OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Evolutionary Anthropology is 3. 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
Large‐scale cooperation in small‐scale foraging societies	39
Primate conservation: Lessons learned in the last 20 years can guide future efforts	37
Resolving the “muddle in the middle”: The case for Homo bodoensis sp. nov.	36
The emergence and intensification of early hunter‐gatherer niche construction	33
Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in savanna landscapes	22
Did Pleistocene Africans use the spearthrower‐and‐dart?	22
Estimating origination times from the early hominin fossil record	22
New horizons in reconstructing past human behavior: Introducing the “Tübingen University Validated Entheses‐based Reconstruction of Activity” method	21
The ripples of modernity: How we can extend paleoanthropology with the extended evolutionary synthesis	20
Leveling with Tinbergen: Four levels simplified to causes and consequences	18
Assessing the state of knowledge of contemporary climate change and primates	18
Between a rock and a cold place: Neanderthal biocultural cold adaptations	17
The evolutionary significance of human brown adipose tissue: Integrating the timescales of adaptation	14
Operationalizing niche construction theory with stone tools	14
Ecosystem engineering in the Quaternary of the West Coast of South Africa	14
Human behavioral ecology and niche construction	14
Sepsis and the evolution of human increased sensitivity to lipopolysaccharide	14
Cooperation in large‐scale human societies—What, if anything, makes it unique, and how did it evolve?	13
Whatisn'tsocial tolerance?The past, present, and possible future of an overused term in the field of primatology	12
Rocks and clocks revised: New promises and challenges in dating the primate tree of life	12
Plant wax biomarkers in human evolutionary studies	12
Energetic and endurance constraints on great ape quadrupedalism and the benefits of hominin bipedalism	10
Homo sapiensorigins and evolution in the Kalahari Basin, southern Africa	10
Grit and consequence	10
Pathways to paternal care in primates	10

Subjective selection and the evolution of complex culture	9
Inferring archaic introgression from hominin genetic data	9
The nature of Nubian: Developing current global perspectives on Nubian Levallois technology and the Nubian complex	8
The sensory ecology of primate food perception, revisited	8
Homo bodoensis and why it matters	6
Drivers of insect consumption across human populations	6
Scanning the human genome for “signatures” of positive selection: Transformative opportunities and ethical obligations	6
The naming of Homo bodoensis by Roksandic and colleagues does not resolve issues surrounding Middle Pleistocene human evolution	6
The challenges of documenting coevolution and niche construction: The example of domestic spaces	6
Parallel evolution in human populations: A biocultural perspective	6
Pan‐Africanism vs. single‐origin of Homo sapiens: Putting the debate in the light of evolutionary biology	6
Hominins likely occupied northern Europe before one million years ago	6
Human behaviors driving disease emergence	5
Muddying the muddle in the middle even more	5
Birth of Homo erectus	5
A process‐based approach to hominin taxonomy provides new perspectives on hominin speciation	5
Hierarchies in the energy budget: Thyroid hormones and the evolution of human life history patterns	5
Primate landscape genetics: A review and practical guide	4
Brutish Neanderthals: History of a merciless characterization	4
Biocultural perspectives of infectious diseases and demographic evolution: Tuberculosis and its comorbidities through history	4
The estimation and evolution of hominin body mass	4
Reticulate evolution underlies synergistic trait formation in human communities	4
Anthropological genetic insights on Caribbean population history	4
Human consumption of large herbivore digesta and its implications for foraging theory	3
Do we need to reclassify the social systems of gregarious apes?	3
Moving away from “the Muddle in the Middle” toward solving the Chibanian puzzle	3
Sensory disruption and sensory inequities in the Anthropocene	3
A lineage perspective on hominin taxonomy and evolution	3
Birth of Australopithecus	3
Towards an interdisciplinary perspective for the study of human expansions and biocultural diversity in the Americas	3
Inferring cultural reproduction from lithic data: A critical review	3