Christopher J. Knüsel

3.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
77 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Christopher J. Knüsel is a scholar working on Archeology, Paleontology and Anthropology. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher J. Knüsel has authored 77 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 52 papers in Archeology, 31 papers in Paleontology and 18 papers in Anthropology. Recurrent topics in Christopher J. Knüsel's work include Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (43 papers), Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (30 papers) and Paleopathology and ancient diseases (19 papers). Christopher J. Knüsel is often cited by papers focused on Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (43 papers), Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (30 papers) and Paleopathology and ancient diseases (19 papers). Christopher J. Knüsel collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, France and United States. Christopher J. Knüsel's co-authors include Sébastien Villotte, Rebecca Gowland, John Robb, Alan K. Outram, Dominique Henry‐Gambier, Dominique Castex, Vincent Couallier, Olivier Dutour, Scott D. Haddow and David Lucy and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Christopher J. Knüsel

73 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

Social archaeology of funerary remains 2009 2026 2014 2020 2009 50 100 150 200 250
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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. Social archaeology of funerary remains
    2009 296 citations Rebecca Gowland, Christopher J. Knüsel Oxbow Books profile →

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Christopher J. Knüsel United Kingdom 22 1.4k 715 477 317 163 77 2.0k
Susan Pfeiffer Canada 25 1.2k 0.9× 565 0.8× 655 1.4× 310 1.0× 149 0.9× 87 2.0k
Helen M. Liversidge United Kingdom 30 3.4k 2.4× 673 0.9× 570 1.2× 586 1.8× 107 0.7× 73 4.1k
Assumpció Malgosa Spain 23 1.4k 1.0× 504 0.7× 274 0.6× 471 1.5× 148 0.9× 188 2.0k
Michael Schultz Germany 24 1.1k 0.7× 333 0.5× 235 0.5× 502 1.6× 264 1.6× 62 2.0k
Jaroslav Brůžek France 18 1.8k 1.3× 484 0.7× 407 0.9× 732 2.3× 128 0.8× 53 2.3k
Louise Humphrey United Kingdom 29 1.6k 1.1× 902 1.3× 831 1.7× 407 1.3× 59 0.4× 69 2.6k
Rimantas Jankauskas Lithuania 16 1.4k 1.0× 475 0.7× 200 0.4× 620 2.0× 79 0.5× 76 2.0k
Robert P. Mensforth United States 12 2.3k 1.6× 557 0.8× 349 0.7× 709 2.2× 230 1.4× 16 2.8k
Donald J. Ortner United States 24 1.7k 1.2× 351 0.5× 254 0.5× 459 1.4× 246 1.5× 57 2.6k
Anthony B. Falsetti United States 16 767 0.5× 583 0.8× 508 1.1× 468 1.5× 89 0.5× 30 1.8k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christopher J. Knüsel

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All Works

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Twiss, Katheryn C., Amy Bogaard, Scott D. Haddow, et al.. (2024). “But some were more equal than others:” Exploring inequality at Neolithic Çatalhöyük. PLoS ONE. 19(9). e0307067–e0307067.
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Haddow, Scott D., Camilla Mazzucato, M. Barış Yağcı, et al.. (2023). Scratching the surface? A histotaphonomic study of human remains at Neolithic Çatalhöyük. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 15(6). 6 indexed citations
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Haddow, Scott D., et al.. (2022). No gentry but grave-makers: inequality beyond property accumulation at Neolithic Çatalhöyük. World Archaeology. 54(4). 584–601. 5 indexed citations
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Knüsel, Christopher J.. (2021). The unwritten history of medical treatment: Evidence for ritual-healers and their activities in the pre-literate past. International Journal of Paleopathology. 34. 206–216. 2 indexed citations
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Cochard, David, et al.. (2019). Exploring life patterns using entheseal changes in equids: Application of a new method on unworked specimens. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology. 29(6). 947–960. 8 indexed citations
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Anastasiou, Evilena, Lisa‐Marie Shillito, Helen Mackay, et al.. (2019). Parasite infection at the early farming community of Çatalhöyük. Antiquity. 93(369). 573–587. 17 indexed citations
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Pilloud, Marin A., Mehmet Somel, Scott D. Haddow, et al.. (2017). Mobility in Neolithic Central Anatolia: A Comparison of Dental Morphometrics and aDNA. OpenMETU (Middle East Technical University). 1 indexed citations
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Knüsel, Christopher J.. (2014). Crouching in fear: Terms of engagement for funerary remains The recording example can be found at http://jsa.sagepub.com/. Journal of Social Archaeology. 14(1). 26–58. 46 indexed citations
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Knüsel, Christopher J., et al.. (2013). Bioarchaeology in 3D: Employing three-dimensional technology in the field and in the lab. Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen). 3 indexed citations
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Villotte, Sébastien & Christopher J. Knüsel. (2012). Medial versus lateral epicondyle enthesopathies through time: Implications for behavioural reconstruction. 1 indexed citations
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Kacki, Sacha, Sébastien Villotte, & Christopher J. Knüsel. (2011). Baastrup's sign (kissing spines): A neglected condition in paleopathology. International Journal of Paleopathology. 1(2). 104–110. 8 indexed citations
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Villotte, Sébastien & Christopher J. Knüsel. (2009). Some remarks about femoroacetabular impingement and osseous non-metric variations of the proximal femur. Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d anthropologie de Paris. 21(1-2). 14 indexed citations
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Gowland, Rebecca & Christopher J. Knüsel. (2009). Social archaeology of funerary remains. Oxbow Books. 296 indexed citations breakdown →
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Jay, Mandy, et al.. (2008). Iron Age breastfeeding practices in Britain: Isotopic evidence from Wetwang Slack, East Yorkshire. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 136(3). 327–337. 94 indexed citations
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Knüsel, Christopher J., et al.. (2006). Hand Dominance and Bilateral Asymmetry of the Epicondylar Breadth of the Humerus. Current Anthropology. 47(2). 377–382. 28 indexed citations
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Knüsel, Christopher J., et al.. (2005). Activity‐related skeletal change in medieval humeri: Cross‐sectional and architectural alterations. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 128(3). 536–546. 81 indexed citations
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Knüsel, Christopher J., et al.. (2002). Paleodemographic comparison of a catastrophic and an attritional death assemblage. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 119(2). 134–143. 74 indexed citations
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Knüsel, Christopher J., et al.. (1997). Comparative degenerative joint disease of the vertebral column in the medieval monastic cemetery of the Gilbertine Priory of St. Andrew, Fishergate, York, England. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 103(4). 481–495. 60 indexed citations
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Knüsel, Christopher J.. (1993). On the biomechanical and osteoarthritic differences between hunter‐gatherers and agriculturalists. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 91(4). 523–525. 20 indexed citations

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