Simon P. E. Blockley

8.4k citations

102 papers · 4.3k · 1 hit paper · h-index 39

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Paleontology top 0.5%
- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
Atmospheric Science top 0.5%
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research

Papers in

Atmospheric Science 89
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research 89
Paleontology 51
- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies 47

Co-authors: Christine S. Lane (20 shared papers)Christopher Bronk Ramsey (12 shared papers)J. John Lowe (21 shared papers)Ian Matthews (22 shared papers)André F. Lotter (8 shared papers)Vicki Smith (13 shared papers)CHRIS S. M. TURNEY (7 shared papers)A. Mark Pollard (7 shared papers)
Journals: Quaternary Science Reviews (39 papers)Quaternary Geochronology (9 papers)Journal of Quaternary Science (8 papers)Scientific Reports (3 papers)Quaternary International (3 papers)
Partner nations: United Kingdom Germany Netherlands

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Simon P. E. Blockley

100 papers receiving 4.2k citations

Simon P. E. Blockley's Hit Papers

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Early Levallois technology and the Lower to Middle Paleolithic transition in the Southern Caucasus 2014 · 183 citations

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Paper score: A paper's citations measured against the top-1% bar of its own field and year: the square root of citations ÷ bar, so 1 means right at the bar and 2 means four times its citations. The bar blends the citation counts that enter the top 1% of the paper's subfields in its year (weighted 89.5%), of those subfields over all years (0.5%) and of its year across all fields (10%); a subfield and year with fewer than 400 papers takes its year's bar. Papers from 2026 are not scored yet: in an unfinished year, when a paper appeared matters more than how it is cited.

Hit paper: A paper cited at least 1.5× the top-1% bar of its field and year: a paper score of at least √1.5.

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1	A new and less destructive laboratory procedure for the physical separation of distal glass tephra shards from sediments Quaternary Science Reviews ·Simon P. E. Blockley, Sean Pyne-O’Donnell, J. John Lowe, Ian Matthews, Abi Stone, A. Mark Pollard, CHRIS S. M. TURNEY, Elizabeth G. Molyneux	2005	261
2	Synchronisation of palaeoenvironmental records over the last 60,000 years, and an extended INTIMATE event stratigraphy to 48,000 b2k Quaternary Science Reviews ·Simon P. E. Blockley, Christine S. Lane, Mark Hardiman, Sune Olander Rasmussen, Inger K Seierstad, Jørgen Peder Steffensen, Anders M. Svensson, André F. Lotter, CHRIS S. M. TURNEY, Christopher Bronk Ramsey	2011	223
3	Identification and correlation of visible tephras in the Lake Suigetsu SG06 sedimentary archive, Japan: chronostratigraphic markers for synchronising of east Asian/west Pacific palaeoclimatic records across the last 150 ka Quaternary Science Reviews ·Vicki Smith, Richard A. Staff, Simon P. E. Blockley, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Takeshi Nakagawa, Darren F. Mark, Keiji Takemura, Toru Danhara	2013	210
4	Volcanic ash reveals time-transgressive abrupt climate change during the Younger Dryas Geology ·Christine S. Lane, Achim Brauer, Simon P. E. Blockley, Peter Dulski	2013	197
5	Early Levallois technology and the Lower to Middle Paleolithic transition in the Southern Caucasus Science ·Daniel S. Adler, Keith Wilkinson, Simon P. E. Blockley, Darren F. Mark, (unknown), Beverly A. Schmidt-Magee, Samvel Nahapetyan, Carolina Mallol, Francesco Berna, Phil Glauberman, Yannick Raczynski-Henk, Nathan Wales, Ellery Frahm, Olaf Jöris, Alison MacLeod, Vicki Smith, Victoria L. Cullen, Boris Gasparian Hit paper breakdown →	2014	183
6	Integrating the INTIMATE records using tephrochronology: rising to the challenge Quaternary Science Reviews ·Siwan M. Davies, Peter M Abbott, Nicholas J.G. Pearce, Stefan Wastegård, Simon P. E. Blockley	2011	125
7	Distal tephra record for the last ca 105,000 years from core PRAD 1-2 in the central Adriatic Sea: implications for marine tephrostratigraphy Quaternary Science Reviews ·Anna J. Bourne, J. John Lowe, Fabio Trincardi, Alessandra Asioli, Simon P. E. Blockley, Sabine Wulf, Ian Matthews, Andrea Piva, Luigi Vigliotti	2010	116
8	Improved age estimates for key Late Quaternary European tephra horizons in the RESET lattice Quaternary Science Reviews ·Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Paul G. Albert, Simon P. E. Blockley, Mark Hardiman, Rupert A. Housley, Christine S. Lane, Sharen Lee, Ian Matthews, Vicki Smith, J. John Lowe	2014	113
9	Age modelling of late Quaternary marine sequences in the Adriatic: Towards improved precision and accuracy using volcanic event stratigraphy Continental Shelf Research ·J. John Lowe, Simon P. E. Blockley, Fabio Trincardi, Alessandra Asioli, Antonio Cattaneo, Ian Matthews, Mark Pollard, Sabine Wulf	2007	108
10	Devensian Lateglacial environmental changes in Britain: a multi-proxy environmental record from Llanilid, South Wales, UK Quaternary Science Reviews ·Mike J.C. Walker, GEOFFREY RUSSELL COOPE, C. SHELDRICK, CHRIS S. M. TURNEY, J. John Lowe, Simon P. E. Blockley, Doug D. Harkness	2003	107
11	Building and testing age models for radiocarbon dates in Lateglacial and Early Holocene sediments Quaternary Science Reviews ·Simon P. E. Blockley, Maarten Blaauw, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Johannes van der Plicht	2007	99
12	Was the 12.1ka Icelandic Vedde Ash one of a kind? Quaternary Science Reviews ·Christine S. Lane, Simon P. E. Blockley, Jan Mangerud, Vicki Smith, Øystein Strand Lohne, Emma L. Tomlinson, Ian Matthews, André F. Lotter	2011	92
13	Tephrochronology and the extended intimate (integration of ice-core, marine and terrestrial records) event stratigraphy 8–128 ka b2k Quaternary Science Reviews ·Simon P. E. Blockley, Anna J. Bourne, Achim Brauer, Siwan M. Davies, Mark Hardiman, Poppy Harding, Christine S. Lane, Alison MacLeod, Ian Matthews, Sean Pyne-O’Donnell, Sune Olander Rasmussen, Sabine Wulf, Giovanni Zanchetta	2014	87
14	Improved age modelling approaches as exemplified by the revised chronology for the Central European varved lake Soppensee Quaternary Science Reviews ·Simon P. E. Blockley, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Christine S. Lane, André F. Lotter	2008	82
15	Bayesian analysis of radiocarbon chronologies: examples from the European Late‐glacial Journal of Quaternary Science ·Simon P. E. Blockley, J. John Lowe, Mike J.C. Walker, Alessandra Asioli, Fabio Trincardi, GEOFFREY RUSSELL COOPE, Randolph E. Donahue	2004	78
16	Improved age modelling and high-precision age estimates of late Quaternary tephras, for accurate palaeoclimate reconstruction Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research ·Simon P. E. Blockley, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Pyle David	2007	75
17	Serial population extinctions in a small mammal indicate Late Pleistocene ecosystem instability Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Selina Brace, Eleftheria Palkopoulou, Love Dalén, Adrian M. Lister, Rebecca Miller, Marcel Otte, Mietje Germonpré, Simon P. E. Blockley, John R. Stewart, Ian Barnes	2012	74
18	Evidence for the presence of the Vedde Ash in Central Europe Quaternary Science Reviews ·Simon P. E. Blockley, Christine S. Lane, André F. Lotter, A. Mark Pollard	2007	71
19	The occurrence of distal Icelandic and Italian tephra in the Lateglacial of Lake Bled, Slovenia Quaternary Science Reviews ·Christine S. Lane, Maja Andrič, Victoria L. Cullen, Simon P. E. Blockley	2011	69
20	Tephrochronology and absolute centennial scale synchronisation of European and Greenland records for the last glacial to interglacial transition: A case study of Soppensee and NGRIP Quaternary International ·Christine S. Lane, Simon P. E. Blockley, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, André F. Lotter	2010	69

About Simon P. E. Blockley

Simon P. E. Blockley is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Paleontology, Anthropology, Earth-Surface Processes and Geophysics, having authored 102 papers that have together received 4.3k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (89 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (53 papers), Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (47 papers), Geological formations and processes (16 papers), Geological and Geochemical Analysis (15 papers), Isotope Analysis in Ecology (13 papers), earthquake and tectonic studies (7 papers) and Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (6 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Paleontology (1.7k citations), Atmospheric Science (3.4k citations), Anthropology (1.6k citations), Earth-Surface Processes (703 citations) and Geophysics (872 citations). Simon P. E. Blockley has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, Germany and Netherlands. Frequent co-authors include Christine S. Lane, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, J. John Lowe, Ian Matthews, André F. Lotter, Vicki Smith, CHRIS S. M. TURNEY, A. Mark Pollard, Achim Brauer and Sean Pyne-O’Donnell. Their work appears in journals such as Quaternary Science Reviews, Quaternary Geochronology, Journal of Quaternary Science, Scientific Reports and Quaternary International.

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