OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Human Evolution is 7. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
The dental remains from the Early Upper Paleolithic of Manot Cave, Israel	44
Trophic ecology of a Late Pleistocene early modern human from tropical Southeast Asia inferred from zinc isotopes	33
Reconstructing Neanderthal diet: The case for carbohydrates	33
Comparative description and taxonomic affinity of 3.7-million-year-old hominin mandibles from Woranso-Mille (Ethiopia)	30
An ape partial postcranial skeleton (KNM-NP 64631) from the Middle Miocene of Napudet, northern Kenya	27
Initial Upper Paleolithic bone technology and personal ornaments at Bacho Kiro Cave (Bulgaria)	25
Life and death at Dmanisi, Georgia: Taphonomic signals from the fossil mammals	25
The Western European Acheulean: Reading variability at a regional scale	22
A chimpanzee enamel-diet δ13C enrichment factor and a refined enamel sampling strategy: Implications for dietary reconstructions	20
The foot of the human–chimpanzee last common ancestor was not African ape-like: A response to Prang (2019)	20
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Paleoenvironments represented by the sediments of the Early Pliocene Mursi Formation, Omo Valley, Ethiopia	20
JHE 50th anniversary: What does a journal owe its discipline?	19
William Howard Kimbel (1954–2022)	19
Calcar femorale variation in extant and fossil hominids: Implications for identifying bipedal locomotion in fossil hominins	18
One journal to bring them all, and in the fossils bind them	18
An updated chronology and paleoenvironmental background for the Paleolithic Loufangzi site, North China	18
The 50th anniversary of JHE	18
The role of developmental rate, body size, and positional behavior in the evolution of covariation and evolvability in the cranium of strepsirrhines and catarrhines	18
On the age of Ain Hanech Oldowan locality (Algeria): First numerical dating results	17
Reconstructing the provenance of the hominin fossils from Trinil (Java, Indonesia) through an integrated analysis of the historical and recent excavations	17
Three-dimensional geometric morphometric study of the Xuchang 2 cranium	17
Pliocene hominins from East Turkana were associated with mesic environments in a semiarid basin	17
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A cranial injury from the earliest Gravettian at the Cro-Magnon rock shelter (Vézère Valley, Dordogne, southwest France)	17
Hominin nomenclature and the importance of information systems for managing complexity in paleoanthropology	17
Ecospaces of the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition: The archaeofaunal record of the Iberian Peninsula	16
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Challenging the antiquity of the Cradle of Humankind, South Africa: Geochronological evidence restricts the age of Eurotomys bolti and Parapapio to less than 2.3 Ma at Waypoint 160, Bolt's Farm	16
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A new species of fossil guenon (Cercopithecini, Cercopithecidae) from the Early Pleistocene Lower Ngaloba Beds, Laetoli, Tanzania	15
Biomechanical correlates of zygomaxillary-surface shape in papionin primates and the effects of hard-object feeding on mangabey facial form	15
Description and taxonomic assessment of fossil Cercopithecidae from the Pliocene Galili Formation (Ethiopia)	14
Geometric morphometric analysis of the bony labyrinth of the Sima de los Huesos hominins	14
The influence of climate and population structure on East Asian skeletal morphology	14
Subsistence behavior during the Initial Upper Paleolithic in Europe: Site use, dietary practice, and carnivore exploitation at Bacho Kiro Cave (Bulgaria)	14
A fistful of fossils: The rise and fall of the Orce Man and the politics of paleoanthropological science	14
Morphological integration in the hominid midfoot	14
The Marine Isotope Stage 3 landscape around Manot Cave (Israel) and the food habits of anatomically modern humans: New insights from the anthracological record and stable carbon isotope analysis of wi	14
Morphological variation of the maxilla in modern humans and African apes	14
Domestic spaces as crucibles of Paleolithic culture: An archaeological perspective	14
Hominin turnover at Laetoli is associated with vegetation change: Multiproxy evidence from the large herbivore community	14
Sedimentary ancient DNA metabarcoding as a tool for assessing prehistoric plant use at the Upper Paleolithic cave site Aghitu-3, Armenia	14
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Unexpected variation of human molar size patterns	13
Morphological description and evolutionary significance of 300 ka hominin facial bones from Hualongdong, China	13
Early Upper Paleolithic human foot bones from Manot Cave, Israel	13
A Late Middle Pleistocene human tooth from the Luonan Basin (Shaanxi, China)	13
Virtual reconstruction of the Kebara 2 Neanderthal pelvis	13
New Pliocene hominin remains from the Leado Dido’a area of Woranso-Mille, Ethiopia	12
The Dmanisi Equus: Systematics, biogeography, and paleoecology	12
Craniomandibular variation in the endemic Hispaniolan primate, Antillothrix bernensis	12
Total evidence phylogeny of platyrrhine primates and a comparison of undated and tip-dating approaches	12
Aspects of molar form and dietary proclivities of African colobines	12
A marine isotope stage 13 Acheulian sequence from the Amanzi Springs Area 2 Deep Sounding excavation, Eastern Cape, South Africa	12
Modern human atlas ranges of motion and Neanderthal estimations	12
New records of early Paleocene (earliest Torrejonian) plesiadapiforms from northeastern Montana, USA, provide a window into the diversification of stem primates	12
Morphological affinities of a fossil ulna (KNM-WS 65401) from Buluk, Kenya	12
A review of Theropithecus oswaldi with the proposal of a new subspecies	12
Zoogeographic significance of Dmanisi large mammal assemblage	11
Early modern human dispersal into southwest Asia occurred in variable climates: a reply to Frumkin and Comay (2019)	11
The brain of Homo habilis: Three decades of paleoneurology	11
Morphological disparity and evolutionary transformations in the primate hyoid apparatus	11
Do rates of dental wear in extant African great apes inform the time of weaning?	11
Variation in ontogenetic trajectories of limb dimensions in humans is attributable to both climatic effects and neutral evolution	11
Paleoecology, biochronology, and paleobiogeography of Eurasian Rhinocerotidae during the Early Pleistocene: The contribution of the fossil material from Dmanisi (Georgia, Southern Caucasus)	11
Aridity, availability of drinking water and freshwater foods, and hominin and archeological sites during the Late Pliocene–Early Pleistocene in the western region of the Turkana Basin (Kenya): A revie	11
A reanalysis of strontium isotope ratios as indicators of dispersal in South African hominins	11
Enamel thickness in the deciduous postcanine dentition of fossil and extant Pongo	10
Site formation processes at Manot Cave, Israel: Interplay between strata accumulation in the occupation area and the talus	10
Reassessment of the human mandible from Banyoles (Girona, Spain)	10
Early evidence for bear exploitation during MIS 9 from the site of Schöningen 12 (Germany)	10
Middle Pleistocene Pongo from Ganxian Cave in southern China with implications for understanding dental size evolution in orangutans	10

Dental topography of the Oligocene anthropoids Aegyptopithecus zeuxis and Apidium phiomense: Paleodietary insights from analysis of wear series	10
Euarchontans from Fantasia, an upland middle Eocene locality at the western margin of the Bighorn Basin	10
The human remains of Final Gravettian age from the Reclau Viver and Mollet III caves (Serinyà, NE Iberian Peninsula)	10
Exploring variability in lithic armature discard in the archaeological record	10
Virtual reconstruction and geometric morphometric analysis of the Kocabaş hominin fossil from Turkey: Implications for taxonomy and evolutionary significance	10
Femoral neck cortical bone distribution in Nacholapithecus from the Middle Miocene of Kenya	10
Complexity and sophistication of Early Middle Paleolithic flint tools revealed through use-wear analysis of tools from Misliya Cave, Mount Carmel, Israel	10
Corrigendum to “Femur associated with the Deep Skull from the West Mouth of the Niah Caves (Sarawak, Malaysia)” [Journal of Human Evolution 127 (2019) 133–148]	10
Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) grouping patterns in an open and dry savanna landscape, Issa Valley, western Tanzania	10
Hominin fossil inventory: Quantification and comparison of discrete regional and element representation among early African fossil hominins prior to the emergence of Homo erectus	10
The micromammal fauna of the southern Levant changed with the paleoclimate during the Paleolithic, while modern humans persisted: A counter-reply to Weissbrod and Weinstein-Evron (2020)	9
Variation in enamel mechanical properties throughout the crown in catarrhine primates	9
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White sclera is present in chimpanzees and other mammals	9
An updated analysis of hominin phylogeny with an emphasis on re-evaluating the phylogenetic relationships of Australopithecus sediba	9
A new primate community from the earliest Oligocene of the Atlantic margin of Northwest Africa: Systematic, paleobiogeographic, and paleoenvironmental implications	9
Dental microwear and diets of mainland fossil Pongo from the Mid-Pleistocene of southern China	9
Differences in maxillary premolar form between Cercocebus and Lophocebus	9
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Taxonomic attribution of the KNM-ER 1500 partial skeleton from the Burgi Member of the Koobi Fora Formation, Kenya	8
Biomechanical and taxonomic diversity in the Early Pleistocene in East Africa: Structural analysis of a recently discovered femur shaft from Olduvai Gorge (bed I)	8
Exploring the lack of articular ends at the Middle Pleistocene site of Qesem Cave, Israel	8
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	8
Phylogeny and paleobiogeography of the enigmatic North American primate Ekgmowechashala illuminated by new fossils from Nebraska (USA) and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (China)	8
Sex-biased sampling may influence Homo naledi tooth size variation	8
Relationship between interproximal and occlusal wear in Australopithecus africanus and Neanderthal molars	8
Investigating the dietary niches of fossil Plio-Pleistocene European macaques: The case of Macaca majori Azzaroli, 1946 from Sardinia	8
Effect of binocular visual cue availability on fruit and insect grasping performance in two cheirogaleids: Implications for primate origins hypotheses	8
Naming Homo erectus: A review	7
Predictive modelling in paleoenvironmental reconstruction: The micromammals of Manot Cave, Israel	7
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Variation in Middle Stone Age mandibular molar enamel-dentine junction topography at Klasies River Main Site assessed by diffeomorphic surface matching	7
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Quantifying maxillary development in chimpanzees and humans: An analysis of prognathism and orthognathism at the morphological and microscopic scales	7
Portable x-ray fluorescence spectroscopy geochemical sourcing of Miocene primate fossils from Kenya	7
JHE 50th anniversary: Generosity	7
Terrestriality as reflected in the humerus of Mesopithecus delsoni (Cercopithecidae, Colobinae) from Hadjidimovo, Bulgaria	7
The pectoral girdle of StW 573 (‘Little Foot’) and its implications for shoulder evolution in the Hominina	7
The taxonomic attribution of African hominin postcrania from the Miocene through the Pleistocene: Associations and assumptions	7
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On fossil recovery potential in the Australopithecus anamensis–Australopithecus afarensis lineage: A reply to	7
Using BayesModelS to provide Bayesian- and phylogenetically-informed primate body mass predictions	7
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