Sean S. Downey

62 total papers · 2.4k total citations
29 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Sean S. Downey is a scholar working on Paleontology, Geography, Planning and Development and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Sean S. Downey has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Paleontology, 7 papers in Geography, Planning and Development and 6 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Sean S. Downey's work include Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (9 papers), Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (6 papers) and Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (4 papers). Sean S. Downey is often cited by papers focused on Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (9 papers), Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (6 papers) and Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (4 papers). Sean S. Downey collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Indonesia. Sean S. Downey's co-authors include Stephen Shennan, Kevan Edinborough, Tim Kerig, Sue Colledge, Katie Manning, Mark Thomas, Adrian Timpson, J. Stephen Lansing, Murray P. Cox and Herawati Sudoyo and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Sean S. Downey

26 papers receiving 1.3k 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 benchmark for papers published in the same subfield and year, or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Regional population collapse followed initial agriculture booms in mid-Holocene Europe

2013 521 citations Stephen Shennan, Sean S. Downey et al. Nature Communications profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Sean S. Downey	593	405	303	257	241	29	1.4k
Adrian Timpson	844 1.4×	588 1.5×	443 1.5×	233 0.9×	211 0.9×	24	1.5k
Jade d’Alpoim Guedes	835 1.4×	506 1.2×	315 1.0×	189 0.7×	601 2.5×	52	1.6k
D. R. Harris	664 1.1×	489 1.2×	157 0.5×	134 0.5×	288 1.2×	31	1.4k
Detlef Gronenborn	780 1.3×	451 1.1×	191 0.6×	451 1.8×	129 0.5×	44	1.5k
David R. Harris	698 1.2×	494 1.2×	138 0.5×	113 0.4×	266 1.1×	55	1.5k
Graeme Barker	818 1.4×	738 1.8×	187 0.6×	185 0.7×	263 1.1×	44	1.7k
Madonna L. Moss	748 1.3×	507 1.3×	237 0.8×	143 0.6×	272 1.1×	58	1.4k
Gary W. Crawford	819 1.4×	397 1.0×	236 0.8×	131 0.5×	645 2.7×	35	1.6k
James Conolly	1.0k 1.7×	515 1.3×	193 0.6×	142 0.6×	235 1.0×	54	1.8k
Frédérik Saltré	331 0.6×	346 0.9×	321 1.1×	150 0.6×	131 0.5×	51	1.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Sean S. Downey

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sean S. Downey

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Sean S. Downey. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Sean S. Downey. The network helps show where Sean S. Downey may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sean S. Downey

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sean S. Downey. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sean S. Downey 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 Sean S. Downey. Sean S. Downey is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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