Alain Queffelec

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
59 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Alain Queffelec is a scholar working on Anthropology, Paleontology and Archeology. According to data from OpenAlex, Alain Queffelec has authored 59 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Anthropology, 26 papers in Paleontology and 21 papers in Archeology. Recurrent topics in Alain Queffelec's work include Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (30 papers), Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (20 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (18 papers). Alain Queffelec is often cited by papers focused on Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (30 papers), Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (20 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (18 papers). Alain Queffelec collaborates with scholars based in France, Norway and United States. Alain Queffelec's co-authors include Francesco d’Errico, Laure Dayet, Pascal Bertran, Marian Vanhaeren, Karen L. van Niekerk, Luca Pollarolo, Christopher S. Henshilwood, Francesco d’Errico, Marco Peresani and Jean‐Guillaume Bordes and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Alain Queffelec

52 papers receiving 1.0k citations

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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.

An abstract drawing from the 73,000-year-old levels at Blombos Cave, South Africa

2018 140 citations Francesco d’Errico, Laure Dayet et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alain Queffelec France	17	648	524	423	220	133	59	1.1k
Hope M. Williams United States	6	646 1.0×	549 1.0×	283 0.7×	235 1.1×	175 1.3×	7	937
Mark J. Sier Spain	15	689 1.1×	526 1.0×	349 0.8×	316 1.4×	47 0.4×	30	953
Раду Йовита Germany	22	1.1k 1.7×	917 1.8×	473 1.1×	226 1.0×	163 1.2×	53	1.5k
Gerd‐Christian Weniger Germany	20	1.1k 1.6×	915 1.7×	587 1.4×	508 2.3×	75 0.6×	71	1.6k
Jocelyn Bernatchez Australia	5	1.1k 1.7×	863 1.6×	429 1.0×	325 1.5×	330 2.5×	6	1.4k
Jean‐Michel Geneste France	22	1.2k 1.9×	955 1.8×	630 1.5×	237 1.1×	224 1.7×	65	1.6k
Jean Clottes France	23	735 1.1×	591 1.1×	437 1.0×	162 0.7×	353 2.7×	109	1.3k
Laure Dayet France	14	778 1.2×	629 1.2×	504 1.2×	77 0.3×	258 1.9×	22	1.1k
Diego E. Angelucci Italy	18	1.1k 1.7×	986 1.9×	736 1.7×	507 2.3×	70 0.5×	78	1.6k
David E. Friesem Israel	18	414 0.6×	530 1.0×	383 0.9×	144 0.7×	61 0.5×	48	849

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Galtier, Nicolas, Khalid Belkhir, Christophe Boëte, et al.. (2025). Time to publish responsibly: DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly journals in ecology and evolutionary biology. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 39(2). 190–199.

Claud, Émilie, et al.. (2025). Chapitre 15. Étude tracéologique des blocs de dolérite présentant des traces linéaires. Paléo. Hors-série. 365–377.

Bertran, Pascal, Isabelle Couchoud, Karine Charlier, et al.. (2023). Last Glacial Maximum cryogenic calcite deposits in an alluvial fan at Villetoureix, southwest France. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes. 34(2). 244–258. 1 indexed citations

Miallier, Didier, Sébastien Nomade, Hervé Guillou, et al.. (2023). New investigations about three young volcano-sedimentary systems of Velay-Vivarais (France) and co-evolution humans-volcanoes in the background. Quaternaire. vol. 34/2. 93–122. 1 indexed citations

d’Errico, Francesco, Serge David, Hélène Coqueugniot, et al.. (2023). A 36,200-year-old carving from Grotte des Gorges, Amange, Jura, France. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 12895–12895. 1 indexed citations

Rigaud, Solange, Alain Queffelec, François‐Xavier Le Bourdonnec, et al.. (2023). Exploring Hypotheses on Early Holocene Caspian Seafaring Through Personal Ornaments: A Study of Changing Styles and Symbols in Western Central Asia. Open Archaeology. 9(1). 3 indexed citations

Rigaud, Solange, E.P. Rybin, Arina M. Khatsenovich, et al.. (2023). Symbolic innovation at the onset of the Upper Paleolithic in Eurasia shown by the personal ornaments from Tolbor-21 (Mongolia). Scientific Reports. 13(1). 9545–9545. 5 indexed citations

Backwell, Lucinda, et al.. (2022). Technological and functional analysis of 80–60 ka bone wedges from Sibudu (KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa). Scientific Reports. 12(1). 16270–16270. 11 indexed citations

Luyer, Mona Le, Fabian Kanz, Katharina Rebay‐Salisbury, et al.. (2020). Methodological implications of intra- and inter-facet microwear texture variation for human childhood paleo-dietary reconstruction: Insights from the deciduous molars of extant and medieval children from France. Journal of Archaeological Science Reports. 31. 102284–102284. 8 indexed citations

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Kreutzer, Sebastian, Pascal Bertran, Jean‐Philippe Degeai, et al.. (2020). Chronostratigraphy of two Late Pleistocene loess-palaeosol sequences in the Rhône Valley (southeast France). Quaternary Science Reviews. 245. 106473–106473. 13 indexed citations

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Daujeard, Camille, Christophe Falguères, Qingfeng Shao, et al.. (2020). Earliest African evidence of carcass processing and consumption in cave at 700 ka, Casablanca, Morocco. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 4761–4761. 16 indexed citations

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Queffelec, Alain. (2020). Provenancing turquoise: a difficult task. ArchéoSciences. 44-1. 19–32. 3 indexed citations

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Li, Zhanyang, Luc Doyon, Hui Fang, et al.. (2020). A Paleolithic bird figurine from the Lingjing site, Henan, China. PLoS ONE. 15(6). e0233370–e0233370. 9 indexed citations

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Bertran, Pascal, et al.. (2018). Last Glacial aeolian landforms and deposits in the Rhône Valley (SE France): Spatial distribution and grain-size characterization. Geomorphology. 318. 250–269. 24 indexed citations

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Chapoulie, Rémy, Catherine Ferrier, Alain Queffelec, et al.. (2017). Photons and electrons for the study of a white veil covering some walls in prehistoric caves. ACTA IMEKO. 6(3). 82–82. 4 indexed citations

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d’Errico, Francesco, et al.. (2017). Patterns of change and continuity in ochre use during the late Middle Stone Age of the Horn of Africa: The Porc-Epic Cave record. PLoS ONE. 12(5). e0177298–e0177298. 40 indexed citations

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Laroulandie, Véronique, Sandrine Costamagno, Jean‐Baptiste Mallye, et al.. (2015). Recent Laborian of the Peyrazet cave-rock shelter (Creysse, Lot, France). New data for the end of Lateglacial in Quercy. Paléo. 26. 79–116. 5 indexed citations

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Langlais, Mathieu, Véronique Laroulandie, Sandrine Costamagno, et al.. (2015). Le Laborien récent de la grotte-abri de Peyrazet (Creysse, Lot, France). Nouvelles données pour la fin du Tardiglaciaire en Quercy. Paléo. 26. 79–116. 6 indexed citations

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Peresani, Marco, et al.. (2013). An Ochered Fossil Marine Shell From the Mousterian of Fumane Cave, Italy. PLoS ONE. 8(7). e68572–e68572. 90 indexed citations

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Raynal, Jean-Paul, David Lefèvre, Jean‐Pierre Texier, et al.. (2011). Contextes et âge des nouveaux restes dentaires humains du Pléistocène moyen de la carrière Thomas I à Casablanca (Maroc). Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française. 108(4). 645–669. 9 indexed citations

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