Richard A. Staff

4.3k total citations
72 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Richard A. Staff is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Paleontology and Anthropology. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard A. Staff has authored 72 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 60 papers in Atmospheric Science, 37 papers in Paleontology and 29 papers in Anthropology. Recurrent topics in Richard A. Staff's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (57 papers), Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (36 papers) and Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (28 papers). Richard A. Staff is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (57 papers), Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (36 papers) and Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (28 papers). Richard A. Staff collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Japan and Germany. Richard A. Staff's co-authors include Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Takeshi Nakagawa, Vicki Smith, Fiona Brock, Achim Brauer, Simon Blockley, Gordon Schlolaut, Tsuyoshi Haraguchi, Henry F. Lamb and Michael Marshall and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Richard A. Staff

69 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Richard A. Staff United Kingdom 28 1.7k 920 698 578 560 72 2.5k
Junyi Ge China 24 1.5k 0.9× 825 0.9× 579 0.8× 291 0.5× 213 0.4× 75 2.4k
James B. Innés United Kingdom 32 2.3k 1.4× 1.0k 1.1× 733 1.1× 286 0.5× 632 1.1× 94 3.0k
Michael Friedrich Germany 27 1.9k 1.1× 972 1.1× 518 0.7× 144 0.2× 335 0.6× 54 2.5k
Anthony Newton United Kingdom 25 1.8k 1.1× 635 0.7× 418 0.6× 307 0.5× 609 1.1× 71 2.3k
Simon Blockley United Kingdom 39 3.3k 2.0× 1.6k 1.8× 1.6k 2.2× 844 1.5× 743 1.3× 102 4.1k
Henry Fricke United States 26 1.2k 0.7× 1.8k 1.9× 610 0.9× 320 0.6× 1.2k 2.1× 46 3.0k
Martina Stebich Germany 23 1.9k 1.2× 616 0.7× 640 0.9× 188 0.3× 639 1.1× 37 2.3k
Gerry McCormac United Kingdom 7 3.4k 2.0× 1.3k 1.4× 831 1.2× 385 0.7× 1.1k 2.0× 12 4.2k
F. G. McCormac United Kingdom 25 1.7k 1.0× 982 1.1× 549 0.8× 208 0.4× 572 1.0× 46 2.8k
Jorie Clark United States 15 2.1k 1.3× 476 0.5× 758 1.1× 174 0.3× 714 1.3× 23 3.1k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Francke, Alexander, Jonathan Tyler, Richard A. Staff, et al.. (2025). Orbital-scale East Asian monsoon variability since the last interglacial inferred from the sediments of Lake Suigetsu, Japan. Quaternary Science Reviews. 368. 109566–109566.
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Matthews, Ian, Adrian Palmer, Ian Candy, et al.. (2025). Summer warmth between 15,500 and 15,000 years ago enabled human repopulation of the northwest European margin. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 9(7). 1179–1192. 1 indexed citations
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Albert, Paul G., Danielle McLean, Takehiko Suzuki, et al.. (2025). Revealing the timing and dispersal of large explosive eruptions at Aso volcano (Japan) by integrating proximal and distal tephra records over the last 130 kyrs. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research. 468. 108436–108436.
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Qiu, Menghan, Richard A. Staff, Tingting Yan, et al.. (2025). Chronology of early China: A radiocarbon databank for Chinese archaeology. Scientific Data. 12(1). 1665–1665.
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Albert, Paul G., Richard A. Staff, Enikő K. Magyari, et al.. (2024). At an important tephrostratigraphic crossroads: cryptotephra in Late Glacial to Early Holocene lake sediments from the Carpathian Mountains, Romania. Quaternary Science Reviews. 330. 108558–108558. 1 indexed citations
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Albert, Paul G., Danielle McLean, Takehiko Suzuki, et al.. (2024). A detailed record of large explosive eruptions from Japan between ∼120 and 50 ka preserved at Lake Suigetsu. Quaternary Science Reviews. 346. 109021–109021. 3 indexed citations
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Albert, Paul G., Danielle McLean, Takehiko Suzuki, et al.. (2023). Cryptotephra preserved in Lake Suigetsu (SG14 core) reveals the eruption timing and distribution of ash fall from Japanese volcanoes during the Late-glacial to early Holocene. Quaternary Science Reviews. 324. 108376–108376. 4 indexed citations
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Blockley, Simon, et al.. (2021). Improved age estimates for Holocene Ko-g and Ma-f~j tephras in northern Japan using Bayesian statistical modelling. Quaternary Geochronology. 67. 101229–101229. 6 indexed citations
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McLean, Danielle, Paul G. Albert, Takehiko Suzuki, et al.. (2020). Constraints on the Timing of Explosive Volcanism at Aso and Aira Calderas (Japan) Between 50 and 30 ka: New Insights From the Lake Suigetsu Sedimentary Record (SG14 Core). Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems. 21(8). 16 indexed citations
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Falótico, Tiago, Tomos Proffitt, Eduardo Β. Ottoni, Richard A. Staff, & Michael Haslam. (2019). Three thousand years of wild capuchin stone tool use. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 3(7). 1034–1038. 54 indexed citations
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Staff, Richard A., Mark Hardiman, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, et al.. (2019). Reconciling the Greenland ice-core and radiocarbon timescales through the Laschamp geomagnetic excursion. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 520. 1–9. 8 indexed citations
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McLean, Danielle, Paul G. Albert, Takeshi Nakagawa, et al.. (2018). Integrating the Holocene tephrostratigraphy for East Asia using a high-resolution cryptotephra study from Lake Suigetsu (SG14 core), central Japan. Quaternary Science Reviews. 183. 36–58. 69 indexed citations
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Blockley, Simon, Ian Candy, Ian Matthews, et al.. (2018). The resilience of postglacial hunter-gatherers to abrupt climate change. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 2(5). 810–818. 34 indexed citations
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Schlolaut, Gordon, Richard A. Staff, Achim Brauer, et al.. (2018). An extended and revised Lake Suigetsu varve chronology from ∼50 to ∼10 ka BP based on detailed sediment micro-facies analyses. Quaternary Science Reviews. 200. 351–366. 20 indexed citations
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Schlolaut, Gordon, Achim Brauer, Takeshi Nakagawa, et al.. (2017). Evidence for a bi-partition of the Younger Dryas Stadial in East Asia associated with inversed climate characteristics compared to Europe. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 44983–44983. 22 indexed citations
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Palmer, Jonathan, Chris Turney, Edward R. Cook, et al.. (2017). Changes in El Nino - Southern Oscillation (ENSO) conditions during the Younger Dryas revealed by New Zealand tree-rings.. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 19. 6717. 1 indexed citations
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Brauer, Achim, Irka Hajdas, Simon Blockley, et al.. (2014). The importance of independent chronology in integrating records of past climate change for the 60–8 ka INTIMATE time interval. Quaternary Science Reviews. 106. 47–66. 60 indexed citations
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Smith, Vicki, Darren F. Mark, Richard A. Staff, et al.. (2011). Toward establishing precise chronologies for the integration of Late Pleistocene palaeoclimate archives: An example from Suigetsu SG06, Japan. ENLIGHTEN (Jurnal Bimbingan dan Konseling Islam). 1 indexed citations

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