Patrick Roberts

6.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
184 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Patrick Roberts is a scholar working on Paleontology, Anthropology and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Patrick Roberts has authored 184 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 118 papers in Paleontology, 80 papers in Anthropology and 53 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Patrick Roberts's work include Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (105 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (72 papers) and Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (50 papers). Patrick Roberts is often cited by papers focused on Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (105 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (72 papers) and Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (50 papers). Patrick Roberts collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Australia and United Kingdom. Patrick Roberts's co-authors include Nicole Boivin, Michael D. Petraglia, Brian A. Stewart, J. Hallett, Julia A. Lee‐Thorp, Jana Zech, Oshan Wedage, Julien Louys, Noel Amano and J. B. Pendry and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Patrick Roberts

170 papers receiving 3.1k 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.

Defining the ‘generalist specialist’ niche for Pleistocene Homo sapiens

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Patrick Roberts Germany	32	1.4k	1.3k	728	648	635	184	3.2k
Brendan J. Culleton United States	33	2.0k 1.4×	1.0k 0.8×	554 0.8×	1.0k 1.6×	978 1.5×	86	3.2k
Judith Field Australia	28	1.6k 1.1×	1.4k 1.1×	451 0.6×	566 0.9×	699 1.1×	60	2.7k
Robert L. Bettinger United States	35	2.3k 1.7×	2.1k 1.6×	611 0.8×	556 0.9×	578 0.9×	160	4.1k
Alison Crowther Australia	26	1.0k 0.7×	1.2k 0.9×	450 0.6×	233 0.4×	431 0.7×	68	2.4k
Nicole Boivin Germany	41	2.6k 1.9×	2.9k 2.3×	1.5k 2.1×	809 1.2×	838 1.3×	192	6.1k
Robert L. Kelly United States	25	2.8k 1.9×	2.7k 2.1×	919 1.3×	702 1.1×	468 0.7×	76	3.9k
Torben C. Rick United States	37	2.1k 1.5×	1.2k 0.9×	816 1.1×	1.0k 1.6×	2.2k 3.4×	171	4.8k
Bruno David Australia	31	1.9k 1.3×	1.8k 1.4×	666 0.9×	833 1.3×	571 0.9×	213	3.5k
Tom D. Dillehay United States	34	2.1k 1.5×	1.8k 1.4×	664 0.9×	619 1.0×	574 0.9×	128	3.9k
Todd A. Surovell United States	26	2.6k 1.9×	2.6k 2.0×	1.1k 1.5×	855 1.3×	836 1.3×	63	3.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Patrick Roberts

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Fields of papers citing papers by Patrick Roberts

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Patrick Roberts

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All Works

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Arroyo-Cabrales, Joaquı́n, et al.. (2025). A critical review of Late Pleistocene human-megafaunal interactions in Mexico. Quaternary Science Reviews. 353. 109200–109200.

Blinkhorn, James, Sarah Elliott, Christopher A. Kiahtipes, et al.. (2025). Humans in Africa’s wet tropical forests 150 thousand years ago. Nature. 640(8058). 402–407. 2 indexed citations

García-Escárzaga, Asier, Igor Gutiérrez-Zugasti, David Cuenca-Solana, et al.. (2024). Seasonal exploitation of intertidal resources at El Mazo (N Iberia) reveals optimized human subsistence strategies during the Mesolithic in Atlantic Europe. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 16(5). 4 indexed citations

Gur-Arieh, Shira, Stefanie Eisenmann, Amanda G. Henry, et al.. (2024). Reconstructing dietary practices at Tell Kamid el-Loz (Lebanon) during the Bronze and Iron Age III / Persian to Hellenistic periods using plant micro-remains from dental calculus and stable isotope analysis of bone collagen. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 16(8). 127–127.

Roux, Petrus le, et al.. (2024). Isotopic Evidence for Socio-economic Dynamics Within the Capital of the Kingdom of Alwa, Sudan. African Archaeological Review. 41(2). 271–291.

Urban, Mark C., Marina Alberti, Luc De Meester, et al.. (2024). Interactions between climate change and urbanization will shape the future of biodiversity. Nature Climate Change. 14(5). 436–447. 32 indexed citations

Clément, Charles R., Thomas Larsen, Flávia Machado Durgante, et al.. (2024). Insights into Growth, Ring Formation and Maximum Ages of Brazil Nut Trees (Bertholletia excelsa) Using ¹⁴C Dating and Tree-Ring Analysis. Radiocarbon. 66(2). 306–325. 2 indexed citations

Spengler, Robert N., Frank Kienast, Patrick Roberts, et al.. (2023). Bearing Fruit: Miocene Apes and Rosaceous Fruit Evolution. Biological Theory. 18(2). 134–151. 1 indexed citations

Willis, Anna, Patrick Roberts, Baptiste Pradier, et al.. (2023). Living in the dry zone: Stable isotope insights into palaeodiet in ancient Myanmar. Journal of Archaeological Science Reports. 48. 103900–103900.

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Roberts, Patrick, Quan Hua, Madeleine Bleasdale, et al.. (2023). Ecological flexibility and adaptation to past climate change in the Middle Nile Valley: A multiproxy investigation of dietary shifts between the Neolithic and Kerma periods at Kadruka 1 and Kadruka 21. PLoS ONE. 18(2). e0280347–e0280347. 4 indexed citations

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Louys, Julien, Mathieu Duval, Gilbert J. Price, et al.. (2022). Speleological and environmental history of Lida Ajer cave, western Sumatra. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 377(1849). 20200494–20200494. 13 indexed citations

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Stock, Jay T., Emma Pomeroy, Oshan Wedage, et al.. (2022). Early Holocene Human Burials from Fa Hien-lena and Kuragala, Sri Lanka. Apollo (University of Cambridge). 1. 4 indexed citations

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Roberts, Patrick, Jay T. Stock, Nicole Boivin, et al.. (2022). From Forests to the Coast - Multidisciplinary Investigation of Human Adaptations at the Mini-athiliya Shell Midden, Sri Lanka. 1. 3 indexed citations

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Florin, S. Anna, Patrick Roberts, Ben Marwick, et al.. (2021). Pandanus nutshell generates a palaeoprecipitation record for human occupation at Madjedbebe, northern Australia. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 5(3). 295–303. 10 indexed citations

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Louys, Julien, Todd J. Braje, Richard Cosgrove, et al.. (2021). No evidence for widespread island extinctions after Pleistocene hominin arrival. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(20). 29 indexed citations

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Schöngart, Jochen, et al.. (2021). Advances in increment coring system for large tropical trees with high wood densities. Dendrochronologia. 68. 125860–125860. 1 indexed citations

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Scerri, Eleanor M. L., Denise Kühnert, James Blinkhorn, et al.. (2020). Field-based sciences must transform in response to COVID-19. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 4(12). 1571–1574. 22 indexed citations

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Stewart, Mathew, Richard Clark‐Wilson, Paul S. Breeze, et al.. (2020). Human footprints provide snapshot of last interglacial ecology in the Arabian interior. Science Advances. 6(38). 33 indexed citations

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Roberts, Patrick, Julien Louys, Jana Zech, et al.. (2020). Isotopic evidence for initial coastal colonization and subsequent diversification in the human occupation of Wallacea. Nature Communications. 11(1). 2068–2068. 44 indexed citations

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Roberts, Patrick, James Blinkhorn, & Michael D. Petraglia. (2017). A transect of environmental variability across South Asia and its influence on Late Pleistocene human innovation and occupation. Journal of Quaternary Science. 33(3). 285–299. 12 indexed citations

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