Simon J. Armitage

4.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
63 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Simon J. Armitage is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Anthropology and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, Simon J. Armitage has authored 63 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Atmospheric Science, 27 papers in Anthropology and 20 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in Simon J. Armitage's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (37 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (25 papers) and Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (19 papers). Simon J. Armitage is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (37 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (25 papers) and Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (19 papers). Simon J. Armitage collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Norway and Germany. Simon J. Armitage's co-authors include Nick Drake, Charlie S. Bristow, Thomas Stevens, David S.G. Thomas, Kevin White, Huayu Lu, Adrian G. Parker, Roger Blench, Hans‐Peter Uerpmann and Sabah Jasim and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Simon J. Armitage

61 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Hit Papers

The Southern Route “Out of Africa”: Evidence for an Early... 2010 2026 2015 2020 2011 2010 100 200 300
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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.

  1. The Southern Route “Out of Africa”: Evidence for an Early Expansion of Modern Humans into Arabia
    2011 351 citations Simon J. Armitage, Adrian G. Parker et al. profile →
  2. Ancient watercourses and biogeography of the Sahara explain the peopling of the desert
    2010 336 citations Nick Drake, Simon J. Armitage et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Simon J. Armitage United Kingdom 24 1.4k 988 844 578 522 63 2.5k
Stéphanie Desprat France 24 2.1k 1.4× 873 0.9× 778 0.9× 564 1.0× 317 0.6× 40 2.4k
William J. Fletcher United Kingdom 26 2.4k 1.7× 1.1k 1.1× 1.0k 1.2× 708 1.2× 414 0.8× 63 3.0k
Ian Candy United Kingdom 29 1.6k 1.1× 1.2k 1.2× 965 1.1× 628 1.1× 393 0.8× 86 2.3k
Mabs Gilmour United Kingdom 16 2.2k 1.5× 658 0.7× 704 0.8× 928 1.6× 326 0.6× 29 2.6k
James B. Innés United Kingdom 32 2.3k 1.6× 733 0.7× 1.0k 1.2× 923 1.6× 292 0.6× 94 3.0k
Andrew S. Carr United Kingdom 32 1.9k 1.3× 1.1k 1.1× 658 0.8× 1.1k 1.8× 183 0.4× 81 2.6k
Susan Zimmerman United States 22 2.1k 1.5× 794 0.8× 814 1.0× 487 0.8× 230 0.4× 83 3.1k
Frank Schäbitz Germany 33 2.1k 1.4× 743 0.8× 734 0.9× 656 1.1× 193 0.4× 80 2.7k
Richard A. Staff United Kingdom 28 1.7k 1.1× 698 0.7× 920 1.1× 352 0.6× 229 0.4× 72 2.5k
Judy R M Allen United Kingdom 26 2.7k 1.9× 1.2k 1.2× 1.1k 1.3× 638 1.1× 297 0.6× 47 3.5k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Simon J. Armitage

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Simon J. Armitage

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Guagnin, Maria, Ceri Shipton, Simon J. Armitage, et al.. (2025). Monumental rock art illustrates that humans thrived in the Arabian Desert during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition. Nature Communications. 16(1). 8249–8249. 1 indexed citations
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Mackie, Meaghan, et al.. (2024). Palaeoproteomic identification of the original binder and modern contaminants in distemper paints from Uvdal stave church, Norway. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 12858–12858. 3 indexed citations
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Armitage, Simon J., et al.. (2024). Using luminescence dating to constrain lake sediment records: A new age model for the 1.38 Ma lake Malawi drill core, Eastern Africa. Quaternary Science Reviews. 334. 108691–108691. 6 indexed citations
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Jha, Deepak Kumar, Robert Patalano, Hema Achyuthan, et al.. (2024). Preservation of plant‐wax biomarkers in deserts: implications for Quaternary environment and human evolutionary studies. Journal of Quaternary Science. 39(3). 349–358. 6 indexed citations
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Göktürk, Ozan Mert, M.H. Simon, Stefan Sobolowski, et al.. (2023). Behaviourally modern humans in coastal southern Africa experienced an increasingly continental climate during the transition from Marine Isotope Stage 5 to 4. Frontiers in Earth Science. 11. 1 indexed citations
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Kim, Ju-Yong, et al.. (2022). The Middle Stone Age in the Eastern Desert. EDAR 135 — a buried early MIS 5 horizon from Sudan. Azania Archaeological Research in Africa. 57(2). 155–196. 6 indexed citations
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Mackay, Alex, Simon J. Armitage, Elizabeth Niespolo, et al.. (2022). Environmental influences on human innovation and behavioural diversity in southern Africa 92–80 thousand years ago. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 6(4). 361–369. 21 indexed citations
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Kim, Ju-Yong, Young Kwan Sohn, Eric Andrieux, et al.. (2021). The oldest Homo erectus buried lithic horizon from the Eastern Saharan Africa. EDAR 7 - an Acheulean assemblage with Kombewa method from the Eastern Desert, Sudan. PLoS ONE. 16(3). e0248279–e0248279. 10 indexed citations
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Scerri, Eleanor M. L., Marine Frouin, Paul S. Breeze, et al.. (2021). The expansion of Acheulean hominins into the Nefud Desert of Arabia. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 10111–10111. 15 indexed citations
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Stewart, Mathew, Richard Clark‐Wilson, Paul S. Breeze, et al.. (2020). Human footprints provide snapshot of last interglacial ecology in the Arabian interior. Science Advances. 6(38). 33 indexed citations
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Parker, Adrian G., et al.. (2020). Palaeoenvironmental and sea level changes during the Holocene in eastern Saudi Arabia and their implications for Neolithic populations. Quaternary Science Reviews. 249. 106618–106618. 13 indexed citations
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Armitage, Simon J., et al.. (2018). Optically stimulated luminescence dating of heat retainer hearths from the Sahara: Insights into signal accumulation and measurement. Quaternary Geochronology. 49. 249–253. 1 indexed citations
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Scerri, Eleanor M. L., Maria Guagnin, Huw S. Groucutt, et al.. (2018). Neolithic pastoralism in marginal environments during the Holocene Humid Period, northern Saudi Arabia. Antiquity. 92(365). 1180–1194. 20 indexed citations
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Breeze, Paul S., Huw S. Groucutt, Nick Drake, et al.. (2017). Prehistory and palaeoenvironments of the western Nefud Desert, Saudi Arabia. Archaeological Research in Asia. 10. 1–16. 26 indexed citations
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Ducki, Sylvie, et al.. (2009). Combretastatin-like chalcones as inhibitors of microtubule polymerisation. Part 2: Structure-based discovery of alpha-aryl chalcones. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry. 17(22). 7711–7722. 74 indexed citations
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Armitage, Simon J., Kevin White, & Nicholas Drake. (2008). Palaeohydrology of the Fazzan Basin, Libyan Sahara: Evidence for multiple phases of North African humidity.. AGUFM. 2008. 1 indexed citations
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Armitage, Simon J.. (2001). Little green man. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 3 indexed citations

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