Nicholas Sims‐Williams

1.2k total citations
98 papers, 302 citations indexed

About

Nicholas Sims‐Williams is a scholar working on Anthropology, Language and Linguistics and Archeology. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicholas Sims‐Williams has authored 98 papers receiving a total of 302 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 68 papers in Anthropology, 66 papers in Language and Linguistics and 36 papers in Archeology. Recurrent topics in Nicholas Sims‐Williams's work include Eurasian Exchange Networks (66 papers), Linguistics and language evolution (55 papers) and Byzantine Studies and History (29 papers). Nicholas Sims‐Williams is often cited by papers focused on Eurasian Exchange Networks (66 papers), Linguistics and language evolution (55 papers) and Byzantine Studies and History (29 papers). Nicholas Sims‐Williams collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Mexico and France. Nicholas Sims‐Williams's co-authors include Richard N. Frye, Frantz Grenet, François de Blois, James R. Hamilton, Étienne de La Vaissière, Yan Yan, Charles Melville, Sebastian P. Brock, Jonathan Jong and Michael Morton and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Oriental Society, Transactions of the Philological Society and Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies.

In The Last Decade

Nicholas Sims‐Williams

68 papers receiving 201 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nicholas Sims‐Williams United Kingdom	9	165	160	116	68	59	98	302
Samuel N. C. Lieu United Kingdom	9	23 0.1×	110 0.7×	105 0.9×	70 1.0×	54 0.9×	36	201
Richard Stoneman United Kingdom	8	12 0.1×	107 0.7×	93 0.8×	32 0.5×	33 0.6×	37	186
Friedrich Blass	4	60 0.4×	48 0.3×	67 0.6×	10 0.1×	97 1.6×	11	238
Anthony Bryer United Kingdom	7	10 0.1×	67 0.4×	74 0.6×	70 1.0×	38 0.6×	33	167
François de Blois Canada	7	20 0.1×	63 0.4×	65 0.6×	12 0.2×	39 0.7×	54	146
Marilynn Desmond United States	6	20 0.1×	93 0.6×	30 0.3×	78 1.1×	26 0.4×	18	190
Richard P. Martín United States	8	14 0.1×	100 0.6×	66 0.6×	23 0.3×	21 0.4×	17	158
Deborah Levine Gera Israel	5	14 0.1×	73 0.5×	53 0.5×	13 0.2×	26 0.4×	10	140
Maurizio Bettini Italy	8	17 0.1×	115 0.7×	64 0.6×	23 0.3×	26 0.4×	74	186
P. G. Walsh United Kingdom	7	18 0.1×	108 0.7×	62 0.5×	58 0.9×	23 0.4×	29	206

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20 of 20 papers shown

Sims‐Williams, Nicholas. (2025). Metre and Stress in Old Khotanese. Indo-Iranian Journal. 68(4). 330–357.

Sims‐Williams, Nicholas. (2019). From liturgy to pharmacology : Christian Sogdian texts from the Turfan collection. SOAS Research Online (SOAS University of London). 3 indexed citations

Grenet, Frantz, et al.. (2018). Homeric Scenes in Bactria and India: Two Silver Plates with Bactrian and Middle Persian Inscriptions. SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository. 28. 195–296. 2 indexed citations

Sims‐Williams, Nicholas. (2017). An ascetic miscellany: The Christian Sogdian manuscript E28. SOAS Research Online (SOAS University of London). 1 indexed citations

Sims‐Williams, Nicholas, et al.. (2012). Dictionary of Manichaean Sogdian and Bactrian. Brepols eBooks. 4 indexed citations

Sims‐Williams, Nicholas. (2012). Iranian manuscripts in Syriac script in the Berlin Turfan Collection. F. Steiner eBooks. 1 indexed citations

Brock, Sebastian P. & Nicholas Sims‐Williams. (2011). An early fragment from the East Syriac baptismal service from Turfan.. 77(1). 81–92.

Sims‐Williams, Nicholas, et al.. (2010). Sogdian Documents from Khotan, I: Four Economic Documents. Journal of the American Oriental Society. 130(4). 497. 2 indexed citations

Sims‐Williams, Nicholas. (2007). A Bactrian quarrel. 1 indexed citations

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Sims‐Williams, Nicholas, et al.. (2006). Dictionary of Manichaean texts in Chinese. Brepols eBooks. 1 indexed citations

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Blois, François de, et al.. (2006). Texts from Iraq and Iran : texts in Syriac, Arabic, Persian and Zoroastrian Middle Persian. Brepols eBooks. 2 indexed citations

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Sims‐Williams, Nicholas, et al.. (2004). Dictionary of Manichaean Middle Persian and Parthian. Brepols eBooks. 18 indexed citations

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Sims‐Williams, Nicholas. (2002). Nouveaux documents bactriens du Guzgan. [New Bactrian Documents from Guzgan]. SOAS Research Online (SOAS University of London). 1 indexed citations

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Sims‐Williams, Nicholas, et al.. (2001). The Sogdian Ancient Letter V. SOAS Research Online (SOAS University of London). 12. 91–104. 5 indexed citations

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Braginsky, Vladimir, Hannah Hayward, D Phil, et al.. (1999). BSO volume 62 issue 1 Front matter. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. 62(1). f1–f18. 1 indexed citations

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Blois, François de & Nicholas Sims‐Williams. (1998). The Bactrian calendar. SOAS Research Online (SOAS University of London). 1 indexed citations

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Sims‐Williams, Nicholas, et al.. (1998). Proceedings of the third European Conference of Iranian Studies : held in Cambridge, 11th to 15th September 1995. 1 indexed citations

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Sims‐Williams, Nicholas. (1997). New light on ancient Afghanistan : the decipherment of Bactrian ; an inaugural lecture delivered on 1 February 1996. 1 indexed citations

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Sims‐Williams, Nicholas. (1995). A Bactrian Inscription on a Silver Vessel from China. 1 indexed citations

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Sims‐Williams, Nicholas. (1979). A Pakthian sound-change. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. 42(1). 133–136. 4 indexed citations

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