Chris Stringer

20.5k total citations · 6 hit papers
201 papers, 10.9k citations indexed

About

Chris Stringer is a scholar working on Anthropology, Archeology and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, Chris Stringer has authored 201 papers receiving a total of 10.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 152 papers in Anthropology, 111 papers in Archeology and 103 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in Chris Stringer's work include Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (149 papers), Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (97 papers) and Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (74 papers). Chris Stringer is often cited by papers focused on Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (149 papers), Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (97 papers) and Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (74 papers). Chris Stringer collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Chris Stringer's co-authors include Rainer Grün, Francesco d’Errico, Simon A. Parfitt, Paul Mellars, Lewis R. Binford, Silvia M. Bello, John R. Stewart, Paul O’Higgins, Jean‐Jacques Hublin and Frank McDermott and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Chris Stringer

195 papers receiving 10.2k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

82,000-year-old shell beads from North Africa and implications for the origins of modern human behavior

2007 357 citations Thomas Higham, Simon A. Parfitt et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Early Pleistocene human occupation at the edge of the boreal zone in northwest Europe

2010 263 citations Simon A. Parfitt, Nick Ashton et al. Nature profile →
The status of Homo heidelbergensis (Schoetensack 1908)

2012 225 citations Chris Stringer profile →
The origin and evolution ofHomo sapiens

2016 202 citations Chris Stringer Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences profile →
Apidima Cave fossils provide earliest evidence of Homo sapiens in Eurasia

2019 173 citations Fotios Alexandros Karakostis, Rainer Grün et al. Nature profile →
Origins of modern human ancestry

2021 172 citations Chris Stringer, Mateja Hajdinjak et al. Nature profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Chris Stringer

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	A Middle and Late Devensian sequence from the northern part of Kents Cavern (Devon, UK) 2025 ·Journal of Quaternary Science ·Rob Dinnis, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Jennifer C. French, Thomas Higham, (unknown), Mark Lewis, Matthias Meyer, Danielle Schreve, Chris Stringer, Chris Proctor	0
2	New hominin teeth from Stajnia Cave, Poland 2021 ·Journal of Human Evolution ·(unknown), Marcin Binkowski, Stefano Benazzi, Antonino Vazzana, Adam Nadachowski, Krzysztof Stefaniak, (unknown), Sahra Talamo, Tim Compton, Chris Stringer, Mateja Hajdinjak, Jean‐Jacques Hublin	3
3	Human origins in Southern African palaeo-wetlands? Strong claims from weak evidence 2021 ·Journal of Archaeological Science ·Carina M. Schlebusch, Liisa Loog, Huw S. Groucutt, Turi King, (unknown), Chiara Barbieri, Guido Barbujani, Lounès Chikhi, Chris Stringer, Mattias Jakobsson, Anders Eriksson, Andrea Manica, Sarah A. Tishkoff, Eleanor M. L. Scerri, Aylwyn Scally, Chris Brierley, Mark Thomas	6
4	Dating the skull from Broken Hill, Zambia, and its position in human evolution 2020 ·Nature ·Rainer Grün, Alistair Pike, Frank McDermott, Stephen M. Eggins, Graham Mortimer, Maxime Aubert, (unknown), Renaud Joannes‐Boyau, Michael S. Rumsey, Christiane Denys, James S. Brink, Tara R. Clark, Chris Stringer	54
5	A genetic analysis of the Gibraltar Neanderthals 2019 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·(unknown), Mateja Hajdinjak, Stéphane Peyrégne, Selina Brace, Elena Essel, Cesare de Filippo, Isabelle Glocke, Steffi Grote, Fabrizio Mafessoni, Sarah Nagel, Janet Kelso, Kay Prüfer, Benjamin Vernot, Ian Barnes, Svante Pääbo, Matthias Meyer, Chris Stringer	27
6	Apidima Cave fossils provide earliest evidence of Homo sapiens in Eurasia breakdown → 2019 ·Nature ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Fotios Alexandros Karakostis, Rainer Grün, Chris Stringer, Panagiotis Karkanas, Nicholas Thompson, Vassilis Koutoulidis, Lia A. Moulopoulos, Vassilis G. Gorgoulis, Mirsini Kouloukoussa	173
7	The evolutionary history of the human face 2019 ·Nature Ecology & Evolution ·Rodrigo S. Lacruz, Chris Stringer, William H. Kimbel, Bernard Wood, Katerina Harvati, Paul O’Higgins, Timothy G. Bromage, Juan Luís Arsuaga	68
8	The origin and evolution ofHomo sapiens breakdown → 2016 ·Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·Chris Stringer	202
9	New genetic and morphological evidence suggests a single hoaxer created ‘Piltdown man’ 2016 ·Royal Society Open Science ·Isabelle De Groote, Linus Girdland Flink, (unknown), Silvia M. Bello, (unknown), Laura T. Buck, Christopher Dean, (unknown), Thomas Higham, Christopher Jones, Robert Kruszynski, Adrian M. Lister, Simon A. Parfitt, Matthew M. Skinner, (unknown), Chris Stringer	22
10	Handaxe and non‐handaxe assemblages during Marine Isotope Stage 11 in northern Europe: recent investigations at Barnham, Suffolk, UK 2016 ·Journal of Quaternary Science ·Nick Ashton, Simon G. Lewis, Simon A. Parfitt, R. J. Davis, Chris Stringer	36
11	The morphological affinities of the Middle Pleistocene hominin teeth from Pontnewydd Cave, Wales 2015 ·Journal of Quaternary Science ·Tim Compton, Chris Stringer	11
12	Hominin Footprints from Early Pleistocene Deposits at Happisburgh, UK 2014 ·PLoS ONE ·Nick Ashton, Simon G. Lewis, Isabelle De Groote, Sarah Duffy, Martin Bates, Richard Bates, Peter Hoare, Mark Lewis, Simon A. Parfitt, Sylvia M. Peglar, Craig Williams, Chris Stringer	117
13	Tephra correlations and climatic events between the MIS6/5 transition and the beginning of MIS3 in Theopetra Cave, central Greece 2014 ·Quaternary Science Reviews ·Panagiotis Karkanas, Dustin White, Christine Lane, Chris Stringer, William Davies, Victoria L. Cullen, Vicki Smith, María Ntinou, Georgia Tsartsidou, Nina Kyparissi‐Apostolika	41
14	The 100-year mystery of Piltdown Man 2012 ·Nature ·Chris Stringer	7
15	Evolution of the base of the brain in highly encephalized human species 2011 ·Nature Communications ·Markus Bastir, Antonio Rosas, Philipp Gunz, Ángel Peña-Melián, Giorgio Manzi, Katerina Harvati, Robert Kruszynski, Chris Stringer, Jean‐Jacques Hublin	94
16	The Genetic Origins of the Andaman Islanders 2003 ·The American Journal of Human Genetics ·Phillip Endicott, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Chris Stringer, Carles Lalueza‐Fox, Eske Willerslev, Anders J. Hansen, Alan Cooper	89
17	Bone tools from Broken Hill (Kabwe) cave, Zambia, and their evolutionary significance 2002 ·Lawrence Barham, Ana C. Pinto Llona, Chris Stringer	33
18	ESR analysis of teeth from the palaeoanthropological site of Zhoukoudian, China 1997 ·Journal of Human Evolution ·Rainer Grün, (unknown), Xinzhi Wu, Chris Stringer, Alan Thorne, Malcolm T. McCulloch	59
19	The Origin of modern humans and the impact of chronometric dating : a discussion 1993 ·Princeton University Press eBooks ·M. J. Aitken, Paul Mellars, Chris Stringer	4
20	Reconstructing recent human evolution 1992 ·Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·Chris Stringer	61

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