John Robb

4.3k total citations
90 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

John Robb is a scholar working on Archeology, Paleontology and Anthropology. According to data from OpenAlex, John Robb has authored 90 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Archeology, 34 papers in Paleontology and 18 papers in Anthropology. Recurrent topics in John Robb's work include Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (34 papers), Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (27 papers) and Paleopathology and ancient diseases (15 papers). John Robb is often cited by papers focused on Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (34 papers), Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (27 papers) and Paleopathology and ancient diseases (15 papers). John Robb collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Italy. John Robb's co-authors include Oliver J. T. Harris, Christopher J. Knüsel, Marcia‐Anne Dobres, Sarah A. Inskip, Dušan Borić, Craig Cessford, Luca Lazzarini, Christiana L. Scheib, Toomas Kivisild and Piers D. Mitchell and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, PLoS ONE and Cancer.

In The Last Decade

John Robb

83 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
John Robb United Kingdom	26	929	904	645	243	214	90	2.0k
Andrew Sherratt United Kingdom	24	743 0.8×	1.1k 1.2×	701 1.1×	178 0.7×	258 1.2×	67	2.2k
Steven A. LeBlanc United States	22	390 0.4×	927 1.0×	720 1.1×	178 0.7×	147 0.7×	65	1.6k
Mike Parker Pearson United Kingdom	26	708 0.8×	965 1.1×	527 0.8×	77 0.3×	251 1.2×	102	1.7k
Ian Kuijt United States	22	822 0.9×	1.2k 1.3×	763 1.2×	83 0.3×	194 0.9×	71	1.7k
George R. Milner United States	32	1.9k 2.1×	1.3k 1.4×	915 1.4×	781 3.2×	238 1.1×	86	3.4k
Chris Gosden United Kingdom	31	788 0.8×	1.3k 1.5×	1.1k 1.8×	119 0.5×	1.0k 4.9×	89	3.1k
David W. Anthony United States	17	490 0.5×	803 0.9×	565 0.9×	278 1.1×	166 0.8×	28	1.5k
Kelly J. Knudson United States	31	1.3k 1.4×	2.0k 2.2×	851 1.3×	236 1.0×	791 3.7×	96	2.7k
Joanna Brück Ireland	20	479 0.5×	844 0.9×	579 0.9×	44 0.2×	127 0.6×	60	1.4k
Christopher J. Knüsel United Kingdom	22	1.4k 1.5×	715 0.8×	477 0.7×	317 1.3×	97 0.5×	77	2.0k

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Robb, John, Sarah A. Inskip, Alice Rose, et al.. (2025). More continuity than change following the Black Death epidemic in medieval Cambridge. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 33388–33388.

Kushniarevich, Alena, Eugenia D’Atanasio, Craig Cessford, et al.. (2025). Bone Adhered Sediments as a Source of Target and Environmental DNA and Proteins. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 42(9).

Radina, Francesca, et al.. (2025). Ancient microbial DNA and proteins preserve in concretions covering human remains. iScience. 28(8). 113182–113182.

Hui, Ruoyun, Christiana L. Scheib, Eugenia D’Atanasio, et al.. (2024). Genetic history of Cambridgeshire before and after the Black Death. Science Advances. 10(3). eadi5903–eadi5903. 13 indexed citations

Inskip, Sarah A., Alice Rose, Craig Cessford, et al.. (2024). Health inequality in medieval Cambridge, 1200–1500 CE. American Journal of Biological Anthropology. 185(2). e24993–e24993. 1 indexed citations

Soncin, Silvia, et al.. (2024). Prehistoric Italian foodways: Meta-analysis of stable isotope data from the Neolithic to the Iron Age. Quaternary Science Reviews. 345. 109056–109056. 1 indexed citations

Inskip, Sarah A., Craig Cessford, Alice Rose, et al.. (2023). Pathways to the medieval hospital: collective osteobiographies of poverty and charity. Antiquity. 97(396). 1581–1597. 5 indexed citations

Soncin, Silvia, et al.. (2023). The Mediterranean archive of isotopic data, a dataset to explore lifeways from the Neolithic to the Iron Age. Scientific Data. 10(1). 917–917. 6 indexed citations

Rebay‐Salisbury, Katharina, et al.. (2023). To Gender or not To Gender? Exploring Gender Variations through Time and Space. European Journal of Archaeology. 26(3). 271–298. 6 indexed citations

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Mitchell, Piers D., et al.. (2023). The Black Death in Hereford, England: A demographic analysis of the Cathedral 14th‐century plague mass graves and associated parish cemetery. American Journal of Biological Anthropology. 182(3). 452–466. 2 indexed citations

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Inskip, Sarah A., et al.. (2023). Test of the lateral angle method of sex estimation on Anglo‐Saxon and medieval archaeological populations with genetically estimated sex. Archaeometry. 66(2). 445–457.

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Mitchell, Piers D., et al.. (2022). Caring for the injured: Exploring the immediate and long-term consequences of injury in medieval Cambridge, England. International Journal of Paleopathology. 40. 7–19. 2 indexed citations

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Robb, John, et al.. (2021). The greatest health problem of the Middle Ages? Estimating the burden of disease in medieval England. International Journal of Paleopathology. 34. 101–112. 11 indexed citations

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Mitchell, Piers D., et al.. (2021). The prevalence of cancer in Britain before industrialization. Cancer. 127(17). 3054–3059. 12 indexed citations

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Mitchell, Piers D., et al.. (2021). Medieval injuries: Skeletal trauma as an indicator of past living conditions and hazard risk in Cambridge, England. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 175(3). 626–645. 13 indexed citations

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Mitchell, Piers D., et al.. (2021). Gout and ‘Podagra’ in medieval Cambridge, England. International Journal of Paleopathology. 33. 170–181. 6 indexed citations

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Robb, John. (2016). What can we really say about skeletal part representation, MNI and funerary ritual? A simulation approach. Journal of Archaeological Science Reports. 10. 684–692. 27 indexed citations

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Maurice, Roch L., J. Fromageau, Marie‐Hélène Roy Cardinal, et al.. (2008). Characterization of Atherosclerotic Plaques and Mural Thrombi With Intravascular Ultrasound Elastography: A Potential Method Evaluated in an Aortic Rabbit Model and a Human Coronary Artery. IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine. 12(3). 290–298. 27 indexed citations

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Borić, Dušan & John Robb. (2008). Past Bodies: Body-Centered Research in Archaeology. 49 indexed citations

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Robb, John, et al.. (2001). Social “status” and biological “status”: A comparison of grave goods and skeletal indicators from Pontecagnano. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 115(3). 213–222. 93 indexed citations

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