OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Human Evolution is 8. 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
A new absolute date from Swartkrans Cave for the oldest occurrences of Paranthropus robustus and Oldowan stone tools in South Africa	33
Nature and relationships of Sahelanthropus tchadensis	33
The hunters or the hunters: Human and hyena prey choice divergence in the Late Pleistocene Levant	33
Meat eating by nonhuman primates: A review and synthesis	30
Eastern African environmental variation and its role in the evolution and cultural change of Homo over the last 1 million years	30
Bone tools from Beds II–IV, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, and implications for the origins and evolution of bone technology	27
Trophic ecology of a Late Pleistocene early modern human from tropical Southeast Asia inferred from zinc isotopes	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
The last glacial cycle of the southern Levant: Paleoenvironment and chronology of modern humans	20
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
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
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
Personal ornaments from Hayonim and Manot caves (Israel) hint at symbolic ties between the Levantine and the European Aurignacian	18
The DNH 7 skull of Australopithecus robustus from Drimolen (Main Quarry), South Africa	18
The pectoral girdle of StW 573 (‘Little Foot’) and its implications for shoulder evolution in the Hominina	18
Mapping Early Pleistocene environments and the availability of plant food as a potential driver of early Homo presence in the Guadix-Baza Basin (Spain)	18
Subsistence behavior during the Initial Upper Paleolithic in Europe: Site use, dietary practice, and carnivore exploitation at Bacho Kiro Cave (Bulgaria)	18

Quantifying gaze conspicuousness: Are humans distinct from chimpanzees and bonobos?	17
Zoogeographic significance of Dmanisi large mammal assemblage	17
Isotopic calcium biogeochemistry of MIS 5 fossil vertebrate bones: application to the study of the dietary reconstruction of Regourdou 1 Neandertal fossil	17
A technotypological analysis of the Ahmarian and Levantine Aurignacian assemblages from Manot Cave (area C) and the interrelation with site formation processes	17
Before the Acheulean: The emergence of bifacial shaping at Kokiselei 6 (1.8 Ma), West Turkana, Kenya	17
Bayesian luminescence dating at Ghār-e Boof, Iran, provides a new chronology for Middle and Upper Paleolithic in the southern Zagros	17
Initial Upper Paleolithic bone technology and personal ornaments at Bacho Kiro Cave (Bulgaria)	17
Statistical inference of earlier origins for the first flaked stone technologies	17
The Dmanisi Equus: Systematics, biogeography, and paleoecology	16
Olduvai's oldest Oldowan	16
Unique foot posture in Neanderthals reflects their body mass and high mechanical stress	16
Paleoecology, biochronology, and paleobiogeography of Eurasian Rhinocerotidae during the Early Pleistocene: The contribution of the fossil material from Dmanisi (Georgia, Southern Caucasus)	15
Could woodworking have driven lithic tool selection?	15
Evolution of cranial capacity revisited: A view from the late Middle Pleistocene cranium from Xujiayao, China	15
Ecological perspectives on technological diversity at Kanjera South	14
Early anthropogenic use of hematite on Aurignacian ivory personal ornaments from Hohle Fels and Vogelherd caves, Germany	14
Climatic and environmental conditions in the Western Galilee, during Late Middle and Upper Paleolithic periods, based on speleothems from Manot Cave, Israel	14
How did modern morphology evolve in the human mandible? The relationship between static adult allometry and mandibular variability in Homo sapiens	14
Chipping and wear patterns in extant primate and fossil hominin molars: ‘Functional’ cusps are associated with extensive wear but low levels of fracture	14
Variability in energy expenditure is much greater in males than females	14
Seasonality and Oldowan behavioral variability in East Africa	14
Multi-isotope zooarchaeological investigations at Abri du Maras: The paleoecological and paleoenvironmental context of Neanderthal subsistence strategies in the Rhône Valley during MIS 3	14
Mosaic habitats at Woranso-Mille (Ethiopia) during the Pliocene and implications for Australopithecus paleoecology and taxonomic diversity	14
Zhoukoudian Upper Cave personal ornaments and ochre: Rediscovery and reevaluation	14
A primate model for the origin of flake technology	14
Further analyses of the structural organization of Homo luzonensis teeth: Evolutionary implications	14
Estimating the population variance, standard deviation, and coefficient of variation: Sample size and accuracy	14
Evolution of Homo in the Middle and Late Pleistocene	13
Early Pleistocene hominin teeth from Meipu, southern China	13
Modern human teeth unearthed from below the ∼128,000-year-old level at Punung, Java: A case highlighting the problem of recent intrusion in cave sediments	13
Complexity and sophistication of Early Middle Paleolithic flint tools revealed through use-wear analysis of tools from Misliya Cave, Mount Carmel, Israel	13
Connections between the Levant and the Balkans in the late Middle Pleistocene: Archaeological findings from Velika and Mala Balanica Caves (Serbia)	13
Genetic correlations in the rhesus macaque dentition	13
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	13
Hominin diversity in East Asia during the Middle Pleistocene: A premolar endostructural perspective	12
Hominin locomotion and evolution in the Late Miocene to Late Pliocene	12
Adaptations for bipedal walking: Musculoskeletal structure and three-dimensional joint mechanics of humans and bipedal chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)	12
Calcaneal shape variation in humans, nonhuman primates, and early hominins	12
Domestic spaces as crucibles of Paleolithic culture: An archaeological perspective	12
Two Late Pleistocene human femora from Trinil, Indonesia: Implications for body size and behavior in Southeast Asia	12
Machine learning, bootstrapping, null models, and why we are still not 100% sure which bone surface modifications were made by crocodiles	12
Morphological description and evolutionary significance of 300 ka hominin facial bones from Hualongdong, China	12
Shivering in the Pleistocene. Human adaptations to cold exposure in Western Europe from MIS 14 to MIS 11	12
The Pan social brain: An evolutionary history of neurochemical receptor genes and their potential impact on sociocognitive differences	12
Foot anatomy, walking energetics, and the evolution of human bipedalism	12
A detailed analysis of the spatial distribution of Schöningen 13II-4 ‘Spear Horizon’ faunal remains	11
Macaca ulna from new excavations at the Notarchirico Acheulean site (Middle Pleistocene, Venosa, southern Italy)	11
The taxonomic attribution of African hominin postcrania from the Miocene through the Pleistocene: Associations and assumptions	11
Preliminary observations on the Levantine Aurignacian sequence of Manot Cave: Cultural affiliations and regional perspectives	11
A revised AMS and tephra chronology for the Late Middle to Early Upper Paleolithic occupations of Ortvale Klde, Republic of Georgia	11

Predictive modelling in paleoenvironmental reconstruction: The micromammals of Manot Cave, Israel	11
A comparative study of the Early Pleistocene carnivore guild from Dmanisi (Georgia)	11
Systematics of Miocene apes: State of the art of a neverending controversy	11
A revised (earliest Vallesian) age for the hominoid-bearing locality of Can Mata 1 based on new magnetostratigraphic and biostratigraphic data from Abocador de Can Mata (Vallès-Penedès Basin, NE Iberi	10
Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) grouping patterns in an open and dry savanna landscape, Issa Valley, western Tanzania	10
The brain of Homo habilis: Three decades of paleoneurology	10
Early Neanderthals in contact: The Chibanian (Middle Pleistocene) hominin dentition from Velika Balanica Cave, Southern Serbia	10
Morphological and morphometric analyses of a late Middle Pleistocene hominin mandible from Hualongdong, China	10
Rodents as indicators of the climatic conditions during the Middle Pleistocene in the southwestern Mediterranean region: implications for the environment in which hominins lived	10
Early evidence for bear exploitation during MIS 9 from the site of Schöningen 12 (Germany)	10
Total evidence phylogeny of platyrrhine primates and a comparison of undated and tip-dating approaches	10
Effects of hybridization on pelvic morphology: A macaque model	10
The morphology of the Late Pleistocene hominin remains from the site of La Cotte de St Brelade, Jersey (Channel Islands)	10
Dating the last Middle Palaeolithic of the Crimean Peninsula: New hydroxyproline AMS dates from the site of Kabazi II	10
New Pliocene hominin remains from the Leado Dido’a area of Woranso-Mille, Ethiopia	10
Early Upper Paleolithic human foot bones from Manot Cave, Israel	10
Evolutionary trend in dental size in fossil orangutans from the Pleistocene of Chongzuo, Guangxi, southern China	10
Relative abundance of grazing and browsing herbivores is not a direct reflection of vegetation structure: Implications for hominin paleoenvironmental reconstruction	10
Acheulean variability in Western Europe: The case of Menez-Dregan I (Plouhinec, Finistère, France)	9
A comparative analysis of the vestibular apparatus in Epipliopithecus vindobonensis: Phylogenetic implications	9
Sedimentary ancient DNA metabarcoding as a tool for assessing prehistoric plant use at the Upper Paleolithic cave site Aghitu-3, Armenia	9
The environments of Australopithecus anamensis at Allia Bay, Kenya: A multiproxy analysis of early Pliocene Bovidae	9
Karst terrain in the western upper Galilee, Israel: Speleogenesis, hydrogeology and human preference of Manot Cave	9
Challenges and perspectives on functional interpretations of australopith postcrania and the reconstruction of hominin locomotion	9
The dental remains from the Early Upper Paleolithic of Manot Cave, Israel	9
Reappraisal of the chronology of Orgnac 3 Lower-to-Middle Paleolithic site (Ardèche, France), a regional key sequence for the Middle Pleistocene of southern France	9
New macaque fossil remains from Morocco	9
Early ontogeny of humeral trabecular bone in Neandertals and recent modern humans	9
Trabecular organization of the proximal femur in Paranthropus robustus: Implications for the assessment of its hip joint loading conditions	8
First record of Macaca (Cercopithecidae, Primates) in the Middle Pleistocene of Greece	8
A chimpanzee enamel-diet δ13C enrichment factor and a refined enamel sampling strategy: Implications for dietary reconstructions	8
Static allometry of a small-bodied omnivore: body size and limb scaling of an island fox and inferences for Homo floresiensis	8
New paleoecological inferences based on the Early Pleistocene amphibian and reptile assemblage from Dmanisi (Georgia, Lesser Caucasus)	8
Dental chipping supports lack of hard-object feeding in Paranthropus boisei	8
Body mass estimation from footprint size in hominins	8
The Western European Acheulean: Reading variability at a regional scale	8