Most cited papers in Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
What are the most cited papers in Archaeology and ancient environmental studies?
The most cited paper in Archaeology and ancient environmental studies is "IntCal13 and Marine13 Radiocarbon Age Calibration Curves 0–50,000 Years cal BP" (Paula J Reimer et al., 2010), with 10,058 citations. Next come "Bayesian Analysis of Radiocarbon Dates" (8,832) and "The IntCal20 Northern Hemisphere Radiocarbon Age Calibration Curve (0–55 cal kBP)" (7,945).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 891 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | IntCal13 and Marine13 Radiocarbon Age Calibration Curves 0–50,000 Years cal BP Paula J Reimer et al. · Radiocarbon | 2010 | 10,058 |
| 2 | Bayesian Analysis of Radiocarbon Dates Christopher Bronk Ramsey · Radiocarbon | 2009 | 8,832 |
| 3 | The IntCal20 Northern Hemisphere Radiocarbon Age Calibration Curve (0–55 cal kBP) Paula J. Reimer et al. · Radiocarbon | Aug 2020 | 7,945 |
| 4 | Extended 14C Data Base and Revised CALIB 3.0 14C Age Calibration Program Minze Stuiver, Paula J. Reimer · Radiocarbon | 1993 | 7,851 |
| 5 | The genetic legacy of the Quaternary ice ages Godfrey M. Hewitt · Nature | 22 Jun 2000 | 7,354 |
| 6 | Influence of diet on the distribution of nitrogen isotopes in animals Michael J. DeNiro, Samuel Abraham Epstein · Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta | Mar 1981 | 6,154 |
| 7 | STABLE ISOTOPES IN ECOSYSTEM STUDIES Bruce J. Peterson, Brian Fry · Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics | Nov 1987 | 5,411 |
| 8 | INTCAL98 Radiocarbon Age Calibration, 24,000–0 cal BP Minze Stuiver, Paula J. Reimer, Édouard Bard et al. · Radiocarbon | 1998 | 4,478 |
| 9 | IntCal09 and Marine09 Radiocarbon Age Calibration Curves, 0–50,000 Years cal BP Paula J. Reimer et al. · Radiocarbon | 2009 | 4,333 |
| 10 | Age Dating and the Orbital Theory of the Ice Ages: Development of a High-Resolution 0 to 300,000-Year Chronostratigraphy Douglas G. Martinson, Nicklas G. Pisias, James D Hays et al. · Quaternary Research | 1987 | 3,336 |
| 11 | Ancient Admixture in Human History Nick Patterson, Priya Moorjani, Yontao Luo et al. · Genetics | 8 Sep 2012 | 3,251 |
| 12 | Ecology: Individuals, Populations and Communities. Steward T. A. Pickett, Walter P. Carson, Michael E. Begon et al. · Brittonia | Jul 1987 | 3,176 |
| 13 | The temporality of the landscape Tim Ingold · World Archaeology | Oct 1993 | 2,759 |
| 14 | Orbital and Millennial Antarctic Climate Variability over the Past 800,000 Years Jean-Noël Jouzel et al. · Science | 5 Jul 2007 | 2,743 |
| 15 | U-Th-Pb Geochronology by Ion Microprobe Ian S. Williams | 1997 | 2,680 |
| 16 | The Holocene Asian Monsoon: Links to Solar Changes and North Atlantic Climate Yongjin Wang, Hai Cheng, Richard Lawrence Edwards et al. · Science | 5 May 2005 | 2,651 |
| 17 | Willow Smoke and Dogs’ Tails: Hunter-Gatherer Settlement Systems and Archaeological Site Formation Lewis R. Binford · American Antiquity | 1980 | 2,646 |
| 18 | Holocene climate variability Paul A. Mayewski, Eelco E. Rohling, Jay Curt Stager et al. · Quaternary Research | 21 Oct 2004 | 2,636 |
| 19 | OPTICAL DATING OF SINGLE AND MULTIPLE GRAINS OF QUARTZ FROM JINMIUM ROCK SHELTER, NORTHERN AUSTRALIA: PART I, EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN AND STATISTICAL MODELS* R. F. Galbraith, Richard G. Roberts, G.M. Laslett et al. · Archaeometry | Aug 1999 | 2,522 |
| 20 | Radiocarbon Calibration and Analysis of Stratigraphy: The OxCal Program Christopher Bronk Ramsey · Radiocarbon | 1995 | 2,444 |
| 21 | Postmortem preservation and alteration of in vivo bone collagen isotope ratios in relation to palaeodietary reconstruction Michael J. DeNiro · Nature | Oct 1985 | 2,443 |
| 22 | Methods and code for ‘classical’ age-modelling of radiocarbon sequences Maarten Blaauw · Quaternary Geochronology | 9 Feb 2010 | 2,238 |
| 23 | A High-Coverage Genome Sequence from an Archaic Denisovan Individual Matthias Meyer et al. · Science | Sep 2012 | 2,157 |
| 24 | Massive migration from the steppe was a source for Indo-European languages in Europe Wolfgang Haak et al. · Nature | 2 Mar 2015 | 2,077 |
| 25 | Nitrogen and carbon isotopic composition of bone collagen from marine and terrestrial animals Margaret J. Schoeninger, Michael J. DeNiro · Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta | Apr 1984 | 2,052 |
| 26 | Ancient DNA and the rewriting of human history: be sparing with Occam’s razor Marc Haber, Massimo Mezzavilla, Yali Xue et al. · Genome biology | 11 Jan 2016 | 2,034 |
| 27 | Development of the Radiocarbon Calibration Program Christopher Bronk Ramsey · Radiocarbon | 2001 | 2,033 |
| 28 | Marine20—The Marine Radiocarbon Age Calibration Curve (0–55,000 cal BP) Timothy Heaton, Peter Köhler, Martin Butzin et al. · Radiocarbon | Aug 2020 | 2,012 |
| 29 | A Reconstruction of Regional and Global Temperature for the Past 11,300 Years Shaun A. Marcott, Jeremy D. Shakun, Peter U. Clark et al. · Science | 7 Mar 2013 | 1,991 |
| 30 | A review of quartz optically stimulated luminescence characteristics and their relevance in single-aliquot regeneration dating protocols ANN G. WINTLE, Andrew Sean Murray · Radiation Measurements | 19 Dec 2005 | 1,911 |
| 31 | Holocene climatic instability: A prominent, widespread event 8200 yr ago Richard B. Alley, Paul A. Mayewski, Todd Sowers et al. · Geology | 1997 | 1,911 |
| 32 | Preparation and characterization of bone and tooth collagen for isotopic analysis Stanley H. Ambrose · Journal of Archaeological Science | Jul 1990 | 1,873 |
| 33 | SHCal13 Southern Hemisphere Calibration, 0–50,000 Years cal BP Alan G. Hogg, Quan Hua, Paul G. Blackwell et al. · Radiocarbon | 2013 | 1,867 |
| 34 | New Method of Collagen Extraction for Radiocarbon Dating R. Longin · Nature | Mar 1971 | 1,854 |
| 35 | Deposition models for chronological records Christopher Bronk Ramsey · Quaternary Science Reviews | 2008 | 1,848 |
| 36 | Intercalibration of standards, absolute ages and uncertainties in 40Ar/39Ar dating Paul Randall Renne, Carl C. Swisher, Alan L. Deino et al. · Chemical Geology | Mar 1998 | 1,791 |
| 37 | Bone Collagen Quality Indicators for Palaeodietary and Radiocarbon Measurements G. J. VAN KLINKEN · Journal of Archaeological Science | Jun 1999 | 1,717 |
| 38 | An alternative astronomical calibration of the lower Pleistocene timescale based on ODP Site 677 Nicholas John Shackleton, Alfons Berger, W. R. Peltier · Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh | 1990 | 1,636 |
| 39 | Ectocranial suture closure: A revised method for the determination of skeletal age at death based on the lateral‐anterior sutures Richard S. Meindl, C. Owen Lovejoy · American Journal of Physical Anthropology | Sep 1985 | 1,576 |
| 40 | SHCal20 Southern Hemisphere Calibration, 0–55,000 Years cal BP Alan G. Hogg, Timothy Heaton, Quan Hua et al. · Radiocarbon | Aug 2020 | 1,530 |
| 41 | Archaeology as Anthropology Lewis R. Binford · American Antiquity | Oct 1962 | 1,495 |
| 42 | Recent and Planned Developments of the Program OxCal Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Sharen Lee · Radiocarbon | 2013 | 1,485 |
| 43 | The Pristine Myth: The Landscape of the Americas in 1492 William M. Denevan · Annals of the Association of American Geographers | Sep 1992 | 1,468 |
| 44 | Experimental Evidence for the Relationship of the Carbon Isotope Ratios of Whole Diet and Dietary Protein to Those of Bone Collagen and Carbonate Stanley H. Ambrose, Lynette Norr | 1993 | 1,449 |
| 45 | PhyloBayes 3: a Bayesian software package for phylogenetic reconstruction and molecular dating Nicolas Lartillot, Thomas Lepage, Samuel Blanquart · Bioinformatics | 17 Jun 2009 | 1,376 |
| 46 | Optical dating of sediments David J. Huntley, Dorothy I. Godfrey-Smith, Mike L. W. Thewalt · Nature | 1985 | 1,375 |
| 47 | The HYDE 3.1 spatially explicit database of human‐induced global land‐use change over the past 12,000 years Kees Klein Goldewijk, Arthur H. W. Beusen, Gerard Van Drecht et al. · Global Ecology and Biogeography | 11 Sep 2010 | 1,352 |
| 48 | Calibration of the 14C timescale over the past 30,000 years using mass spectrometric U–Th ages from Barbados corals Édouard Bard, Bruno Hamelin, Richard G. Fairbanks et al. · Nature | May 1990 | 1,336 |
| 49 | Strontium Isotopes from the Earth to the Archaeological Skeleton: A Review R. Alexander Bentley · Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory | 28 Jul 2006 | 1,311 |
| 50 | A History of Archaeological Thought. By Bruce G. Trigger. David B. Small · American Journal of Archaeology | 1992 | 1,297 |
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