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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Earth Science 39 6251 5793 448 428 102 4939

Huw S. Groucutt publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Huw S. Groucutt between 2011 and 2026, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Huw S. Groucutt published across 16 years, from 2011 to 2026, averaging 9.6 papers a year. Output peaked at 26 publications in 2021. 10 of the 154 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15 20 25
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 2011 to 2026. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 26. Peak 26 publications in 2021. 2011: 1 publication 2012: 5 publications 2013: 5 publications 2014: 9 publications 2015: 16 publications 2016: 10 publications 2017: 6 publications 2018: 13 publications 2019: 7 publications 2020: 14 publications 2021: 26 publications 2022: 13 publications 2023: 12 publications 2024: 7 publications 2025: 7 publications 2026: 3 publications
2011 2026

154 publications in total across all disciplines

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Huw S. Groucutt: publications per year, 2011 to 2026
Year Publications
2011 1
2012 5
2013 5
2014 9
2015 16
2016 10
2017 6
2018 13
2019 7
2020 14
2021 26
2022 13
2023 12
2024 7
2025 7
2026 3
Total 154
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Huw S. Groucutt publication distribution in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Earth Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Huw S. Groucutt sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300 400 500
Bar chart with 58 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 38–47 to 603+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 557. Most scientists, 557, have 128–137 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 98–107 publications, is where this scientist sits. 38–47 publications: 5 scientists 48–57 publications: 33 scientists 58–67 publications: 94 scientists 68–77 publications: 161 scientists 78–87 publications: 278 scientists 88–97 publications: 376 scientists 98–107 publications: 404 scientists 108–117 publications: 484 scientists 118–127 publications: 540 scientists 128–137 publications: 557 scientists 138–147 publications: 491 scientists 148–157 publications: 495 scientists 158–167 publications: 458 scientists 168–177 publications: 490 scientists 178–187 publications: 414 scientists 188–197 publications: 401 scientists 198–207 publications: 333 scientists 208–217 publications: 292 scientists 218–227 publications: 290 scientists 228–237 publications: 262 scientists 238–247 publications: 243 scientists 248–257 publications: 208 scientists 258–267 publications: 185 scientists 268–277 publications: 147 scientists 278–287 publications: 128 scientists 288–297 publications: 119 scientists 298–307 publications: 120 scientists 308–317 publications: 107 scientists 318–327 publications: 93 scientists 328–337 publications: 87 scientists 338–347 publications: 64 scientists 348–357 publications: 87 scientists 358–367 publications: 60 scientists 368–377 publications: 60 scientists 378–387 publications: 34 scientists 388–397 publications: 50 scientists 398–407 publications: 44 scientists 408–417 publications: 31 scientists 418–427 publications: 39 scientists 428–437 publications: 27 scientists 438–447 publications: 36 scientists 448–457 publications: 27 scientists 458–467 publications: 29 scientists 468–477 publications: 30 scientists 478–487 publications: 19 scientists 488–497 publications: 15 scientists 498–507 publications: 18 scientists 508–517 publications: 19 scientists 518–527 publications: 16 scientists 528–537 publications: 10 scientists 538–547 publications: 11 scientists 548–557 publications: 14 scientists 558–567 publications: 11 scientists 568–577 publications: 7 scientists 578–587 publications: 14 scientists 588–597 publications: 5 scientists 598–602 publications: 4 scientists 603+ publications: 100 scientists
38–47 publications 603+

This scientist: 102 publications — 13th percentile

13% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 603 publications or more.

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Number of Earth Science scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
38–47 5
48–57 33
58–67 94
68–77 161
78–87 278
88–97 376
98–107 404 102
108–117 484
118–127 540
128–137 557
138–147 491
148–157 495
158–167 458
168–177 490
178–187 414
188–197 401
198–207 333
208–217 292
218–227 290
228–237 262
238–247 243
248–257 208
258–267 185
268–277 147
278–287 128
288–297 119
298–307 120
308–317 107
318–327 93
328–337 87
338–347 64
348–357 87
358–367 60
368–377 60
378–387 34
388–397 50
398–407 44
408–417 31
418–427 39
428–437 27
438–447 36
448–457 27
458–467 29
468–477 30
478–487 19
488–497 15
498–507 18
508–517 19
518–527 16
528–537 10
538–547 11
548–557 14
558–567 11
568–577 7
578–587 14
588–597 5
598–602 4
603+ 100
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Huw S. Groucutt D-index placement in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Earth Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Huw S. Groucutt sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 77 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 106+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 389. Most scientists, 389, have 36 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 39 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 144 scientists 31 D-Index: 215 scientists 32 D-Index: 278 scientists 33 D-Index: 379 scientists 34 D-Index: 366 scientists 35 D-Index: 372 scientists 36 D-Index: 389 scientists 37 D-Index: 366 scientists 38 D-Index: 344 scientists 39 D-Index: 349 scientists 40 D-Index: 296 scientists 41 D-Index: 289 scientists 42 D-Index: 277 scientists 43 D-Index: 279 scientists 44 D-Index: 248 scientists 45 D-Index: 257 scientists 46 D-Index: 212 scientists 47 D-Index: 202 scientists 48 D-Index: 207 scientists 49 D-Index: 204 scientists 50 D-Index: 183 scientists 51 D-Index: 178 scientists 52 D-Index: 182 scientists 53 D-Index: 178 scientists 54 D-Index: 163 scientists 55 D-Index: 117 scientists 56 D-Index: 163 scientists 57 D-Index: 120 scientists 58 D-Index: 113 scientists 59 D-Index: 136 scientists 60 D-Index: 135 scientists 61 D-Index: 96 scientists 62 D-Index: 103 scientists 63 D-Index: 83 scientists 64 D-Index: 103 scientists 65 D-Index: 83 scientists 66 D-Index: 89 scientists 67 D-Index: 92 scientists 68 D-Index: 89 scientists 69 D-Index: 78 scientists 70 D-Index: 75 scientists 71 D-Index: 53 scientists 72 D-Index: 62 scientists 73 D-Index: 54 scientists 74 D-Index: 35 scientists 75 D-Index: 52 scientists 76 D-Index: 50 scientists 77 D-Index: 32 scientists 78 D-Index: 37 scientists 79 D-Index: 20 scientists 80 D-Index: 33 scientists 81 D-Index: 36 scientists 82 D-Index: 34 scientists 83 D-Index: 34 scientists 84 D-Index: 24 scientists 85 D-Index: 19 scientists 86 D-Index: 18 scientists 87 D-Index: 26 scientists 88 D-Index: 30 scientists 89 D-Index: 17 scientists 90 D-Index: 21 scientists 91 D-Index: 19 scientists 92 D-Index: 15 scientists 93 D-Index: 14 scientists 94 D-Index: 20 scientists 95 D-Index: 9 scientists 96 D-Index: 10 scientists 97 D-Index: 15 scientists 98 D-Index: 13 scientists 99 D-Index: 3 scientists 100 D-Index: 13 scientists 101 D-Index: 3 scientists 102 D-Index: 9 scientists 103 D-Index: 4 scientists 104 D-Index: 6 scientists 105 D-Index: 6 scientists 106+ D-Index: 98 scientists
30 D-Index 106+

This scientist: 39 D-Index — 35th percentile

35% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 106 D-Index or more.

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Number of Earth Science scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 9,176 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 144
31 215
32 278
33 379
34 366
35 372
36 389
37 366
38 344
39 349 39
40 296
41 289
42 277
43 279
44 248
45 257
46 212
47 202
48 207
49 204
50 183
51 178
52 182
53 178
54 163
55 117
56 163
57 120
58 113
59 136
60 135
61 96
62 103
63 83
64 103
65 83
66 89
67 92
68 89
69 78
70 75
71 53
72 62
73 54
74 35
75 52
76 50
77 32
78 37
79 20
80 33
81 36
82 34
83 34
84 24
85 19
86 18
87 26
88 30
89 17
90 21
91 19
92 15
93 14
94 20
95 9
96 10
97 15
98 13
99 3
100 13
101 3
102 9
103 4
104 6
105 6
106+ 98
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Overview

Huw S. Groucutt is affiliated with the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology in Germany. The scientist's research spans multiple interconnected fields including Earth and Planetary Sciences, Arts and Humanities, and Social Sciences, demonstrating an interdisciplinary approach to studying human history and the environment.

The main subfields of study encompass Archeology, Paleontology, Anthropology, Atmospheric Science, and Space and Planetary Science. These subfields reflect a focus on ancient human activities, environmental contexts, and evolutionary processes over vast geological and historical timescales.

Key topics in Huw S. Groucutt's work include:

  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
  • Evolution and Paleontology Studies
  • Archaeological Research and Protection

The scientist has published extensively in venues such as Scientific Reports, Nature, Frontiers in Earth Science, Lithic Technology, and the Journal of Archaeological Science Reports. These publications underline a consistent output in both general science and specialized archaeological and earth science journals.

Selected recent papers include:

  • "Human responses to climate and ecosystem change in ancient Arabia," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Multiple hominin dispersals into Southwest Asia over the past 400,000 years," 2021, Nature
  • "Climate change, not human population growth, correlates with Late Quaternary megafauna declines in North America," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Sum things are not what they seem: Problems with point-wise interpretations and quantitative analyses of proxies based on aggregated radiocarbon dates," 2020, The Holocene
  • "Continuity of the Middle Stone Age into the Holocene," 2021, Scientific Reports

Frequent collaborators include Michael D. Petraglia, Eleanor M. L. Scerri, Mathew Stewart, W. Christopher Carleton, and Abdullah Alsharekh.

Huw S. Groucutt has contributed to academic books published by Springer Nature (Netherlands) and Frontiers Media. These include:

  • "Culture History and Convergent Evolution," 2020, Springer Nature (Netherlands)
  • "Extreme Events in Human Evolution: From the Pliocene to the Anthropocene," 2022, Frontiers Media

Best Publications

  • Did our species evolve in subdivided populations across Africa, and why does it matter?

    Eleanor M.L. Scerri;Eleanor M.L. Scerri;Mark G. Thomas;Andrea Manica;Philipp Gunz

  • Rethinking the dispersal of Homo sapiens out of Africa.

    Huw S. Groucutt;Michael D. Petraglia;Geoff Bailey;Eleanor M. L. Scerri

  • The prehistory of the Arabian peninsula: Deserts, dispersals, and demography

    Huw S. Groucutt;Michael D. Petraglia

  • Homo sapiens in Arabia by 85,000 years ago

    Huw S. Groucutt;Huw S. Groucutt;Rainer Grün;Rainer Grün;Iyad A. S. Zalmout;Nick A. Drake;Nick A. Drake

  • Earliest evidence for the structure of Homo sapiens populations in Africa

    Eleanor M.l. Scerri;Nicholas Drake;Richard Jennings;Huw S. Groucutt

  • Hominin Dispersal into the Nefud Desert and Middle Palaeolithic Settlement along the Jubbah Palaeolake, Northern Arabia

    Michael D. Petraglia;Michael D. Petraglia;Abdullah Alsharekh;Paul Breeze;Chris Clarkson

  • The greening of Arabia: Multiple opportunities for human occupation of the Arabian Peninsula during the Late Pleistocene inferred from an ensemble of climate model simulations

    Richard P. Jennings;Joy Singarayer;Emma J. Stone;Uta Krebs-Kanzow

  • Middle Paleolithic occupation on a Marine Isotope Stage 5 lakeshore in the Nefud Desert, Saudi Arabia

    Michael D. Petraglia;Abdullah M. Alsharekh;Remy Crassard;Nicholas Drake

  • Remote sensing and GIS techniques for reconstructing Arabian palaeohydrology and identifying archaeological sites

    Paul S. Breeze;Nick A. Drake;Huw S. Groucutt;Ash Parton

  • Palaeohydrological corridors for hominin dispersals in the Middle East ∼250–70,000 years ago

    Paul S. Breeze;Huw S. Groucutt;Nick A. Drake;Tom S. White

  • 78,000-year-old record of Middle and Later Stone Age innovation in an East African tropical forest

    Ceri Shipton;Ceri Shipton;Patrick Roberts;Will Archer;Will Archer;Simon J. Armitage;Simon J. Armitage

  • Human responses to climate and ecosystem change in ancient Arabia.

    Michael D. Petraglia;Michael D. Petraglia;Michael D. Petraglia;Huw S. Groucutt;Maria Guagnin;Maria Guagnin;Paul S. Breeze

  • Middle Palaeolithic and Neolithic occupations around Mundafan Palaeolake, Saudi Arabia: Implications for climate change and human dispersals

    Remy Crassard;Michael D. Petraglia;Nicholas Drake;Paul Breeze

  • Stone tool assemblages and models for the dispersal of Homo sapiens out of Africa

    Huw S. Groucutt;Eleanor M. L. Scerri;Eleanor M. L. Scerri;Laura Lewis;Laine Clark-Balzan

  • Multiple hominin dispersals into Southwest Asia over the past 400,000 years.

    Huw S. Groucutt;Huw S. Groucutt;Tom S. White;Eleanor M. L. Scerri;Eleanor M. L. Scerri;Eleanor M. L. Scerri;Eric Andrieux;Eric Andrieux

  • Orbital-scale climate variability in Arabia as a potential motor for human dispersals

    Ash Parton;Tom S. White;Adrian G. Parker;Paul S. Breeze

  • Human occupation of the Arabian empty quarter during MIS 5: evidence from Mundafan Al-Buhayrah, Saudi Arabia

    Huw S. Groucutt;Tom S. White;Laine Clark-Balzan;Ash Parton

  • Persistence of Middle Stone Age technology to the Pleistocene/Holocene transition supports a complex hominin evolutionary scenario in West Africa

    Eleanor M.L. Scerri;James Blinkhorn;James Blinkhorn;Khady Niang;Mark D. Bateman

  • Climate change, not human population growth, correlates with Late Quaternary megafauna declines in North America

    Mathew Stewart;W. Christopher Carleton;Huw S. Groucutt

  • Beyond the Levant: first evidence of a pre-pottery Neolithic incursion into the Nefud Desert, Saudi Arabia.

    Remy Crassard;Michael D. Petraglia;Michael D. Petraglia;Adrian G. Parker;Ash Parton

  • Middle to Late Pleistocene human habitation in the western Nefud Desert, Saudi Arabia

    Eleanor M. L. Scerri;Paul S. Breeze;Ash Parton;Huw S. Groucutt

  • Did our species evolve in subdivided populations across Africa, and Why does it matter?

    Eleanor M.L. Scerri;Mark G. Thomas;Andrea Manica;Philipp Gunz

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael D. Petraglia
Michael D. Petraglia Griffith University
Nicholas Drake
Nicholas Drake King's College London
Julien Louys
Julien Louys Griffith University
Adrian G. Parker
Adrian G. Parker Oxford Brookes University
Ian Candy
Ian Candy Royal Holloway University of London
Lounès Chikhi
Lounès Chikhi Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência
Nicole Boivin
Nicole Boivin Max Planck Society
Julia A. Lee-Thorp
Julia A. Lee-Thorp University of Oxford
Mark G. Thomas
Mark G. Thomas University College London
Mathieu Duval
Mathieu Duval National Research Center on Human Evolution

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