James Blinkhorn

2.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
61 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

James Blinkhorn is a scholar working on Anthropology, Paleontology and Archeology. According to data from OpenAlex, James Blinkhorn has authored 61 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 57 papers in Anthropology, 40 papers in Paleontology and 35 papers in Archeology. Recurrent topics in James Blinkhorn's work include Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (55 papers), Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (35 papers) and Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (33 papers). James Blinkhorn is often cited by papers focused on Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (55 papers), Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (35 papers) and Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (33 papers). James Blinkhorn collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Germany and Australia. James Blinkhorn's co-authors include Michael D. Petraglia, Eleanor M. L. Scerri, Huw S. Groucutt, M. La Grove, Hema Achyuthan, Nicole Boivin, Khady Niang, Patrick Roberts, Peter Ditchfıeld and Ash Parton and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

James Blinkhorn

60 papers receiving 1.4k 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.

Rethinking the dispersal of Homo sapiens out of Africa

2015 209 citations Huw S. Groucutt, Michael D. Petraglia et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
James Blinkhorn United Kingdom	23	1.1k	864	658	289	135	61	1.4k
Eleanor M. L. Scerri United Kingdom	26	1.4k 1.3×	1.1k 1.3×	876 1.3×	388 1.3×	162 1.2×	57	1.9k
Julien Riel‐Salvatore Canada	23	883 0.8×	855 1.0×	494 0.8×	224 0.8×	92 0.7×	56	1.3k
Christopher E. Miller Germany	24	1.4k 1.3×	1.3k 1.5×	637 1.0×	513 1.8×	290 2.1×	62	1.9k
Jean‐Luc Schwenninger United Kingdom	21	899 0.8×	783 0.9×	543 0.8×	544 1.9×	92 0.7×	53	1.6k
Ravi Korisettar India	21	926 0.8×	821 1.0×	489 0.7×	545 1.9×	161 1.2×	56	1.7k
Jean‐Michel Geneste France	22	1.2k 1.1×	955 1.1×	630 1.0×	237 0.8×	224 1.7×	65	1.6k
Richard P. Jennings United Kingdom	27	1.3k 1.2×	1.1k 1.3×	917 1.4×	569 2.0×	85 0.6×	38	1.8k
Reuven Yeshurun Israel	22	979 0.9×	996 1.2×	757 1.2×	162 0.6×	70 0.5×	79	1.3k
Éric Boëda France	23	2.0k 1.8×	1.7k 2.0×	1.0k 1.6×	382 1.3×	208 1.5×	77	2.4k
Jocelyn Bernatchez Australia	5	1.1k 1.0×	863 1.0×	429 0.7×	325 1.1×	330 2.4×	6	1.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of James Blinkhorn

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Blinkhorn, James, Sarah Elliott, Christopher A. Kiahtipes, et al.. (2025). Humans in Africa’s wet tropical forests 150 thousand years ago. Nature. 640(8058). 402–407. 2 indexed citations

Niang, Khady, James Blinkhorn, Alicia Medialdea, et al.. (2024). Constraining the age of the Middle Stone Age locality of Bargny (Senegal) through a combined OSL-ESR dating approach. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(6). 100044–100044. 1 indexed citations

Jha, Deepak Kumar, Robert Patalano, Hema Achyuthan, et al.. (2024). Preservation of plant‐wax biomarkers in deserts: implications for Quaternary environment and human evolutionary studies. Journal of Quaternary Science. 39(3). 349–358. 6 indexed citations

Ndiema, Emmanuel, et al.. (2023). Stone point variability reveals spatial, chronological and environmental structuring of eastern African Middle Stone Age populations. Azania Archaeological Research in Africa. 59(1). 111–139. 6 indexed citations

Blinkhorn, James, et al.. (2023). Youngest Toba Tuff deposits in the Gundlakamma River basin, Andhra Pradesh, India and their role in evaluating Late Pleistocene behavioral change in South Asia. Quaternary Research. 115. 134–145. 7 indexed citations

Picin, Andrea, Oshan Wedage, James Blinkhorn, et al.. (2022). Homo sapiens lithic technology and microlithization in the South Asian rainforest at Kitulgala Beli-lena (c. 45 – 8,000 years ago). PLoS ONE. 17(10). e0273450–e0273450. 7 indexed citations

Grove, M. La, et al.. (2022). A spatiotemporally explicit paleoenvironmental framework for the Middle Stone Age of eastern Africa. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 3689–3689. 20 indexed citations

Blinkhorn, James, et al.. (2021). Constraining the chronology and ecology of Late Acheulean and Middle Palaeolithic occupations at the margins of the monsoon. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 19665–19665. 10 indexed citations

Blinkhorn, James, Clément Zanolli, Tim Compton, et al.. (2021). Nubian Levallois technology associated with southernmost Neanderthals. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 2869–2869. 21 indexed citations

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Scerri, Eleanor M. L., Khady Niang, Ian Candy, et al.. (2021). Continuity of the Middle Stone Age into the Holocene. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 70–70. 36 indexed citations

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Shipton, Ceri, James Blinkhorn, William Archer, et al.. (2021). The Middle to Later Stone Age transition at Panga ya Saidi, in the tropical coastal forest of eastern Africa. Journal of Human Evolution. 153. 102954–102954. 19 indexed citations

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Scerri, Eleanor M. L., Denise Kühnert, James Blinkhorn, et al.. (2020). Field-based sciences must transform in response to COVID-19. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 4(12). 1571–1574. 22 indexed citations

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Niang, Khady, et al.. (2020). The Middle Stone Age occupations of Tiémassas, coastal West Africa, between 62 and 25 thousand years ago. Journal of Archaeological Science Reports. 34. 102658–102658. 10 indexed citations

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Murphy, Charlene, Alison Weisskopf, Nimal Perera, et al.. (2018). Early agriculture in Sri Lanka: New Archaeobotanical analyses and radiocarbon dates from the early historic sites of Kirinda and Kantharodai (Kandarodai). Archaeological Research in Asia. 16. 88–102. 11 indexed citations

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Blinkhorn, James. (2018). Buddha Pushkar revisited: Technological variability in Late Palaeolithic stone tools at the Thar Desert margin, India. Journal of Archaeological Science Reports. 20. 168–182. 9 indexed citations

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Shipton, Ceri, James Blinkhorn, Paul S. Breeze, et al.. (2018). Acheulean technology and landscape use at Dawadmi, central Arabia. PLoS ONE. 13(7). e0200497–e0200497. 31 indexed citations

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Roberts, Patrick, James Blinkhorn, & Michael D. Petraglia. (2017). A transect of environmental variability across South Asia and its influence on Late Pleistocene human innovation and occupation. Journal of Quaternary Science. 33(3). 285–299. 12 indexed citations

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Blinkhorn, James, Hema Achyuthan, & Michael D. Petraglia. (2014). Ostrich expansion into India during the Late Pleistocene: Implications for continental dispersal corridors. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 417. 80–90. 27 indexed citations

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Groucutt, Huw S. & James Blinkhorn. (2013). The Middle Palaeolithic in the desert and its implications for understanding hominin adaptation and dispersal. Quaternary International. 300. 1–12. 31 indexed citations

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Blinkhorn, James, et al.. (2010). Systematic transect survey enhances the investigation of rock art in its landscape: An example from the Katavani Kunta valley, Kurnool District. MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society). 35(2). 1–12. 2 indexed citations

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