Mark Lake

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
23 papers, 939 citations indexed

About

Mark Lake is a scholar working on Finance, Sociology and Political Science and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, Mark Lake has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 939 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Finance, 5 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 4 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in Mark Lake's work include Stochastic processes and financial applications (6 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (5 papers) and Language and cultural evolution (4 papers). Mark Lake is often cited by papers focused on Stochastic processes and financial applications (6 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (5 papers) and Language and cultural evolution (4 papers). Mark Lake collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Spain. Mark Lake's co-authors include James Conolly, Enrico R. Crema, Andrew Bevan, Steven Mithen, André Costopoulos, Jane Cullum, Ralph A. Willoughby, Stephen Shennan, R. Alexander Bentley and Leif B. G. Andersen and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Archaeological Science, Environment and Planning B Planning and Design and Antiquity.

In The Last Decade

Mark Lake

22 papers receiving 852 citations

Hit Papers

Geographical Information Systems in Archaeology 2006 2026 2012 2019 2006 100 200 300 400
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. Geographical Information Systems in Archaeology
    2006 421 citations James Conolly, Mark Lake Cambridge University Press eBooks profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Mark Lake United Kingdom 12 377 234 219 204 105 23 939
Gary Lock United Kingdom 18 436 1.2× 257 1.1× 245 1.1× 192 0.9× 76 0.7× 59 1.2k
Mark Gillings United Kingdom 14 452 1.2× 319 1.4× 298 1.4× 280 1.4× 109 1.0× 45 1.1k
W. Fredrick Limp United States 7 332 0.9× 137 0.6× 192 0.9× 120 0.6× 109 1.0× 17 709
Jeffrey H. Altschul United States 13 337 0.9× 159 0.7× 190 0.9× 178 0.9× 39 0.4× 41 675
Kenneth L. Kvamme United States 18 431 1.1× 184 0.8× 283 1.3× 281 1.4× 43 0.4× 50 1.0k
Herbert D. G. Maschner United States 18 714 1.9× 228 1.0× 417 1.9× 128 0.6× 93 0.9× 47 1.4k
Juan Antonio Barceló Spain 15 254 0.7× 200 0.9× 164 0.7× 104 0.5× 30 0.3× 101 869
Clive Orton United Kingdom 16 612 1.6× 417 1.8× 442 2.0× 111 0.5× 37 0.4× 38 1.2k
Christopher T. Fisher United States 13 369 1.0× 88 0.4× 125 0.6× 298 1.5× 58 0.6× 31 777
Philip Verhagen Netherlands 12 180 0.5× 97 0.4× 69 0.3× 179 0.9× 53 0.5× 46 497

Countries citing papers authored by Mark Lake

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Fields of papers citing papers by Mark Lake

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mark Lake

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Crema, Enrico R., Eugenio Bortolini, & Mark Lake. (2023). How Cultural Transmission Through Objects Impacts Inferences About Cultural Evolution. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory. 31(1). 202–226. 4 indexed citations
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Andersen, Leif B. G. & Mark Lake. (2023). High-Performance Applications of the Non-Uniform Fast Fourier Transform to Option Pricing. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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Andersen, Leif B. G. & Mark Lake. (2021). Fast American Option Pricing: The Double‐Boundary Case. Wilmott. 2021(116). 30–41.
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Andersen, Leif B. G., et al.. (2016). High-performance American option pricing. The Journal of Computational Finance. 39–87. 9 indexed citations
5.
Crema, Enrico R. & Mark Lake. (2015). Cultural Incubators and Spread of Innovation. Human Biology. 87(3). 151–151. 4 indexed citations
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Andersen, Leif B. G., et al.. (2015). High Performance American Option Pricing. SSRN Electronic Journal. 4 indexed citations
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Lake, Mark. (2013). Trends in Archaeological Simulation. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory. 21(2). 258–287. 84 indexed citations
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Lake, Mark. (2012). Open archaeology. World Archaeology. 44(4). 471–478. 36 indexed citations
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Lake, Mark & Enrico R. Crema. (2011). THE CULTURAL EVOLUTION OF ADAPTIVE-TRAIT DIVERSITY WHEN RESOURCES ARE UNCERTAIN AND FINITE. Advances in Complex Systems. 15(01n02). 1150013–1150013. 11 indexed citations
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Costopoulos, André & Mark Lake. (2010). Simulating change : archaeology into the twenty-first century. University of Utah Press eBooks. 32 indexed citations
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Crema, Enrico R., Andrew Bevan, & Mark Lake. (2009). A probabilistic framework for assessing spatio-temporal point patterns in the archaeological record. Journal of Archaeological Science. 37(5). 1118–1130. 77 indexed citations
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Lake, Mark. (2007). Viewing space. World Archaeology. 39(1). 1–3. 8 indexed citations
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Conolly, James & Mark Lake. (2006). Geographical Information Systems in Archaeology. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 421 indexed citations breakdown →
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Bentley, R. Alexander, Mark Lake, & Stephen Shennan. (2005). Specialisation and wealth inequality in a model of a clustered economic network. Journal of Archaeological Science. 32(9). 1346–1356. 22 indexed citations
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Lake, Mark, et al.. (2003). Visibility Studies in Archaeology: A Review and Case Study. Environment and Planning B Planning and Design. 30(5). 689–707. 67 indexed citations
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Lake, Mark. (2001). The Use of Pedestrian Modelling in Archaeology, with an Example from the Study of Cultural Learning. Environment and Planning B Planning and Design. 28(3). 385–403. 14 indexed citations
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Lake, Mark, et al.. (1998). Tailoring GIS Software for Archaeological Applications: An Example Concerning Viewshed Analysis. Journal of Archaeological Science. 25(1). 27–38. 88 indexed citations
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Lake, Mark. (1997). Darwinian archaeology: an ‘ism’ for our times?. Antiquity. 71(274). 1086–1088. 2 indexed citations
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Mithen, Steven, Bill Finlayson, Nyree Finlay, & Mark Lake. (1992). Excavations at Bolsay Farm, a Mesolithic Settlement on Islay. Cambridge Archaeological Journal. 2(2). 242–253. 9 indexed citations
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Cullum, Jane, Ralph A. Willoughby, & Mark Lake. (1983). A Lanczos Algorithm for Computing Singular Values and Vectors of Large Matrices. SIAM Journal on Scientific and Statistical Computing. 4(2). 197–215. 24 indexed citations

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