young, M. T., Steel, L., Foffa, D., Price, T., Naish, D., and Tennant, J. P. (2014) Marine tethysuchian crocodyliform from the ?Aptian-Albian (Early Cretaceous) of the Isle of Wight, England (DOI) (freely archived version).
Tennant, J. P. and MacLeod, N. (2014) Snout shape in extant ruminants (DOI) (Discover Magazine).
Papers in preparation
Tennant, J. P. and Ross-Hellauer, T. (in prep) Mapping the limitations, uncertainties, and tacit assumptions in our understanding of peer review.
Tennant, J. P. et al. (in prep) Ten simple rules for researchers collaborating on Massively Open Online Papers (MOOPs).
Tennant, J. P. et al. (in prep) New insights into the intersections between Open Source and Open Scholarship. Google Doc.
Ross-Hellauer, T. et al. (in prep) 10 Steps to Innovative Dissemination of Research.
Tennant, J. P. (in prep) Geological constraints on Mesozoic archosaur diversity. [Project currently on hold]
Tennant, J. P. (in prep) Sampling in the fossil record (Overleaf link, read only). [Project currently on hold]
Maidment, S. C. R., Dean, C. D. and Tennant, J. P. (in prep) Estimating dinosaur diversity in deep time: which methods best account for biases in the fossil record?
For other ongoing work, please check out the Meta-Paleo project here.
Preprints
Tennant, J. P. and Farke, A. (2019) Open Science and dinosaur paleontology, paleorXiv, 10.31233/osf.io/wzfpb.
Tennant, J. P. et al. (2018) The evolving preprint landscape: Introductory report for the Knowledge Exchange working group on preprints, BITSS, 10.17605/OSF.IO/796TU.
Tennant, J. P. (2018) The state of the art in peer review, SocArXiv, 10.17605/OSF.IO/C29TM.
Tennant, J. P., Chiarenza, A. A. and Baron, M. (2017) How has our knowledge of dinosaur diversity through geologic time changed through research history? paleorXiv, 10.17605/OSF.IO/YAB83.
Tennant, J. P. et al. (2014) Open letter to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, The Winnower, DOI: 10.15200/winn.140813.35294 (coverage: The Conversation, New Statesman, The Scientist, Times Higher Education).
McKiernan, E. C. et al. (2014) Open letter to the Society for Neuroscience, The Winnower, DOI:10.15200/winn.140865.54468.
McKiernan, E. C. and Tennant, J. P. (2014) AAAS misses opportunity to advance open access, The Winnower, DOI: 10.15200/winn.140984.44268.
Tennant, J. P. (2013) Osteology of a Near-Complete Skeleton of Tenontosaurus tilletti (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the Cloverly Formation, Montana, USA, arXiv, arXiv:1304.2616 [q-bio.PE].
Tennant, J. P. and MacLeod, N. (2013) Geometric morphometric analysis of snout shape in extant ruminants (Ungulata, Artiodactyla), PeerJ PrePrints, 1:e176v1. (link).
Published abstracts
Tennant, J. P. and MacLeod, N. (2011) A Geometric Morphometric Analysis of Ruminant (Ungulata: Artiodactyla) and Ornithopod (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) Snouts: Comparative and Functional Ecomorphology, Young Systematists Forum Abstract Booklet, 21A. (link) (poster).
Tennant, J. P. and MacLeod, N. (2013) Getting geometric with ruminant rostra, Progressive Palaeontology Abstract Booklet, 18A. (link) (presentation).
Tennant, J. P. and MacLeod, N. (2013) Comparative ecomorphology of ornithopod and ruminant snouts – a geometric morphometric approach, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, 224A. (link) (poster).
Tennant, J. P. and Mannion. P. D. (2014) Evolutionary relationships of atoposaurid crocodylomorphs, and evidence for allopatric speciation driving their high diversity in the Late Jurassic of western Europe, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Abstracts Booklet, 239A. (link) (published online).
Mannion, P., Judd, J., Butler, R., Benson, R., Carrano, M., Tennant, J. P., Upchurch, P. and Pol, D. (2014) Climate drives spatiotemporal patterns in crocodylomorph diversity, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Abstract Booklet, 177A. (link).
Tennant, J. P. and Mannion. P. D. (2014) Evolutionary relationships of atoposaurid crocodylomorphs, and evidence for allopatric speciation driving their high diversity in the Late Jurassic of western Europe, International Palaeontology Congress Abstracts Booklet, 820A. (link).
Tennant, J. P. (2015) Environmental drivers of crocodyliform extinction and diversity, Progressive Palaeontology Abstract Booklet, 22A. (link).
Tennant, J. P., Mannion, P. D. and Upchurch, P. (2016) A hidden extinction in tetrapods at the Jurassic/Cretaceous boundary? Progressive Palaeontology Abstract Booklet, 26A. (link)
Tennant, J. P. (2016) A hidden extinction in tetrapods at the Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Abstracts Booklet, 235A. (link).
Yi, H., Young, M., Tennant, J. P., Hudson, J., Brusatte, S. An enigmtic crocodyliform from the Middle Jurassic of Scotland, UK, and its implications for the evolutionary transition from small-boduied neosuchians to Eusuchia, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Abstracts Booklet, 255A. (link).
Mannion, P. D., Chiarenza, A. A., Godoy, P. L., Tennant, J. P., Cheah, Y. N. The quality of the 230 million year fossil record of terrestrial crocodylomorphs and its impact on diversity, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Abstracts Booklet, 158A (link)
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