Philippa Ascough

3.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
79 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

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Philippa Ascough is a scholar working on Paleontology, Ecology and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Philippa Ascough has authored 79 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Paleontology, 40 papers in Ecology and 34 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Philippa Ascough's work include Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (46 papers), Isotope Analysis in Ecology (39 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (34 papers). Philippa Ascough is often cited by papers focused on Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (46 papers), Isotope Analysis in Ecology (39 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (34 papers). Philippa Ascough collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and United States. Philippa Ascough's co-authors include Michael I. Bird, Gordon Cook, Andrew Dugmore, Colin E. Snape, David C. Apperley, Andrew C. Scott, E. M. Scott, Thomas H. McGovern, William Meredith and Mike J. Church and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Philippa Ascough

77 papers receiving 2.6k citations

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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.

Radiocarbon dating

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Philippa Ascough United Kingdom	32	1.2k	1.1k	907	424	343	79	2.7k
Christopher M. Wurster Australia	30	1.1k 0.9×	335 0.3×	1.1k 1.2×	124 0.3×	896 2.6×	80	3.0k
Stuart Black United Kingdom	36	1.7k 1.4×	808 0.7×	553 0.6×	411 1.0×	190 0.6×	105	4.4k
Rosemary C. Capo United States	28	867 0.8×	622 0.6×	593 0.7×	198 0.5×	744 2.2×	62	3.1k
Anna Pazdur Poland	27	1.6k 1.4×	616 0.6×	482 0.5×	395 0.9×	543 1.6×	128	2.4k
Jamie Woodward United Kingdom	41	2.5k 2.2×	761 0.7×	1.1k 1.2×	525 1.2×	215 0.6×	102	5.5k
Philip Barker United Kingdom	34	2.0k 1.7×	463 0.4×	1.1k 1.2×	157 0.4×	351 1.0×	96	3.5k
Gerry Lemcke Switzerland	8	2.3k 2.0×	560 0.5×	1.5k 1.6×	174 0.4×	332 1.0×	9	4.3k
Roberto Ventura Santos Brazil	36	1.1k 0.9×	1.1k 1.0×	555 0.6×	62 0.1×	348 1.0×	139	3.5k
Valérie Daux France	30	1.3k 1.2×	567 0.5×	410 0.5×	269 0.6×	1.1k 3.1×	80	2.7k
J.Ch. Fontes France	30	1.9k 1.6×	487 0.4×	542 0.6×	96 0.2×	292 0.9×	80	3.3k

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Holman, Luke E., Wesley R. Farnsworth, Philippa Ascough, et al.. (2025). Ancient environmental DNA indicates limited human impact on marine biodiversity in pre-industrial Iceland. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 380(1930). 20240031–20240031. 1 indexed citations

Schiedung, Marcus, Philippa Ascough, Michael I. Bird, et al.. (2024). Millennial-aged pyrogenic carbon in high-latitude mineral soils. Communications Earth & Environment. 5(1). 4 indexed citations

Knapp, W, Emily Stevenson, Phil Renforth, et al.. (2023). Quantifying CO₂ Removal at Enhanced Weathering Sites: a Multiproxy Approach. Environmental Science & Technology. 57(26). 9854–9864. 22 indexed citations

Wohl, Ellen, et al.. (2023). Wood‐Based Carbon Storage in the Mackenzie River Delta: The World's Largest Mapped Riverine Wood Deposit. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(7). 7 indexed citations

Brown, Antony G., Sara Cucchiaro, Rosa M. Albert, et al.. (2023). Early to Middle Bronze Age agricultural terraces in north-east England: morphology, dating and cultural implications. Antiquity. 97(392). 348–366. 8 indexed citations

Garnett, Mark H., Charlotte Bryant, Stewart P.H.T. Freeman, Pauline Gulliver, & Philippa Ascough. (2023). A DATABASE OF NERC RADIOCARBON MEASUREMENTS DETERMINED BY ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETRY. Radiocarbon. 66(5). 1105–1108. 1 indexed citations

Tipping, Edward, Patrick Keenan, Rachel Helliwell, et al.. (2022). Relationships between riverine and terrestrial dissolved organic carbon: Concentration, radiocarbon signature, specific UV absorbance. The Science of The Total Environment. 817. 153000–153000. 4 indexed citations

Lougheed, Bryan C, Philippa Ascough, Andrew M. Dolman, Ludvig Löwemark, & Brett Metcalfe. (2020). Re-evaluating ¹⁴ C dating accuracy in deep-sea sediment archives. Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (GEOMAR). 2(1). 17–31. 10 indexed citations

Haig, Jordahna, Philippa Ascough, Christopher M. Wurster, & Michael I. Bird. (2020). A rapid throughput technique to isolate pyrogenic carbon by hydrogen pyrolysis for stable isotope and radiocarbon analysis. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry. 34(10). e8737–e8737. 6 indexed citations

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Ascough, Philippa, et al.. (2019). 8.2 ka event North Sea hydrography determined by bivalve shell stable isotope geochemistry. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 6753–6753. 13 indexed citations

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Alves, Eduardo Queiroz, Kita Macário, Philippa Ascough, & Christopher Bronk Ramsey. (2018). The Worldwide Marine Radiocarbon Reservoir Effect: Definitions, Mechanisms, and Prospects. Reviews of Geophysics. 56(1). 278–305. 103 indexed citations

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Meredith, William, Anna V. McBeath, Philippa Ascough, & Michael I. Bird. (2017). Analysis of biochars by hydropyrolysis (HyPy). ENLIGHTEN (Jurnal Bimbingan dan Konseling Islam). 1 indexed citations

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Santín, Cristina, Stefan H. Doerr, Agustı́n Merino, et al.. (2017). Carbon sequestration potential and physicochemical properties differ between wildfire charcoals and slow-pyrolysis biochars. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 11233–11233. 104 indexed citations

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Ascough, Philippa, Michael I. Bird, William Meredith, & Colin E. Snape. (2016). Dates and fates of pyrogenic carbon: using spectroscopy to understand a “missing” global carbon sink. ENLIGHTEN (Jurnal Bimbingan dan Konseling Islam). 4 indexed citations

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Ascough, Philippa, Mike J. Church, & Gordon Cook. (2016). Marine Radiocarbon Reservoir Effects for the Mesolithic and Medieval Periods in the Western Isles of Scotland. Radiocarbon. 59(1). 17–31. 7 indexed citations

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Ascough, Philippa, Mike J. Church, Gordon Cook, et al.. (2014). Stable Isotopic (δ¹³C and δ¹⁵N) Characterization of Key Faunal Resources from Norse Period Settlements in North Iceland. ENLIGHTEN (Jurnal Bimbingan dan Konseling Islam). 7(sp7). 25–42. 12 indexed citations

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Ahad, Jason M. E., Raja S. Ganeshram, Charlotte Bryant, et al.. (2011). Sources of n-alkanes in an urbanized estuary: Insights from molecular distributions and compound-specific stable and radiocarbon isotopes. Marine Chemistry. 126(1-4). 239–249. 48 indexed citations

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Ascough, Philippa, Craig J. Sturrock, & Michael I. Bird. (2010). Investigation of growth responses in saprophytic fungi to charred biomass. Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies. 46(1). 64–77. 65 indexed citations

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Ascough, Philippa, et al.. (2010). Charcoal reflectance measurements: implications for structural characterization and assessment of diagenetic alteration. Journal of Archaeological Science. 37(7). 1590–1599. 95 indexed citations

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Ascough, Philippa, et al.. (2010). Spatial variation in the MRE throughout the Scottish Post-Roman to late Medieval period: North Sea values (500-1350 BP). ENLIGHTEN (Jurnal Bimbingan dan Konseling Islam). 9 indexed citations

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