Tamsin C. O’Connell

8.8k citations

102 papers · 6.1k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 36

Impact in

Paleontology top 0.05%
- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
Geography, Planning and Development top 0.02%
- Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies

Papers in

Paleontology 70
- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies 67
Geography, Planning and Development 25
- Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies 25

Co-authors: R.E.M. Hedges C. David L. Thomas John G. Clement Emma Lightfoot Rhiannon E. Stevens James L. Fuller David A. Harris Benjamin T. Fuller
Journals: American Journal of Physical Anthropology (11 papers)Journal of Archaeological Science (11 papers)Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry (6 papers)Quaternary International (5 papers)Archaeometry (5 papers)
Partner nations: United Kingdom United States Sri Lanka

In The Last Decade

Tamsin C. O’Connell

100 papers receiving 5.8k citations

Hit Papers

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On the Use of Biomineral Oxygen Isotope Data to Identify Human Migrants in the Archaeological Record: Intra-Sample Variation, Statistical Methods and Geographical Considerations 2016 · 156 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2016 PLoS ONE
2007 American Journal of Physical Anthropology

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1	More continuity than change following the Black Death epidemic in medieval Cambridge Scientific Reports ·John Robb, Jenna M. Dittmar, Sarah A. Inskip, Alice Rose, Piers D. Mitchell, Tamsin C. O’Connell, Mary F. Price, Craig Cessford	2025	0
2	Genetic history of Cambridgeshire before and after the Black Death Science Advances ·Ruoyun Hui, Christiana L. Scheib, Eugenia D’Atanasio, Sarah A. Inskip, Craig Cessford, Simone Andrea Biagini, Anthony Wilder Wohns, Muhammad Q.A. Ali, Samuel J. Griffith, Anu Solnik, Helja Niinemäe, Xiangyu Ge, Alice Rose, Owyn Beneker, Tamsin C. O’Connell, John Robb, Toomas Kivisild	2024	13
3	Health inequality in medieval Cambridge, 1200–1500 CE American Journal of Biological Anthropology ·Jenna M. Dittmar, Sarah A. Inskip, Alice Rose, Craig Cessford, Piers D. Mitchell, Tamsin C. O’Connell, John Robb	2024	1
4	Animal movement on the hoof and on the cart and its implications for understanding exchange within the Indus Civilisation Scientific Reports ·Cameron A. Petrie, Emma Lightfoot, Penelope Jones, J WALKER, Benjamin Valentine, John Krigbaum, Petrus le Roux, Pramod Joglekar, Vasant Shinde, Ravindra Singh, Tamsin C. O’Connell	2024	2
5	Pathways to the medieval hospital: collective osteobiographies of poverty and charity Antiquity ·Sarah A. Inskip, Craig Cessford, Jenna M. Dittmar, Alice Rose, Bram Mulder, Tamsin C. O’Connell, Piers D. Mitchell, Christiana L. Scheib, Ruoyun Hui, Toomas Kivisild, Mary F. Price, Jay T. Stock, John Robb	2023	5
6	Evidence of resource partitioning between fin and sei whales during the twentieth-century whaling period Marine Biology ·Danielle L. Buss, Ella Hearne, Rebecca H. Y. Loy, Andrea Manica, Tamsin C. O’Connell, Jennifer A. Jackson	2022	8
7	New evidence for subsistence strategies of late pre-colonial societies of the mouth of the Amazon based on carbon and nitrogen isotopic data Quaternary International ·Tiago Hermenegildo, Tamsin C. O’Connell, Vera Guapindaia, Eduardo Góes Neves	2017	25
8	Investigation of a Medieval Pilgrim Burial Excavated from the Leprosarium of St Mary Magdalen Winchester, UK PLoS neglected tropical diseases ·Simon Roffey, Katie Tucker, Kori Lea Filipek-Ogden, Janet Montgomery, J. Cameron, Tamsin C. O’Connell, Jane Evans, Phil Marter, G. Michael Taylor	2017	21
9	Intraspecific carbon and nitrogen isotopic variability in foxtail millet ( Setaria italica ) Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry ·Emma Lightfoot, Natalia A. S. Przelomska, Martha Craven, Tamsin C. O’Connell, Lu He, Harriet V. Hunt, Martin K. Jones	2016	26
10	Dating the Dead: New Radiocarbon Dates from the Lower Ica Valley, South Coast Peru Radiocarbon ·Lauren Cadwallader, Susana Arce Torres, Tamsin C. O’Connell, Alexander Pullen, David Beresford‐Jones	2015	6
11	Serum carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes as potential biomarkers of dietary intake and their relation with incident type 2 diabetes: the EPIC-Norfolk study American Journal of Clinical Nutrition ·Pinal Patel, Andrew Cooper, Tamsin C. O’Connell, Gunter Kuhnle, Catherine K Kneale, Angela M Mulligan, Robert Luben, Søren Brage, Kay‐Tee Khaw, Nicholas J. Wareham, Nita G. Forouhi	2014	33
12	Metals and millets: Bronze and Iron Age diet in inland and coastal Croatia seen through stable isotope analysis Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences ·Emma Lightfoot, Mario Šlaus, Petra Rajić Šikanjić, Tamsin C. O’Connell	2014	29
13	Initial Upper Palaeolithic to Epi-Palaeolithic marine mollusc exploitation at Ksâr’ Akil (Lebanon): new zooarchaeological, radiometric, and isotopic data Marcello A. Mannino, D Bosch, Amy L. Prendergast, Tamsin C. O’Connell, Frank P. Wesselingh, J. van der Plicht, Jean‐Jacques Hublin	2013	1
14	The earliest evidence of millet as a staple crop: New light on neolithic foodways in North China American Journal of Physical Anthropology ·Xinyi Liu, Martin K. Jones, Zhijun Zhao, Guoxiang Liu, Tamsin C. O’Connell	2012	103
15	Ancient Hybridization and an Irish Origin for the Modern Polar Bear Matriline Current Biology ·Ceiridwen J. Edwards, Marc A. Suchard, Philippe Lemey, John J. Welch, Ian Barnes, Tara L. Fulton, Ross Barnett, Tamsin C. O’Connell, Peter Coxon, Nigel T. Monaghan, Cristina Valdiosera, Eline D. Lorenzen, Eske Willerslev, Gennady F. Baryshnikov, Andrew Rambaut, Mark Thomas, Daniel G. Bradley, Beth Shapiro	2011	179
16	Diet and mobility in Early Medieval Bavaria: A study of carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes American Journal of Physical Anthropology ·Susanne Hakenbeck, Ellen McManus, Hans E. Geisler, Gisela Grupe, Tamsin C. O’Connell	2010	86
17	Stable isotopic evidence for diet at the Imperial Roman coastal site of Velia (1st and 2nd Centuries AD) in Southern Italy American Journal of Physical Anthropology ·Oliver E. Craig, Marco Biazzo, Tamsin C. O’Connell, Peter Garnsey, Cristina Martínez‐Labarga, Roberta Lelli, Loretana Salvadei, Gianna Tartaglia, Alessia Nava, Lorena Renò, Antonella Fiammenghi, Olga Rickards, Luca Bondioli	2009	116
18	Nitrogen balance and δ ¹⁵ N: why you're not what you eat during nutritional stress Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry ·Benjamin T. Fuller, James L. Fuller, Nancy E. Sage, David A. Harris, Tamsin C. O’Connell, R.E.M. Hedges	2005	380
19	Economy and Diet at the Late Bronze Age/Iron Age Site of Cica. Artefactual, Archaeozoological and Biochemical Analyses Karen Privat, J. Schneeweis, Norbert Benecke, С. К. Васильев, Tamsin C. O’Connell, R.E.M. Hedges, Oliver E. Craig	2005	20
20	Differential Relations Between Cognition and 15N Isotopic Content of Hair in Elderly People With Dementia and Controls The Journals of Gerontology Series A ·Jonathan Williams, Tamsin C. O’Connell	2002	18

About Tamsin C. O’Connell

Tamsin C. O’Connell is a scholar working on Paleontology, Geography, Planning and Development, Archeology, Anthropology and Ecology, having authored 102 papers that have together received 6.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (67 papers), Isotope Analysis in Ecology (57 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (27 papers), Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (26 papers), Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (25 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (10 papers), Maritime and Coastal Archaeology (7 papers) and Nutritional Studies and Diet (6 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Paleontology (4.0k citations), Geography, Planning and Development (1.7k citations), Archeology (1.9k citations), Anthropology (1.3k citations) and Ecology (3.4k citations). Tamsin C. O’Connell has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Sri Lanka. Frequent co-authors include R.E.M. Hedges, C. David L. Thomas, John G. Clement, Emma Lightfoot, Rhiannon E. Stevens, James L. Fuller, David A. Harris, Benjamin T. Fuller, Catherine Kneale and Gunter Kuhnle. Their work appears in journals such as American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Journal of Archaeological Science, Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, Quaternary International and Archaeometry.

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