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Earth Science

D-Index
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4939
World Ranking
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National Ranking
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Huw S. Groucutt publication distribution in Earth Science in 2026

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 102 publications — 11th percentile

11% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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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.

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This scientist: 39 D-Index — 23rd percentile

23% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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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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