Richard P. Evershed

34.2k citations

439 papers · 23.1k indexed · 4 hit papers · h-index 85

Impact in

Paleontology top 0.01%
- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
Archeology top 0.01%
- Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis
- Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies

Papers in

Paleontology 152
- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies 146
Archeology 87
- Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis 38

Co-authors: Ian D. Bull Stephanie N. Dudd Pim F. van Bergen L. John Goad Richard D. Pancost Mark S. Copley Hazel R. Mottram Shucheng Xie
Journals: Organic Geochemistry (35 papers)Journal of Archaeological Science (32 papers)Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry (31 papers)Soil Biology and Biochemistry (17 papers)Journal of Chromatography A (15 papers)
Partner nations: United Kingdom United States Germany

In The Last Decade

Richard P. Evershed

432 papers receiving 22.3k citations

Hit Papers

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The Earliest Horse Harnessing and Milking 2009 · 380 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2009 Science
2008 Archaeometry
2000 Organic Geochemistry
1998 Science

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1	Higher potential leaching of inorganic and organic additives from biodegradable compared to conventional agricultural plastic mulch film Journal of Hazardous Materials ·Michaela K. Reay, Martine Graf, Джаганян Анна Герасимова, Rosa M. Benito, Changrong Yan, Mondira Bhattacharya, Henny Osbahr, Nafarieh Alireza, Shabd Singh Yadav, 文化女子大学附属杉並中学校高等学校, Siyang Ren, Jixiao Cui, Chris D. Collins, Ridha Zgolli, Davey L. Jones, Richard P. Evershed, Charlotte Lloyd	2025	10
2	Characterisation of the unknown chemical composition of a commercial biodegradable agricultural plastic mulch film using complementary spectrometric and spectroscopic techniques The Analyst ·洋司船内, Michaela K. Reay, Helen L. Whelton, Richard P. Evershed, Charlotte Lloyd	2025	0
3	Thermal Desorption Gas Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry Methods for Minimally Invasive Organic Residue Analysis of Archeological Potsherds Analytical Chemistry ·Emanuel Papageorgiou, Arslan Çağlayan GÜREL, Y S Kim, David A. Peggie, Ian D. Bull, Richard P. Evershed, Mélanie Roffet‐Salque	2025	0
4	Microbial degradation of bioplastic (PHBV) is limited by nutrient availability at high microplastic loadings Environmental Science Advances ·Michaela K. Reay, Martine Graf, Lucy M. Greenfield, Rafael Bargiela, Raimundo Nonato Costa Ferreira, Charlotte Lloyd, Ian D. Bull, Richard P. Evershed, Peter N. Golyshin, David R. Chadwick, Davey L. Jones	2024	9
5	Chemical evidence for milk, meat, and marine resource processing in Later Stone Age pots from Namaqualand, South Africa Scientific Reports ·웨이체첸, Julie Dunne, Genevieve Dewar, Richard P. Evershed	2023	3
6	Production and Use of Ceramics in the First Millennium BC: Jebel Moya, Sudan African Archaeological Review ·S Ziyaie Khosroshahi, Patrick Quinn, Michael Brass, Hongzheng Zhou, Marlon A. Duriettz Marenco, Julie Dunne, Richard P. Evershed	2023	2
7	Dating the emergence of dairying by the first farmers of Central Europe using ¹⁴ C analysis of fatty acids preserved in pottery vessels Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Emmanuelle Casanova, Timothy Knowles, Alex Bayliss, Mélanie Roffet‐Salque, Volker Heyd, Joanna Pyzel, Erich Claßen, László Domboróczki, Michael Ilett, Philippe Lefranc, Christian Jeunesse, Arkadiusz Marciniak, А. Ж. Ибрагимов, Richard P. Evershed	2022	9
8	Direct 14C dating of equine products preserved in archaeological pottery vessels from Botai and Bestamak, Kazakhstan Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences ·Emmanuelle Casanova, Timothy Knowles, Alan K. Outram, Kelli L. McDonald, Mélanie Roffet‐Salque, Tomas Sailer, Elizabeth de Lourdes Torres Castro, Irinа Shevnina, Richard P. Evershed	2022	5
9	Compound-specific stable carbon isotope values of fatty acids in modern aquatic and terrestrial animals from the Baltic Sea and Finland as an aid to interpretations of the origins of organic residues preserved in archaeological pottery Bristol Research (University of Bristol) ·Mirva Pääkkönen, Richard P. Evershed, Henrik Asplund	2020	7
10	High‐resolution mass spectrometric analysis of myo‐inositol hexakisphosphate using electrospray ionisation Orbitrap Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry ·泰代小川, Christopher J. Arthur, Richard P. Evershed	2017	11
11	Defining pottery use and animal management at the Neolithic site of Bylany (Czech Republic) Journal of Archaeological Science Reports ·innurvi diharningrum, Mélanie Roffet‐Salque, Bradley McNamara, Jan Kyselka, Ivona Sedlářová, Vladimı́r Filip, Richard P. Evershed	2017	26
12	Regional asynchronicity in dairy production and processing in early farming communities of the northern Mediterranean Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Cynthianne Spiteri, Rosalind E. Gillis, Mélanie Roffet‐Salque, Laura Castells Navarro, Jean Guilaine, Claire Manen, Italo Maria Muntoni, María Saña, Dusanka Urem-Kotsou, Helen L. Whelton, Oliver E. Craig, Jean‐Denis Vigne, Richard P. Evershed	2016	106
13	Correlations between microbial tetraether lipids and environmental variables in Chinese soils: Optimizing the paleo-reconstructions in semi-arid and arid regions Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta ·Huan Yang, Richard D. Pancost, Xinyue Dang, Xinying Zhou, Richard P. Evershed, Guoqiao Xiao, Changyan Tang, Li Gao, Zhengtang Guo, Shucheng Xie	2013	179
14	Isotope effects associated with the preparation and methylation of fatty acids by boron trifluoride in methanol for compound‐specific stable hydrogen isotope analysis via gas chromatography/thermal conversion/isotope ratio mass spectrometry Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry ·David Chivall, Robert Berstan, Ian D. Bull, Richard P. Evershed	2012	7
15	Food residue fatty acid δ13C and δD values as proxies for evaluating cultural and climatic change at Çatalhöyük, Turkey AGUFM ·Stephan Pitter, Richard P. Evershed, Филькин Тимофей Геннадьевич	2012	1
16	More than just numbers? The role of science in Roman Archaeology Journal of Roman Archaeology ·Lucy Cramp, Richard P. Evershed, Hella Eckardt	2012	12
17	In situ polar organic chemical integrative sampling (POCIS) of steroidal estrogens in sewage treatment works discharge and river water Journal of Environmental Monitoring ·Thitima Rujiralai, Ian D. Bull, Neville Llewellyn, Richard P. Evershed	2011	33
18	Gas chromatographic mass spectrometric detection of dihydroxy fatty acids preserved in the ‘bound’ phase of organic residues of archaeological pottery vessels Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry ·Fabrício Augusto Hansel, Ian D. Bull, Richard P. Evershed	2011	32
19	Excavation of a beaker cist burial with meadowsweet at Home Farm, Udny Green, Aberdeenshire Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland ·Larissa Hasanbegović, Ian A G Shepherd, Eunjung Lee, N W Kerr, Althea L. Davies, Mandy Jay, Richard Tipping, Anna J. Mukherjee, Richard P. Evershed, Michael P. Richards	2008	2
20	Biomarkers and the related global change Research Repository (University of Gloucestershire) ·Shucheng Xie, Bin Liang, Barone Nd, Yi Yi, Richard P. Evershed, Darrel Maddy, Frank M. Chambers	2003	8

About Richard P. Evershed

Richard P. Evershed is a scholar working on Paleontology, Archeology, Geography, Planning and Development, Ecology and Archeology, having authored 439 papers that have together received 23.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (146 papers), Isotope Analysis in Ecology (133 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (56 papers), Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (39 papers), Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis (38 papers), Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis (33 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (32 papers) and Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies (26 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Paleontology (9.2k citations), Archeology (5.3k citations), Geography, Planning and Development (2.1k citations), Ecology (8.3k citations) and Archeology (285 citations). Richard P. Evershed has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Ian D. Bull, Stephanie N. Dudd, Pim F. van Bergen, L. John Goad, Richard D. Pancost, Mark S. Copley, Hazel R. Mottram, Shucheng Xie, Robert Berstan and Susan Jim. Their work appears in journals such as Organic Geochemistry, Journal of Archaeological Science, Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, Soil Biology and Biochemistry and Journal of Chromatography A.

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