Nicholas Thompson

810 total citations · 1 hit paper
15 papers, 516 citations indexed

About

Nicholas Thompson is a scholar working on Anthropology, Paleontology and Archeology. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicholas Thompson has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 516 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Anthropology, 12 papers in Paleontology and 8 papers in Archeology. Recurrent topics in Nicholas Thompson's work include Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (14 papers), Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (9 papers) and Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (7 papers). Nicholas Thompson is often cited by papers focused on Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (14 papers), Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (9 papers) and Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (7 papers). Nicholas Thompson collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Greece and United Kingdom. Nicholas Thompson's co-authors include Panagiotis Karkanas, Vangelis Tourloukis, Katerina Harvati, Domenico Giusti, George E. Konidaris, Eleni Panagopoulou, Eleni Panagopoulou, Fotios Alexandros Karakostis, Lia A. Moulopoulos and Chris Stringer and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, PLoS ONE and Quaternary International.

In The Last Decade

Nicholas Thompson

14 papers receiving 499 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.

  1. Apidima Cave fossils provide earliest evidence of Homo sapiens in Eurasia
    2019 173 citations Fotios Alexandros Karakostis, Rainer Grün et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Nicholas Thompson Germany 12 414 374 278 69 63 15 516
Eleni Panagopoulou Germany 13 412 1.0× 450 1.2× 369 1.3× 84 1.2× 71 1.1× 20 592
Lutz Kindler Germany 15 419 1.0× 350 0.9× 207 0.7× 122 1.8× 114 1.8× 25 530
Andrea Picin Germany 20 646 1.6× 573 1.5× 389 1.4× 110 1.6× 73 1.2× 30 751
Fereidoun Biglari France 14 309 0.7× 301 0.8× 261 0.9× 53 0.8× 44 0.7× 24 396
Marie‐Antoinette de Lumley France 13 535 1.3× 421 1.1× 339 1.2× 56 0.8× 65 1.0× 32 594
Salah Abdessadok France 15 498 1.2× 407 1.1× 275 1.0× 123 1.8× 46 0.7× 36 617
Ricardo Rodrigo Romania 5 339 0.8× 245 0.7× 235 0.8× 54 0.8× 45 0.7× 5 387
Ursula Thun Hohenstein Italy 13 465 1.1× 436 1.2× 266 1.0× 140 2.0× 79 1.3× 56 582
Francine David France 13 599 1.4× 529 1.4× 362 1.3× 105 1.5× 58 0.9× 29 749
Britt M. Starkovich Germany 15 511 1.2× 471 1.3× 267 1.0× 126 1.8× 130 2.1× 45 648

Countries citing papers authored by Nicholas Thompson

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Fields of papers citing papers by Nicholas Thompson

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nicholas Thompson

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

All Works

15 of 15 papers shown
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Thompson, Nicholas, et al.. (2025). Small flakes for sharp needs: Technological behaviour in the Lower Palaeolithic site of Marathousa 1, Greece. PLoS ONE. 20(6). e0324958–e0324958.
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Konidaris, George E., Athanassios Athanassiou, Vangelis Tourloukis, et al.. (2024). The Late Early–Middle Pleistocene Mammal Fauna from the Megalopolis Basin (Peloponnese, Greece) and Its Importance for Biostratigraphy and Paleoenvironment. Quaternary. 7(4). 41–41. 4 indexed citations
3.
Iliopoulos, George, Nicholas Thompson, Vangelis Tourloukis, et al.. (2021). Lake-Level Changes and Their Paleo-Climatic Implications at the MIS12 Lower Paleolithic (Middle Pleistocene) Site Marathousa 1, Greece. Frontiers in Earth Science. 9. 11 indexed citations
4.
Starkovich, Britt M., Keiko Kitagawa, Nicholas Thompson, et al.. (2020). Minimal Tools, Maximum Meat: A Pilot Experiment to Butcher an Elephant Foot and Make Elephant Bone Tools Using Lower Paleolithic Stone Tool Technology. Open Repository and Bibliography (University of Liège). 12(2). 118–147. 16 indexed citations
5.
Giusti, Domenico, George E. Konidaris, Vangelis Tourloukis, et al.. (2019). Recursive anisotropy: a spatial taphonomic study of the Early Pleistocene vertebrate assemblage of Tsiotra Vryssi, Mygdonia Basin, Greece. Boreas. 48(3). 713–730. 8 indexed citations
6.
Karakostis, Fotios Alexandros, Rainer Grün, Chris Stringer, et al.. (2019). Apidima Cave fossils provide earliest evidence of Homo sapiens in Eurasia. Nature. 571(7766). 500–504. 173 indexed citations breakdown →
7.
Karkanas, Panagiotis, Vangelis Tourloukis, Nicholas Thompson, et al.. (2018). Sedimentology and micromorphology of the Lower Palaeolithic lakeshore site Marathousa 1, Megalopolis basin, Greece. Quaternary International. 497. 123–136. 23 indexed citations
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Panagopoulou, Eleni, Vangelis Tourloukis, Nicholas Thompson, et al.. (2018). The Lower Palaeolithic site of Marathousa 1, Megalopolis, Greece: Overview of the evidence. Quaternary International. 497. 33–46. 34 indexed citations
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Tourloukis, Vangelis, Nicholas Thompson, Eleni Panagopoulou, et al.. (2018). Lithic artifacts and bone tools from the Lower Palaeolithic site Marathousa 1, Megalopolis, Greece: Preliminary results. Quaternary International. 497. 47–64. 40 indexed citations
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Athanassiou, Athanassios, et al.. (2018). Pleistocene vertebrates from the Kyparíssia lignite mine, Megalopolis Basin, S. Greece: Testudines, Aves, Suiformes. Quaternary International. 497. 178–197. 18 indexed citations
11.
Giusti, Domenico, Vangelis Tourloukis, George E. Konidaris, et al.. (2018). Beyond maps: Patterns of formation processes at the Middle Pleistocene open-air site of Marathousa 1, Megalopolis basin, Greece. Quaternary International. 497. 137–153. 31 indexed citations
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Thompson, Nicholas, Vangelis Tourloukis, Eleni Panagopoulou, & Katerina Harvati. (2018). In search of Pleistocene remains at the Gates of Europe: Directed surface survey of the Megalopolis Basin (Greece). Quaternary International. 497. 22–32. 16 indexed citations
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Tourloukis, Vangelis, Nicholas Thompson, Panagiotis Karkanas, et al.. (2016). New Middle Palaeolithic sites from the Mani Peninsula, Southern Greece. Journal of Field Archaeology. 41(1). 68–83. 16 indexed citations
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Konidaris, George E., Vangelis Tourloukis, Dimitris S. Kostopoulos, et al.. (2015). Two new vertebrate localities from the Early Pleistocene of Mygdonia Basin (Macedonia, Greece): Preliminary results. Comptes Rendus Palevol. 14(5). 353–362. 38 indexed citations
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Strasser, Thomas F., Eleni Panagopoulou, Curtis Runnels, et al.. (2010). Stone Age Seafaring in the Mediterranean: Evidence from the Plakias Region for Lower Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Habitation of Crete. Hesperia The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. 79(2). 145–190. 88 indexed citations

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