Fábio Silva

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
39 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Fábio Silva is a scholar working on Paleontology, Archeology and Anthropology. According to data from OpenAlex, Fábio Silva has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Paleontology, 15 papers in Archeology and 11 papers in Anthropology. Recurrent topics in Fábio Silva's work include Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (20 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (10 papers) and Historical and Architectural Studies (8 papers). Fábio Silva is often cited by papers focused on Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (20 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (10 papers) and Historical and Architectural Studies (8 papers). Fábio Silva collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Spain and China. Fábio Silva's co-authors include K. Koyama, Dorian Q. Fuller, James Steele, Chris J. Stevens, Leilani Lucas, Charlene Murphy, R. C. Roberts, Marc Vander Linden, Thembi Russell and Alison Weisskopf and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Fábio Silva

37 papers receiving 1.1k 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.

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 — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Fábio Silva United Kingdom	16	479	304	273	256	225	39	1.1k
Graeme R. Sarson United Kingdom	18	178 0.4×	536 1.8×	94 0.3×	18 0.1×	90 0.4×	42	977
Ewan Lawson Australia	10	354 0.7×	16 0.1×	353 1.3×	138 0.5×	28 0.1×	21	959
E. Conte French Polynesia	15	188 0.4×	150 0.5×	29 0.1×	306 1.2×	611 2.7×	67	1.1k
H. Jabran Zahid United States	21	111 0.2×	1.6k 5.1×	79 0.3×	42 0.2×	90 0.4×	37	1.8k
S.J. Fleming United States	17	304 0.6×	57 0.2×	95 0.3×	33 0.1×	8 0.0×	75	1.2k
Niels Bleicher Switzerland	14	240 0.5×	109 0.4×	70 0.3×	41 0.2×	3 0.0×	32	609
C. W. Dale United Kingdom	21	167 0.3×	145 0.5×	44 0.2×	17 0.1×	6 0.0×	32	1.5k
D. J. Schove United States	14	175 0.4×	230 0.8×	169 0.6×	20 0.1×	6 0.0×	45	954
A. M. T. Moore United States	16	712 1.5×	51 0.2×	387 1.4×	146 0.6×		43	1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Fábio Silva

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Fields of papers citing papers by Fábio Silva

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Fábio Silva

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Fábio Silva. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Fábio Silva 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 Fábio Silva. Fábio Silva 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

Ferreira, Manuel, et al.. (2025). O PAPEL DA INTELIGÊNCIA ARTIFICIAL NO DIAGNÓSTICO PRECOCE DE DOENÇAS GINECOLÓGICAS. LUMEN ET VIRTUS. 16(45). 712–723.

Riris, Philip, Fábio Silva, Enrico R. Crema, et al.. (2024). Frequent disturbances enhanced the resilience of past human populations. Nature. 629(8013). 837–842. 16 indexed citations

Silva, Fábio. (2022). Defining Skyscape. 26(2). 3–14. 1 indexed citations

Linden, Marc Vander & Fábio Silva. (2020). Dispersals as demographic processes: testing and describing the spread of the Neolithic in the Balkans. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 376(1816). 20200231–20200231. 13 indexed citations

Silva, Fábio. (2020). A probabilistic framework and significance test for the analysis of structural orientations in skyscape archaeology. Journal of Archaeological Science. 118. 105138–105138. 10 indexed citations

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

Pablo, Javier Fernández‐López de, et al.. (2019). Palaeodemographic modelling supports a population bottleneck during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition in Iberia. Nature Communications. 10(1). 57 indexed citations

Silva, Fábio, et al.. (2018). The Planning and Orientation of the Rego da Murta Dolmens (Alvaiázere, Portugal). Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society. 84. 207–224.

Silva, Fábio & Marc Vander Linden. (2017). Amplitude of travelling front as inferred from 14C predicts levels of genetic admixture among European early farmers. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 11985–11985. 47 indexed citations

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Silva, Fábio. (2017). Inferring Alignments I: Exploring the Accuracy and Precision of Two Statistical Approaches. 3(1). 93–111. 2 indexed citations

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Jordan, Peter, Kevin Gibbs, Peter Hommel, et al.. (2016). Modelling the diffusion of pottery technologies across Afro-Eurasia: emerging insights and future research. Antiquity. 90(351). 590–603. 56 indexed citations

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Brady, Bernadette, et al.. (2016). The orientation of cistercian churches in Wales: A cultural astronomy case study. UCL Discovery (University College London). 67. 275–302. 1 indexed citations

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Maeda, Osamu, Leilani Lucas, Fábio Silva, Ken-ichi Tanno, & Dorian Q. Fuller. (2016). Narrowing the harvest: Increasing sickle investment and the rise of domesticated cereal agriculture in the Fertile Crescent. Quaternary Science Reviews. 145. 226–237. 61 indexed citations

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Silva, Fábio, Chris J. Stevens, Alison Weisskopf, et al.. (2015). Modelling the geographical origin of rice cultivation in Asia using the RiceArchaeological Database. Diffusion fundamentals.. 24. 2 indexed citations

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Silva, Fábio, Chris J. Stevens, Alison Weisskopf, et al.. (2015). Modelling the Geographical Origin of Rice Cultivation in Asia Using the Rice Archaeological Database. PLoS ONE. 10(9). e0137024–e0137024. 112 indexed citations

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Silva, Fábio, et al.. (2015). Requisitos para Integração entre Ambientes de Aprendizado e m-Learning: uma Revisão Sistemática da Literatura. Anais do ... Simpósio Brasileiro de Informática na Educação. 1. 269–269. 2 indexed citations

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Russell, Thembi, Fábio Silva, & James Steele. (2014). Modelling the Spread of Farming in the Bantu-Speaking Regions of Africa: An Archaeology-Based Phylogeography. PLoS ONE. 9(1). e87854–e87854. 77 indexed citations

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Silva, Fábio, et al.. (2012). The Crossover of the Sun and the Moon. Journal for the History of Astronomy. 43(2). 191–208. 15 indexed citations

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Koyama, K., Antonio Padilla, & Fábio Silva. (2009). Ghosts in asymmetric brane gravity and the decoupled stealth limit. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2009(3). 134–134. 14 indexed citations

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Koyama, K. & Fábio Silva. (2007). Nonlinear interactions in a cosmological background in the Dvali-Gabadadze-Porrati braneworld. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 75(8). 84 indexed citations

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