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Excavations at the Abric Romani have been carried out with the support of the Departament de Cultura de la Generalitat de Catalunya (Servei d'Arqueologia i Paleontologia, Departament de Cultura i Mitjans de Comunicacio), the Ajuntament de Capellades. The Generalitat de Catalunya and the Servei General de la Recerca programme (2014SGR900), MINECO (CGL2012-38434-C03-03; HAR2013-48784-C3-1-P) provided financial support. A. Burguet-Coca's research is funded by Fundacion Atapuerca. We are grateful to the fieldwork team from Abric Romani. We would especially like to thank Bruno Gomez-Soler, Amelia Bargallo, and Manuel Vaquero for their help with the archaeological data from Abric Romani. We thank the anonymous reviewers and Marie-Agnes Courty and Llorenc Picornell-Gelabert, co-editors of this volume, for their helpful comments that have enabled us to improve our manuscript.

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Fuel exploitation among Neanderthals based on the anthracological record from Abric Romani (Capellades, NE Spain)

Publicated to:Quaternary International. 431 6-15 - 2017-02-28 431(), DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2015.12.046

Authors: Allue, Ethel; Sole, Alex; Burguet-Coca, Aitor

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Abstract

Fuel is a basic resource enabling energy production, and its exploitation was a major activity in Neanderthal daily life. In this work we present charcoal results obtained from the Abric Romani site in order to evaluate fuel use among the human groups occupying this rock shelter from 40 to 70 ka BP. The Abric Romani, a Middle Palaeolithic site, has yielded evidence of a well-preserved sequence of Neanderthal occupations. The results of this taxonomic and taphonomic study have allowed us to characterise the charcoal assemblage as mainly comprising Pinus sylvestris type. This assemblage gives us an understanding of Neanderthal fuel acquisition strategies, mobility and occupation patterns. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd and INQUA. All rights reserved.

Keywords

Activity areasAnthracologyArchaeological charcoalEsquilleu cave cantabriaFirewood managementForest resourcesFuel managementLate holoceneMiddle palaeolithicNeanderthal behaviourNorthern spainSouth-africaSubsistence economyUpper pleistoceneVegetation

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Quaternary International due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency Scopus (SJR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2017, it was in position , thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Earth-Surface Processes.

From a relative perspective, and based on the normalized impact indicator calculated from World Citations provided by WoS (ESI, Clarivate), it yields a value for the citation normalization relative to the expected citation rate of: 1.94. This indicates that, compared to works in the same discipline and in the same year of publication, it ranks as a work cited above average. (source consulted: ESI Nov 14, 2024)

This information is reinforced by other indicators of the same type, which, although dynamic over time and dependent on the set of average global citations at the time of their calculation, consistently position the work at some point among the top 50% most cited in its field:

  • Field Citation Ratio (FCR) from Dimensions: 10.28 (source consulted: Dimensions Jun 2025)

Specifically, and according to different indexing agencies, this work has accumulated citations as of 2025-06-05, the following number of citations:

  • WoS: 50
  • Scopus: 52
  • OpenCitations: 59

Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-06-05:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 97.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 97 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 4.35.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 6 (Altmetric).

Leadership analysis of institutional authors

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (Allue, Ethel) and Last Author (BURGUET COCA, AITOR).

the authors responsible for correspondence tasks have been Allue, Ethel and BURGUET COCA, AITOR.