Simon Blockley

8.1k total citations
102 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

Simon Blockley is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Anthropology and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, Simon Blockley has authored 102 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 91 papers in Atmospheric Science, 54 papers in Anthropology and 51 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in Simon Blockley's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (91 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (54 papers) and Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (47 papers). Simon Blockley is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (91 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (54 papers) and Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (47 papers). Simon Blockley collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Germany and Netherlands. Simon Blockley's co-authors include Christine Lane, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, J. John Lowe, Ian Matthews, André F. Lotter, Vicki Smith, Chris Turney, A. Mark Pollard, Achim Brauer and Sean Pyne-O’Donnell and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Simon Blockley

101 papers receiving 3.9k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Simon Blockley United Kingdom 39 3.3k 1.6k 1.6k 844 743 102 4.1k
Sabine Wulf Germany 40 3.9k 1.2× 1.5k 0.9× 1.2k 0.7× 1.2k 1.5× 803 1.1× 88 4.6k
Siwan M. Davies United Kingdom 32 3.8k 1.1× 1.1k 0.7× 1.4k 0.9× 570 0.7× 865 1.2× 72 4.1k
Gerry McCormac United Kingdom 7 3.4k 1.0× 1.3k 0.8× 831 0.5× 385 0.5× 1.1k 1.5× 12 4.2k
Lee J. Arnold Australia 37 3.0k 0.9× 2.2k 1.4× 2.4k 1.5× 427 0.5× 931 1.3× 131 4.7k
Stephen Stokes United Kingdom 39 2.8k 0.8× 795 0.5× 751 0.5× 663 0.8× 573 0.8× 91 3.8k
Jens Mingram Germany 28 3.1k 0.9× 887 0.5× 810 0.5× 379 0.4× 911 1.2× 53 3.6k
Judy R M Allen United Kingdom 26 2.7k 0.8× 1.1k 0.7× 1.2k 0.8× 220 0.3× 728 1.0× 47 3.5k
Marco Spurk Germany 15 4.9k 1.5× 1.8k 1.1× 1.2k 0.8× 410 0.5× 1.5k 2.0× 17 5.7k
M. J. C. Walker United Kingdom 27 3.1k 0.9× 1.1k 0.7× 1.4k 0.9× 280 0.3× 874 1.2× 48 3.8k
Stefan Wastegård Sweden 38 3.2k 1.0× 917 0.6× 917 0.6× 414 0.5× 775 1.0× 107 3.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Simon Blockley

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Fields of papers citing papers by Simon Blockley

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Simon Blockley

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

All Works

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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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Cullen, Victoria L., Keith Wilkinson, Boris Gasparyan, et al.. (2025). Not by chemistry alone: Tephrostratigraphy, correlation, and context at two Palaeolithic sites in the southern Caucasus and Armenian Highlands. Quaternary Science Reviews. 356. 109292–109292. 1 indexed citations
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Cui, Qiaoyu, et al.. (2023). Fire History in the Qinling Mountains of East‐Central China Since the Last Glacial Maximum. Geophysical Research Letters. 50(10). 9 indexed citations
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Martín‐Puertas, Celia, Armand Hernández, Eulogio Pardo‐Igúzquiza, et al.. (2023). Dampened predictable decadal North Atlantic climate fluctuations due to ice melting. Nature Geoscience. 16(4). 357–362. 6 indexed citations
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Barzilai, Omry, Naomi Porat, Dustin White, et al.. (2022). Expansion of eastern Mediterranean Middle Paleolithic into the desert region in early marine isotopic stage 5. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 15 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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Blockley, Simon, et al.. (2021). Environmental factors influencing spotted hyena and lion population biomass across Africa. Ecology and Evolution. 11(23). 17219–17237. 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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Valero‐Garcés, Blas L., Penélope González‐Sampériz, Graciela Gil‐Romera, et al.. (2019). A multi-dating approach to age-modelling long continental records: The 135 ka El Cañizar de Villarquemado sequence (NE Spain). Quaternary Geochronology. 54. 101006–101006. 12 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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Robson, Harry K., Andrew K.G. Jones, Simon Blockley, et al.. (2016). Scales of analysis: Evidence of fish and fish processing at Star Carr. Journal of Archaeological Science Reports. 17. 895–903. 12 indexed citations
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Matthews, Ian, Fabio Trincardi, J. John Lowe, et al.. (2014). Developing a robust tephrochronological framework for Late Quaternary marine records in the Southern Adriatic Sea: new data from core station SA03-11. Quaternary Science Reviews. 118. 84–104. 38 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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Ramsey, Christopher Bronk, Paul G. Albert, Simon Blockley, et al.. (2014). Integrating timescales with time-transfer functions: a practical approach for an INTIMATE database. Quaternary Science Reviews. 106. 67–80. 18 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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Blockley, Simon, et al.. (2006). The chronology of abrupt climate change and Late Upper Palaeolithic human adaptation in Europe. Journal of Quaternary Science. 21(5). 575–584. 36 indexed citations
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Blockley, Simon, J. John Lowe, Mike Walker, et al.. (2004). Bayesian analysis of radiocarbon chronologies: examples from the European Late‐glacial. Journal of Quaternary Science. 19(2). 159–175. 72 indexed citations

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