Fiona Petchey

5.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
109 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Fiona Petchey is a scholar working on Paleontology, Geography, Planning and Development and Anthropology. According to data from OpenAlex, Fiona Petchey has authored 109 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 77 papers in Paleontology, 74 papers in Geography, Planning and Development and 50 papers in Anthropology. Recurrent topics in Fiona Petchey's work include Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (73 papers), Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (73 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (49 papers). Fiona Petchey is often cited by papers focused on Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (73 papers), Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (73 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (49 papers). Fiona Petchey collaborates with scholars based in New Zealand, Australia and France. Fiona Petchey's co-authors include Alan Hogg, John Southon, Quan Hua, Gretel Boswijk, Paula Reimer, Jonathan Palmer, Chris Turney, Paul G. Blackwell, Ron Reimer and Alex Bayliss 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

Fiona Petchey

101 papers receiving 2.6k 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.

SHCal20 Southern Hemisphere Calibration, 0–55,000 Years cal BP

2020 932 citations Alan Hogg, Timothy Heaton et al. Radiocarbon profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Fiona Petchey New Zealand	26	1.3k	1.2k	1.1k	880	859	109	2.7k
Sean Ulm Australia	32	1.3k 1.0×	1.1k 0.9×	976 0.9×	1.2k 1.4×	739 0.9×	152	3.0k
Brendan J. Culleton United States	33	2.0k 1.5×	1.0k 0.9×	667 0.6×	1.0k 1.2×	978 1.1×	86	3.2k
Alex Bayliss United Kingdom	26	2.2k 1.6×	996 0.9×	519 0.5×	1.3k 1.5×	447 0.5×	106	3.4k
Calógero M. Santoro Chile	30	1.6k 1.2×	604 0.5×	564 0.5×	1.1k 1.3×	613 0.7×	140	2.8k
Bruno David Australia	31	1.9k 1.4×	833 0.7×	1.2k 1.1×	1.8k 2.1×	571 0.7×	213	3.5k
F. G. McCormac United Kingdom	25	982 0.7×	1.7k 1.5×	407 0.4×	549 0.6×	572 0.7×	46	2.8k
Judith Field Australia	28	1.6k 1.2×	566 0.5×	906 0.8×	1.4k 1.5×	699 0.8×	60	2.7k
Alan Williams Australia	21	978 0.7×	900 0.8×	439 0.4×	988 1.1×	347 0.4×	55	1.8k
Yaroslav V. Kuzmin Russia	30	2.3k 1.7×	954 0.8×	648 0.6×	2.0k 2.3×	539 0.6×	202	3.3k
Rosa M. Albert Spain	34	2.4k 1.8×	1.4k 1.2×	396 0.4×	1.9k 2.2×	385 0.4×	81	3.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Fiona Petchey

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Fields of papers citing papers by Fiona Petchey

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Fiona Petchey

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

All Works

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Roberts, Amy, et al.. (2025). Life beyond the lakes: An analysis and implications of a Pleistocene combustion feature on the Pike River in South Australia. Journal of Archaeological Science. 180. 106264–106264. 1 indexed citations

David, Bruno, Nathan Wright, Birgitta Stephenson, et al.. (2024). Archaeological evidence of an ethnographically documented Australian Aboriginal ritual dated to the last ice age. Nature Human Behaviour. 8(8). 1481–1492. 3 indexed citations

Petchey, Fiona, et al.. (2023). Evidence of temporal changes in the marine 14C reservoir in the South Pacific and implications for improved dating resolution across a radiocarbon plateau (2600-2350 cal BP). Journal of Archaeological Science. 153. 105756–105756. 4 indexed citations

Bird, Michael I., et al.. (2023). Assessing the Reliability of a Small-Scale Legacy Radiocarbon Dataset Using Chronometric Transparency Approaches: Torres Strait Radiocarbon Database. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 11. 1 indexed citations

McNiven, Ian J., Kelsey M. Lowe, Patrick Moss, et al.. (2020). Changing use of Lizard Island over the past 4000 years and implications for understanding Indigenous offshore island use on the Great Barrier Reef. ResearchOnline at James Cook University (James Cook University). 23. 43–109. 7 indexed citations

Hogg, Alan, Timothy Heaton, Quan Hua, et al.. (2020). SHCal20 Southern Hemisphere Calibration, 0–55,000 Years cal BP. Radiocarbon. 62(4). 759–778. 932 indexed citations breakdown →

Manne, Tiina, Bruno David, Fiona Petchey, et al.. (2020). How long have dogs been in Melanesia? New evidence from Caution Bay, south coast of Papua New Guinea. Journal of Archaeological Science Reports. 30. 102255–102255. 6 indexed citations

Campbell, Matthew, et al.. (2019). The Long Bay Restaurant site (R10/1374), Auckland, New Zealand, and the archaeology of the mid-15th century in the upper North Island. 10(2). 19–42. 8 indexed citations

Petchey, Fiona, et al.. (2018). Forgotten news: Shellfish isotopic insight into changing sea-level and associated impact on the first settlers of the Mariana Archipelago. Quaternary Geochronology. 48. 180–194. 12 indexed citations

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David, Bruno, Thomas Richards, Jérôme Mialanes, et al.. (2016). Ruisasi 1 and the Earliest Evidence of Mass-produced Ceramics in Caution Bay (Port Moresby Region), Papua New Guinea. 7(1). 41–60. 1 indexed citations

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Nunn, Patrick D. & Fiona Petchey. (2013). Bayesian re-evaluation of Lapita settlement in Fiji: radiocarbon analysis of the Lapita occupation at Bourewa and nearby sites on the Rove Peninsula, Viti Levu Island. 4(2). 21–34. 28 indexed citations

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Petchey, Fiona & Sean Ulm. (2012). Marine Reservoir Variation in the Bismarck Region: An Evaluation of Spatial and Temporal Change in ΔR and R Over the Last 3000 Years. Radiocarbon. 54(1). 45–58. 30 indexed citations

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Ambrose, W. R., Fiona Petchey, Pamela Swadling, et al.. (2012). Engraved prehistoric Conus shell valuables from southeastern Papua New Guinea: their antiquity, motifs and distribution. Archaeology in Oceania/Archæology & physical anthropology in Oceania. 47(3). 113–132. 14 indexed citations

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Anderson, Atholl, et al.. (2010). Radiocarbon Dates on Desiccated Moa (Dinornithiformes) Flesh from Inland Otago, New Zealand. 1(2). 192–194.

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Petchey, Fiona & Geoffrey Clark. (2010). A Marine Reservoir Correction Value (ΔR) for the Palauan Archipelago: Environmental and Oceanographic Considerations. The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology. 5(2). 236–252. 18 indexed citations

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Anderson, Atholl, et al.. (2010). Radiocarbon dates on desiccated Moa flesh from inland Otago, New Zealand. ANU Open Research (Australian National University). 1(2). 192–194. 1 indexed citations

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Petchey, Fiona, David Addison, & Andrew McAlister. (2010). Re-interpreting Old Dates: Radiocarbon Determinations from the Tokelau Islands (South Pacific). 1(2). 161–167. 6 indexed citations

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Petchey, Fiona, Matthew Spriggs, Foss Leach, et al.. (2010). Testing the human factor: radiocarbon dating the first peoples of the South Pacific. Journal of Archaeological Science. 38(1). 29–44. 39 indexed citations

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Petchey, Fiona, Atholl Anderson, Alan Hogg, & Albert Zondervan. (2008). The marine reservoir effect in the Southern Ocean: An evaluation of extant and new ?R values and their application to archaeological chronologies. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 38(4). 243–262. 50 indexed citations

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Higham, Thomas & Fiona Petchey. (2000). On the reliability of archaeological rat bone for radiocarbon dating in New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 30(4). 399–409. 22 indexed citations

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