2026 Peter Andrews: Environmental Sciences Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Environmental Sciences	70	1696	1614	137	133	199	16338

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Current World Ranking

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Environmental Sciences

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Overview

Peter Andrews is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple disciplines, primarily focusing on Medicine and Earth and Planetary Sciences.

Their work addresses key areas such as:

Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
Evolution and Paleontology Studies
Diet, Metabolism, and Disease
Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects
Gout, Hyperuricemia, Uric Acid
Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
Wildlife Ecology and Conservation

Subfields in which Andrews has contributed include:

Paleontology
Anthropology
Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
Pathology and Forensic Medicine
Nephrology

Notable recent publications incorporate interdisciplinary approaches and cover topics ranging from genetic mutations to environmental changes in deep historical contexts. These works include:

"Do thrifty genes exist? Revisiting uricase" (2022) published in Obesity
"Brief report: The uricase mutation in humans increases our risk for cancer growth" (2021) published in Cancer & Metabolism
"New palaeoecological approaches to interpret climatic fluctuations in Holocenic sites of the Pampean Region of Argentina" (2021) published in Quaternary Science Reviews
"The owl that never left! Taphonomy of Earlier Stone Age small mammal assemblages from Wonderwerk Cave (South Africa)" (2021) published in Quaternary International
"Bushmeat skeletal waste from an Atlantic African rainforest (Equatorial Guinea) as a test for the Mammal Community Structure Analysis in paleoecology" (2021) published in International Journal of Osteoarchaeology

Frequent collaborators of Andrews include:

Richard J. Johnson
Miguel A. Lanaspa
Yolanda Fernández-Jalvo
Laura Gabriela Sánchez-Lozada
Takahiko Nakagawa

Andrews' publication record shows a presence in diverse scientific journals such as Obesity, Cancer & Metabolism, Quaternary Science Reviews, Quaternary International, and the International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of their work.

Best Publications

Genetic and fossil evidence for the origin of modern humans

CB Stringer;P Andrews

1432
Citations
Owls, Caves and Fossils

D. M. Avery;P. Andrews

957
Citations
Atlas of Taphonomic Identifications

Yolanda Fernández-Jalvo;Peter Andrews

602
Citations
Natural Modifications to Bones in a Temperate Setting

Peter Andrews;Jill Cook

451
Citations
Small mammal bone accumulations produced by mammalian carnivores

Peter Andrews;E. M. Nesbit Evans

434
Citations
Small mammal taphonomy of Gran Dolina, Atapuerca (Burgos), Spain

Yolanda Fernandez-Jalvo;Peter Andrews

429
Citations
Evolution and environment in the Hominoidea.

Peter Andrews

400
Citations
Patterns of ecological diversity in fossil and modern mammalian faunas

Peter Andrews;J. M. Lord;Elizabeth M. Nesbit Evans

399
Citations
The relationships of Sivapithecus and Ramapithecus and the evolution of the orang-utan

Peter Andrews;J. E. Cronin;J. E. Cronin

305
Citations
Effect of taphonomic processes on dental microwear.

Tania King;Tania King;Peter Andrews;Basak Boz

303
Citations
A Reappraisal of the Clacton Spearpoint

Kenneth P. Oakley;Peter Andrews;Lawrence H. Keeley;J. Desmond Clark

287
Citations
Palaeoecology of Miocene sites in Western Kenya

E.M. Nesbit Evans;Judith A.H. Van Couvering;Peter Andrews

279
Citations
Taphonomy and palaeoecology of Olduvai Bed-I (Pleistocene, Tanzania)

Y. Fernández-Jalvo;C. Denys;P. Andrews;T. Williams

278
Citations
The Complete World of Human Evolution

Chris Stringer;Peter Andrews

275
Citations
Cladistic relationships of extant and fossil hominoids

Peter Andrews;Lawrence Martin

255
Citations
A revision of the Miocene hominoidea of East Africa

Peter Andrews

251
Citations
Climate, vegetation, and predictable gradients in mammal species richness in southern Africa

Peter Andrews;Eileen M. O'Brien

245
Citations
Distribution and biochronology of European and Southwest Asian Miocene catarrhines

P Andrews

242
Citations
Surface modifications of the Sima de los Huesos fossil humans

P Andrews;Y Fernandez Jalvo

222
Citations
Taphonomic effects of faunal impoverishment and faunal mixing

Peter Andrews

204
Citations
Major Topics in Primate and Human Evolution

Bernard A. Wood;Lawrence Martin;Peter Andrews

200
Citations
The evolution of Neogene terrestrial ecosystems in Europe

Jordi Agustí;Lorenzo Rook;Peter Andrews

198
Citations
Experiments in Taphonomy

P. Andrews

188
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Yolanda Fernández-Jalvo Spanish National Research Council

Richard J. Johnson University of Colorado Denver

Valerie J. Lund University College London

Marion K. Bamford University of the Witwatersrand

Yannicke Dauphin Sorbonne University

Thomas Hummel TU Dresden

Thure E. Cerling University of Utah

Mikael Fortelius University of Helsinki

Antje Haehner TU Dresden

Jay Quade University of Arizona

External Links

Personal website of Peter Andrews

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