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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Acetabular orientation, pelvic shape, and the evolution of hominin bipedality	87
Editorial Board	42
The foot of the human–chimpanzee last common ancestor was not African ape-like: A response to Prang (2019)	41
Calcar femorale variation in extant and fossil hominids: Implications for identifying bipedal locomotion in fossil hominins	38
One journal to bring them all, and in the fossils bind them	35
Paleoenvironments represented by the sediments of the Early Pliocene Mursi Formation, Omo Valley, Ethiopia	33
A fistful of fossils: The rise and fall of the Orce Man and the politics of paleoanthropological science	28
Aspects of molar form and dietary proclivities of African colobines	26
Morphological disparity and evolutionary transformations in the primate hyoid apparatus	26
The human remains of Final Gravettian age from the Reclau Viver and Mollet III caves (Serinyà, NE Iberian Peninsula)	26
On the age of Ain Hanech Oldowan locality (Algeria): First numerical dating results	25
Femoral neck cortical bone distribution in Nacholapithecus from the Middle Miocene of Kenya	25
New insights into the Neanderthal pelvis morphology based on a partial os coxae from El Sidrón (Asturias, Spain)	25
Sedimentary ancient DNA metabarcoding as a tool for assessing prehistoric plant use at the Upper Paleolithic cave site Aghitu-3, Armenia	25
The macroevolutionary dynamics of activity pattern in mammals: Primates in context	24
Ecomorphology in Kenya's Koobi Fora Formation: Reconstructing Early Pleistocene hominin paleoenvironments with 3D geometric morphometric analyses of bovid metapodials	24
JHE 50th anniversary: Generosity	24
Enamel thickness in the deciduous postcanine dentition of fossil and extant Pongo	24
Molar enamel–dentine junction shape of Pliobates cataloniae and other Iberian pliopithecoids	23
Sex-biased sampling may influence Homo naledi tooth size variation	23
Exploring the lack of articular ends at the Middle Pleistocene site of Qesem Cave, Israel	22
Editorial Board	22
Early euprimates already had a diverse locomotor repertoire: Evidence from ankle bone morphology	22
Late Acheulean occupations at Montagu Cave and the pattern of Middle Pleistocene behavioral change in Western Cape, southern Africa	21
The Neanderthal cervical spine revisited	21

Early evidence for bear exploitation during MIS 9 from the site of Schöningen 12 (Germany)	21
An updated analysis of hominin phylogeny with an emphasis on re-evaluating the phylogenetic relationships of Australopithecus sediba	20
Virtual reconstruction and geometric morphometric analysis of the Kocabaş hominin fossil from Turkey: Implications for taxonomy and evolutionary significance	19
Corrigendum to “The effect of bi-iliac breadth on core body temperature” [J. Hum. Evol. 195 (2024) 103580]	18
Editorial Board	18
Challenges and perspectives on functional interpretations of australopith postcrania and the reconstruction of hominin locomotion	18
Introduction to special issue: In search for modern humans and the Early Upper Paleolithic at Manot Cave, Western Galilee, Israel	17
The effects of carnivore diversity on scavenging opportunities and hominin range expansion during Out of Africa I	17
Micro-computed tomography unveils anatomy of the oldest known plesiadapiform cranium	17
Editorial Board	17
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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	17
Morphological integration and evolutionary potential of the primate shoulder: Variation among taxa and implications for genetic covariances with the basicranium, pelvis, and arm	16
Editorial Board	16
A normal magnetostratigraphic polarity interval in the Main Ethiopian Rift at 1.6 Ma: Implications for Acheulean and Homo erectus chronology	16
New fossil hominins from the Upper Laetolil Beds, Laetoli, Tanzania	16
Editorial Board	16
Distinguishing primate taxa with enamel incremental variables	16
Editorial Board	16
The earliest hylobatid from the Late Miocene of China	16
Editorial Board	14
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	14
Karst terrain in the western upper Galilee, Israel: Speleogenesis, hydrogeology and human preference of Manot Cave	14
A phylogenetic perspective on the evolution of early hominin foot morphology	14
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)	14
A cadaveric study of wrist-joint moments in chimpanzees and orangutans with implications for the evolution of knuckle-walking	14
The fauna from Mughr el-Hamamah, Jordan: Insights on human hunting behavior during the Early Upper Paleolithic	13
Phylogenetic comparative analysis of suspensory adaptations in primates	13
Serial reconstruction of Hominini manual phalanges	13
Jaw-muscle fiber architecture and skull form facilitate relatively wide jaw gapes in male cercopithecoid monkeys	13
Trabecular bone volume fraction in Holocene and Late Pleistocene humans	13
JHE: The case for preserving a legacy journal and its community	13
Evolutionary trend in dental size in fossil orangutans from the Pleistocene of Chongzuo, Guangxi, southern China	12
Two Late Pleistocene human femora from Trinil, Indonesia: Implications for body size and behavior in Southeast Asia	12
A three-dimensional geometric morphometric study of Miocene ape lumbar vertebrae, with implications for hominoid locomotor evolution	12
Direct cosmogenic nuclide isochron burial dating of early Acheulian stone tools at the T69 Complex (FLK West, Olduvai Bed II, Tanzania)	12
Ulnar morphology of Pliobates cataloniae (Pliopithecoidea: Crouzeliidae): Insights into catarrhine locomotor diversity and forelimb evolution	11
Chimpanzee hind limb muscle electromyographic activity patterns during locomotion	11
Hominin nomenclature and the importance of information systems for managing complexity in paleoanthropology	11
Early Upper Paleolithic cultural variability in the Southern Levant: New evidence from Nahal Rahaf 2 Rockshelter, Judean Desert, Israel	11
An ancient cranium from Dmanisi: Evidence for interpersonal violence, disease, and possible predation by carnivores on Early Pleistocene Homo	11
A Late Middle Pleistocene human tooth from the Luonan Basin (Shaanxi, China)	11
Adaptations for bipedal walking: Musculoskeletal structure and three-dimensional joint mechanics of humans and bipedal chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)	11
Three-dimensional geometric morphometric study of the Xuchang 2 cranium	10
An ape partial postcranial skeleton (KNM-NP 64631) from the Middle Miocene of Napudet, northern Kenya	10
First articulating os coxae, femur, and tibia of a small adult Paranthropus robustus from Member 1 (Hanging Remnant) of the Swartkrans Formation, South Africa	10
Initial Upper Paleolithic bone technology and personal ornaments at Bacho Kiro Cave (Bulgaria)	10
Reconstructing the provenance of the hominin fossils from Trinil (Java, Indonesia) through an integrated analysis of the historical and recent excavations	10
Biomechanical correlates of zygomaxillary-surface shape in papionin primates and the effects of hard-object feeding on mangabey facial form	10

Morphological variation of the maxilla in modern humans and African apes	10
Revealing neuromuscular similarities between baboons and humans: A commentary on	9
Investigating foundations for hominin fire exploitation: Savanna-dwelling chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) in fire-altered landscapes	9
Morphological affinities of a fossil ulna (KNM-WS 65401) from Buluk, Kenya	9
Description and taxonomic assessment of fossil Cercopithecidae from the Pliocene Galili Formation (Ethiopia)	9
Effect of binocular visual cue availability on fruit and insect grasping performance in two cheirogaleids: Implications for primate origins hypotheses	9
Unexpected variation of human molar size patterns	9
Variations by degrees: Western European paleoenvironmental fluctuations across MIS 13–11	9
Corrigendum to “Maxilla of Siamopithecus eocaenus (Anthropoidea, Primates) from the Paleogene of Krabi, Thailand, and its taxonomic status” [J. Hum. Evol. 198 (2025) 103614]	9
Personal ornaments from Hayonim and Manot caves (Israel) hint at symbolic ties between the Levantine and the European Aurignacian	8
Using BayesModelS to provide Bayesian- and phylogenetically-informed primate body mass predictions	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
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The taxonomic attribution of African hominin postcrania from the Miocene through the Pleistocene: Associations and assumptions	8
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Portable x-ray fluorescence spectroscopy geochemical sourcing of Miocene primate fossils from Kenya	8
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World variation in three-rooted lower second molars and implications for the hominin fossil record	7
New remains of the Miocene great ape Anoiapithecus brevirostris from Abocador de Can Mata	7
The Grotte du Bison Neandertals (Arcy-sur-Cure, France)	7
Contingency rules	7
Dental microwear of Neogene cercopithecoids from the Turkana Basin, Kenya	7
Mosaic habitats at Woranso-Mille (Ethiopia) during the Pliocene and implications for Australopithecus paleoecology and taxonomic diversity	7
Geometric morphometric variability in the supraorbital and orbital region of Middle Pleistocene hominins: Implications for the taxonomy and evolution of later Homo	7
Early Pleistocene hominin teeth from Gongwangling of Lantian, Central China	7
Stone selection by wild chimpanzees shares patterns with Oldowan hominins	7
Structural properties of the Late Pleistocene Liujiang femoral diaphyses from southern China	7