Alison Locker

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
17 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Alison Locker is a scholar working on Paleontology, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Alison Locker has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Paleontology, 6 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 5 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Alison Locker's work include Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (7 papers), Fish Ecology and Management Studies (6 papers) and Isotope Analysis in Ecology (3 papers). Alison Locker is often cited by papers focused on Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (7 papers), Fish Ecology and Management Studies (6 papers) and Isotope Analysis in Ecology (3 papers). Alison Locker collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Andorra and Sweden. Alison Locker's co-authors include James H. Barrett, John F. Grienenberger, Arietta Slade, Callum M. Roberts, David Orton, D. Heinrich, Wim Van Neer, Anton Ervynck, James Morris and Andrew K.G. Jones and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Quaternary Science Reviews and Journal of Archaeological Science.

In The Last Decade

Alison Locker

17 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

Maternal reflective functioning, attachment, and the tran... 2005 2026 2012 2019 2005 100 200 300 400 500
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. Maternal reflective functioning, attachment, and the transmission gap: A preliminary study
    2005 533 citations Arietta Slade, John F. Grienenberger et al. Attachment & Human Development profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alison Locker United Kingdom 11 462 368 342 315 190 17 1.2k
Darna L. Dufour United States 26 64 0.1× 78 0.2× 227 0.7× 410 1.3× 110 0.6× 74 2.1k
William A. Stini United States 16 83 0.2× 102 0.3× 115 0.3× 214 0.7× 172 0.9× 29 1.4k
Nicholas Blurton Jones United States 9 100 0.2× 312 0.8× 208 0.6× 430 1.4× 192 1.0× 11 1.4k
John W. Fox United States 17 71 0.2× 704 1.9× 103 0.3× 105 0.3× 120 0.6× 45 1.5k
Linda Perez United States 8 115 0.2× 243 0.7× 179 0.5× 175 0.6× 66 0.3× 16 606
Roberta L. Hall United States 18 80 0.2× 121 0.3× 147 0.4× 112 0.4× 132 0.7× 46 957
Deborah A. Bolnick United States 24 20 0.0× 359 1.0× 136 0.4× 95 0.3× 335 1.8× 44 1.7k
Oskar Bürger United States 16 34 0.1× 134 0.4× 128 0.4× 253 0.8× 52 0.3× 35 1.1k
Claudia Valeggia United States 23 100 0.2× 30 0.1× 123 0.4× 490 1.6× 44 0.2× 75 1.9k
Mark Dyble United Kingdom 20 55 0.1× 62 0.2× 137 0.4× 395 1.3× 41 0.2× 45 1.4k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alison Locker

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alison Locker

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All Works

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Locker, Alison. (2019). Freshwater Fish in England. Oxbow Books. 3 indexed citations
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Ervynck, Anton, et al.. (2016). The Holocene occurrence of Acipenser spp. in the southern North Sea: the archaeological record. Journal of Fish Biology. 89(4). 1958–1973. 13 indexed citations
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Locker, Alison. (2014). The social history of coarse angling in England AD 1750–1950. Anthropozoologica. 49(1). 99–107. 8 indexed citations
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Orton, David, James Morris, Alison Locker, & James H. Barrett. (2014). Fish for the city: meta-analysis of archaeological cod remains and the growth of London's northern trade. Antiquity. 88(340). 516–530. 52 indexed citations
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Barrett, James H., David Orton, Cluny Johnstone, et al.. (2011). Interpreting the expansion of sea fishing in medieval Europe using stable isotope analysis of archaeological cod bones. Journal of Archaeological Science. 38(7). 1516–1524. 142 indexed citations
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Albarella, Umberto, et al.. (2009). Norwich Castle: Excavations and Historical Survey 1987-98. Part III A Zooarchaeological Study. 8 indexed citations
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Kettle, Anthony J., D. Heinrich, James H. Barrett, Norbert Benecke, & Alison Locker. (2008). Past distributions of the European freshwater eel from archaeological and palaeontological evidence. Quaternary Science Reviews. 27(13-14). 1309–1334. 30 indexed citations
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Locker, Alison. (2007). In piscibus diversis; the Bone Evidence for Fish Consumption in Roman Britain. Britannia. 38. 141–180. 37 indexed citations
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Barrett, James H., Cluny Johnstone, Jennifer Harland, et al.. (2007). Detecting the medieval cod trade: a new method and first results. Journal of Archaeological Science. 35(4). 850–861. 92 indexed citations
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Slade, Arietta, et al.. (2005). Maternal reflective functioning, attachment, and the transmission gap: A preliminary study. Attachment & Human Development. 7(3). 283–298. 533 indexed citations breakdown →
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Barrett, James H., Alison Locker, & Callum M. Roberts. (2004). The origins of intensive marine fishing in medieval Europe: the English evidence. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 271(1556). 2417–2421. 138 indexed citations
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Barrett, James H., Alison Locker, & Callum M. Roberts. (2004). ‘Dark Age Economics’ revisited: the English fish bone evidence AD 600-1600. Antiquity. 78(301). 618–636. 96 indexed citations
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Bayliss, Alex, Elizabeth Popescu, Nancy Beavan, et al.. (2003). The potential significance of dietary offsets for the interpretation of radiocarbon dates: an archaeologically significant example from medieval Norwich. Journal of Archaeological Science. 31(5). 563–575. 46 indexed citations
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Murphy, Peter, et al.. (2000). Production, Imports and Status: Biological Remains from a Late Roman Farm at Great Holts Farm, Boreham, Essex, UK. Environmental Archaeology. 5(1). 35–48. 1 indexed citations
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Wheeler, Alwyne & Alison Locker. (1985). The estimation of size in sardines (Sardina pilchardus) from amphorae in a wreck at Randello, Sicily. Journal of Archaeological Science. 12(2). 97–100. 10 indexed citations

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