Loukas Barton

4.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
34 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Loukas Barton is a scholar working on Paleontology, Geography, Planning and Development and Anthropology. According to data from OpenAlex, Loukas Barton has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Paleontology, 17 papers in Geography, Planning and Development and 15 papers in Anthropology. Recurrent topics in Loukas Barton's work include Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (19 papers), Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (15 papers) and Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (13 papers). Loukas Barton is often cited by papers focused on Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (19 papers), Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (15 papers) and Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (13 papers). Loukas Barton collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and United Kingdom. Loukas Barton's co-authors include Fahu Chen, Robert L. Bettinger, Chengbang An, Christopher Morgan, T. P. Guilderson, Hui Wang, Seth D. Newsome, Lingyu Tang, Guanghui Dong and Zhijun Zhao and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Loukas Barton

33 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.

Agriculture facilitated permanent human occupation of the Tibetan Plateau after 3600 B.P.

2014 516 citations Fahu Chen, Guanghui Dong et al. Science profile →
Agricultural origins and the isotopic identity of domestication in northern China

2009 391 citations Loukas Barton, Fahu Chen et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Loukas Barton United States	17	1.2k	830	803	674	365	34	2.2k
Xin Jia China	17	955 0.8×	571 0.7×	723 0.9×	597 0.9×	189 0.5×	68	1.6k
Susan D. deFrance United States	20	890 0.7×	455 0.5×	245 0.3×	437 0.6×	403 1.1×	50	1.4k
Savino di Lernia Italy	22	801 0.7×	807 1.0×	288 0.4×	139 0.2×	136 0.4×	83	1.8k
Paul C. Buckland United Kingdom	28	737 0.6×	366 0.4×	1.1k 1.3×	85 0.1×	422 1.2×	113	2.1k
Nick Porch Australia	18	624 0.5×	225 0.3×	317 0.4×	330 0.5×	583 1.6×	49	2.0k
Graeme Barker United Kingdom	26	879 0.7×	646 0.8×	508 0.6×	158 0.2×	345 0.9×	114	2.0k
Michael Charles United Kingdom	32	2.1k 1.8×	640 0.8×	462 0.6×	829 1.2×	1.0k 2.8×	76	3.5k
Thegn N. Ladefoged New Zealand	28	1.0k 0.8×	234 0.3×	274 0.3×	1.5k 2.2×	892 2.4×	88	2.0k
Fred Wendorf United States	27	1.1k 0.9×	1.2k 1.4×	564 0.7×	83 0.1×	236 0.6×	98	2.3k
Hikaru Takahara Japan	21	290 0.2×	308 0.4×	894 1.1×	116 0.2×	430 1.2×	67	1.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Loukas Barton

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20 of 20 papers shown

Rosen, Arlene M., et al.. (2025). Wetlands and grasslands: Habitat choice of hunters and herders across the transition to mobile pastoralism in Mongolia’s desert-steppe. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology. 79. 101685–101685.

Morgan, Christopher, Jamsranjav Bayarsaikhan, Tumurbaatar Tuvshinjargal, & Loukas Barton. (2022). Paleolakes, archaeology, and late Quaternary paleoenvironments in northwestern Mongolia. Quaternary Research. 109. 1–15. 3 indexed citations

Berger, Elizabeth, Katherine Brunson, Brett Kaufman, et al.. (2021). Human adaptation to Holocene environments: Perspectives and promise from China. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology. 63. 101326–101326. 11 indexed citations

Barton, Loukas, et al.. (2020). The earliest farmers of northwest China exploited grain-fed pheasants not chickens. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 2556–2556. 16 indexed citations

Barton, Loukas, et al.. (2018). Hunter-Gatherer Adaptation in the Deserts of Northern Patagonia. D-Scholarship@Pitt (University of Pittsburgh). 5 indexed citations

Morgan, Christopher, Loukas Barton, & Robert L. Bettinger. (2017). Looking for behavioral modernity in Pleistocene northwestern China. Archaeological Research in Asia. 17. 70–78. 10 indexed citations

Clark, Julia, et al.. (2016). The Logic of Ceramic Technology in Marginal Environments: Implications for Mobile Life. American Antiquity. 81(4). 645–663. 10 indexed citations

Gremillion, Kristen J., Loukas Barton, & Dolores R. Piperno. (2014). Particularism and the retreat from theory in the archaeology of agricultural origins. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(17). 6171–6177. 86 indexed citations

Barton, Loukas & Chengbang An. (2014). An evaluation of competing hypotheses for the early adoption of wheat in East Asia. World Archaeology. 46(5). 775–798. 58 indexed citations

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Chen, Fahu, Guanghui Dong, Xin Jia, et al.. (2014). Agriculture facilitated permanent human occupation of the Tibetan Plateau after 3600 B.P.. Science. 347(6219). 248–250. 516 indexed citations breakdown →

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An, Chengbang, et al.. (2013). Correspondence regarding “Origin and spread of wheat in China” by Dodson, J.R., Li, X., Zhou, X., Zhao, K., Sun, N., Atahan, P. (2013), Quaternary Science Reviews 72, 108–111. Quaternary Science Reviews. 81. 148–149. 9 indexed citations

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Barton, Loukas, et al.. (2011). Archaeological survey - Chignik-Meshik Rivers Region, AK: a report on a 2010 CESU agreement.. D-Scholarship@Pitt (University of Pittsburgh). 1 indexed citations

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Barton, Loukas. (2011). A review of Corbett, West, and Lefevre (eds.), 2010, "People at the End of the World: the Wester Aleutians Project and the Archaeology of Shemya Island. D-Scholarship@Pitt (University of Pittsburgh). 2 indexed citations

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Bettinger, Robert L., Loukas Barton, Christopher Morgan, et al.. (2010). The Transition to Agriculture at Dadiwan, People’s Republic of China. Current Anthropology. 51(5). 703–714. 52 indexed citations

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Chen, Fahu, Robert L. Bettinger, Loukas Barton, et al.. (2010). Archaeological records of Dadiwan in the past 60 ka and the origin of millet agriculture. Chinese Science Bulletin. 55(16). 1636–1642. 41 indexed citations

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Rao, Zhiguo, Zhaoyu Zhu, Guodong Jia, et al.. (2010). Relationship between climatic conditions and the relative abundance of modern C3 and C4 plants in three regions around the North Pacific. Chinese Science Bulletin. 55(18). 1931–1936. 42 indexed citations

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Barton, Loukas, Christopher Morgan, & Robert L. Bettinger. (2009). Harvests for the hunters: the origins of food production in arid northern China. D-Scholarship@Pitt (University of Pittsburgh). 3 indexed citations

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Barton, Loukas. (2005). Origins of Culture: Functional and Symbolic Uses of Ochre. Current Anthropology. 46(4). 499. 8 indexed citations

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Barton, Loukas, et al.. (2005). Dry or humid? Mid-Holocene humidity changes in arid and semi-arid China. Quaternary Science Reviews. 25(3-4). 351–361. 168 indexed citations

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An, Chengbang, Lingyu Tang, Loukas Barton, & Fahu Chen. (2005). Climate change and cultural response around 4000 cal yr B.P. in the western part of Chinese Loess Plateau. Quaternary Research. 63(3). 347–352. 218 indexed citations

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