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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	129
Paleoenvironments represented by the sediments of the Early Pliocene Mursi Formation, Omo Valley, Ethiopia	45
On the age of Ain Hanech Oldowan locality (Algeria): First numerical dating results	40
The human remains of Final Gravettian age from the Reclau Viver and Mollet III caves (Serinyà, NE Iberian Peninsula)	39
Acetabular orientation, pelvic shape, and the evolution of hominin bipedality	37
Sedimentary ancient DNA metabarcoding as a tool for assessing prehistoric plant use at the Upper Paleolithic cave site Aghitu-3, Armenia	31
Contextualizing the Early Upper Paleolithic in the Negev Desert, southern Levant: Chronologies, lithic technologies, and paleoenvironments of the Boker sites	31
One journal to bring them all, and in the fossils bind them	31
The first human fossil from the Ruidera site (Castilla-La Mancha, Spain): A partial parietal and its implications for Middle Pleistocene hominin variability in Southern Europe	30
Aspects of molar form and dietary proclivities of African colobines	30
Enamel thickness in the deciduous postcanine dentition of fossil and extant Pongo	29
Late Acheulean occupations at Montagu Cave and the pattern of Middle Pleistocene behavioral change in Western Cape, southern Africa	28
JHE 50th anniversary: Generosity	28
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Femoral neck cortical bone distribution in Nacholapithecus from the Middle Miocene of Kenya	25
The macroevolutionary dynamics of activity pattern in mammals: Primates in context	25
Early evidence for bear exploitation during MIS 9 from the site of Schöningen 12 (Germany)	24
Ecomorphology in Kenya's Koobi Fora Formation: Reconstructing Early Pleistocene hominin paleoenvironments with 3D geometric morphometric analyses of bovid metapodials	23
The Neanderthal cervical spine revisited	23
Virtual reconstruction and geometric morphometric analysis of the Kocabaş hominin fossil from Turkey: Implications for taxonomy and evolutionary significance	21
Paleoecological context of Homo aff. erectus (ATE7-1) at Sima del Elefante (late Early Pleistocene, Atapuerca, Spain) inferred from the herpetofaunal assemblage	20
An updated analysis of hominin phylogeny with an emphasis on re-evaluating the phylogenetic relationships of Australopithecus sediba	20
Exploring the lack of articular ends at the Middle Pleistocene site of Qesem Cave, Israel	19
Sex-biased sampling may influence Homo naledi tooth size variation	19
Early euprimates already had a diverse locomotor repertoire: Evidence from ankle bone morphology	18

Molar enamel–dentine junction shape of Pliobates cataloniae and other Iberian pliopithecoids	17
New insights into the Neanderthal pelvis morphology based on a partial os coxae from El Sidrón (Asturias, Spain)	17
Challenges and perspectives on functional interpretations of australopith postcrania and the reconstruction of hominin locomotion	16
The effects of carnivore diversity on scavenging opportunities and hominin range expansion during Out of Africa I	16
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Micro-computed tomography unveils anatomy of the oldest known plesiadapiform cranium	15
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Corrigendum to “The effect of bi-iliac breadth on core body temperature” [J. Hum. Evol. 195 (2024) 103580]	15
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The stratigraphy and formation of Middle Stone Age deposits in Cave 1B, Klasies River Main site, South Africa, with implications for the context, age, and cultural association of the KRM 41815/SAM-AP	14
New late middle Eocene anthropoids from Dur At-Talah, Libya: Implications for early primate dispersal into Afro-Arabia	13
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Morphological integration and evolutionary potential of the primate shoulder: Variation among taxa and implications for genetic covariances with the basicranium, pelvis, and arm	13
The earliest hylobatid from the Late Miocene of China	13
Jaw-muscle fiber architecture and skull form facilitate relatively wide jaw gapes in male cercopithecoid monkeys	13
New fossil hominins from the Upper Laetolil Beds, Laetoli, Tanzania	13
Virtual reconstruction and geometric morphometric analysis of the Kocabaş fossil hominin from Turkey and implications for taxonomy and evolutionary significance: A commentary on Mori et al. (2024)	13
The fauna from Mughr el-Hamamah, Jordan: Insights on human hunting behavior during the Early Upper Paleolithic	12
The Marine Isotope Stage 5 (∼105 ka) lithic assemblage from Ga-Mohana Hill North Rockshelter and insights into social transmission across the Kalahari Basin and its environs	12
A cadaveric study of wrist-joint moments in chimpanzees and orangutans with implications for the evolution of knuckle-walking	12
A phylogenetic perspective on the evolution of early hominin foot morphology	12
JHE: The case for preserving a legacy journal and its community	12
A normal magnetostratigraphic polarity interval in the Main Ethiopian Rift at 1.6 Ma: Implications for Acheulean and Homo erectus chronology	12
Phylogenetic comparative analysis of suspensory adaptations in primates	12
Serial reconstruction of Hominini manual phalanges	11
Two Late Pleistocene human femora from Trinil, Indonesia: Implications for body size and behavior in Southeast Asia	11
A Late Middle Pleistocene human tooth from the Luonan Basin (Shaanxi, China)	11
Early Upper Paleolithic cultural variability in the Southern Levant: New evidence from Nahal Rahaf 2 Rockshelter, Judean Desert, Israel	11
A three-dimensional geometric morphometric study of Miocene ape lumbar vertebrae, with implications for hominoid locomotor evolution	11
Trabecular bone volume fraction in Holocene and Late Pleistocene humans	11
Revisiting hominin scavenging through the lens of optimal foraging theory	11
Chimpanzee hind limb muscle electromyographic activity patterns during locomotion	11
Revealing neuromuscular similarities between baboons and humans: A commentary on	10
Three-dimensional geometric morphometric study of the Xuchang 2 cranium	10
Corrigendum to “Enhancing the reconstruction of the Gabasa Neandertal's diet using Ca and Sr stable isotopes” [J. Hum. Evol. 207 (2025) 103747]	10
An ape partial postcranial skeleton (KNM-NP 64631) from the Middle Miocene of Napudet, northern Kenya	10
Reconstructing the provenance of the hominin fossils from Trinil (Java, Indonesia) through an integrated analysis of the historical and recent excavations	10
Bovid astragalus ecomorphology as a proxy for submember-scale habitat variability in Member G of the Shungura Formation, Southwestern Ethiopia	9
Hominin nomenclature and the importance of information systems for managing complexity in paleoanthropology	8
Corrigendum to “Maxilla of Siamopithecus eocaenus (Anthropoidea, Primates) from the Paleogene of Krabi, Thailand, and its taxonomic status” [J. Hum. Evol. 198 (2025) 103614]	8
Variations by degrees: Western European paleoenvironmental fluctuations across MIS 13–11	8
Description and taxonomic assessment of fossil Cercopithecidae from the Pliocene Galili Formation (Ethiopia)	8
Corrigendum to “The site of Notarchirico (Venosa Basin, Italy) and the hominin behaviour in the Middle Pleistocene: New insights from taphonomy and spatial archaeology” [J. Hum. Evol. 211 (2026) 10378	8
Corrigendum to “Biomechanics of the mandible of Macaca mulatta during the power stroke of mastication: Loading, deformation, and strain regimes and the impact of food type” [Journal of Human Evolution	8
Portable x-ray fluorescence spectroscopy geochemical sourcing of Miocene primate fossils from Kenya	8
Ulnar morphology of Pliobates cataloniae (Pliopithecoidea: Crouzeliidae): Insights into catarrhine locomotor diversity and forelimb evolution	8
Effect of binocular visual cue availability on fruit and insect grasping performance in two cheirogaleids: Implications for primate origins hypotheses	8

Bone retouchers and end-scrapers side by side at Bushman Rock Shelter: Exploring a ca. 100,000-year-old technological imbrication in southern Africa	8
First articulating os coxae, femur, and tibia of a small adult Paranthropus robustus from Member 1 (Hanging Remnant) of the Swartkrans Formation, South Africa	8
New remains of the Miocene great ape Anoiapithecus brevirostris from Abocador de Can Mata	7
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Retrodeformation and functional anatomy of a cranial thoracic vertebra in Nacholapithecus kerioi	7
The Grotte du Bison Neandertals (Arcy-sur-Cure, France)	7
Can controversial samples lead to reliable conclusions? A reply to	7
The taxonomic attribution of African hominin postcrania from the Miocene through the Pleistocene: Associations and assumptions	7
Structural properties of the Late Pleistocene Liujiang femoral diaphyses from southern China	7
Dental microwear of Neogene cercopithecoids from the Turkana Basin, Kenya	7
World variation in three-rooted lower second molars and implications for the hominin fossil record	7
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Comparing the Boxgrove and Atapuerca (Sima de los Huesos) human fossils: Do they represent distinct paleodemes?	7
Stone selection by wild chimpanzees shares patterns with Oldowan hominins	7