Richard M. Thomas

7.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
214 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

About

Richard M. Thomas is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Geometry and Topology and Computational Theory and Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard M. Thomas has authored 214 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Molecular Biology, 34 papers in Geometry and Topology and 32 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics. Recurrent topics in Richard M. Thomas's work include semigroups and automata theory (31 papers), Geometric and Algebraic Topology (26 papers) and Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (24 papers). Richard M. Thomas is often cited by papers focused on semigroups and automata theory (31 papers), Geometric and Algebraic Topology (26 papers) and Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (24 papers). Richard M. Thomas collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Switzerland. Richard M. Thomas's co-authors include James A. Dias, Patrick Haggard, Cheryl A. Nechamen, Mark Shackleton, Geoffrey J. Lindeman, Jane E. Visvader, Natasha C. Forrest, Marie-Liesse Asselin-Labat, Lorraine Robb and Holly E. Barker and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Richard M. Thomas

203 papers receiving 4.5k citations

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Gata-3 is an essential regulator of mammary-gland morphogenesis and luminal-cell differentiation

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Richard M. Thomas United Kingdom	37	1.7k	601	527	522	465	214	4.7k
Guido Barbujani Italy	41	1.1k 0.7×	3.3k 5.6×	146 0.3×	570 1.1×	990 2.1×	145	5.7k
Sarah A. Tishkoff United States	52	3.0k 1.8×	5.9k 9.8×	270 0.5×	356 0.7×	660 1.4×	112	10.6k
Carsten Wiuf Denmark	41	4.6k 2.8×	1.8k 2.9×	341 0.6×	176 0.3×	90 0.2×	147	7.2k
Stephen Wooding United States	29	2.0k 1.2×	2.4k 4.0×	100 0.2×	535 1.0×	92 0.2×	50	5.5k
Susan R. Wilson Australia	32	1.1k 0.6×	771 1.3×	210 0.4×	705 1.4×	343 0.7×	122	3.7k
Jaume Bertranpetit Spain	60	2.8k 1.7×	6.2k 10.3×	153 0.3×	839 1.6×	1.9k 4.1×	223	10.0k
Nick Patterson United States	25	2.3k 1.4×	5.7k 9.5×	124 0.2×	524 1.0×	739 1.6×	37	8.4k
Janet Kelso Germany	45	4.0k 2.4×	3.7k 6.1×	130 0.2×	1.5k 2.9×	2.0k 4.4×	101	9.0k
Sriram Sankararaman United States	31	1.6k 1.0×	3.2k 5.4×	54 0.1×	337 0.6×	518 1.1×	87	5.0k
Ryk Ward United States	46	4.0k 2.4×	7.9k 13.2×	410 0.8×	514 1.0×	528 1.1×	79	14.5k

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Hamerow, Helena, Amy Bogaard, Michael Charles, et al.. (2025). Feeding Medieval England.

Thomas, Richard M., et al.. (2025). Fatal accidents in neonatal pterosaurs and selective sampling in the Solnhofen fossil assemblage. Current Biology. 35(19). 4606–4619.e4.

Hamerow, Helena, Amy Bogaard, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, et al.. (2023). Feeding Anglo-Saxon England: a bioarchaeological dataset for the study of early medieval agriculture (Data paper). Internet Archaeology.

Holmes, Matilda, Richard M. Thomas, & Helena Hamerow. (2021). Identifying draught cattle in the past: Lessons from large-scale analysis of archaeological datasets. International Journal of Paleopathology. 33. 258–269. 15 indexed citations

Lloveras, Lluís, et al.. (2021). Pathological and sub-pathological changes in European rabbit bones: Two reference cases to be applied to the analysis of archaeological assemblages. International Journal of Paleopathology. 34. 90–100. 1 indexed citations

Thomas, Richard M., et al.. (2021). Refining the methods for identifying draught cattle in the archaeological record: Lessons from the semi-feral herd at Chillingham Park. International Journal of Paleopathology. 33. 84–93. 12 indexed citations

Holmes, Matilda, Helena Hamerow, & Richard M. Thomas. (2021). Close Companions? A Zooarchaeological Study of the Human–Cattle Relationship in Medieval England. Animals. 11(4). 1174–1174. 8 indexed citations

Hamerow, Helena, Amy Bogaard, Michael Charles, et al.. (2020). An Integrated Bioarchaeological Approach to the Medieval ‘Agricultural Revolution’: A Case Study from Stafford, England,c.ad800–1200. European Journal of Archaeology. 23(4). 585–609. 36 indexed citations

Thomas, Richard M., et al.. (2019). The Changing Exploitation of Oysters (Ostrea edulis L. 1758) in Late Medieval and Early Modern England: A Case Study from Dudley Castle, West Midlands. Environmental Archaeology. 25(1). 82–95. 3 indexed citations

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Thomas, Richard M., et al.. (2018). ‘The brede of good & strong Horsis’: zooarchaeological evidence for size change in horses from early modern London. Post-Medieval Archaeology. 52(2). 224–238. 3 indexed citations

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Thomas, Richard M., Naomi Sykes, Sean Doherty, & David Smith. (2018). Ring depressions in cattle horncores as indicators of traction use – a cautionary note. International Journal of Paleopathology. 22. 140–142. 5 indexed citations

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Lloveras, Lluís, et al.. (2014). The role of the Egyptian Vulture (Neophron percnopterus) as a bone accumulator in cliff rock shelters: an analysis of modern bone nest assemblages from North-eastern Iberia. Journal of Archaeological Science. 44. 76–90. 51 indexed citations

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Fudge, Erica & Richard M. Thomas. (2012). Visiting your troops of cattle. Strathprints: The University of Strathclyde institutional repository (University of Strathclyde). 62(12). 37–41.

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Thomas, Richard M., et al.. (2010). Absolute emission altitude of pulsars: PSRs B1839+09, B1916+14, and B2111+46. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 2 indexed citations

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Thomas, Richard M., et al.. (2007). Dynamics of charged particles in the radio emission\n region of pulsar magnetosphere. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 5 indexed citations

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Thomas, Richard M., et al.. (2005). Radio emission by particles due to pulsar spin. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 5 indexed citations

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Thomas, Richard M., et al.. (2003). Radio Emission by Particles Accelerated in Pulsar Magnetosphere. Bulletin of the Astronomical Society of India. 31. 361–362.

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Howie, John, et al.. (1995). Finite generalized triangle groups. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 347(9). 3613–3623. 9 indexed citations

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Thomas, Richard M., et al.. (1992). Software for Prediction and Analysis of Ground Wave Propagation Loss. Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). 93. 10199.

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Thomas, Richard M.. (1991). ON A QUESTION OF KIM CONCERNING CERTAIN GROUP PRESENTATIONS. Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society. 28(2). 219–224. 11 indexed citations

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