Christopher B. Stringer

4.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
52 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Christopher B. Stringer is a scholar working on Anthropology, Paleontology and Archeology. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher B. Stringer has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Anthropology, 25 papers in Paleontology and 25 papers in Archeology. Recurrent topics in Christopher B. Stringer's work include Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (37 papers), Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (19 papers) and Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (13 papers). Christopher B. Stringer is often cited by papers focused on Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (37 papers), Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (19 papers) and Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (13 papers). Christopher B. Stringer collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Canada and United States. Christopher B. Stringer's co-authors include Henry P. Schwarcz, Rainer Grün, Christopher Dean, Charles C. Roseman, Simon A. Parfitt, Meave G. Leakey, Donald J. Reid, Gary T. Schwartz, Alan Walker and Friedemann Schrenk and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Christopher B. Stringer

50 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

  1. Growth processes in teeth distinguish modern humans from Homo erectus and earlier hominins
    2001 342 citations Christopher B. Stringer et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Christopher B. Stringer United Kingdom 24 1.9k 1.5k 1.1k 492 341 52 2.8k
Yoel Rak Israel 30 2.1k 1.1× 1.5k 1.0× 1.1k 0.9× 826 1.7× 132 0.4× 61 2.9k
Bernard Vandermeersch France 28 2.2k 1.2× 1.8k 1.2× 1.7k 1.4× 242 0.5× 308 0.9× 87 3.3k
Susan C. Antón United States 26 1.9k 1.0× 1.4k 1.0× 1.1k 1.0× 880 1.8× 170 0.5× 65 3.0k
Fred H. Smith United States 29 2.4k 1.3× 1.7k 1.2× 1.8k 1.6× 304 0.6× 226 0.7× 93 3.2k
J. A. J. Gowlett United Kingdom 32 1.9k 1.0× 1.6k 1.1× 780 0.7× 588 1.2× 419 1.2× 73 3.0k
Scott W. Simpson United States 23 1.4k 0.7× 1.3k 0.9× 743 0.6× 1.0k 2.1× 245 0.7× 56 2.7k
G. Philip Rightmire United States 31 3.1k 1.6× 2.2k 1.5× 1.9k 1.6× 891 1.8× 191 0.6× 62 3.8k
Bruno Maureille France 29 2.1k 1.1× 1.5k 1.0× 1.4k 1.3× 204 0.4× 233 0.7× 142 2.8k
F. Clark Howell United States 31 2.2k 1.1× 1.8k 1.2× 1.0k 0.9× 792 1.6× 331 1.0× 77 3.3k
Yonas Beyene Japan 21 1.7k 0.9× 1.3k 0.9× 623 0.5× 895 1.8× 213 0.6× 32 2.4k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Christopher B. Stringer

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christopher B. Stringer

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Groote, Isabelle De, Mark Lewis, & Christopher B. Stringer. (2018). Prehistory of the British Isles: A Tale of Coming and Going. Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d anthropologie de Paris. 30(1-2). 1–13.
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Groote, Isabelle De, Mark Lewis, & Christopher B. Stringer. (2017). Prehistory of the British Isles: A tale of coming and going. Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d anthropologie de Paris. 1 indexed citations
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Whiten, Andrew, Robert A. Hinde, Christopher B. Stringer, & Kevin N. Laland. (2011). Preface. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 366(1567). 937–937. 21 indexed citations
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Roseman, Charles C., Timothy D. Weaver, & Christopher B. Stringer. (2011). Do modern humans and Neandertals have different patterns of cranial integration?. Journal of Human Evolution. 60(6). 684–693. 21 indexed citations
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Zollikofer, Christoph P. E., Marcia S. Ponce de León, Ralf W. Schmitz, & Christopher B. Stringer. (2008). New Insights Into Mid‐Late Pleistocene Fossil Hominin Paranasal Sinus Morphology. The Anatomical Record. 291(11). 1506–1516. 36 indexed citations
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Parfitt, Simon A., René W. Barendregt, Marzia Breda, et al.. (2005). The earliest record of human activity in northern Europe. Nature. 438(7070). 1008–1012. 277 indexed citations
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Stringer, Christopher B.. (2001). Dating the origin of modern humans. Geological Society London Special Publications. 190(1). 265–274. 5 indexed citations
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Roberts, Mark B., Christopher B. Stringer, & Simon A. Parfitt. (1994). A hominid tibia from Middle Pleistocene sediments at Boxgrove, UK. Nature. 369(6478). 311–313. 108 indexed citations
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Stringer, Christopher B.. (1991). Está en África nuestro origen. Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja). 40(173). 66–73. 1 indexed citations
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Stringer, Christopher B., et al.. (1991). Les restes craniens d'Omo-Kibish et leur classification a l'interieur du genre Homo. L Anthropologie. 95. 573–3573594. 35 indexed citations
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Grün, Rainer, Peter Beaumont, & Christopher B. Stringer. (1990). ESR dating evidence for early modern humans at Border Cave in South Africa. Nature. 344(6266). 537–539. 77 indexed citations
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Stringer, Christopher B.. (1989). A neglected middle pleistocene comparison for the bilzingsleben hominid material. 30(3). 492–500. 2 indexed citations
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Stringer, Christopher B., Rainer Grün, Henry P. Schwarcz, & Paul Goldberg. (1989). ESR dates for the hominid burial site of Es Skhul in Israel. Nature. 338(6218). 756–758. 148 indexed citations
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Stringer, Christopher B.. (1987). A numerical cladistic analysis for the genus. Journal of Human Evolution. 16(1). 135–146. 32 indexed citations
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Stringer, Christopher B.. (1986). An archaic character in the Broken Hill innominate E. 719. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 71(1). 115–120. 30 indexed citations
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Stringer, Christopher B., et al.. (1985). Preparation and further study of the Singa skull from Sudan. Biodiversity Heritage Library (Smithsonian Institution). 23 indexed citations
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Stringer, Christopher B., Robert Kruszynski, & Roger Jacobi. (1981). Allez Neanderthal. Nature. 289(5800). 823–824. 5 indexed citations
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Cronin, John E., Noel T. Boaz, Christopher B. Stringer, & Yoel Rak. (1981). Tempo and mode in hominid evolution. Nature. 292(5819). 113–122. 86 indexed citations
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Stringer, Christopher B. & Richard Burleigh. (1981). The Neanderthal problem and the prospects for direct dating of Neanderthal remains. Biodiversity Heritage Library (Smithsonian Institution). 4 indexed citations
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Stringer, Christopher B., et al.. (1979). The significance of the fossil hominid skull from Petralona, Greece. Journal of Archaeological Science. 6(3). 235–253. 100 indexed citations

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