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D-Index
60
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17774
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1434
National Ranking
105

Peter Bellwood publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Peter Bellwood sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 224 publications — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Peter Bellwood D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Peter Bellwood sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 60 D-Index — 82nd percentile

82% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Peter Bellwood is affiliated with the Australian National University in Australia. Their research primarily spans social sciences and earth and planetary sciences, with particular focus on geography, planning and development, paleontology, archeology, anthropology, and genetics.

Their work covers various topics including Pacific and Southeast Asian studies, archaeology and ancient environmental studies, Pleistocene-era hominins and archaeology, forensic and genetic research, maritime and coastal archaeology, genomics and phylogenetic studies, and forensic anthropology and bioarchaeology studies.

Peter Bellwood has contributed publications in notable venues such as Antiquity, Archaeological Research in Asia, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Oceania, and Asian Perspectives.

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Peter Bellwood are:

  • "Ancient genomes from the last three millennia support multiple human dispersals into Wallacea", 2022, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "Sherds as archaeobotanical assemblages: Gua Sireh reconsidered", 2020, Antiquity
  • "Preceramic riverside hunter-gatherers and the arrival of Neolithic farmers in northern Luzon", 2022, Antiquity
  • "Ancient genomes from the last three millennia support multiple human dispersals into Wallacea", 2021, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • "Archaeogenetics: Tracing ancient migrations from the Yellow River", 2024, Current Biology

Frequent co-authors of Peter Bellwood include:

  • Philip J. Piper
  • Elle Grono
  • Charles Higham
  • Fiona Petchey
  • Tim Denham

Peter Bellwood has also published books through Princeton University Press, including "The Five-Million-Year Odyssey" in 2022.

Best Publications

  • Prehistory of the Indo-Malaysian Archipelago: Revised Edition

    Peter Bellwood

  • Farmers and their languages: the first expansions.

    Jared Diamond;Peter Bellwood

  • Prehistory of the Indo-Malaysian Archipelago

    Peter S. Bellwood

  • Man's conquest of the Pacific

    Peter Bellwood

  • First Farmers: The Origins of Agricultural Societies

    Peter Bellwood;Clive Gamble;Steven A. Le Blanc;Mark Pluciennik

  • Examining the Farming/Language Dispersal Hypothesis

    Peter S. Bellwood;Colin Renfrew

  • The Austronesian Dispersal and the Origin of Languages

    Peter Bellwood

  • The Polynesians: Prehistory of an island people

    Peter S. Bellwood

  • EARLY AGRICULTURALIST POPULATION DIASPORAS? FARMING, LANGUAGES, AND GENES

    Peter Bellwood

  • New evidence for a 67,000-year-old human presence at Callao Cave, Luzon, Philippines

    Armand Salvador Mijares;Florent Détroit;Philip Piper;Rainer Grün

  • The first settlement of remote oceania: The Philippines to the Marianas

    Hsiao-chun Hung;Mike T. Carson;Peter Bellwood;Fredeliza Z. Campos

  • First Migrants: Ancient Migration in Global Perspective

    Peter S. Bellwood

  • Man's conquest of the Pacific: The prehistory of Southeast Asia and Oceania

    Peter S. Bellwood

  • The Austronesians: Historical and Comparative Perspectives

    Peter Bellwood;James J. Fox;Darrell Tyron

  • Ancient jades map 3,000 years of prehistoric exchange in Southeast Asia

    Hsiao-Chun Hung;Yoshiyuki Iizuka;Peter Bellwood;Kim Dung Nguyen

  • History, Phylogeny, and Evolution in Polynesia [and Comments and Reply]

    Patrick V. Kirch;Roger C. Green;Peter S. Bellwood;R. C. Dunnell

  • ‘Lapita colonists leave boats unburned!’ The question of Lapita links with Island Southeast Asia

    Peter Bellwood;Peter Koon

  • Symbiosis, Instability, and the Origins and Spread of Agriculture: A New Model [and Comments and Reply]

    David Rindos;Homer Aschmann;Peter Bellwood;Lynn Ceci

  • Southeast Asia before History

    Peter Bellwood

  • Austronesian Prehistory in Southeast Asia: Homeland, Expansion and Transformation

    Peter Bellwood

  • Southeast Asia : from prehistory to history

    I. C. Glover;Peter S. Bellwood

  • Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association

    P. Bellwood;D. Bowdery;D. Bulbeck;M. Fiskesjo

Frequent Co-Authors

Rachel Wood
Rachel Wood Australian National University
Yoshiyuki Iizuka
Yoshiyuki Iizuka Academia Sinica
Peter Hiscock
Peter Hiscock University of Queensland
Colin Renfrew
Colin Renfrew University of Cambridge
Patrick V. Kirch
Patrick V. Kirch University of Hawaii at Manoa
Mark Stoneking
Mark Stoneking Max Planck Society
Jared M. Diamond
Jared M. Diamond University of California, Los Angeles
Matthias Meyer
Matthias Meyer Max Planck Society
Houyuan Lu
Houyuan Lu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Johannes Krause
Johannes Krause Max Planck Society

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