Piers D. Mitchell

7.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
160 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Piers D. Mitchell is a scholar working on Archeology, Plant Science and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Piers D. Mitchell has authored 160 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 81 papers in Archeology, 30 papers in Plant Science and 26 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Piers D. Mitchell's work include Paleopathology and ancient diseases (55 papers), Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (52 papers) and Plant Physiology and Cultivation Studies (27 papers). Piers D. Mitchell is often cited by papers focused on Paleopathology and ancient diseases (55 papers), Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (52 papers) and Plant Physiology and Cultivation Studies (27 papers). Piers D. Mitchell collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and United States. Piers D. Mitchell's co-authors include D. J. Chalmers, David J. Chalmers, P. H. Jerie, Evilena Anastasiou, G. K. Burge, Hui‐Yuan Yeh, Ian Goodwin, Michael E. Gray, Mark Abrahamson and Kenneth T. Pecinovsky and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, The Lancet and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Piers D. Mitchell

155 papers receiving 3.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Areawide Suppression of European Corn Borer with Bt Maize Reaps Savings to Non-Bt Maize Growers

2010 541 citations W. D. Hutchison, E. C. Burkness et al. Science profile →
Control of Peach Tree Growth and Productivity by Regulated Water Supply, Tree Density, and Summer Pruning1

1981 396 citations Piers D. Mitchell et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Piers D. Mitchell	1.5k	878	861	622	616	160	3.4k
Guo‐Hua Liu	501 0.3×	45 0.1×	75 0.1×	665 1.1×	387 0.6×	223	3.7k
Richard W. Merritt	525 0.4×	28 0.0×	151 0.2×	394 0.6×	1.3k 2.2×	136	6.3k
Kassian Kobert	588 0.4×	20 0.0×	145 0.2×	1.7k 2.8×	296 0.5×	10	4.0k
P. Jordan	749 0.5×	17 0.0×	152 0.2×	193 0.3×	56 0.1×	138	3.2k
Hua Liu	220 0.2×	51 0.1×	72 0.1×	169 0.3×	34 0.1×	69	2.0k
H. T. Groeneveld	130 0.1×	255 0.3×	35 0.0×	173 0.3×	40 0.1×	77	1.4k
Steven Rushton	275 0.2×	6 0.0×	297 0.3×	230 0.4×	307 0.5×	100	3.2k
Christopher J. Williams	365 0.3×	11 0.0×	159 0.2×	313 0.5×	107 0.2×	72	2.7k
Jürgen Hummel	261 0.2×	114 0.1×	15 0.0×	349 0.6×	55 0.1×	171	5.3k
Laura S. Weyrich	128 0.1×	88 0.1×	15 0.0×	1.4k 2.2×	101 0.2×	66	2.7k

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Robb, John, Sarah A. Inskip, Alice Rose, et al.. (2025). More continuity than change following the Black Death epidemic in medieval Cambridge. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 33388–33388.

Mitchell, Piers D., et al.. (2024). Palaeoparasitological evidence for a possible sanitary stone vessel from the Roman city of Viminacium, Serbia. Journal of Archaeological Science Reports. 57. 104671–104671. 1 indexed citations

Inskip, Sarah A., Alice Rose, Craig Cessford, et al.. (2024). Health inequality in medieval Cambridge, 1200–1500 CE. American Journal of Biological Anthropology. 185(2). e24993–e24993. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Tianyi, et al.. (2024). Evidence for parasites in burials and cesspits used by the clergy and general population of 13th-18th century Ghent, Belgium. Journal of Archaeological Science Reports. 53. 104394–104394. 2 indexed citations

Mitchell, Piers D.. (2024). Ancient parasite analysis: Exploring infectious diseases in past societies. Journal of Archaeological Science. 170. 106067–106067. 2 indexed citations

Inskip, Sarah A., Craig Cessford, Alice Rose, et al.. (2023). Pathways to the medieval hospital: collective osteobiographies of poverty and charity. Antiquity. 97(396). 1581–1597. 5 indexed citations

Mitchell, Piers D., et al.. (2022). Liver Fluke Infection Throughout Human Evolution. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(4). 500–507. 8 indexed citations

Mitchell, Piers D., et al.. (2022). Employing radiography (X‐rays) to localize lesions in human skeletal remains from past populations to allow accurate biopsy, using examples of cancer metastases. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology. 32(4). 916–922. 1 indexed citations

Mitchell, Piers D., et al.. (2021). Acute Musculoskeletal Sports Injuries in School Age Children in Britain. Injury. 52(8). 2251–2256. 5 indexed citations

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Mitchell, Piers D., et al.. (2021). Medieval injuries: Skeletal trauma as an indicator of past living conditions and hazard risk in Cambridge, England. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 175(3). 626–645. 13 indexed citations

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Cupere, Bea De, et al.. (2021). A Multidisciplinary Analysis of Cesspits from Late Medieval and Post-Medieval Brussels, Belgium: Diet and Health in the Fourteenth to Seventeenth Centuries . International Journal of Historical Archaeology. 26(3). 531–572. 8 indexed citations

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Mitchell, Piers D., et al.. (2021). The prevalence of cancer in Britain before industrialization. Cancer. 127(17). 3054–3059. 12 indexed citations

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Schutkowski, Holger, et al.. (2021). Weapon injuries in the crusader mass graves from a 13th century attack on the port city of Sidon (Lebanon). PLoS ONE. 16(8). e0256517–e0256517. 5 indexed citations

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Pritchard, David I., Franco H. Falcone, & Piers D. Mitchell. (2020). The evolution of IgE‐mediated type I hypersensitivity and its immunological value. Allergy. 76(4). 1024–1040. 28 indexed citations

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Sabin, Susanna, et al.. (2020). Estimating molecular preservation of the intestinal microbiome via metagenomic analyses of latrine sediments from two medieval cities. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 375(1812). 20190576–20190576. 8 indexed citations

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Mitchell, Piers D., et al.. (2019). Tracing zoonotic parasite infections throughout human evolution. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology. 32(3). 553–564. 30 indexed citations

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Fairey, Madison, et al.. (2019). Intestinal parasites at the Late Bronze Age settlement of Must Farm, in the fens of East Anglia, UK (9th century B.C.E.). Parasitology. 146(12). 1583–1594. 17 indexed citations

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Anastasiou, Evilena, Lisa‐Marie Shillito, Helen Mackay, et al.. (2019). Parasite infection at the early farming community of Çatalhöyük. Antiquity. 93(369). 573–587. 17 indexed citations

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Anastasiou, Evilena, Anastasia Papathanasiou, Lynne A. Schepartz, & Piers D. Mitchell. (2017). Infectious disease in the ancient Aegean: Intestinal parasitic worms in the Neolithic to Roman Period inhabitants of Kea, Greece. Journal of Archaeological Science Reports. 17. 860–864. 23 indexed citations

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Hutchison, W. D., E. C. Burkness, Piers D. Mitchell, et al.. (2010). Areawide Suppression of European Corn Borer with Bt Maize Reaps Savings to Non-Bt Maize Growers. Science. 330(6001). 222–225. 541 indexed citations breakdown →

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