Michael P. Richards

27.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
352 papers, 15.2k citations indexed

About

Michael P. Richards is a scholar working on Paleontology, Ecology and Anthropology. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael P. Richards has authored 352 papers receiving a total of 15.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 249 papers in Paleontology, 182 papers in Ecology and 126 papers in Anthropology. Recurrent topics in Michael P. Richards's work include Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (247 papers), Isotope Analysis in Ecology (172 papers) and Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (120 papers). Michael P. Richards is often cited by papers focused on Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (247 papers), Isotope Analysis in Ecology (172 papers) and Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (120 papers). Michael P. Richards collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Canada and United Kingdom. Michael P. Richards's co-authors include R.E.M. Hedges, Benjamin T. Fuller, Olaf Nehlich, Rick Schulting, Erik Trinkaus, Gundula Müldner, Jean‐Jacques Hublin, Simon Mays, Paul Pettitt and Benjamin T. Fuller and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Michael P. Richards

344 papers receiving 14.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Stable Isotope Evidence for Similarities in the Types of Marine Foods Used by Late Mesolithic Humans at Sites Along the Atlantic Coast of Europe

1999 629 citations Michael P. Richards et al. Journal of Archaeological Science profile →
Fermented beverages of pre- and proto-historic China

2004 564 citations Michael P. Richards et al. profile →
Neanderthals in central Asia and Siberia

2007 225 citations Michael P. Richards, Jean‐Jacques Hublin et al. profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
Michael P. Richards	10.7k	6.4k	5.5k	5.5k	3.7k	352	15.2k
Hervé Bocherens	7.8k 0.7×	5.9k 0.9×	5.9k 1.1×	2.9k 0.5×	1.4k 0.4×	249	11.1k
Stanley H. Ambrose	6.8k 0.6×	4.6k 0.7×	4.6k 0.8×	2.8k 0.5×	2.4k 0.6×	109	10.3k
Thomas Higham	10.4k 1.0×	3.0k 0.5×	8.7k 1.6×	6.1k 1.1×	2.3k 0.6×	318	16.9k
Julia A. Lee‐Thorp	7.7k 0.7×	5.3k 0.8×	5.8k 1.0×	3.1k 0.6×	1.7k 0.4×	177	13.3k
Margaret J. Schoeninger	6.0k 0.6×	4.5k 0.7×	2.8k 0.5×	2.9k 0.5×	2.3k 0.6×	83	8.6k
Jon M. Erlandson	4.3k 0.4×	7.3k 1.2×	2.9k 0.5×	1.8k 0.3×	1.6k 0.4×	237	13.9k
Dorian Q. Fuller	5.7k 0.5×	1.8k 0.3×	3.7k 0.7×	1.7k 0.3×	3.8k 1.0×	232	15.5k
Judith Sealy	4.2k 0.4×	2.4k 0.4×	3.2k 0.6×	2.1k 0.4×	1.2k 0.3×	120	6.4k
T. Douglas Price	6.3k 0.6×	2.1k 0.3×	3.1k 0.6×	4.0k 0.7×	1.7k 0.5×	148	8.1k
R. Lee Lyman	4.8k 0.5×	2.0k 0.3×	4.8k 0.9×	2.4k 0.4×	509 0.1×	246	9.8k

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Guiry, Eric, et al.. (2025). Pigs, people, and proximity: a 6000-year isotopic record of pig management in Ireland. Royal Society Open Science. 12(2). 241300–241300. 1 indexed citations

Craig, Oliver E., Sophy Charlton, Kate Britton, et al.. (2025). High‐resolution compound‐specific δ¹⁵N isotope dietary study of humans from the Scottish Mesolithic and Neolithic. Archaeometry. 67(5). 1309–1326.

Karavanić, Ivor, et al.. (2024). High-resolution dietary analysis of the Late Upper Paleolithic Šandalja II (Croatia) humans confirms an aquatic food diet. Journal of Archaeological Science Reports. 53. 104364–104364.

Hebda, Richard J., Parker D. Trask, Victoria M. Arbour, et al.. (2024). Survival of mammoths (Mammuthus sp.) into the Late Pleistocene in Southwestern British Columbia (Vancouver Island), Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 61(8). 843–854. 1 indexed citations

Britton, Kate, Maël Le Corre, William Rendu, et al.. (2023). Multi-isotope analysis of bone collagen of Late Pleistocene ungulates reveals niche partitioning and behavioural plasticity of reindeer during MIS 3. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 15722–15722. 10 indexed citations

Neer, Wim Van, Benjamin T. Fuller, Geraldine E. Fahy, et al.. (2023). Early Byzantine fish consumption and trade revealed by archaeoichthyology and isotopic analysis at Sagalassos, Turkey. Journal of Archaeological Science Reports. 53. 104322–104322. 1 indexed citations

Schulting, Rick, Rebecca Macdonald, & Michael P. Richards. (2022). FRUITS of the sea? A cautionary tale regarding Bayesian modelling of palaeodiets using stable isotope data. Quaternary International. 650. 52–61. 14 indexed citations

McCormack, Jeremy, Paul Szpak, Nicolas Bourgon, et al.. (2021). Zinc isotopes from archaeological bones provide reliable trophic level information for marine mammals. Communications Biology. 4(1). 683–683. 23 indexed citations

Szpak, Paul, et al.. (2019). Sexual differences in the foraging ecology of 19th century beluga whales (Delphinapterus leucas) from the Canadian High Arctic. Marine Mammal Science. 36(2). 451–471. 12 indexed citations

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Guiry, Eric, et al.. (2018). Anthropogenic changes to the Holocene nitrogen cycle in Ireland. Science Advances. 4(6). eaas9383–eaas9383. 33 indexed citations

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Rissech, Carme, et al.. (2016). Isotopic reconstruction of human diet at the Roman site (1st-4th c. AD) of Carrer Ample 1, Barcelona, Spain. Journal of Archaeological Science Reports. 9. 366–374. 16 indexed citations

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Salazar‐García, Domingo C., Michael P. Richards, Olaf Nehlich, & Amanda G. Henry. (2014). Dental calculus is not equivalent to bone collagen for isotope analysis: a comparison between carbon and nitrogen stable isotope analysis of bulk dental calculus, bone and dentine collagen from same individuals from the Medieval site of El Raval (Alicante, Spain). Journal of Archaeological Science. 47. 70–77. 49 indexed citations

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Гунчинсурен, Б., A. J. T. Jull, Tamara Dogandžić, et al.. (2013). Radiocarbon dating of Paleolithic sites in the Ikh-Tulberiin-Gol River Valley, Northern Mongolia. MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society). 12(3). 44–48. 10 indexed citations

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Subirà, M. Eulàlia, et al.. (2010). δ13C and δ15N in ancient and recent fish bones from the Mediterranean Sea. 17. 85–92. 5 indexed citations

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Deschner, Tobias, et al.. (2010). Monitoring nutritional stress with urinary delta N-15 and c/n ratios in captive bonobos. Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics. 2 indexed citations

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Salazar‐García, Domingo C., et al.. (2010). Alimentación estimada de la población del Castellet de Bernabé (ss. V-III a. C.) mediante el uso de ratios de isótopos estables de C y N. Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics. 9(9). 313–322. 5 indexed citations

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Richards, Michael P., et al.. (2009). Stable isotope analysis of the middle Helladic population from two cemeteries at asine: Barbouna and the east cemetery. University of Groningen research database (University of Groningen / Centre for Information Technology). 9(2). 1–14. 16 indexed citations

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Shepherd, Ian A G, N W Kerr, Althea L. Davies, et al.. (2008). Excavation of a beaker cist burial with meadowsweet at Home Farm, Udny Green, Aberdeenshire. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. 137. 35–58. 2 indexed citations

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Garcı́a, E., et al.. (2004). Régime et Société d'après l'analyse des Isotopes Stables : l'exemple de la population de Can Reinés (Mallorca, Espagne, 600 ap. J.C.). Durham Research Online (Durham University). 14 indexed citations

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Whittle, Alasdair, László Bartosiewicz, Dušan Borić, Paul Pettitt, & Michael P. Richards. (2002). In the beginning : new radiocarbon dates for the Early Neolithic in northern Serbia and south-east Hungary.. Durham Research Online (Durham University). 111 indexed citations

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