Simon Connor

4.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
62 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Simon Connor is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Ecology and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Simon Connor has authored 62 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Atmospheric Science, 15 papers in Ecology and 14 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Simon Connor's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (38 papers), Fire effects on ecosystems (13 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (9 papers). Simon Connor is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (38 papers), Fire effects on ecosystems (13 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (9 papers). Simon Connor collaborates with scholars based in Australia, Portugal and United Kingdom. Simon Connor's co-authors include Eliso Kvavadze, Michela Mariani, Willem O. van der Knaap, Jacqueline F. N. van Leeuwen, Odile Peyron, Ian Thomas, Matthew Adesanya Adeleye, Michael‐Shawn Fletcher, Simon Haberle and John W. Williams and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Simon Connor

57 papers receiving 1.9k 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 threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Pollen-based continental climate reconstructions at 6 and 21 ka: a global synthesis

2010 503 citations Simon Connor, Odile Peyron et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Simon Connor Australia	23	1.3k	582	437	390	271	62	2.0k
Daniel J. Hill United Kingdom	25	1.7k 1.3×	588 1.0×	559 1.3×	594 1.5×	157 0.6×	50	2.4k
Teresa Vegas‐Vilarrúbia Spain	24	1.3k 1.0×	527 0.9×	662 1.5×	383 1.0×	202 0.7×	91	2.4k
Basil Davis Switzerland	19	2.1k 1.6×	474 0.8×	558 1.3×	663 1.7×	453 1.7×	31	2.6k
Philipp Hoelzmann Germany	22	1.3k 1.0×	359 0.6×	425 1.0×	428 1.1×	463 1.7×	76	2.2k
Walter Finsinger France	31	2.1k 1.6×	721 1.2×	488 1.1×	658 1.7×	567 2.1×	75	2.8k
Anne E. Bjune Norway	29	1.9k 1.5×	264 0.5×	569 1.3×	495 1.3×	437 1.6×	60	2.3k
Daniel H. Mann United States	34	2.2k 1.7×	780 1.3×	947 2.2×	457 1.2×	377 1.4×	76	3.2k
Scott Mensing United States	26	1.2k 0.9×	625 1.1×	615 1.4×	345 0.9×	246 0.9×	65	1.9k
Michael L. Griffiths United States	22	1.8k 1.4×	488 0.8×	625 1.4×	329 0.8×	257 0.9×	54	2.3k
Knut Kaiser Germany	23	1.2k 0.9×	249 0.4×	434 1.0×	312 0.8×	345 1.3×	62	1.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Simon Connor

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Fields of papers citing papers by Simon Connor

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Simon Connor

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Connor, Simon, et al.. (2025). Health impacts of the 2019–2020 Australian “Black Summer” bushfires: smoke-related asthma emergency department presentations in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory. International Journal of Environmental Health Research. 36(1). 113–121.

Brémond, Laurent, Julie C. Aleman, Charly Favier, et al.. (2024). Past fire dynamics in sub-Saharan Africa during the last 25,000 years: Climate change and increasing human impacts. Quaternary International. 711. 49–58. 1 indexed citations

David, Bruno, Michael‐Shawn Fletcher, Simon Connor, et al.. (2024). Cultural Burning. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 14 indexed citations

Mariani, Michela, Andy J. Wills, Annika Herbert, et al.. (2024). Shrub cover declined as Indigenous populations expanded across southeast Australia. Science. 386(6721). 567–573. 6 indexed citations

Carro, Sofía Samper, Simon Connor, Ethel Allué, et al.. (2024). Living on the edge: Abric Pizarro, a MIS 4 Neanderthal site in the lowermost foothills of the southeastern Pre-Pyrenees (Lleida, Iberian Peninsula). Journal of Archaeological Science. 169. 106038–106038. 1 indexed citations

Adeleye, Matthew Adesanya, Simon Haberle, Simon Connor, Janelle Stevenson, & David M. J. S. Bowman. (2021). Indigenous Fire-Managed Landscapes in Southeast Australia during the Holocene—New Insights from the Furneaux Group Islands, Bass Strait. Fire. 4(2). 17–17. 18 indexed citations

Connor, Simon, Tomász Boski, Manel Leira, et al.. (2021). Drought, fire and grazing precursors to large‐scale pine forest decline. Diversity and Distributions. 27(7). 1138–1151. 18 indexed citations

Adeleye, Matthew Adesanya, Simon Haberle, Stephen Harris, Simon Connor, & Janelle Stevenson. (2021). Assessing Long-Term Ecological Changes in Wetlands of the Bass Strait Islands, Southeast Australia: Palaeoecological Insights and Management Implications. Wetlands. 41(7). 7 indexed citations

Adeleye, Matthew Adesanya, Simon Connor, & Simon Haberle. (2021). A quantitative synthesis of Holocene vegetation change in Nigeria (Western Africa). The Holocene. 31(11-12). 1681–1689. 6 indexed citations

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Adeleye, Matthew Adesanya, et al.. (2021). Holocene heathland development in temperate oceanic Southern Hemisphere: Key drivers in a global context. Journal of Biogeography. 48(5). 1048–1062. 10 indexed citations

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Connor, Simon, et al.. (2020). Vegetation, Fire and Grazing Dynamics in Mtskheta, Georgia, and their Implications for Human Economic Strategies since 2000 BC. 57(57). 149–188. 1 indexed citations

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Ross, Shawn, et al.. (2018). The Tundzha Regional Archaeological Project: surface survey, palaeoecology, and associated studies in central and southeast Bulgaria, 2009-2015 final report. 1 indexed citations

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Rull, Valentı́, Simon Connor, & Rui B. Elias. (2017). Potential natural vegetation and pre‐anthropic pollen records on the Azores Islands in a Macaronesian context. Journal of Biogeography. 44(11). 2437–2440. 5 indexed citations

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Boski, Tomász, Delminda Moura, Andrzej Witkowski, et al.. (2017). Modern diatom assemblages as tools for paleoenvironmental reconstruction: a case study from estuarine intertidal zones in southern Iberia. Sapientia (Algarve University). 7156.

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Mariani, Michela, Simon Connor, Martin Theuerkauf, et al.. (2017). How old is the Tasmanian cultural landscape? A test of landscape openness using quantitative land‐cover reconstructions. Journal of Biogeography. 44(10). 2410–2420. 37 indexed citations

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Lintern, Anna, Paul Leahy, Atun Zawadzki, et al.. (2016). Sediment cores as archives of historical changes in floodplain lake hydrology. The Science of The Total Environment. 544. 1008–1019. 20 indexed citations

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Vannière, Boris, Olivier Blarquez, Damien Rius, et al.. (2015). 7000-year human legacy of elevation-dependent European fire regimes. Quaternary Science Reviews. 132. 206–212. 78 indexed citations

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Moreno, Ana, Anders Svensson, Stephen J. Brooks, et al.. (2014). A compilation of Western European terrestrial records 60–8 ka BP: towards an understanding of latitudinal climatic gradients. Quaternary Science Reviews. 106. 167–185. 113 indexed citations

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Kvavadze, Eliso, et al.. (2007). The results of palynological investigation of Paravani Kurgan. 5(2). 97–108. 2 indexed citations

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Connor, Simon & Eliso Kvavadze. (2005). Climatic and human influences on vegetation dynamics around Tbilisi over the past 6000 years. 3(4). 64–76. 3 indexed citations

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