Chris J. Stevens

4.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
63 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Chris J. Stevens is a scholar working on Paleontology, Geography, Planning and Development and Anthropology. According to data from OpenAlex, Chris J. Stevens has authored 63 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Paleontology, 21 papers in Geography, Planning and Development and 14 papers in Anthropology. Recurrent topics in Chris J. Stevens's work include Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (30 papers), Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (21 papers) and Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (11 papers). Chris J. Stevens is often cited by papers focused on Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (30 papers), Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (21 papers) and Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (11 papers). Chris J. Stevens collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, China and Australia. Chris J. Stevens's co-authors include Dorian Q. Fuller, Robin G. Allaby, Leilani Lucas, Ling Qin, Charlene Murphy, Andrew Bevan, Fábio Silva, Tim Denham, Michael D. Purugganan and Manuel Arroyo‐Kalin and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Chris J. Stevens

60 papers receiving 2.2k 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.

Convergent evolution and parallelism in plant domestication revealed by an expanding archaeological record

2014 279 citations Dorian Q. Fuller, Tim Denham et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Holocene fluctuations in human population demonstrate repeated links to food production and climate

2017 192 citations Dorian Q. Fuller, Chris J. Stevens et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Between China and South Asia: A Middle Asian corridor of crop dispersal and agricultural innovation in the Bronze Age

2016 191 citations Chris J. Stevens, Charlene Murphy et al. profile →

Peers

Chris J. Stevens

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Irene Holst Panama

Harriet V. Hunt United Kingdom

George Willcox France

Jade d’Alpoim Guedes United States

Alison Crowther Australia

Anthony J. Ranere United States

Ehud Weiss Israel

Michael Charles United Kingdom

G. C. Hillman United Kingdom

Richard Meadow United States

Irene Holst Panama

Chris J. Stevens

1.1k ×1.0

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833 ×1.3

GPD

839 ×1.5

471 ×0.9

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337 ×0.8

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Citations per year, relative to Chris J. Stevens Chris J. Stevens (= 1×) peers Irene Holst

Countries citing papers authored by Chris J. Stevens

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Fields of papers citing papers by Chris J. Stevens

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Chris J. Stevens

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Chris J. Stevens. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Chris J. Stevens 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 Chris J. Stevens. Chris J. Stevens is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Craig, Oliver E., Jasmine Lundy, Motoyuki Suzuki, et al.. (2025). Lipid residue analysis reveals divergent culinary practices in Japan and Korea at the dawn of intensive agriculture. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(30). e2504414122–e2504414122.

Jacques, Guillaume & Chris J. Stevens. (2024). Linguistic, archaeological and genetic evidence suggests multiple agriculture-driven migrations of Sino-Tibetan speakers from Northern China to the Indian subcontinent. Quaternary International. 711. 1–20. 2 indexed citations

Crema, Enrico R., Simon Carrignon, Shinya Shoda, & Chris J. Stevens. (2024). Regional variations in the demographic response to the arrival of rice farming in prehistoric Japan. Antiquity. 98(401). 1290–1305. 2 indexed citations

Lundy, Jasmine, Alexandre Lucquin, Helen M. Talbot, et al.. (2024). Culinary continuity in central Japan across the transition to agriculture. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 16(7). 97–97. 2 indexed citations

Carretero, Lara González, Leilani Lucas, Chris J. Stevens, & Dorian Q. Fuller. (2023). Investigating early agriculture, plant use and culinary practices at Neolithic Jarmo (Iraqi Kurdistan). Journal of Archaeological Science Reports. 52. 104264–104264. 1 indexed citations

Fuller, Dorian Q., Tim Denham, Logan Kistler, et al.. (2022). Progress in domestication research: Explaining expanded empirical observations. Quaternary Science Reviews. 296. 107737–107737. 10 indexed citations

Allaby, Robin G., Chris J. Stevens, & Dorian Q. Fuller. (2022). A novel cost framework reveals evidence for competitive selection in the evolution of complex traits during plant domestication. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 537. 111004–111004. 11 indexed citations

Mabry, Makenzie E., Alex C. McAlvay, Hong An, et al.. (2021). The Evolutionary History of Wild, Domesticated, and Feral Brassica oleracea (Brassicaceae). Molecular Biology and Evolution. 38(10). 4419–4434. 58 indexed citations

Allaby, Robin G., Chris J. Stevens, Logan Kistler, & Dorian Q. Fuller. (2021). Emerging evidence of plant domestication as a landscape-level process. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 37(3). 268–279. 55 indexed citations

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Barron, Aleese, et al.. (2020). Snapshots in time: MicroCT scanning of pottery sherds determines early domestication of sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) in East Africa. Journal of Archaeological Science. 123. 105259–105259. 24 indexed citations

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Smith, Oliver, William V. Nicholson, Logan Kistler, et al.. (2019). A domestication history of dynamic adaptation and genomic deterioration in Sorghum. Nature Plants. 5(4). 369–379. 68 indexed citations

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Murphy, Charlene, Dorian Q. Fuller, Chris J. Stevens, et al.. (2019). Looking Beyond the Surface: Use of High Resolution X-Ray Computed Tomography on Archaeobotanical Remains. Bournemouth University Research Online (Bournemouth University). X(1). 7–18. 3 indexed citations

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Scott, Michael, Laura R. Botigué, Selina Brace, et al.. (2019). A 3,000-year-old Egyptian emmer wheat genome reveals dispersal and domestication history. Nature Plants. 5(11). 1120–1128. 37 indexed citations

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Shelach-Lavi, Gideon, Yonaton Goldsmith, Chris J. Stevens, et al.. (2019). Sedentism and plant cultivation in northeast China emerged during affluent conditions. PLoS ONE. 14(7). e0218751–e0218751. 34 indexed citations

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Min, Rui, Chris J. Stevens, Charles Higham, et al.. (2018). Early agriculture at the crossroads of China and Southeast Asia: Archaeobotanical evidence and radiocarbon dates from Baiyangcun, Yunnan. Journal of Archaeological Science Reports. 20. 711–721. 57 indexed citations

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Brass, Michael, Andrea Manzo, Alemseged Beldados, et al.. (2018). On the Origins and Dissemination of Domesticated Sorghum and Pearl Millet across Africa and into India: a View from the Butana Group of the Far Eastern Sahel. African Archaeological Review. 35(4). 483–505. 59 indexed citations

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Allaby, Robin G., Chris J. Stevens, Leilani Lucas, Osamu Maeda, & Dorian Q. Fuller. (2017). Geographic mosaics and changing rates of cereal domestication. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 372(1735). 20160429–20160429. 78 indexed citations

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Stevens, Chris J. & Dorian Q. Fuller. (2017). The spread of agriculture in eastern Asia. 7(2). 152–186. 73 indexed citations

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Ellis, Erle C., Nicholas R. Magliocca, Chris J. Stevens, & Dorian Q. Fuller. (2017). Evolving the Anthropocene: linking multi-level selection with long-term social–ecological change. Sustainability Science. 13(1). 119–128. 35 indexed citations

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Martin, Colin, et al.. (2008). Medieval Roxburgh: a preliminary assessment of the burgh and its locality. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. 137. 357–404.

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