Paul Taçon

3.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
131 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Paul Taçon is a scholar working on Anthropology, Archeology and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, Paul Taçon has authored 131 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 106 papers in Anthropology, 76 papers in Archeology and 55 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in Paul Taçon's work include Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (101 papers), Archaeology and Rock Art Studies (76 papers) and Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (50 papers). Paul Taçon is often cited by papers focused on Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (101 papers), Archaeology and Rock Art Studies (76 papers) and Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (50 papers). Paul Taçon collaborates with scholars based in Australia, China and United Kingdom. Paul Taçon's co-authors include Christopher Chippindale, Sally K. May, Daryl Wesley, Darren Curnoe, Maxime Aubert, Richard Fullagar, Xueping Ji, Sally Brockwell, Ken Mulvaney and Sarah Baker and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Paul Taçon

121 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

Palaeolithic cave art in Borneo 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 50 100 150
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.

  1. Palaeolithic cave art in Borneo
    2018 151 citations Paul Taçon et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Paul Taçon Australia 24 1.2k 914 752 501 417 131 1.9k
Maxime Aubert Australia 28 1.6k 1.3× 1.3k 1.4× 287 0.4× 944 1.9× 395 0.9× 61 2.6k
Peter Hiscock Australia 31 2.2k 1.7× 1.9k 2.1× 414 0.6× 685 1.4× 585 1.4× 122 2.7k
Peter Veth Australia 31 1.7k 1.4× 1.4k 1.6× 333 0.4× 614 1.2× 928 2.2× 139 2.6k
Robert G. Bednarik China 23 1.3k 1.0× 921 1.0× 715 1.0× 412 0.8× 148 0.4× 147 2.0k
Richard A. Gould United States 27 1.7k 1.3× 1.5k 1.7× 428 0.6× 797 1.6× 375 0.9× 85 2.8k
Michael Chazan Canada 27 1.7k 1.4× 1.4k 1.6× 473 0.6× 685 1.4× 72 0.2× 85 2.4k
Brian Hayden Canada 29 1.8k 1.4× 2.0k 2.2× 446 0.6× 787 1.6× 449 1.1× 73 3.0k
Ravi Korisettar India 21 926 0.7× 821 0.9× 161 0.2× 489 1.0× 202 0.5× 56 1.7k
Janette Deacon South Africa 22 1.5k 1.2× 1.0k 1.1× 1.0k 1.3× 386 0.8× 95 0.2× 60 1.9k
Graeme Barker United Kingdom 21 745 0.6× 829 0.9× 153 0.2× 539 1.1× 264 0.6× 44 1.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Paul Taçon

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Fields of papers citing papers by Paul Taçon

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Paul Taçon

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

All Works

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May, Sally K., et al.. (2024). Brilliant blue: The blue rock art of Awunbarna, Northern Territory, Australia. Australian Archaeology. 90(3). 263–279.
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Wu, Yun, Paul Taçon, Xueping Ji, et al.. (2023). New evidence of early Holocene naturalistic rock art in Jinsha River valley, southwestern China. Journal of Archaeological Science Reports. 50. 104087–104087. 1 indexed citations
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Wright, Duncan, et al.. (2023). Archaeology of animate ancestors and entanglement at Mayarnjarn in the Wellington Range region, Northern Territory. Archaeology in Oceania/Archæology & physical anthropology in Oceania. 58(2). 172–182. 2 indexed citations
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Taçon, Paul, et al.. (2023). Majumbu (‘Old Harry’) and the Spencer-Cahill bark painting collection. Australian Archaeology. 89(1). 14–31. 1 indexed citations
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May, Sally K., et al.. (2023). Hand stencils and communal history: A case study from Auwim, East Sepik, Papua New Guinea. Archaeology in Oceania/Archæology & physical anthropology in Oceania. 58(1). 115–130.
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Taçon, Paul, Sally K. May, Joakim Goldhahn, et al.. (2022). Extraordinary Back-to-Back Human and Animal Figures in the Art of Western Arnhem Land, Australia: One of the World's Largest Assemblages. Cambridge Archaeological Journal. 32(4). 707–720. 1 indexed citations
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May, Sally K., et al.. (2021). The missing Macassans: Indigenous sovereignty, rock art and the archaeology of absence. Australian Archaeology. 87(2). 127–143. 7 indexed citations
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Taçon, Paul, Daryl Wesley, & Sally K. May. (2021). R. Lamilami, 1957–2021: Negotiating two worlds for cultural heritage. Australian Archaeology. 87(2). 220–225. 1 indexed citations
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Taçon, Paul, et al.. (2021). History Disappearing: The Rapid Loss of Australian Contact Period Rock Art. Journal of Field Archaeology. 46(2). 119–131. 6 indexed citations
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Goldhahn, Joakim, Sally K. May, & Paul Taçon. (2021). Revisiting Francis Birtles’ painted car: exploring a cross-cultural encounter with Aboriginal artist Nayombolmi at Imarlkba Gold Mine, 1929–1930. History Australia. 18(3). 469–492. 1 indexed citations
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Taçon, Paul, Sally K. May, Daryl Wesley, et al.. (2020). Maliwawa figures—a previously undescribed Arnhem Land rock art style. Australian Archaeology. 86(3). 208–225. 21 indexed citations
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Wesley, Daryl, et al.. (2018). The archaeology of Maliwawa: 25,000 years of occupation in the Wellington Range, Arnhem Land. Australian Archaeology. 84(2). 108–128. 9 indexed citations
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Curnoe, Darren, et al.. (2016). Deep Skull From Niah Cave and The Pleistocene Peopling of Southeast Asia. LXXVI(97). 89–120.
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Taçon, Paul. (2010). Neanderthals and us. 2010(3). 1–10. 1 indexed citations
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Sauvet, Georges, et al.. (2006). La structure iconographique d'un art rupestre est-elle une clef pour son interprétation ? Zephyrus 59 : 195-208.. Durham Research Online (Durham University). 5 indexed citations
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Taçon, Paul. (2006). Behaviourally modern at 300,000 BP. 2006(2). 1–9. 5 indexed citations
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Taçon, Paul, et al.. (2004). The beeswax rock art of the Northern Territory: direct dating results and a 'book of record'. 21(2). 155–160. 7 indexed citations
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Taçon, Paul, et al.. (2003). Rock-art and relationships: an introduction. UWA Profiles and Research Repository (University of Western Australia). 2003(1). 1–16. 1 indexed citations
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Taçon, Paul, et al.. (2003). Changing ecological concerns in rock-art subject matter of north Australia's Keep River region. Research Online (University of Wollongong). 2003(3). 1–14. 17 indexed citations

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