Wilfred Shawcross

902 total citations · 1 hit paper
7 papers, 598 citations indexed

About

Wilfred Shawcross is a scholar working on Paleontology, Anthropology and Archeology. According to data from OpenAlex, Wilfred Shawcross has authored 7 papers receiving a total of 598 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 2 papers in Paleontology, 2 papers in Anthropology and 2 papers in Archeology. Recurrent topics in Wilfred Shawcross's work include Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (2 papers), Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (2 papers) and Paleopathology and ancient diseases (1 paper). Wilfred Shawcross is often cited by papers focused on Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (2 papers), Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (2 papers) and Paleopathology and ancient diseases (1 paper). Wilfred Shawcross collaborates with scholars based in Australia and New Zealand. Wilfred Shawcross's co-authors include Nigel A. Spooner, J. M. Bowler, Richard G. Roberts, Jon Olley, John R. Prescott, Philip Hughes, Marjorie Sullivan, Rachel Wood, Ian S. Williams and Nicola Stern and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Quaternary International and World Archaeology.

In The Last Decade

Wilfred Shawcross

6 papers receiving 545 citations

Hit Papers

New ages for human occupation and climatic change at Lake... 2003 2026 2010 2018 2003 100 200 300 400
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.

  1. New ages for human occupation and climatic change at Lake Mungo, Australia
    2003 487 citations J. M. Bowler, Jon Olley et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Wilfred Shawcross Australia 6 312 270 257 131 113 7 598
Owen K. Mason United States 17 324 1.0× 476 1.8× 409 1.6× 81 0.6× 144 1.3× 48 907
Rudolph Kuper Germany 7 243 0.8× 243 0.9× 324 1.3× 155 1.2× 63 0.6× 14 684
Richard Cosgrove Australia 16 543 1.7× 372 1.4× 299 1.2× 149 1.1× 171 1.5× 34 789
Wilma Wetterstrom United States 6 310 1.0× 583 2.2× 500 1.9× 258 2.0× 103 0.9× 6 1000
Judit Pál India 17 468 1.5× 353 1.3× 373 1.5× 274 2.1× 78 0.7× 38 985
Barbara Winsborough United States 10 200 0.6× 398 1.5× 216 0.8× 77 0.6× 195 1.7× 23 841
Orri Vésteinsson Iceland 16 182 0.6× 413 1.5× 455 1.8× 79 0.6× 139 1.2× 37 860
Joel D. Gunn United States 15 198 0.6× 401 1.5× 178 0.7× 123 0.9× 139 1.2× 51 758
Omar Reyes Chile 17 502 1.6× 501 1.9× 285 1.1× 233 1.8× 127 1.1× 64 777
Derek Hamilton United Kingdom 19 289 0.9× 579 2.1× 267 1.0× 267 2.0× 211 1.9× 90 1.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Wilfred Shawcross

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Fields of papers citing papers by Wilfred Shawcross

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wilfred Shawcross

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

All Works

7 of 7 papers shown
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Wood, Rachel, Ian S. Williams, John M. Kalish, et al.. (2017). Fish otolith microchemistry: Snapshots of lake conditions during early human occupation of Lake Mungo, Australia. Quaternary International. 463. 29–43. 10 indexed citations
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Hughes, Philip, Wilfred Shawcross, Marjorie Sullivan, & Nigel A. Spooner. (2014). The geoarchaeology of a Holocene site on the Woolshed Embankment, Lake George, New South Wales. Australian Archaeology. 78(1). 24–32. 7 indexed citations
3.
Shawcross, Wilfred. (2009). Ethnographic Economics and the Study of Population in Prehistoric New Zealand: Viewed through Archaeology. Mankind. 7(4). 279–291. 1 indexed citations
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Bowler, J. M., Jon Olley, John R. Prescott, et al.. (2003). New ages for human occupation and climatic change at Lake Mungo, Australia. Nature. 421(6925). 837–840. 487 indexed citations breakdown →
5.
Shawcross, Wilfred. (1998). Archaeological excavations at Mungo. Archaeology in Oceania/Archæology & physical anthropology in Oceania. 33(3). 183–200. 32 indexed citations
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Shawcross, Wilfred. (1969). Archaeology with a short, isolated time‐scale: New Zealand. World Archaeology. 1(2). 184–199. 5 indexed citations
7.
Shawcross, Wilfred. (1968). An Investigation of Prehistoric Diet and Economy on a Coastal Site at Galatea Bay, New Zealand. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society. 33. 107–131. 56 indexed citations

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