Adrian Timpson

2.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
24 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Adrian Timpson is a scholar working on Paleontology, Anthropology and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Adrian Timpson has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Paleontology, 12 papers in Anthropology and 8 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Adrian Timpson's work include Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (14 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (12 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (8 papers). Adrian Timpson is often cited by papers focused on Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (14 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (12 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (8 papers). Adrian Timpson collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Germany and Spain. Adrian Timpson's co-authors include Katie Manning, Mark Thomas, Stephen Shennan, Tim Kerig, Kevan Edinborough, Sue Colledge, Sean S. Downey, Enrico R. Crema, Wolfram Schier and Joachim Bürger and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Adrian Timpson

21 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Regional population collapse followed initial agriculture booms in mid-Holocene Europe

2013 522 citations Stephen Shennan, Sean S. Downey et al. Nature Communications profile →
Reconstructing regional population fluctuations in the European Neolithic using radiocarbon dates: a new case-study using an improved method

2014 267 citations Adrian Timpson, Sue Colledge et al. Journal of Archaeological Science profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Adrian Timpson	859	589	447	290	236	24	1.5k
Katie Manning	932 1.1×	687 1.2×	488 1.1×	313 1.1×	126 0.5×	28	1.5k
Detlef Gronenborn	806 0.9×	453 0.8×	191 0.4×	580 2.0×	455 1.9×	44	1.5k
Thomas Terberger	811 0.9×	718 1.2×	266 0.6×	604 2.1×	291 1.2×	65	1.4k
Susan D. deFrance	890 1.0×	455 0.8×	245 0.5×	212 0.7×	98 0.4×	50	1.4k
Lembi Lõugas	566 0.7×	314 0.5×	230 0.5×	344 1.2×	144 0.6×	55	1000
Andrew Fairbairn	1.0k 1.2×	608 1.0×	242 0.5×	533 1.8×	120 0.5×	68	1.6k
André Carlo Colonese	805 0.9×	454 0.8×	390 0.9×	458 1.6×	74 0.3×	75	1.6k
Johannes Müller	724 0.8×	366 0.6×	212 0.5×	375 1.3×	111 0.5×	114	1.1k
Marek Zvelebil	1.1k 1.2×	872 1.5×	234 0.5×	658 2.3×	263 1.1×	48	1.8k
Tim Kerig	820 1.0×	532 0.9×	357 0.8×	219 0.8×	98 0.4×	24	1.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Adrian Timpson

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Adrian Timpson. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Adrian Timpson based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Adrian Timpson. Adrian Timpson is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Thomas, Mark, et al.. (2025). Comparison of simulated and proxy-based climate reconstructions for Mid-Holocene Europe reveals high uncertainty. The Holocene. 35(12). 1311–1320.

Crema, Enrico R., et al.. (2025). Demographic interactions between the last hunter-gatherers and the first farmers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(14). e2416221122–e2416221122. 1 indexed citations

O’Neill, H. J., et al.. (2023). P-462 The current status of female reproductive health and preconception behaviour in the UK: cross-sectional data from over 135,145 Hertility users. Human Reproduction. 38(Supplement_1).

Brace, Selina, Yoan Diekmann, Thomas Booth, et al.. (2022). Genomes from a medieval mass burial show Ashkenazi-associated hereditary diseases pre-date the 12th century. Current Biology. 32(20). 4350–4359.e6. 2 indexed citations

Timpson, Adrian, Ramiro Barberena, Mark Thomas, César Méndez, & Katie Manning. (2020). Directly modelling population dynamics in the South American Arid Diagonal using ¹⁴ C dates. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 376(1816). 20190723–20190723. 36 indexed citations

Llano, Carina, María Eugenia de Porras, Ramiro Barberena, et al.. (2020). Human resilience to Holocene climate changes inferred from rodent middens in drylands of northwestern Patagonia (Argentina). Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 557. 109894–109894. 19 indexed citations

Phelps, Leanne N., Olivier Broennimann, Katie Manning, et al.. (2019). Reconstructing the climatic niche breadth of land use for animal production during the African Holocene. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 29(1). 127–147. 15 indexed citations

Kennett, Debbie, Adrian Timpson, David J. Balding, & Mark Thomas. (2018). The Rise and Fall of BritainsDNA: A Tale of Misleading Claims, Media Manipulation and Threats to Academic Freedom. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(4). 47–47. 3 indexed citations

Timpson, Adrian, et al.. (2018). Reduced intensity of bone fat exploitation correlates with increased potential access to dairy fats in early Neolithic Europe. Journal of Archaeological Science. 94. 60–69. 7 indexed citations

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Moros, Matthias, Thomas Neumann, Stephen Shennan, et al.. (2017). Climate induced human demographic and cultural change in northern Europe during the mid-Holocene. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 15251–15251. 73 indexed citations

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Turvey, Samuel T., Selina Brace, Richard P. Young, et al.. (2016). Independent evolutionary histories in allopatric populations of a threatened Caribbean land mammal. Diversity and Distributions. 22(5). 589–602. 18 indexed citations

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Manning, Katie, Adrian Timpson, Stephen Shennan, & Enrico R. Crema. (2015). Size Reduction in Early European Domestic Cattle Relates to Intensification of Neolithic Herding Strategies. PLoS ONE. 10(12). e0141873–e0141873. 38 indexed citations

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Timpson, Adrian, Katie Manning, & Stephen Shennan. (2015). Inferential mistakes in population proxies: A response to Torfing's “Neolithic population and summed probability distribution of 14C-dates”. Journal of Archaeological Science. 63. 199–202. 42 indexed citations

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Manning, Katie & Adrian Timpson. (2014). The demographic response to Holocene climate change in the Sahara. Quaternary Science Reviews. 101. 28–35. 151 indexed citations

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Timpson, Adrian, Sue Colledge, Enrico R. Crema, et al.. (2014). Reconstructing regional population fluctuations in the European Neolithic using radiocarbon dates: a new case-study using an improved method. Journal of Archaeological Science. 52. 549–557. 267 indexed citations breakdown →

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Timpson, Adrian, Jamie Toombs, Cécile Lecœur, et al.. (2014). Direct Estimates of Natural Selection in Iberia Indicate Calcium Absorption Was Not the Only Driver of Lactase Persistence in Europe. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 31(4). 975–983. 40 indexed citations

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Wilde, Sandra, Adrian Timpson, Karola Kirsanow, et al.. (2014). Direct evidence for positive selection of skin, hair, and eye pigmentation in Europeans during the last 5,000 y. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(13). 4832–4837. 161 indexed citations

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Manning, Katie, Adrian Timpson, Sue Colledge, et al.. (2014). The chronology of culture: a comparative assessment of European Neolithic dating approaches. Antiquity. 88(342). 1065–1080. 30 indexed citations

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Shennan, Stephen, Sean S. Downey, Adrian Timpson, et al.. (2013). Regional population collapse followed initial agriculture booms in mid-Holocene Europe. Nature Communications. 4(1). 2486–2486. 522 indexed citations breakdown →

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Pinhasi, Ron, Adrian Timpson, Mark Thomas, & Mario Šlaus. (2013). Bone growth, limb proportions and non-specific stress in archaeological populations from Croatia. Annals of Human Biology. 41(2). 127–137. 22 indexed citations

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