Ian Watts

4.1k total citations · 3 hit papers
15 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Ian Watts is a scholar working on Anthropology, Archeology and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ian Watts has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Anthropology, 10 papers in Archeology and 6 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in Ian Watts's work include Archaeology and Rock Art Studies (10 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (9 papers) and Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (6 papers). Ian Watts is often cited by papers focused on Archaeology and Rock Art Studies (10 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (9 papers) and Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (6 papers). Ian Watts collaborates with scholars based in South Africa, Greece and United Kingdom. Ian Watts's co-authors include Christopher S. Henshilwood, Francesco d’Errico, Zenobia Jacobs, Royden Yates, Judith Sealy, Paul Goldberg, Camilla Power, Chantal Tribolo, G.A.T. Duller and Norbert Mercier and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society.

In The Last Decade

Ian Watts

13 papers receiving 2.1k 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.

Early human use of marine resources and pigment in South Africa during the Middle Pleistocene

2007 628 citations Curtis W. Marean, Miryam Bar‐Matthews et al. Nature profile →
Emergence of Modern Human Behavior: Middle Stone Age Engravings from South Africa

2002 540 citations Christopher S. Henshilwood, Francesco d’Errico et al. Science profile →
Engraved ochres from the Middle Stone Age levels at Blombos Cave, South Africa

2009 361 citations Christopher S. Henshilwood, Francesco d’Errico et al. Journal of Human Evolution profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ian Watts South Africa	10	1.7k	1.3k	744	713	297	15	2.4k
Karen L. van Niekerk South Africa	20	2.0k 1.2×	1.6k 1.2×	983 1.3×	725 1.0×	309 1.0×	40	2.6k
Sally McBrearty United States	17	2.3k 1.4×	1.7k 1.3×	1.0k 1.4×	606 0.8×	327 1.1×	24	3.0k
Paul G. Bahn United Kingdom	23	1.3k 0.7×	1.1k 0.8×	708 1.0×	590 0.8×	206 0.7×	144	2.5k
Royden Yates South Africa	21	1.9k 1.1×	1.4k 1.1×	680 0.9×	947 1.3×	304 1.0×	27	2.3k
Lucinda Backwell South Africa	25	2.1k 1.2×	1.6k 1.2×	1.0k 1.4×	650 0.9×	227 0.8×	57	2.6k
Robert G. Bednarik China	23	1.3k 0.7×	921 0.7×	412 0.6×	715 1.0×	165 0.6×	147	2.0k
Curtis W. Marean United States	15	1.7k 1.0×	1.3k 1.0×	758 1.0×	392 0.5×	420 1.4×	19	2.2k
Michael Chazan Canada	27	1.7k 1.0×	1.4k 1.1×	685 0.9×	473 0.7×	497 1.7×	85	2.4k
Chantal Tribolo France	24	2.1k 1.2×	1.7k 1.3×	721 1.0×	813 1.1×	694 2.3×	61	2.7k
John E. Yellen United States	20	1.3k 0.8×	942 0.7×	443 0.6×	440 0.6×	169 0.6×	38	2.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Ian Watts

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ian Watts

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ian Watts

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

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15 of 15 papers shown

Litoiu, Marin, et al.. (2024). InstantOps: A Joint Approach to System Failure Prediction and Root Cause Identification in Microserivces Cloud-Native Applications. 119–129. 5 indexed citations

Watts, Ian. (2024). Blood symbolism at the root of symbolic culture? African hunter-gatherer perspectives. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology. 76. 101627–101627. 1 indexed citations

Watts, Ian, et al.. (2024). Augmenting Automatic Root-Cause Identification with Incident Alerts Using LLM. 1–10.

Watts, Ian, Michael Chazan, & Jayne Wilkins. (2016). Early Evidence for Brilliant Ritualized Display: Specularite Use in the Northern Cape (South Africa) between ∼500 and ∼300 Ka. Current Anthropology. 57(3). 287–310. 83 indexed citations

Power, Camilla, Volker Sommer, & Ian Watts. (2013). The Seasonality Thermostat: Female Reproductive Synchrony and Male Behavior in Monkeys, Neanderthals, and Modern Humans. UEL Research Repository (University of East London). 11 indexed citations

Watts, Ian. (2010). The pigments from Pinnacle Point Cave 13B, Western Cape, South Africa. Journal of Human Evolution. 59(3-4). 392–411. 113 indexed citations

Henshilwood, Christopher S., Francesco d’Errico, & Ian Watts. (2009). Engraved ochres from the Middle Stone Age levels at Blombos Cave, South Africa. Journal of Human Evolution. 57(1). 27–47. 361 indexed citations breakdown →

Marean, Curtis W., Miryam Bar‐Matthews, Jocelyn Bernatchez, et al.. (2007). Early human use of marine resources and pigment in South Africa during the Middle Pleistocene. Nature. 449(7164). 905–908. 628 indexed citations breakdown →

Henshilwood, Christopher S., Francesco d’Errico, Royden Yates, et al.. (2002). Emergence of Modern Human Behavior: Middle Stone Age Engravings from South Africa. Science. 295(5558). 1278–1280. 540 indexed citations breakdown →

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Watts, Ian. (2002). Ochre in the Middle Stone Age of Southern Africa: Ritualised Display or Hide Preservative?. The South African Archaeological Bulletin. 57(175). 1–1. 118 indexed citations

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Henshilwood, Christopher S., Judith Sealy, Royden Yates, et al.. (2001). Blombos Cave, Southern Cape, South Africa: Preliminary Report on the 1992–1999 Excavations of the Middle Stone Age Levels. Journal of Archaeological Science. 28(4). 421–448. 316 indexed citations

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Power, Camilla & Ian Watts. (1997). The Woman with the Zebra's Penis: Gender, Mutability and Performance. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 3(3). 537–537. 24 indexed citations

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Knight, Chris, Camilla Power, & Ian Watts. (1995). The Human Symbolic Revolution: A Darwinian Account. Cambridge Archaeological Journal. 5(1). 75–114. 144 indexed citations

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Watts, Ian. (1955). Equatorial weather : with particular reference to Southeast Asia. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 5 indexed citations

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Watts, Ian. (1955). Methods of synoptic analysis at low latitudes. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. 81(350). 582–587. 1 indexed citations

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