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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
One journal to bring them all, and in the fossils bind them	121
Editorial Board	41
Paleoenvironments represented by the sediments of the Early Pliocene Mursi Formation, Omo Valley, Ethiopia	37
The human remains of Final Gravettian age from the Reclau Viver and Mollet III caves (Serinyà, NE Iberian Peninsula)	36
Aspects of molar form and dietary proclivities of African colobines	32
On the age of Ain Hanech Oldowan locality (Algeria): First numerical dating results	31
Acetabular orientation, pelvic shape, and the evolution of hominin bipedality	29
Contextualizing the Early Upper Paleolithic in the Negev Desert, southern Levant: Chronologies, lithic technologies, and paleoenvironments of the Boker sites	29
Sedimentary ancient DNA metabarcoding as a tool for assessing prehistoric plant use at the Upper Paleolithic cave site Aghitu-3, Armenia	28
Calcar femorale variation in extant and fossil hominids: Implications for identifying bipedal locomotion in fossil hominins	28
JHE 50th anniversary: Generosity	26
Early euprimates already had a diverse locomotor repertoire: Evidence from ankle bone morphology	26
Enamel thickness in the deciduous postcanine dentition of fossil and extant Pongo	26
Femoral neck cortical bone distribution in Nacholapithecus from the Middle Miocene of Kenya	26
Paleoecological context of Homo aff. erectus (ATE7-1) at Sima del Elefante (late Early Pleistocene, Atapuerca, Spain) inferred from the herpetofaunal assemblage	25
Molar enamel–dentine junction shape of Pliobates cataloniae and other Iberian pliopithecoids	25
An updated analysis of hominin phylogeny with an emphasis on re-evaluating the phylogenetic relationships of Australopithecus sediba	24
Late Acheulean occupations at Montagu Cave and the pattern of Middle Pleistocene behavioral change in Western Cape, southern Africa	24
Early evidence for bear exploitation during MIS 9 from the site of Schöningen 12 (Germany)	23
Editorial Board	20
Ecomorphology in Kenya's Koobi Fora Formation: Reconstructing Early Pleistocene hominin paleoenvironments with 3D geometric morphometric analyses of bovid metapodials	20
The macroevolutionary dynamics of activity pattern in mammals: Primates in context	20
Sex-biased sampling may influence Homo naledi tooth size variation	18
The Neanderthal cervical spine revisited	18
Virtual reconstruction and geometric morphometric analysis of the Kocabaş hominin fossil from Turkey: Implications for taxonomy and evolutionary significance	17

New insights into the Neanderthal pelvis morphology based on a partial os coxae from El Sidrón (Asturias, Spain)	17
Corrigendum to “The effect of bi-iliac breadth on core body temperature” [J. Hum. Evol. 195 (2024) 103580]	16
Editorial Board	16
The effects of carnivore diversity on scavenging opportunities and hominin range expansion during Out of Africa I	16
Exploring the lack of articular ends at the Middle Pleistocene site of Qesem Cave, Israel	16
Challenges and perspectives on functional interpretations of australopith postcrania and the reconstruction of hominin locomotion	16
Editorial Board	15
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Micro-computed tomography unveils anatomy of the oldest known plesiadapiform cranium	14
Editorial Board	14
The earliest hylobatid from the Late Miocene of China	13
New fossil hominins from the Upper Laetolil Beds, Laetoli, Tanzania	13
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
Morphological integration and evolutionary potential of the primate shoulder: Variation among taxa and implications for genetic covariances with the basicranium, pelvis, and arm	12
Editorial Board	12
Phylogenetic comparative analysis of suspensory adaptations in primates	12
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)	12
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	12
A cadaveric study of wrist-joint moments in chimpanzees and orangutans with implications for the evolution of knuckle-walking	11
The fauna from Mughr el-Hamamah, Jordan: Insights on human hunting behavior during the Early Upper Paleolithic	11
A phylogenetic perspective on the evolution of early hominin foot morphology	11
Jaw-muscle fiber architecture and skull form facilitate relatively wide jaw gapes in male cercopithecoid monkeys	11
JHE: The case for preserving a legacy journal and its community	11
Revisiting hominin scavenging through the lens of optimal foraging theory	11
A normal magnetostratigraphic polarity interval in the Main Ethiopian Rift at 1.6 Ma: Implications for Acheulean and Homo erectus chronology	10
Serial reconstruction of Hominini manual phalanges	10
Chimpanzee hind limb muscle electromyographic activity patterns during locomotion	10
Trabecular bone volume fraction in Holocene and Late Pleistocene humans	10
An ancient cranium from Dmanisi: Evidence for interpersonal violence, disease, and possible predation by carnivores on Early Pleistocene Homo	10
Two Late Pleistocene human femora from Trinil, Indonesia: Implications for body size and behavior in Southeast Asia	10
A three-dimensional geometric morphometric study of Miocene ape lumbar vertebrae, with implications for hominoid locomotor evolution	10
Adaptations for bipedal walking: Musculoskeletal structure and three-dimensional joint mechanics of humans and bipedal chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)	10
Early Upper Paleolithic cultural variability in the Southern Levant: New evidence from Nahal Rahaf 2 Rockshelter, Judean Desert, Israel	10
Ulnar morphology of Pliobates cataloniae (Pliopithecoidea: Crouzeliidae): Insights into catarrhine locomotor diversity and forelimb evolution	9
First articulating os coxae, femur, and tibia of a small adult Paranthropus robustus from Member 1 (Hanging Remnant) of the Swartkrans Formation, South Africa	9
Morphological variation of the maxilla in modern humans and African apes	9
Corrigendum to “Enhancing the reconstruction of the Gabasa Neandertal's diet using Ca and Sr stable isotopes” [J. Hum. Evol. 207 (2025) 103747]	9
An ape partial postcranial skeleton (KNM-NP 64631) from the Middle Miocene of Napudet, northern Kenya	9
Initial Upper Paleolithic bone technology and personal ornaments at Bacho Kiro Cave (Bulgaria)	9
A Late Middle Pleistocene human tooth from the Luonan Basin (Shaanxi, China)	9
Reconstructing the provenance of the hominin fossils from Trinil (Java, Indonesia) through an integrated analysis of the historical and recent excavations	8
Morphological affinities of a fossil ulna (KNM-WS 65401) from Buluk, Kenya	8
Portable x-ray fluorescence spectroscopy geochemical sourcing of Miocene primate fossils from Kenya	8
Revealing neuromuscular similarities between baboons and humans: A commentary on	8
Three-dimensional geometric morphometric study of the Xuchang 2 cranium	8
Investigating foundations for hominin fire exploitation: Savanna-dwelling chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) in fire-altered landscapes	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

Hominin nomenclature and the importance of information systems for managing complexity in paleoanthropology	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
Editorial Board	7
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Stone selection by wild chimpanzees shares patterns with Oldowan hominins	7
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Effect of binocular visual cue availability on fruit and insect grasping performance in two cheirogaleids: Implications for primate origins hypotheses	7
Corrigendum to “Maxilla of Siamopithecus eocaenus (Anthropoidea, Primates) from the Paleogene of Krabi, Thailand, and its taxonomic status” [J. Hum. Evol. 198 (2025) 103614]	7
Contingency rules	7
Early Pleistocene hominin teeth from Gongwangling of Lantian, Central China	7
Dental microwear of Neogene cercopithecoids from the Turkana Basin, Kenya	7
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	7
The taxonomic attribution of African hominin postcrania from the Miocene through the Pleistocene: Associations and assumptions	7
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
Structural properties of the Late Pleistocene Liujiang femoral diaphyses from southern China	7