John E. Whittaker

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
59 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

John E. Whittaker is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Paleontology and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, John E. Whittaker has authored 59 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Atmospheric Science, 35 papers in Paleontology and 20 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in John E. Whittaker's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (43 papers), Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (15 papers) and Marine Biology and Ecology Research (14 papers). John E. Whittaker is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (43 papers), Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils (15 papers) and Marine Biology and Ecology Research (14 papers). John E. Whittaker collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Netherlands. John E. Whittaker's co-authors include David J. Horne, Richard C. Preece, Simon A. Parfitt, G. Russell Coope, Kirsty Penkman, Ian Candy, Nick Ashton, Simon G. Lewis, Tom S. White and Michael D. Simmons and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Quaternary Science Reviews and Geomorphology.

In The Last Decade

John E. Whittaker

58 papers receiving 1.6k citations

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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.

Early Pleistocene human occupation at the edge of the boreal zone in northwest Europe

2010 263 citations Simon A. Parfitt, Nick Ashton et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
John E. Whittaker United Kingdom	21	973	924	709	393	348	59	1.7k
Catherine Kuzucuoğlu France	17	896 0.9×	1.1k 1.2×	318 0.4×	536 1.4×	412 1.2×	58	1.7k
Sébastien Joannin France	27	711 0.7×	1.3k 1.5×	504 0.7×	304 0.8×	328 0.9×	54	1.8k
Étienne Paulissen Belgium	24	702 0.7×	680 0.7×	418 0.6×	570 1.5×	162 0.5×	105	1.6k
Frank Neumann South Africa	25	765 0.8×	1.1k 1.2×	695 1.0×	401 1.0×	174 0.5×	80	1.9k
Ulrich Kotthoff Germany	21	947 1.0×	1.6k 1.7×	470 0.7×	337 0.9×	556 1.6×	50	2.0k
Danielle Schreve United Kingdom	28	1.1k 1.1×	1.4k 1.5×	1.3k 1.8×	341 0.9×	141 0.4×	76	2.1k
Nicole Limondin‐Lozouet France	28	741 0.8×	1.2k 1.3×	909 1.3×	322 0.8×	122 0.4×	90	1.9k
Paul Haesaerts Belgium	25	900 0.9×	987 1.1×	1.3k 1.8×	427 1.1×	209 0.6×	73	1.8k
Robyn Pickering South Africa	21	989 1.0×	809 0.9×	1.1k 1.6×	359 0.9×	123 0.4×	55	1.8k
Bernhard Weninger Germany	24	1.6k 1.6×	1.2k 1.3×	969 1.4×	776 2.0×	194 0.6×	53	2.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John E. Whittaker

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Briant, Rebecca M., Martin Bates, Jennifer Robertson, Jean‐Luc Schwenninger, & John E. Whittaker. (2024). Indicative meanings of geological sea-level indicators in the Solent region and Sussex coast (south coast of England) and implications for uplift rates. Journal of the Geological Society. 181(4). 1 indexed citations

Horne, David J., Nick Ashton, Stephen J. Brooks, et al.. (2022). A terrestrial record of climate variation during MIS 11 through multiproxy palaeotemperature reconstructions from Hoxne, UK. Quaternary Research. 111. 21–52. 5 indexed citations

Kinnaird, Tim, et al.. (2022). Investigation of coastal environmental change at Ruddons Point, Fife, SE Scotland. Scottish Journal of Geology. 58(2). 1 indexed citations

Consolaro, Chiara, Malcolm B. Hart, Paul Chambers, et al.. (2014). The Holocene separation of Jersey from France: the microfossil evidence. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 4149. 1 indexed citations

Parfitt, Simon A., Nick Ashton, Simon G. Lewis, et al.. (2010). Early Pleistocene human occupation at the edge of the boreal zone in northwest Europe. Nature. 466(7303). 229–233. 263 indexed citations breakdown →

Holmes, Jonathan A., Tim Atkinson, D. P. F. Darbyshire, et al.. (2009). Middle Pleistocene climate and hydrological environment at the Boxgrove hominin site (West Sussex, UK) from ostracod records. Quaternary Science Reviews. 29(13-14). 1515–1527. 48 indexed citations

Simmons, Michael D., et al.. (2006). On the stratigraphical and palaeobiogeographical significance of Borelis melo melo (Fichtel & Moll, 1798) and B. melo curdica (Reichel, 1937) (Foraminifera, Miliolida, Alveolinidae). Journal of Micropalaeontology. 25(2). 175–185. 25 indexed citations

Lord, Alan, et al.. (2006). Bajocian Ostracoda of Western Australia and their faunal affinities. Senckenbergiana lethaea. 86(2). 191–227. 3 indexed citations

Parfitt, Simon A., René W. Barendregt, Marzia Breda, et al.. (2005). The earliest record of human activity in northern Europe. Nature. 438(7070). 1008–1012. 277 indexed citations

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Bajpai, Sunil, Robin Whatley, G. V. R. Prasad, & John E. Whittaker. (2004). An Oligocene non-marine ostracod fauna from the Basgo Formation (Ladakh Molasse), NW Himalaya, India. Journal of Micropalaeontology. 23(1). 3–9. 14 indexed citations

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Whatley, Robin, Sunil Bajpai, & John E. Whittaker. (2003). The identity of the non‐marine ostracod Cypris subglobosa Sowerby from the intertrappean deposits of Peninsular India. Palaeontology. 46(6). 1281–1296. 16 indexed citations

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Murray, John W. & John E. Whittaker. (2001). A new species of microforaminifera (Gavelinopsis caledonia) from the continental shelf, west of Scotland. Journal of Micropalaeontology. 20(2). 179–182. 5 indexed citations

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Murray, John W., John E. Whittaker, & Elisabeth Alve. (2000). On the type species of Aubignyna and a description of A. hamblensis, a new microforaminifer from temperate shallow waters. Journal of Micropalaeontology. 19(1). 61–67. 15 indexed citations

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BouDagher‐Fadel, Marcelle K., et al.. (1996). Evolution in the Early Cretaceous planktonic foraminiferal genus Blefuscuiana. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen. 201(2). 243–258. 10 indexed citations

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Brönnimann, Paul, Cindy Lee Van Dover, & John E. Whittaker. (1989). Abyssotherma pacifica, n. gen., n. sp., a Recent Remaneicid (Foraminiferida, Remaneicacea) from the East Pacific Rise. Micropaleontology. 35(2). 142–142. 9 indexed citations

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Whittaker, John E., et al.. (1989). Marine and Brackish Water Ostracods. 170 indexed citations

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Jenkins, D. Graham, John E. Whittaker, & R. Carlton. (1986). On the age and correlation of the St. Erth Beds, S.W. England, based on planktonic foraminifera. Journal of Micropalaeontology. 5(2). 93–105. 20 indexed citations

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Athersuch, John, David J. Horne, & John E. Whittaker. (1985). G. S. Brady’s Pleistocene ostracods from the Brickearth of the Nar Valley, Norfolk, U.K.. Journal of Micropalaeontology. 4(2). 153–158. 6 indexed citations

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Horne, David J. & John E. Whittaker. (1985). A revision of the genus Paradoxostoma Fischer (Crustacea; Ostracoda) in British waters. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 85(2). 131–203. 20 indexed citations

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Fortey, Richard A. & John E. Whittaker. (1976). Janospira ‐ an Ordovician microfossil in search of a Phylum. Lethaia. 9(4). 397–403. 9 indexed citations

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