Tomos Proffitt

1.4k total citations
39 papers, 830 citations indexed

About

Tomos Proffitt is a scholar working on Anthropology, Social Psychology and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, Tomos Proffitt has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 830 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Anthropology, 24 papers in Social Psychology and 15 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in Tomos Proffitt's work include Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (34 papers), Primate Behavior and Ecology (24 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (13 papers). Tomos Proffitt is often cited by papers focused on Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (34 papers), Primate Behavior and Ecology (24 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (13 papers). Tomos Proffitt collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Germany and Spain. Tomos Proffitt's co-authors include Ignacio de la Torre, Lydia V. Luncz, Michael Haslam, Alastair Key, Adrián Arroyo, Tiago Falótico, Eduardo Β. Ottoni, Alfonso Benito‐Calvo, Suchinda Malaivijitnond and Jonathan S. Reeves and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Tomos Proffitt

38 papers receiving 814 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Tomos Proffitt United Kingdom 18 582 428 308 179 142 39 830
Andrew Du United States 16 507 0.9× 262 0.6× 448 1.5× 97 0.5× 305 2.1× 29 847
Adrián Arroyo Spain 15 498 0.9× 237 0.6× 286 0.9× 177 1.0× 83 0.6× 35 674
Briana Pobiner United States 18 583 1.0× 366 0.9× 392 1.3× 295 1.6× 226 1.6× 44 998
Dominique Gommery France 13 566 1.0× 519 1.2× 576 1.9× 115 0.6× 146 1.0× 53 958
Caley M. Orr United States 19 602 1.0× 665 1.6× 511 1.7× 253 1.4× 113 0.8× 47 1.2k
Mzalendo Kibunjia Kenya 10 735 1.3× 397 0.9× 488 1.6× 298 1.7× 123 0.9× 16 946
Emma Mbua Kenya 14 681 1.2× 470 1.1× 608 2.0× 243 1.4× 214 1.5× 28 1.0k
Bruce Hardy United States 20 1.1k 2.0× 197 0.5× 1.0k 3.3× 656 3.7× 125 0.9× 40 1.6k
Jason L. Heaton South Africa 18 726 1.2× 264 0.6× 534 1.7× 284 1.6× 122 0.9× 36 841
Matthew W. Tocheri United States 25 978 1.7× 813 1.9× 900 2.9× 598 3.3× 218 1.5× 62 1.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Tomos Proffitt

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Fields of papers citing papers by Tomos Proffitt

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tomos Proffitt

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Key, Alastair, J. Desmond Clark, Tobias Lauer, et al.. (2025). Hominin glacial-stage occupation 712,000 to 424,000 years ago at Fordwich Pit, Old Park (Canterbury, UK). Nature Ecology & Evolution. 9(10). 1781–1790.
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Proffitt, Tomos, et al.. (2025). Flake production: A universal by-product of primate stone percussion. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(7). e2420067122–e2420067122. 1 indexed citations
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Luncz, Lydia V., S.M.P. Carvalho, Tiago Falótico, et al.. (2024). Tool skill impacts the archaeological evidence across technological primates. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 2 indexed citations
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Reeves, Jonathan S., et al.. (2024). Searching for the earliest archaeological record: insights from chimpanzee material landscapes. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 21(217). 20240101–20240101. 3 indexed citations
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Reeves, Jonathan S., et al.. (2023). Modeling Oldowan tool transport from a primate perspective. Journal of Human Evolution. 181. 103399–103399. 6 indexed citations
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Proffitt, Tomos, Jonathan S. Reeves, Tiago Falótico, et al.. (2023). Identifying intentional flake production at the dawn of technology: A technological and 3D geometric morphometric study. Journal of Archaeological Science. 152. 105740–105740. 7 indexed citations
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Key, Alastair & Tomos Proffitt. (2023). Revising the oldest Oldowan: Updated optimal linear estimation models and the impact of Nyayanga (Kenya). Journal of Human Evolution. 186. 103468–103468. 4 indexed citations
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Luncz, Lydia V., Adrián Arroyo, Tiago Falótico, Patrick Quinn, & Tomos Proffitt. (2022). A primate model for the origin of flake technology. Journal of Human Evolution. 171. 103250–103250. 13 indexed citations
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Proffitt, Tomos, Amèlia Bargalló, & Ignacio de la Torre. (2021). The Effect of Raw Material on the Identification of Knapping Skill: a Case Study from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory. 29(1). 50–82. 11 indexed citations
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Reeves, Jonathan S., Tomos Proffitt, & Lydia V. Luncz. (2021). Modeling a primate technological niche. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 23139–23139. 15 indexed citations
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Luncz, Lydia V., Mike Gill, Magdalena S. Svensson, et al.. (2020). Diversity of stone tools between long-tailed macaque populations. MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society). 1 indexed citations
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Key, Alastair, Tomos Proffitt, & Ignacio de la Torre. (2020). Raw material optimization and stone tool engineering in the Early Stone Age of Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania). Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 17(162). 20190377–20190377. 35 indexed citations
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Falótico, Tiago, Tomos Proffitt, Eduardo Β. Ottoni, Richard A. Staff, & Michael Haslam. (2019). Three thousand years of wild capuchin stone tool use. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 3(7). 1034–1038. 54 indexed citations
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Luncz, Lydia V., Michael Gill, Tomos Proffitt, et al.. (2019). Group-specific archaeological signatures of stone tool use in wild macaques. eLife. 8. 17 indexed citations
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Proffitt, Tomos, Michael Haslam, Julio Mercader, Christophe Boesch, & Lydia V. Luncz. (2018). Revisiting Panda 100, the first archaeological chimpanzee nut-cracking site. Journal of Human Evolution. 124. 117–139. 29 indexed citations
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Torre, Ignacio de la, Alfonso Benito‐Calvo, & Tomos Proffitt. (2017). The impact of hydraulic processes in Olduvai Beds I and II, Tanzania, through a particle dimension analysis of stone tool assemblages. Geoarchaeology. 33(2). 218–236. 20 indexed citations
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Luncz, Lydia V., Magdalena S. Svensson, Michael Haslam, et al.. (2017). Technological Response of Wild Macaques (Macaca fascicularis) to Anthropogenic Change. International Journal of Primatology. 38(5). 872–880. 34 indexed citations
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Luncz, Lydia V., Amanda Tan, Michael Haslam, et al.. (2017). Resource depletion through primate stone technology. eLife. 6. 15 indexed citations
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Proffitt, Tomos, Lydia V. Luncz, Tiago Falótico, et al.. (2016). Wild monkeys flake stone tools. Nature. 539(7627). 85–88. 117 indexed citations
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Luncz, Lydia V., Tomos Proffitt, Lars Kulik, Michael Haslam, & Roman M. Wittig. (2016). Distance-decay effect in stone tool transport by wild chimpanzees. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 283(1845). 20161607–20161607. 29 indexed citations

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