Timothy P. Newfield

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
32 papers, 704 citations indexed

About

Timothy P. Newfield is a scholar working on Genetics, Atmospheric Science and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, Timothy P. Newfield has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 704 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Genetics, 8 papers in Atmospheric Science and 6 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in Timothy P. Newfield's work include Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research (14 papers), Tree-ring climate responses (8 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (6 papers). Timothy P. Newfield is often cited by papers focused on Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research (14 papers), Tree-ring climate responses (8 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (6 papers). Timothy P. Newfield collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Switzerland. Timothy P. Newfield's co-authors include Adam Izdebski, Lee Mordechai, Piotr Guzowski, Inga Labuhn, John Haldon, Hendrik N. Poinar, Neil Roberts, Arlen F. Chase, Merle Eisenberg and Elena Xoplaki and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Timothy P. Newfield

28 papers receiving 661 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Towards a rigorous understanding of societal responses to climate change

2021 175 citations Dagomar Degroot, Kevin J. Anchukaitis et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Timothy P. Newfield United States	12	243	188	137	114	114	32	704
Lee Mordechai United States	11	126 0.5×	148 0.8×	115 0.8×	90 0.8×	77 0.7×	28	459
Robert Beyer United Kingdom	15	129 0.5×	147 0.8×	75 0.5×	97 0.9×	142 1.2×	30	714
Kyle Harper United States	11	166 0.7×	203 1.1×	258 1.9×	111 1.0×	34 0.3×	31	729
Adam Izdebski Germany	20	618 2.5×	685 3.6×	498 3.6×	93 0.8×	182 1.6×	65	1.4k
Mark Robinson United Kingdom	18	118 0.5×	379 2.0×	116 0.8×	200 1.8×	157 1.4×	39	1.3k
Eva Panagiotakopulu United Kingdom	17	306 1.3×	274 1.5×	159 1.2×	162 1.4×	16 0.1×	67	954
Scott A. Elias United States	12	182 0.7×	228 1.2×	48 0.4×	107 0.9×	33 0.3×	19	635
Chantal Radimilahy Madagascar	10	39 0.2×	85 0.5×	41 0.3×	106 0.9×	92 0.8×	22	555
Iain McKechnie Canada	12	46 0.2×	210 1.1×	54 0.4×	85 0.7×	125 1.1×	34	629
Daniel R. Curtis Netherlands	15	69 0.3×	33 0.2×	37 0.3×	85 0.7×	67 0.6×	40	515

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Timothy P. Newfield

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20 of 20 papers shown

Koncz, István, et al.. (2025). Burial Archaeology and the First Plague Pandemic. Speculum. 100(2). 321–364.

Haldon, John, Lee Mordechai, Andrew Dugmore, et al.. (2024). Past Answers to Present Concerns. The Relevance of the Premodern Past for 21st Century Policy Planners: Comments on the State of the Field. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change. 16(1). 2 indexed citations

Izdebski, Adam, Warren J. Eastwood, Dominik Fleitmann, et al.. (2024). The Emergence of Interdisciplinary Environmental History. 1–43.

Degroot, Dagomar & Timothy P. Newfield. (2023). Empire and its environments The Earth Transformed: An Untold History Peter Frankopan Knopf, 2023. 736 pp.. Science. 380(6649). 1017–1017. 1 indexed citations

Carlson, Colin J., et al.. (2023). Rapid range shifts in African Anopheles mosquitoes over the last century. Biology Letters. 19(2). 20220365–20220365. 43 indexed citations

Newfield, Timothy P., et al.. (2023). Nested Environments: A Biocultural Examination of Malaria, Disease Stress, and Mother-Infant Health in a Rural Community in Late Antique Umbria. Environmental Archaeology. 1–16. 2 indexed citations

Newfield, Timothy P., Ana T. Duggan, & Hendrik N. Poinar. (2022). Smallpox's antiquity in doubt. Journal of Roman Archaeology. 35(2). 897–913. 5 indexed citations

Izdebski, Adam, Warren J. Eastwood, Dominik Fleitmann, et al.. (2022). L’émergence d’une histoire environnementale interdisciplinaire. Annales Histoire Sciences Sociales. 77(1). 11–58. 2 indexed citations

Degroot, Dagomar, Kevin J. Anchukaitis, Martin Bauch, et al.. (2021). Towards a rigorous understanding of societal responses to climate change. Nature. 591(7851). 539–550. 175 indexed citations breakdown →

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Newfield, Timothy P.. (2021). Syndemics and the history of disease: Towards a new engagement. Social Science & Medicine. 295. 114454–114454. 10 indexed citations

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Mordechai, Lee, et al.. (2020). Quantitative Analysis and Plagued Assumptions: A Response to Mischa Meier. 55(3). 290–290.

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Mordechai, Lee, et al.. (2019). The Justinianic Plague: An inconsequential pandemic?. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(51). 25546–25554. 77 indexed citations

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Haldon, John, Lee Mordechai, Timothy P. Newfield, et al.. (2018). History meets palaeoscience: Consilience and collaboration in studying past societal responses to environmental change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(13). 3210–3218. 110 indexed citations

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Oppenheimer, Clive, Andy Orchard, Markus Stoffel, et al.. (2018). The Eldgjá eruption: timing, long-range impacts and influence on the Christianisation of Iceland. Climatic Change. 147(3-4). 369–381. 48 indexed citations

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Haldon, John, Hugh Elton, Sabine R. Huebner, et al.. (2018). Plagues, climate change, and the end of an empire. A response to Kyle Harper's The Fate of Rome (2) : P lagues and a crisis of empire. History Compass. 16(12). 11 indexed citations

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Newfield, Timothy P.. (2017). Malaria and malaria‐like disease in the early Middle Ages. Early Medieval Europe. 25(3). 251–300. 16 indexed citations

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Newfield, Timothy P.. (2016). Mysterious and Mortiferous Clouds: The Climate Cooling and Disease Burden of Late Antiquity. 12(1). 89–115. 10 indexed citations

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Eisenberg, Merle, et al.. (2015). The Environmental History of the Late Antique West: a Bibliographic Essay. 11(1). 31–50. 1 indexed citations

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Newfield, Timothy P.. (2013). The Contours, Frequency and Causation of Subsistence Crises in Carolingian Europe (750-950 CE). Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja). 117–172. 3 indexed citations

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Newfield, Timothy P.. (2009). A Cattle Panzootic in Early Fourteenth-Century Europe. Stirling Online Research Repository (University of Stirling). 57(2). 155–190. 31 indexed citations

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