M. J. C. Walker

5.0k total citations · 3 hit papers
48 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

M. J. C. Walker is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Anthropology and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, M. J. C. Walker has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Atmospheric Science, 20 papers in Anthropology and 18 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in M. J. C. Walker's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (39 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (20 papers) and Isotope Analysis in Ecology (16 papers). M. J. C. Walker is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (39 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (20 papers) and Isotope Analysis in Ecology (16 papers). M. J. C. Walker collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Denmark and United States. M. J. C. Walker's co-authors include J. John Lowe, Philip L. Gibbard, T. C. Atkinson, Les C. Cwynar, Svante Björck, Martin J. Head, Barbara Wohlfarth, S. J. Johnsen, Karen-Luise Knudsen and G. Russell Coope and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, New Phytologist and Journal of Ecology.

In The Last Decade

M. J. C. Walker

47 papers receiving 3.5k 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.

An event stratigraphy for the Last Termination in the North Atlantic region based on the Greenland ice-core record: a proposal by the INTIMATE group

1998 742 citations Svante Björck, M. J. C. Walker et al. Journal of Quaternary Science profile →
Formal ratification of the Quaternary System/Period and the Pleistocene Series/Epoch with a base at 2.58 Ma

2010 524 citations Philip L. Gibbard, M. J. C. Walker et al. Journal of Quaternary Science profile →
Reconstructing Quaternary Environments.

1985 436 citations J. John Lowe, M. J. C. Walker et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
M. J. C. Walker United Kingdom	27	3.1k	1.4k	1.1k	993	874	48	3.8k
Mike Walker United Kingdom	26	3.0k 1.0×	1.4k 1.0×	1.2k 1.1×	818 0.8×	848 1.0×	70	3.9k
Sander van der Kaars Australia	41	3.2k 1.0×	1.2k 0.9×	1.1k 1.0×	888 0.9×	1.3k 1.4×	78	4.9k
D. Q. Bowen United Kingdom	29	2.6k 0.8×	1.1k 0.8×	695 0.7×	1.2k 1.2×	623 0.7×	66	3.0k
J. H. Kramers Switzerland	17	3.3k 1.1×	827 0.6×	968 0.9×	1.2k 1.2×	854 1.0×	32	3.9k
S.J.P. Bohncke Netherlands	36	2.9k 0.9×	973 0.7×	697 0.7×	1.3k 1.3×	994 1.1×	79	3.3k
Anne‐Marie Lézine France	40	3.1k 1.0×	1.3k 0.9×	954 0.9×	1.1k 1.1×	711 0.8×	102	4.3k
J. M. Bowler Australia	31	2.4k 0.8×	1.1k 0.8×	1.1k 1.1×	1.2k 1.3×	995 1.1×	50	4.5k
Henry F. Lamb United Kingdom	42	3.4k 1.1×	1.1k 0.8×	1.3k 1.2×	963 1.0×	1.1k 1.3×	105	4.7k
Wim Z. Hoek Netherlands	30	2.7k 0.9×	1.2k 0.8×	844 0.8×	1000 1.0×	818 0.9×	85	3.1k
Rolf W. Mathewes Canada	43	3.7k 1.2×	919 0.7×	1.1k 1.1×	845 0.9×	1.5k 1.7×	143	5.3k

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Edgeworth, Matt, Andrew M. Bauer, Erle C. Ellis, et al.. (2024). The Anthropocene Is More Than a Time Interval. Earth s Future. 12(7). 8 indexed citations

Walker, M. J. C., Andrew M. Bauer, Matt Edgeworth, et al.. (2023). The Anthropocene is best understood as an ongoing, intensifying, diachronous event. Boreas. 53(1). 1–3. 11 indexed citations

Edgeworth, Matt, Philip L. Gibbard, M. J. C. Walker, et al.. (2023). The stratigraphic basis of the Anthropocene Event. Quaternary Science Advances. 11. 100088–100088. 8 indexed citations

Gibbard, Philip L., M. J. C. Walker, Andrew M. Bauer, et al.. (2022). The Anthropocene as an Event, not an Epoch. Journal of Quaternary Science. 37(3). 395–399. 72 indexed citations

Edwards, Lucy E., Andrew M. Bauer, Matt Edgeworth, et al.. (2022). The Anthropocene serves science better as an event, rather than an epoch. Journal of Quaternary Science. 37(7). 1188–1188. 12 indexed citations

Walker, M. J. C.. (2005). Quaternary Dating Methods. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 295 indexed citations

Lowe, J. John & M. J. C. Walker. (2000). Radiocarbon Dating the Last Glacial-Interglacial Transition (Ca. 14–9¹⁴C Ka Bp) in Terrestrial and Marine Records: The Need for New Quality Assurance Protocols. Radiocarbon. 42(1). 53–68. 89 indexed citations

Turney, Chris, G. Russell Coope, D. D. Harkness, J. John Lowe, & M. J. C. Walker. (2000). Implications for the Dating of Wisconsinan (Weichselian) Late-Glacial Events of Systematic Radiocarbon Age Differences between Terrestrial Plant Macrofossils from a Site in SW Ireland. Quaternary Research. 53(1). 114–121. 78 indexed citations

Auton, Clive, John E. Gordon, J.W. Merritt, & M. J. C. Walker. (2000). The glacial and interstadial sediments at the Burn of Benholm, Kincardineshire: evidence for onshore pre-Devensian ice movement in northeast Scotland. Journal of Quaternary Science. 15(2). 141–156. 8 indexed citations

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Walker, M. J. C., Svante Björck, J. John Lowe, et al.. (1999). Isotopic ‘events’ in the GRIP ice core: a stratotype for the Late Pleistocene. Quaternary Science Reviews. 18(10-11). 1143–1150. 258 indexed citations

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Lowe, J. John, Brigitta Ammann, Hilary H. Birks, et al.. (1994). Climatic changes in areas adjacent to the North Atlantic during the last glacial‐interglacial transition (14‐9 ka BP): A contribution to IGCP‐253. Journal of Quaternary Science. 9(2). 185–198. 157 indexed citations

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Walker, M. J. C., Colin K. Ballantyne, J. John Lowe, & D. G. Sutherland. (1988). A reinterpretation of the Lateglacial environmental history of the Isle of Skye, Inner Hebrides, Scotland. Journal of Quaternary Science. 3(2). 135–146. 55 indexed citations

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Dawson, Alastair G., J. John Lowe, & M. J. C. Walker. (1987). The nature and age of the debris accumulation at Gribun, Western Mull, Inner Hebrides. Scottish Journal of Geology. 23(2). 149–162. 11 indexed citations

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Lowe, J. John & M. J. C. Walker. (1986). FLANDRIAN ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY OF THE ISLE OF MULL, SCOTLAND. New Phytologist. 103(2). 417–436. 17 indexed citations

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Walker, M. J. C., et al.. (1984). Excavaciones arqueológicas en El Prado, Jumilla (Murcia).

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Sutherland, D. G. & M. J. C. Walker. (1984). A late Devensian ice-free area and possible interglacial site on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland. Nature. 309(5970). 701–703. 38 indexed citations

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Walker, M. J. C.. (1982). EARLY‐AND MID‐FLANDRIAN ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY OF THE BRECON BEACONS, SOUTH WALES. New Phytologist. 91(1). 147–165. 18 indexed citations

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Walker, M. J. C. & J. John Lowe. (1979). Postglacial Environmental History of Rannoch Moor, Scotland. II. Pollen Diagrams and Radiocarbon Dates from the Rannoch Station and Corrour Areas. Journal of Biogeography. 6(4). 349–349. 31 indexed citations

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Walker, M. J. C. & J. John Lowe. (1977). Postglacial Environmental History of Rannoch Moor, Scotland. I. Three Pollen Diagrams from the Kingshouse Area. Journal of Biogeography. 4(4). 333–333. 38 indexed citations

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Walker, M. J. C.. (1973). The Nature and Origin of a Series of Elongated Ridges in the Morley Flats Area of the Bow Valley, Alberta. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 10(8). 1340–1346. 15 indexed citations

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