Richard Potts

90 papers and 6.2k indexed citations i.

About

Richard Potts is a scholar working on Anthropology, Paleontology and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard Potts has authored 90 papers receiving a total of 6.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 64 papers in Anthropology, 45 papers in Paleontology and 23 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Richard Potts’s work include Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (63 papers), Evolution and Paleontology Studies (33 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (23 papers). Richard Potts is often cited by papers focused on Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (63 papers), Evolution and Paleontology Studies (33 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (23 papers). Richard Potts collaborates with scholars based in United States, Kenya and United Kingdom. Richard Potts's co-authors include Alan L. Deino, Pat Shipman, Anna K. Behrensmeyer, Peter Ditchfıeld, Creighton Gabel, Susan C. Antón, Leslie C. Aiello, Thomas W. Plummer, J. Tyler Faith and Jennifer B. Clark and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Richard Potts

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Richard Potts. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Richard Potts based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Richard Potts. Richard Potts is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

Fields of papers citing papers by Richard Potts

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Countries citing papers authored by Richard Potts

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