Les Kinsley

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
16 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Les Kinsley is a scholar working on Paleontology, Anthropology and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Les Kinsley has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Paleontology, 6 papers in Anthropology and 6 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Les Kinsley's work include Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (6 papers), Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (5 papers) and Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (4 papers). Les Kinsley is often cited by papers focused on Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (6 papers), Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (5 papers) and Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (4 papers). Les Kinsley collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United Kingdom and France. Les Kinsley's co-authors include Malcolm T. McCulloch, Rainer Grün, Maxime Aubert, Budianto Hakim, Thomas Sutikna, Adam Brumm, Anthony Dosseto, Mohd Syakirin Ramli, Gerrit D. van den Bergh and M.J. Morwood and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Les Kinsley

15 papers receiving 1.0k citations

Hit Papers

Pleistocene cave art from Sulawesi, Indonesia 2014 2026 2018 2022 2014 100 200 300
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.

  1. Pleistocene cave art from Sulawesi, Indonesia
    2014 318 citations Maxime Aubert, Adam Brumm et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Les Kinsley Australia 14 399 354 257 252 227 16 1.1k
Nicolas Rolland Canada 18 610 1.5× 585 1.7× 259 1.0× 195 0.8× 383 1.7× 40 1.3k
Amy L. Prendergast Australia 19 237 0.6× 311 0.9× 191 0.7× 361 1.4× 627 2.8× 36 1.2k
Alexander Cherkinsky United States 20 440 1.1× 760 2.1× 197 0.8× 520 2.1× 449 2.0× 101 1.4k
Renaud Joannes‐Boyau Australia 20 770 1.9× 738 2.1× 545 2.1× 203 0.8× 296 1.3× 62 1.6k
David Wright South Korea 18 385 1.0× 333 0.9× 110 0.4× 159 0.6× 485 2.1× 60 1.0k
Charlotte Pearson United States 19 426 1.1× 711 2.0× 336 1.3× 313 1.2× 1.1k 4.7× 53 1.9k
Jean‐Jacques Delannoy France 20 515 1.3× 442 1.2× 270 1.1× 168 0.7× 600 2.6× 118 1.4k
Keith M. Prufer United States 24 409 1.0× 1000 2.8× 214 0.8× 280 1.1× 842 3.7× 53 2.0k
Gretel Boswijk New Zealand 17 439 1.1× 649 1.8× 171 0.7× 341 1.4× 1.2k 5.1× 48 1.8k
John R. Prescott Australia 11 308 0.8× 270 0.8× 127 0.5× 160 0.6× 450 2.0× 18 816

Countries citing papers authored by Les Kinsley

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Fields of papers citing papers by Les Kinsley

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Les Kinsley. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Les Kinsley. The network helps show where Les Kinsley may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Les Kinsley

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

All Works

16 of 16 papers shown
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Dosseto, Anthony, A. Martin, Jan­‐Hendrik May, et al.. (2025). Late Quaternary variability in sediment residence time and provenance in the Gulf of Carpentaria, northern Australia. Quaternary Science Reviews. 366. 109529–109529.
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Moffat, Ian, Malte Willmes, Graham Mortimer, et al.. (2020). Bioavailable soil and rock strontium isotope data from Israel. Earth system science data. 12(4). 3641–3652. 13 indexed citations
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Lewis, Stephen, Janice Lough, Neal E. Cantin, et al.. (2018). A critical evaluation of coral Ba/Ca, Mn/Ca and Y/Ca ratios as indicators of terrestrial input: New data from the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 237. 131–154. 36 indexed citations
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Chase, Zanna, Taryn L. Noble, Helen Bostock, et al.. (2017). Export production in the New-Zealand region since the Last Glacial Maximum. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 469. 110–122. 16 indexed citations
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Kaifu, Yousuke, Masanaru Takai, Reiko T. Kono, et al.. (2015). The first archaic Homo from Taiwan. Nature Communications. 6(1). 623–624. 60 indexed citations
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Aubert, Maxime, Adam Brumm, Mohd Syakirin Ramli, et al.. (2014). Pleistocene cave art from Sulawesi, Indonesia. Nature. 514(7521). 223–227. 318 indexed citations breakdown →
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Faivre, Jean-Philippe, Bruno Maureille, Priscilla Bayle, et al.. (2014). Middle Pleistocene Human Remains from Tourville-la-Rivière (Normandy, France) and Their Archaeological Context. PLoS ONE. 9(10). e104111–e104111. 19 indexed citations
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Schneider, Larissa, William A. Maher, Richard C. Vogt, et al.. (2014). An evaluation of the use of reptile dermal scutes as a non-invasive method to monitor mercury concentrations in the environment. Chemosphere. 119. 163–170. 42 indexed citations
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Stern, Nicola, Ian S. Williams, Les Kinsley, et al.. (2014). Fish otolith geochemistry, environmental conditions and human occupation at Lake Mungo, Australia. Quaternary Science Reviews. 88. 82–95. 34 indexed citations
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Willmes, Malte, Ian Moffat, Rainer Grün, et al.. (2013). The IRHUM database - bioavailable strontium isotope ratios of France for geochemical fingerprinting. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 2 indexed citations
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Storm, Paul, Rachel Wood, Chris Stringer, et al.. (2013). U-series and radiocarbon analyses of human and faunal remains from Wajak, Indonesia. Journal of Human Evolution. 64(5). 356–365. 70 indexed citations
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Kinsley, Les, Malte Willmes, Alban Defleur, et al.. (2013). Laser ablation depth profiling of U-series and Sr isotopes in human fossils. Journal of Archaeological Science. 40(7). 2991–3000. 29 indexed citations
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Aubert, Maxime, Alistair Pike, Chris Stringer, et al.. (2012). Confirmation of a late middle Pleistocene age for the Omo Kibish 1 cranium by direct uranium-series dating. Journal of Human Evolution. 63(5). 704–710. 26 indexed citations
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Eggins, Stephen M., Rainer Grün, Malcolm T. McCulloch, et al.. (2005). In situ U-series dating by laser-ablation multi-collector ICPMS: new prospects for Quaternary geochronology. Quaternary Science Reviews. 24(23-24). 2523–2538. 217 indexed citations
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Alibert, Y., Les Kinsley, Stewart Fallon, et al.. (2003). Source of trace element variability in Great Barrier Reef corals affected by the Burdekin flood plumes. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. 67(2). 231–246. 148 indexed citations
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Norman, M. D., Vickie C. Bennett, Malcolm T. McCulloch, & Les Kinsley. (2002). Osmium isotopic compositions by vapor phase sample introduction using a multi-collector ICP-MS. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry. 17(10). 1394–1397. 23 indexed citations

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