Nick Blegen

622 total citations
20 papers, 408 citations indexed

About

Nick Blegen is a scholar working on Anthropology, Atmospheric Science and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, Nick Blegen has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 408 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Anthropology, 10 papers in Atmospheric Science and 8 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in Nick Blegen's work include Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (16 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (10 papers) and Evolution and Paleontology Studies (7 papers). Nick Blegen is often cited by papers focused on Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (16 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (10 papers) and Evolution and Paleontology Studies (7 papers). Nick Blegen collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Australia. Nick Blegen's co-authors include J. Tyler Faith, Daniel J. Peppe, Christian A. Tryon, Emily J. Beverly, Steven G. Driese, Brian R. Jicha, David B. Patterson, Kendra L. Chritz, Scott A. Blumenthal and Sally McBrearty and has published in prestigious journals such as Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Quaternary Science Reviews and Quaternary Research.

In The Last Decade

Nick Blegen

20 papers receiving 403 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Nick Blegen United States 12 296 212 139 105 77 20 408
Ben Fitzhugh United States 13 273 0.9× 397 1.9× 149 1.1× 128 1.2× 103 1.3× 28 642
Utz Böhner Germany 12 408 1.4× 383 1.8× 230 1.7× 81 0.8× 221 2.9× 16 645
Michel Rassé France 13 298 1.0× 222 1.0× 178 1.3× 24 0.2× 87 1.1× 39 523
Christopher Stimpson United Kingdom 12 240 0.8× 234 1.1× 132 0.9× 100 1.0× 154 2.0× 21 420
David B. Patterson United States 13 353 1.2× 329 1.6× 97 0.7× 187 1.8× 85 1.1× 22 466
Juan Bautista Belardi Argentina 15 389 1.3× 356 1.7× 115 0.8× 155 1.5× 164 2.1× 57 531
Parth R. Chauhan India 12 555 1.9× 492 2.3× 125 0.9× 76 0.7× 275 3.6× 28 686
Shi‐Xia Yang China 11 353 1.2× 322 1.5× 244 1.8× 45 0.4× 142 1.8× 31 573
Marcello Piperno Italy 17 535 1.8× 479 2.3× 168 1.2× 132 1.3× 317 4.1× 37 781
Matthew Meredith‐Williams United Kingdom 10 297 1.0× 306 1.4× 212 1.5× 104 1.0× 375 4.9× 20 678

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Fields of papers citing papers by Nick Blegen

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nick Blegen

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All Works

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Lane, Christine, Maarten Blaauw, Darren F. Mark, et al.. (2024). The >250-kyr Lake Chala record: A tephrostratotype correlating archaeological, palaeoenvironmental and volcanic sequences across eastern Africa. Quaternary Science Reviews. 326. 108476–108476. 2 indexed citations
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Blegen, Nick, et al.. (2022). Technological diversity in the Late Pleistocene of the Nyanza Rift, Kenya: Archaeological excavations at Kapsarok 1 and Anderea’s Farm 1. Journal of Archaeological Science Reports. 41. 103257–103257. 1 indexed citations
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Blegen, Nick, J. Tyler Faith, & Daniel J. Peppe. (2021). Tephrostratigraphy of the eastern Lake Victoria Basin including the Nyanza Rift, Kenya: Building a stratigraphic and chronological framework for modern human evolution. Quaternary Science Reviews. 256. 106823–106823. 7 indexed citations
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Pearson, Osbjorn M., Ethan C. Hill, Daniel J. Peppe, et al.. (2020). A Late Pleistocene human humerus from Rusinga Island, Lake Victoria, Kenya. Journal of Human Evolution. 146. 102855–102855. 4 indexed citations
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Faith, J. Tyler, et al.. (2020). Late Pleistocene Mammals from Kibogo, Kenya: Systematic Paleontology, Paleoenvironments, and Non-Analog Associations. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 40(5). e1841781–e1841781. 13 indexed citations
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Beverly, Emily J., Joseph D. White, Daniel J. Peppe, et al.. (2019). Rapid Pleistocene desiccation and the future of Africa's Lake Victoria. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 530. 115883–115883. 21 indexed citations
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Oppenheimer, Clive, Lamya Khalidi, Bernard Gratuze, et al.. (2019). Risk and reward: Explosive eruptions and obsidian lithic resource at Nabro volcano (Eritrea). Quaternary Science Reviews. 226. 105995–105995. 10 indexed citations
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Blegen, Nick, Brian R. Jicha, & Sally McBrearty. (2018). A new tephrochronology for early diverse stone tool technologies and long-distance raw material transport in the Middle to Late Pleistocene Kapthurin Formation, East Africa. Journal of Human Evolution. 121. 75–103. 24 indexed citations
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Niespolo, Elizabeth, Warren D. Sharp, Christian A. Tryon, et al.. (2017). U-TH BURIAL DATING OF OSTRICH EGGSHELLS: A NOVEL APPROACH TO DATING AFRICAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SEQUENCES BEYOND THE 14C LIMIT. Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America. 1 indexed citations
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Beverly, Emily J., Daniel J. Peppe, Steven G. Driese, et al.. (2017). Reconstruction of Late Pleistocene Paleoenvironments Using Bulk Geochemistry of Paleosols from the Lake Victoria Region. Frontiers in Earth Science. 5. 21 indexed citations
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Blegen, Nick, Francis H. Brown, Brian R. Jicha, et al.. (2016). The Menengai Tuff: A 36 ka widespread tephra and its chronological relevance to Late Pleistocene human evolution in East Africa. Quaternary Science Reviews. 152. 152–168. 33 indexed citations
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Faith, J. Tyler, David B. Patterson, Nick Blegen, et al.. (2016). Size variation in Tachyoryctes splendens (East African mole-rat) and its implications for late Quaternary temperature change in equatorial East Africa. Quaternary Science Reviews. 140. 39–48. 6 indexed citations
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Blegen, Nick, Christian A. Tryon, J. Tyler Faith, et al.. (2015). Distal tephras of the eastern Lake Victoria basin, equatorial East Africa: correlations, chronology and a context for early modern humans. Quaternary Science Reviews. 122. 89–111. 47 indexed citations
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Tryon, Christian A., J. Tyler Faith, Daniel J. Peppe, et al.. (2015). The Pleistocene prehistory of the Lake Victoria basin. Quaternary International. 404. 100–114. 38 indexed citations
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Faith, J. Tyler, Christian A. Tryon, Daniel J. Peppe, et al.. (2015). Paleoenvironmental context of the Middle Stone Age record from Karungu, Lake Victoria Basin, Kenya, and its implications for human and faunal dispersals in East Africa. Journal of Human Evolution. 83. 28–45. 57 indexed citations
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Beverly, Emily J., Steven G. Driese, Daniel J. Peppe, et al.. (2015). Reconstruction of a semi-arid late Pleistocene paleocatena from the Lake Victoria region, Kenya. Quaternary Research. 84(3). 368–381. 23 indexed citations
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Faith, J. Tyler, Christian A. Tryon, Daniel J. Peppe, Emily J. Beverly, & Nick Blegen. (2013). Biogeographic and Evolutionary Implications of an Extinct Late Pleistocene Impala from the Lake Victoria Basin, Kenya. Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 21(2). 213–222. 20 indexed citations

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