A. Mark Pollard

3.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
90 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

A. Mark Pollard is a scholar working on Paleontology, Archeology and Anthropology. According to data from OpenAlex, A. Mark Pollard has authored 90 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 49 papers in Paleontology, 41 papers in Archeology and 24 papers in Anthropology. Recurrent topics in A. Mark Pollard's work include Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (48 papers), Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis (28 papers) and Building materials and conservation (13 papers). A. Mark Pollard is often cited by papers focused on Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (48 papers), Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis (28 papers) and Building materials and conservation (13 papers). A. Mark Pollard collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, China and South Africa. A. Mark Pollard's co-authors include Peter Bray, Ruiliang Liu, Simon Blockley, Jessica Rawson, B. Stern, S. M. M. Young, C. M Batt, J. John Lowe, Julia A. Lee‐Thorp and Maura Pellegrini and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

A. Mark Pollard

83 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

Analytical Chemistry in Archaeology 2007 2026 2013 2019 2007 50 100 150 200
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Analytical Chemistry in Archaeology
    2007 209 citations A. Mark Pollard et al. Cambridge University Press eBooks profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
A. Mark Pollard United Kingdom 27 1.1k 901 587 555 342 90 2.3k
Robert J. Speakman United States 27 1.2k 1.0× 1.2k 1.3× 524 0.9× 179 0.3× 201 0.6× 97 2.5k
Sturt W. Manning United States 30 1.8k 1.6× 1.3k 1.5× 529 0.9× 1.2k 2.2× 117 0.3× 127 3.1k
Héctor Neff United States 37 2.7k 2.4× 1.7k 1.9× 1.1k 2.0× 305 0.5× 419 1.2× 151 3.8k
Linda Manzanilla Mexico 24 922 0.8× 457 0.5× 395 0.7× 132 0.2× 151 0.4× 99 1.6k
Jaime J. Awe United States 22 1.3k 1.1× 346 0.4× 535 0.9× 478 0.9× 138 0.4× 102 2.1k
Ehud Galili Israel 29 989 0.9× 2.0k 2.2× 340 0.6× 672 1.2× 143 0.4× 129 3.1k
Keith M. Prufer United States 24 1000 0.9× 214 0.2× 409 0.7× 842 1.5× 132 0.4× 53 2.0k
Alex Bayliss United Kingdom 26 2.2k 1.9× 989 1.1× 1.3k 2.3× 996 1.8× 225 0.7× 106 3.4k
Fekri A. Hassan United Kingdom 26 947 0.8× 748 0.8× 671 1.1× 659 1.2× 118 0.3× 84 2.2k
Christopher M. Stevenson United States 24 802 0.7× 341 0.4× 369 0.6× 345 0.6× 105 0.3× 81 1.5k

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Fields of papers citing papers by A. Mark Pollard

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of A. Mark Pollard

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Pollard, A. Mark, et al.. (2025). Investigation of the recycling of Han Chinese bronze mirrors into Japanese imitation mirrors. Archaeometry. 67(4). 937–949.
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Wang, Xiang, Ruiliang Liu, Jun Gao, et al.. (2024). Reconstructing the trade history: provenance study of Han bronze mirrors in and out of Han China. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 16(7). 2 indexed citations
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Pollard, A. Mark, et al.. (2023). Bronze alloying recipes at Anyang during the Shang Dynasty. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 15(10). 4 indexed citations
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Qiu, Menghan, Ruiliang Liu, Xingyuan Li, et al.. (2023). Earliest systematic coal exploitation for fuel extended to ~3600 B.P.. Science Advances. 9(30). eadh0549–eadh0549. 12 indexed citations
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Pollard, A. Mark & Chris Gosden. (2023). An Archaeological Perspective on the History of Technology. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 7 indexed citations
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Pollard, A. Mark & Ruiliang Liu. (2023). Predicting bronze casting recipes in ancient China: ternary copper-lead–tin alloys and the “unit sum problem”. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 15(5). 3 indexed citations
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Pollard, A. Mark, et al.. (2022). The archaeological and scientific analysis of blue‐decorated ceramics in the Tang and Song dynasties. Archaeometry. 64(6). 1394–1410. 3 indexed citations
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Liu, Ruiliang, et al.. (2020). Global circulation of silver between Ming–Qing China and the Americas: Combining historical texts and scientific analyses. Archaeometry. 63(3). 627–640. 4 indexed citations
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Zhang, Chi, et al.. (2019). China's major Late Neolithic centres and the rise of Erlitou. Antiquity. 93(369). 588–603. 36 indexed citations
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Liu, Ruiliang, et al.. (2017). Revisiting lead isotope data in Shang and Western Zhou bronzes. Antiquity. 91(360). 1574–1587. 54 indexed citations
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Pollard, A. Mark, et al.. (2017). Bronze Age metal circulation in China. Antiquity. 91(357). 674–687. 43 indexed citations
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Bray, Peter, et al.. (2016). Tracing the flows of copper and copper alloys in the Early Iron Age societies of the eastern Eurasian steppe. Antiquity. 90(350). 357–375. 31 indexed citations
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Pollard, A. Mark, Peter Bray, Chris Gosden, Andrew Wilson, & Helena Hamerow. (2015). Characterising copper-based metals in Britain in the first millennium AD: a preliminary quantification of metal flow and recycling. Antiquity. 89(345). 697–713. 54 indexed citations
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Pollard, A. Mark, Maura Pellegrini, & Julia A. Lee‐Thorp. (2011). Technical note: Some observations on the conversion of dental enamel δ18op values to δ18ow to determine human mobility. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 145(3). 499–504. 124 indexed citations
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Pollard, A. Mark. (2009). Measuring the Passage of Time: Achievements and Challenges in Archaeological Dating. Oxford University Press eBooks. 1 indexed citations
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Boulic, Mikael, Robyn Phipps, Donald J. Cleland, et al.. (2008). Cold Homes in New Zealand - Does Increasing the Heater Capacity Improve Indoor Temperatures?. 42(3). 22. 2 indexed citations
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Blockley, Simon, et al.. (2006). The chronology of abrupt climate change and Late Upper Palaeolithic human adaptation in Europe. Journal of Quaternary Science. 21(5). 575–584. 36 indexed citations
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Wilson, A. S., et al.. (2006). Modelling the buried human body environment in upland climes using three contrasting field sites. Forensic Science International. 169(1). 6–18. 108 indexed citations
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Edwards, Howell G. M., et al.. (2002). Fourier transform‐Raman spectroscopic study of natural resins of archaeological interest. Biopolymers. 67(2). 129–141. 56 indexed citations
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Cook, Peter R., et al.. (1999). ATH volume 94 Cover and Front matter. The Annual of the British School at Athens. 94. f1–f8. 1 indexed citations

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