Nigel A. Spooner

7.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
131 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

Nigel A. Spooner is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Materials Chemistry and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, Nigel A. Spooner has authored 131 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Atmospheric Science, 36 papers in Materials Chemistry and 29 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in Nigel A. Spooner's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (43 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (29 papers) and Luminescence Properties of Advanced Materials (26 papers). Nigel A. Spooner is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (43 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (29 papers) and Luminescence Properties of Advanced Materials (26 papers). Nigel A. Spooner collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and United Kingdom. Nigel A. Spooner's co-authors include Danièle G. Questiaux, Richard G. Roberts, Gifford H. Miller, John W. Magee, Jon Olley, Wilfred Shawcross, B.W. Smith, J. M. Bowler, John R. Prescott and Malcolm T. McCulloch and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Nigel A. Spooner

119 papers receiving 4.6k citations

Hit Papers

align trajectories

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.

New ages for human occupation and climatic change at Lake Mungo, Australia

2003 487 citations Nigel A. Spooner et al. Nature profile →
When did Homo sapiens first reach Southeast Asia and Sahul?

2018 136 citations Nigel A. Spooner et al. profile →

Peers

Countries citing papers authored by Nigel A. Spooner

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Nigel A. Spooner's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Nigel A. Spooner with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Nigel A. Spooner more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Nigel A. Spooner

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Nigel A. Spooner. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Nigel A. Spooner. The network helps show where Nigel A. Spooner may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nigel A. Spooner

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

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Life beyond the lakes: An analysis and implications of a Pleistocene combustion feature on the Pike River in South Australia 2025 ·Journal of Archaeological Science ·(unknown), Amy Roberts, Mike W. Morley, Ian Moffat, (unknown), Nigel A. Spooner, (unknown), (unknown), Fiona Petchey	1
2	Charge carrier release mechanisms underlying the emission of alkali feldspar infrared stimulated luminescence 2024 ·Radiation Measurements ·Owen M. Williams, Nigel A. Spooner	0
3	Cosmic‐Ray Radiation Effects on Ibuprofen Tablet Formulation Inside and Outside of the International Space Station 2024 ·Advanced Healthcare Materials ·Quy Don Tran, Nigel A. Spooner, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Nam Nghiep Tran, Philip M. Williams, (unknown), Dong‐Hyun Kim, Kenneth Davey, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Ian D. Fisk, Volker Hessel	0
4	Infrared emission from calcium fluoride anion defects observed in synthetic material and natural fluorites 2023 ·Optical Materials ·J. Moffatt, (unknown), Georgios Tsiminis, Elizaveta Klantsataya, (unknown), (unknown), B.W. Smith, D. J. Ottaway, Nigel A. Spooner	6
5	UV Emission from Lanthanide-Doped Upconversion Nanoparticles in Super-Resolution Microscopy: Potential for Cellular Damage 2023 ·ACS Applied Nano Materials ·(unknown), (unknown), Nigel A. Spooner, Stephen P. Kidd, Christopher J. Sumby, Jingxiu Bi	2
6	Multiphoton Phosphorescence of Simple Ketones by Visible-light Excitation and Its Consideration for Active Sensing in Space 2022 ·Journal of Fluorescence ·(unknown), Elizaveta Klantsataya, Georgios Tsiminis, (unknown), J. Moffatt, Tak W. Kee, Nigel A. Spooner	1
7	Dual Laser Study of Non‐Degenerate Two Wavelength Upconversion Demonstrated in Sensitizer‐Free NaYF₄:Pr Nanoparticles 2021 ·Advanced Optical Materials ·(unknown), (unknown), J. Moffatt, (unknown), Georgios Tsiminis, (unknown), Jingxiu Bi, Tak W. Kee, Elizaveta Klantsataya, Christopher J. Sumby, Nigel A. Spooner	10
8	Understanding the mobility and retention of uranium and its daughter products 2020 ·Journal of Hazardous Materials ·Rahul Ram, (unknown), (unknown), Nigel J. Cook, Kathy Ehrig, Barbara Etschmann, Mark Rollog, Weng Fu, James Vaughan, Allan Pring, Mark I. Pownceby, Nigel A. Spooner, (unknown), Daryl L. Howard, Antony M. Hooker, D. J. Ottaway, Danièle G. Questiaux, Joël Brugger	18
9	Selective radionuclide co-sorption onto natural minerals in environmental and anthropogenic conditions 2020 ·Journal of Hazardous Materials ·Rahul Ram, (unknown), Mark I. Pownceby, Kathy Ehrig, Barbara Etschmann, Nigel A. Spooner, Joël Brugger	17
10	A practical review of shorter than excitation wavelength light emission processes 2019 ·Applied Spectroscopy Reviews ·J. Moffatt, Georgios Tsiminis, Elizaveta Klantsataya, (unknown), D. J. Ottaway, Nigel A. Spooner	24
11	First experimental evaluation of the alpha efficiency in coarse-grained quartz for ESR dating purposes: implications for dose rate evaluation 2019 ·Scientific Reports ·Melanie Bartz, Lee J. Arnold, Nigel A. Spooner, Martina Demuro, Isidoro Campaña, Gilles Rixhon, Helmut Brückner, Mathieu Duval	14
12	Rapid and automated production of [68Ga]gallium chloride and [68Ga]Ga-DOTA-TATE on a medical cyclotron 2019 ·Nuclear Medicine and Biology ·William Tieu, Chris Hollis, K. Kuan, (unknown), (unknown), Nigel A. Spooner, (unknown)	24
13	Somewhere beyond the sea: Human cranial remains from the Lesser Sunda Islands (Alor Island, Indonesia) provide insights on Late Pleistocene peopling of Island Southeast Asia 2019 ·Journal of Human Evolution ·Sofía Samper Carro, (unknown), David Bulbeck, Sue O’Connor, Julien Louys, Nigel A. Spooner, Danièle G. Questiaux, Lee J. Arnold, Gilbert J. Price, Rachel Wood, Mahirta Mahirta	10
14	Alpha particle autoradiography for high spatial resolution mapping of radionuclides 2018 ·Journal of Environmental Radioactivity ·(unknown), Nigel A. Spooner, (unknown), D. J. Ottaway	17
15	Laser-Based Metastable Krypton Generation 2018 ·Physical Review Letters ·M. Abou Dakka, Georgios Tsiminis, (unknown), Christopher Perrella, J. Moffatt, Nigel A. Spooner, R. T. Sang, P. S. Light, André N. Luiten	21
16	Cultural innovation and megafauna interaction in the early settlement of arid Australia 2016 ·Nature ·(unknown), P.I. Mitchell, Lee J. Arnold, Gavin J. Prideaux, Danièle G. Questiaux, Nigel A. Spooner, Vladimir Levchenko, (unknown), Trevor H. Worthy, Birgitta Stephenson, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown)	90
17	Human predation contributed to the extinction of the Australian megafaunal bird Genyornis newtoni ∼47 ka 2016 ·Nature Communications ·Gifford H. Miller, John Magee, Mike Smith, Nigel A. Spooner, Alexander Baynes, Scott J. Lehman, Marilyn L. Fogel, (unknown), (unknown), Peter Clark, Christopher Florian, (unknown), (unknown)	41
18	The use of sodium lamps for low-intensity laboratory safelighting for optical dating 2000 ·Ancient TL ·Nigel A. Spooner, Danièle G. Questiaux, M. J. AITKEN	7
19	Australia's oldest human remains: age of the Lake Mungo 3 skeleton 1999 ·Journal of Human Evolution ·Alan Thorne, Rainer Grün, Graham Mortimer, Nigel A. Spooner, John Simpson, Malcolm T. McCulloch, Lois Taylor, Darren Curnoe	222
20	Some characteristics of infrared emitting diodes relevant to luminescence dating 1990 ·Ancient TL ·Nigel A. Spooner, (unknown)	0

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact