Mathieu Duval

5.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
121 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Mathieu Duval is a scholar working on Anthropology, Atmospheric Science and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, Mathieu Duval has authored 121 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 67 papers in Anthropology, 61 papers in Atmospheric Science and 60 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in Mathieu Duval's work include Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (66 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (61 papers) and Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (47 papers). Mathieu Duval is often cited by papers focused on Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (66 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (61 papers) and Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (47 papers). Mathieu Duval collaborates with scholars based in Spain, Australia and France. Mathieu Duval's co-authors include Lee J. Arnold, Christophe Falguères, Rainer Grün, Jean‐Jacques Bahain, Verónica Guilarte, Martina Demuro, Alfredo Pérez‐González, Josep M. Parés, Manuel Santonja and José Marı́a Bermúdez de Castro and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Mathieu Duval

114 papers receiving 3.0k citations

Hit Papers

The oldest human fossil in Europe, from Orce (Spain) 2013 2026 2017 2021 2013 2017 50 100 150 200
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. The oldest human fossil in Europe, from Orce (Spain)
    2013 208 citations Mathieu Duval, Christophe Falguères et al. profile →
  2. The age of Homo naledi and associated sediments in the Rising Star Cave, South Africa
    2017 193 citations Paul H.G.M. Dirks, Eric M. Roberts et al. eLife profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Mathieu Duval Spain 33 2.0k 1.8k 1.3k 982 436 121 3.1k
Pierre Voinchet France 38 2.6k 1.3× 2.4k 1.3× 1.8k 1.4× 1.2k 1.2× 378 0.9× 129 3.9k
W.J. Rink Canada 33 1.6k 0.8× 1.6k 0.9× 1.3k 1.0× 898 0.9× 460 1.1× 112 3.4k
Alistair Pike United Kingdom 31 1.7k 0.8× 1.8k 1.0× 648 0.5× 1.5k 1.5× 349 0.8× 82 3.3k
Lee J. Arnold Australia 37 2.4k 1.2× 2.2k 1.2× 3.0k 2.3× 911 0.9× 931 2.1× 131 4.7k
Martina Demuro Australia 27 1.3k 0.7× 1.2k 0.7× 1.2k 0.9× 535 0.5× 402 0.9× 66 2.1k
Thomas Tütken Germany 39 923 0.5× 2.4k 1.3× 979 0.7× 636 0.6× 1.4k 3.2× 110 3.8k
Peter Ditchfıeld United Kingdom 38 2.5k 1.3× 3.2k 1.7× 1.7k 1.3× 1.4k 1.4× 1.1k 2.5× 99 5.1k
Qingfeng Shao China 23 1.1k 0.6× 1.1k 0.6× 954 0.7× 433 0.4× 279 0.6× 115 1.7k
Jean‐Jacques Bahain France 49 5.0k 2.5× 4.5k 2.5× 3.2k 2.4× 2.3k 2.4× 704 1.6× 252 7.3k
Christophe Falguères France 51 5.0k 2.5× 4.6k 2.5× 3.2k 2.4× 2.5k 2.6× 817 1.9× 227 7.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Mathieu Duval

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Fields of papers citing papers by Mathieu Duval

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mathieu Duval

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All Works

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Blinkhorn, James, Sarah Elliott, Christopher A. Kiahtipes, et al.. (2025). Humans in Africa’s wet tropical forests 150 thousand years ago. Nature. 640(8058). 402–407. 2 indexed citations
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Duval, Mathieu, Toshiyuki Fujioka, J. M. Parés, et al.. (2025). New chronological constraints for the Plio-Pleistocene section of Dhar Iroumyane (Morocco) and the associated fossil locality of Guefaït-4. Quaternary Science Reviews. 369. 109610–109610. 1 indexed citations
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Demuro, Martina, José E. Ortíz, Mathieu Duval, et al.. (2024). Constraining the age of the Pleistocene sedimentary infill of Cueva Mayor (Atapuerca, N Spain) through a multi-technique dating approach. Quaternary Geochronology. 83. 101576–101576. 1 indexed citations
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Niang, Khady, James Blinkhorn, Alicia Medialdea, et al.. (2024). Constraining the age of the Middle Stone Age locality of Bargny (Senegal) through a combined OSL-ESR dating approach. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(6). 100044–100044. 1 indexed citations
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Duval, Mathieu, Lee J. Arnold, Jean‐Jacques Bahain, et al.. (2024). Re-examining the earliest evidence of human presence in western Europe: New dating results from Pirro Nord (Italy). Quaternary Geochronology. 82. 101519–101519. 9 indexed citations
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Prado, José Luís, Mathieu Duval, Martina Demuro, et al.. (2024). Refining the chronology of Middle/Late Pleistocene fossil assemblages in the Argentine Pampas. Quaternary Science Reviews. 344. 108958–108958. 2 indexed citations
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Bateman, Mark D., et al.. (2024). Extending the ESR and OSL dating comparison on coastal dune deposits from the Wilderness-Knysna area (South Africa). Quaternary Geochronology. 83. 101580–101580.
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Hilbert, Yamandú H., et al.. (2024). Evidence of Middle Palaeolithic human occupation in south-central Oman. Antiquity. 99(404). 1 indexed citations
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Duttine, Mathieu, et al.. (2023). How to measure the ESR intensity of the Al centre in optically bleached coarse quartz grains for dating purpose?. Radiation Physics and Chemistry. 214. 111307–111307. 3 indexed citations
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Louys, Julien, Mathieu Duval, Gilbert J. Price, et al.. (2022). Speleological and environmental history of Lida Ajer cave, western Sumatra. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 377(1849). 20200494–20200494. 13 indexed citations
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Duval, Mathieu, Kira Westaway, Jahdi Zaim, et al.. (2021). New Chronological Constraints for the Late Pleistocene Fossil Assemblage and Associated Breccia from Ngalau Sampit, Sumatra. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 7. 4 indexed citations
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Stewart, Mathew, Richard Clark‐Wilson, Paul S. Breeze, et al.. (2020). Human footprints provide snapshot of last interglacial ecology in the Arabian interior. Science Advances. 6(38). 33 indexed citations
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Guilarte, Verónica & Mathieu Duval. (2020). ESR Dating of Optically Bleached Quartz Grains: Assessing the Impact of Different Experimental Setups on Dose Evaluations. Geochronometria. 48(1). 179–190. 8 indexed citations
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Méndez‐Quintas, Eduardo, Manuel Santonja, Alfredo Pérez‐González, et al.. (2018). First evidence of an extensive Acheulean large cutting tool accumulation in Europe from Porto Maior (Galicia, Spain). Scientific Reports. 8(1). 3082–3082. 70 indexed citations
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Duval, Mathieu, Jean‐Jacques Bahain, Melanie Bartz, et al.. (2017). Defining minimum reporting requirements for ESR dating of optically bleached quartz grains. Ancient TL. 35(1). 11–19. 5 indexed citations
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Joannes‐Boyau, Renaud, Mathieu Duval, & Thomas Bodin. (2017). MCDoseE 2.0 A new Markov Chain Monte Carlo program for ESR dose response curve fitting and dose evaluation. Quaternary Geochronology. 44. 13–22. 10 indexed citations
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Dirks, Paul H.G.M., Eric M. Roberts, Hannah L. Hilbert‐Wolf, et al.. (2017). The age of Homo naledi and associated sediments in the Rising Star Cave, South Africa. eLife. 6. 193 indexed citations breakdown →
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