OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Human Evolution is 19. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The revolution that still isn't: The origins of behavioral complexity in Homo sapiens	38
Nature and relationships of Sahelanthropus tchadensis	33
The hunters or the hunters: Human and hyena prey choice divergence in the Late Pleistocene Levant	33
A new absolute date from Swartkrans Cave for the oldest occurrences of Paranthropus robustus and Oldowan stone tools in South Africa	33
Eastern African environmental variation and its role in the evolution and cultural change of Homo over the last 1 million years	30
Meat eating by nonhuman primates: A review and synthesis	30
Trophic ecology of a Late Pleistocene early modern human from tropical Southeast Asia inferred from zinc isotopes	27
Bone tools from Beds II–IV, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, and implications for the origins and evolution of bone technology	27
Dietary evidence from Central Asian Neanderthals: A combined isotope and plant microremains approach at Chagyrskaya Cave (Altai, Russia)	25
Cultural mosaics, social structure, and identity: The Acheulean threshold in Europe	25
Reconstructing Neanderthal diet: The case for carbohydrates	22
A West African Middle Stone Age site dated to the beginning of MIS 5: Archaeology, chronology, and paleoenvironment of the Ravin Blanc I (eastern Senegal)	20
Phylogenetic analysis of Middle-Late Miocene apes	20
The Middle to Later Stone Age transition at Panga ya Saidi, in the tropical coastal forest of eastern Africa	20
Coping with arid environments: A critical threshold for human expansion in Europe at the Marine Isotope Stage 12/11 transition? The case of the Iberian Peninsula	20
The last glacial cycle of the southern Levant: Paleoenvironment and chronology of modern humans	20
Early Upper Paleolithic subsistence in the Levant: Zooarchaeology of the Ahmarian–Aurignacian sequence at Manot Cave, Israel	19
The Fauresmith of South Africa: A new assemblage from Canteen Kopje and significance of the technology in human and cultural evolution	19
Quantifying differences in hominin flaking technologies with 3D shape analysis	19
Tracking behavioral persistence and innovations during the Middle Pleistocene in Western Europe. Shift in occupations between 700 and 450 ka at la Noira site (Centre, France)	19