Tom Minichillo

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
5 papers, 788 citations indexed

About

Tom Minichillo is a scholar working on Paleontology, Anthropology and Archeology. According to data from OpenAlex, Tom Minichillo has authored 5 papers receiving a total of 788 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Paleontology, 4 papers in Anthropology and 3 papers in Archeology. Recurrent topics in Tom Minichillo's work include Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (5 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (4 papers) and Archaeology and Rock Art Studies (3 papers). Tom Minichillo is often cited by papers focused on Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (5 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (4 papers) and Archaeology and Rock Art Studies (3 papers). Tom Minichillo collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and South Africa. Tom Minichillo's co-authors include Hope M. Williams, Curtis W. Marean, Jocelyn Bernatchez, Ian Watts, Zenobia Jacobs, Erich C. Fisher, Antonieta Jerardino, Paul Goldberg, Andy I.R. Herries and Peter Nilssen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of Archaeological Science and Journal of Human Evolution.

In The Last Decade

Tom Minichillo

5 papers receiving 718 citations

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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.

Early human use of marine resources and pigment in South Africa during the Middle Pleistocene

2007 628 citations Curtis W. Marean, Miryam Bar‐Matthews et al. Nature profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Tom Minichillo United States	4	580	476	261	196	126	5	788
Hope M. Williams United States	6	646 1.1×	549 1.2×	283 1.1×	175 0.9×	235 1.9×	7	937
Alain Queffelec France	17	648 1.1×	524 1.1×	423 1.6×	133 0.7×	220 1.7×	59	1.1k
Andrew W. Kandel Germany	18	722 1.2×	623 1.3×	359 1.4×	206 1.1×	130 1.0×	48	880
Ralf Vogelsang Germany	12	730 1.3×	580 1.2×	235 0.9×	296 1.5×	262 2.1×	27	915
Peter Nilssen United States	8	923 1.6×	759 1.6×	434 1.7×	233 1.2×	252 2.0×	10	1.2k
Thomas P. Volman United States	11	813 1.4×	698 1.5×	387 1.5×	281 1.4×	154 1.2×	12	1.1k
Manuel Will Germany	17	618 1.1×	500 1.1×	260 1.0×	216 1.1×	97 0.8×	41	750
Michael Bolus Germany	10	630 1.1×	532 1.1×	297 1.1×	78 0.4×	161 1.3×	25	741
Nicola Stern Australia	14	526 0.9×	453 1.0×	175 0.7×	90 0.5×	235 1.9×	30	722
David Halkett South Africa	9	497 0.9×	423 0.9×	218 0.8×	160 0.8×	82 0.7×	16	597

Countries citing papers authored by Tom Minichillo

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Fields of papers citing papers by Tom Minichillo

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tom Minichillo

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

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5 of 5 papers shown

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Williams, Hope M., et al.. (2010). Middle and late Pleistocene Middle Stone Age lithic technology from Pinnacle Point 13B (Mossel Bay, Western Cape Province, South Africa). Journal of Human Evolution. 59(3-4). 358–377. 55 indexed citations

2.

Close, Angela E. & Tom Minichillo. (2009). Neolithic tombs in southwestern Sinai. Journal of Arid Environments. 74(7). 829–841. 3 indexed citations

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Marean, Curtis W., Miryam Bar‐Matthews, Jocelyn Bernatchez, et al.. (2007). Early human use of marine resources and pigment in South Africa during the Middle Pleistocene. Nature. 449(7164). 905–908. 628 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bird, Catherine, Tom Minichillo, & Curtis W. Marean. (2006). Edge damage distribution at the assemblage level on Middle Stone Age lithics: an image-based GIS approach. Journal of Archaeological Science. 34(5). 771–780. 38 indexed citations

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Minichillo, Tom. (2006). Raw material use and behavioral modernity: Howiesons Poort lithic foraging strategies. Journal of Human Evolution. 50(3). 359–364. 64 indexed citations

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