Alison MacLeod

1.6k total citations
33 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Alison MacLeod is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Anthropology and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, Alison MacLeod has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Atmospheric Science, 17 papers in Anthropology and 13 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in Alison MacLeod's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (27 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (17 papers) and Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (13 papers). Alison MacLeod is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (27 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (17 papers) and Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (13 papers). Alison MacLeod collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Sweden and Denmark. Alison MacLeod's co-authors include J. John Lowe, Adrian Palmer, Ian Matthews, James Rose, Simon Blockley, Sean Pyne-O’Donnell, Anna J. Bourne, Paul G. Albert, Charlotte Bryant and John Stevenson and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Earth-Science Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Alison MacLeod

33 papers receiving 1.0k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alison MacLeod United Kingdom 19 780 459 368 196 149 33 1.0k
Mark Hardiman United Kingdom 17 868 1.1× 319 0.7× 372 1.0× 162 0.8× 266 1.8× 32 1.0k
Johanna Lomax Germany 18 791 1.0× 294 0.6× 313 0.9× 358 1.8× 88 0.6× 48 1.0k
Karine Wainer France 14 788 1.0× 283 0.6× 305 0.8× 377 1.9× 102 0.7× 17 990
Sean Pyne-O’Donnell United Kingdom 16 1000 1.3× 370 0.8× 327 0.9× 201 1.0× 265 1.8× 23 1.1k
Luke A. Gliganic Australia 17 504 0.6× 319 0.7× 296 0.8× 201 1.0× 75 0.5× 34 749
Adrian Palmer United Kingdom 23 1.0k 1.3× 440 1.0× 309 0.8× 367 1.9× 96 0.6× 61 1.2k
Annette Kadereit Germany 16 670 0.9× 212 0.5× 251 0.7× 287 1.5× 98 0.7× 35 899
Anja Zander Germany 18 669 0.9× 237 0.5× 193 0.5× 281 1.4× 110 0.7× 41 900
Guillaume Guérin France 21 945 1.2× 705 1.5× 719 2.0× 284 1.4× 136 0.9× 58 1.5k
Rebecca M. Briant United Kingdom 17 640 0.8× 256 0.6× 192 0.5× 370 1.9× 114 0.8× 44 794

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alison MacLeod

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alison MacLeod

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All Works

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Matthews, Ian, Adrian Palmer, Ian Candy, et al.. (2025). Summer warmth between 15,500 and 15,000 years ago enabled human repopulation of the northwest European margin. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 9(7). 1179–1192. 1 indexed citations
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McLean, Danielle, Paul G. Albert, Takehiko Suzuki, et al.. (2020). Constraints on the Timing of Explosive Volcanism at Aso and Aira Calderas (Japan) Between 50 and 30 ka: New Insights From the Lake Suigetsu Sedimentary Record (SG14 Core). Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems. 21(8). 16 indexed citations
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Carey, Chris, et al.. (2020). Analysis of prehistoric brown earth paleosols under the podzol soils of Exmoor, UK. Geoarchaeology. 35(5). 772–799. 2 indexed citations
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Palmer, Adrian, et al.. (2020). A revised chronology for the growth and demise of Loch Lomond Readvance (‘Younger Dryas’) ice lobes in the Lochaber area, Scotland. Quaternary Science Reviews. 248. 106548–106548. 13 indexed citations
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McLean, Danielle, Paul G. Albert, Takehiko Suzuki, et al.. (2019). Refining the eruptive history of Ulleungdo and Changbaishan volcanoes (East Asia) over the last 86 kyrs using distal sedimentary records. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research. 389. 106669–106669. 27 indexed citations
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Blockley, Simon, Ian Candy, Ian Matthews, et al.. (2018). The resilience of postglacial hunter-gatherers to abrupt climate change. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 2(5). 810–818. 34 indexed citations
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Ballin, Torben Bjarke, Alan Saville, Richard Tipping, et al.. (2018). Reindeer hunters at Howburn Farm, South Lanarkshire. Archaeopress Publishing Ltd eBooks. 5 indexed citations
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Lowe, J. John, et al.. (2017). Stratigraphy of a Lateglacial lake basin sediment sequence at Turret Bank, upper Glen Roy, Lochaber: implications for the age of the Turret Fan. Proceedings of the Geologists Association. 128(1). 110–124. 9 indexed citations
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Fyfe, Ralph, et al.. (2017). The environment of the Whitehorse Hill cist. 158–181. 1 indexed citations
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MacLeod, Alison, Ian Matthews, J. John Lowe, Adrian Palmer, & Paul G. Albert. (2015). A second tephra isochron for the Younger Dryas period in northern Europe: The Abernethy Tephra. Quaternary Geochronology. 28. 1–11. 34 indexed citations
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Matthews, Ian, Fabio Trincardi, J. John Lowe, et al.. (2014). Developing a robust tephrochronological framework for Late Quaternary marine records in the Southern Adriatic Sea: new data from core station SA03-11. Quaternary Science Reviews. 118. 84–104. 38 indexed citations
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Ramsey, Christopher Bronk, Paul G. Albert, Simon Blockley, et al.. (2014). Integrating timescales with time-transfer functions: a practical approach for an INTIMATE database. Quaternary Science Reviews. 106. 67–80. 18 indexed citations
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MacLeod, Alison, Lars Brunnberg, Stefan Wastegård, Tiit Hang, & Ian Matthews. (2014). Lateglacial cryptotephra detected within clay varves in Östergötland, south‐east Sweden. Journal of Quaternary Science. 29(7). 605–609. 14 indexed citations
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Housley, Rupert A., Alison MacLeod, Simon J. Armitage, Jacek Kabaciński, & Clive Gamble. (2013). The potential of cryptotephra and OSL dating for refining the chronology of open-air archaeological windblown sand sites: A case study from Mirkowice 33, northwest Poland. Quaternary Geochronology. 20. 99–108. 7 indexed citations
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Stevenson, John, Susan Loughlin, Anna Font, et al.. (2013). UK monitoring and deposition of tephra from the May 2011 eruption of Grímsvötn, Iceland. Research Portal (King's College London). 2(1). 31 indexed citations
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Matthews, Ian, Hilary H. Birks, Anna J. Bourne, et al.. (2011). New age estimates and climatostratigraphic correlations for the Borrobol and Penifiler Tephras: evidence from Abernethy Forest, Scotland. Journal of Quaternary Science. 26(3). 247–252. 77 indexed citations
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MacLeod, Alison, et al.. (2010). Timing of glacier response to Younger Dryas climatic cooling in Scotland. Global and Planetary Change. 79(3-4). 264–274. 71 indexed citations
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Housley, Rupert A., Simon Blockley, Ian Matthews, et al.. (2009). Late Holocene vegetation and palaeoenvironmental history of the Dunadd area, Argyll, Scotland: chronology of events. Journal of Archaeological Science. 37(3). 577–593. 14 indexed citations
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