OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Human Evolution is 20. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-03-01 to 2023-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Reassessment of TL age estimates of burnt flints from the Paleolithic site of Tabun Cave, Israel	125
Enamel thickness and microstructure in pitheciin primates, with comments on dietary adaptations of the middle Miocene hominoid Kenyapithecus	116
Expansion of the neocerebellum in Hominoidea	115
Non-occlusal dental microwear variability in a sample of Middle and Late Pleistocene human populations from Europe and the Near East	85
An integrated approach to taphonomy and faunal change in the Shungura Formation (Ethiopia) and its implication for hominid evolution	79
Locomotor activity influences muscle architecture and bone growth but not muscle attachment site morphology	65
Variability in the organization and size of hunter-gatherer groups: Foragers do not live in small-scale societies	63
Understanding stone tool-making skill acquisition: Experimental methods and evolutionary implications	53
A new interpretation of Madagascar's megafaunal decline: The “Subsistence Shift Hypothesis”	46
Cooked starchy food in hearths ca. 120 kya and 65 kya (MIS 5e and MIS 4) from Klasies River Cave, South Africa	44
New bracketing luminescence ages constrain the Sima de los Huesos hominin fossils (Atapuerca, Spain) to MIS 12	44
Early Pleistocene human hand phalanx from the Sima del Elefante (TE) cave site in Sierra de Atapuerca (Spain)	42
Upper Palaeolithic ritualistic cannibalism at Gough's Cave (Somerset, UK): The human remains from head to toe	42
Enamel thickness and development in a third permanent molar of Gigantopithecus blacki	40
Hominin fire use in the Okote member at Koobi Fora, Kenya: New evidence for the old debate	39
A geometric morphometric analysis of hominin lower molars: Evolutionary implications and overview of postcanine dental variation	38
The skull of StW 573, a 3.67 Ma Australopithecus prometheus skeleton from Sterkfontein Caves, South Africa	37
The bony labyrinth of StW 573 (“Little Foot”): Implications for early hominin evolution and paleobiology	32
New data for the Early Upper Paleolithic of Kostenki (Russia)	32
Fossil human remains from Bolomor Cave (Valencia, Spain)	31
Current events: An early date for the Middle Stone Age of central Zambia	31
Recycling for a purpose in the late Lower Paleolithic Levant: Use-wear and residue analyses of small sharp flint items indicate a planned and integrated subsistence behavior at Qesem Cave (Israel)	31
The long limb bones of the StW 573 Australopithecus skeleton from Sterkfontein Member 2: Descriptions and proportions	30
The role of neurocranial shape in defining the boundaries of an expanded Homo erectus hypodigm	29
Jaw-muscle architecture and mandibular morphology influence relative maximum jaw gapes in the sexually dimorphic Macaca fascicularis	29
The radiation of macaques out of Africa: Evidence from mitogenome divergence times and the fossil record	29
Evidence for a humid interval at ∼56–44 ka in the Levant and its potential link to modern humans dispersal out of Africa	28
The Neandertal vertebral column 2: The lumbar spine	28
Expanded character sampling underscores phylogenetic stability of Ardipithecus ramidus as a basal hominin	28
Male–female relationships in olive baboons (Papio anubis): Parenting or mating effort?	27
Excavation, reconstruction and taphonomy of the StW 573 Australopithecus prometheus skeleton from Sterkfontein Caves, South Africa	27
The endocast of StW 573 (“Little Foot”) and hominin brain evolution	27
Neotropics provide insights into the emergence of New World monkeys: New dental evidence from the late Oligocene of Peruvian Amazonia	26
La Ferrassie 8 Neandertal child reloaded: New remains and re-assessment of the original collection	25
Isotopic evidence for Last Glacial climatic impacts on Neanderthal gazelle hunting territories at Amud Cave, Israel	25
Comparative evidence for the independent evolution of hair and sweat gland traits in primates	24
Efficacy of diffeomorphic surface matching and 3D geometric morphometrics for taxonomic discrimination of Early Pleistocene hominin mandibular molars	24
Intrinsic qualities of primate bones as predictors of skeletal element representation in modern and fossil carnivore feeding assemblages	23
Assessing sources of error in comparative analyses of primate behavior: Intraspecific variation in group size and the social brain hypothesis	23
Human calcanei from the Middle Pleistocene site of Sima de los Huesos (Sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos, Spain)	22
The mechanical origins of arm-swinging	22
Mandibular molar root and pulp cavity morphology in Homo naledi and other Plio-Pleistocene hominins	21
Relevance of the eastern African coastal forest for early hominin biogeography	21
The role of allometry and posture in the evolution of the hominin subaxial cervical spine	21
A late Miocene hominid partial pelvis from Hungary	21
Hominin teeth from the Middle Pleistocene site of Yiyuan, Eastern China	21
Lithic raw material acquisition and use by early Homo sapiens at Skhul, Israel	20
Hominin diversity and high environmental variability in the Okote Member, Koobi Fora Formation, Kenya	20
Social evolution in Plio-Pleistocene hominins: Insights from hamadryas baboons and paleoecology	20
Ardipithecus ramidus postcrania from the Gona Project area, Afar Regional State, Ethiopia	20
Feathers and food: Human-bird interactions at Middle Pleistocene Qesem Cave, Israel	20