Standout Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation benchmark for papers published in the same subfield and year, or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Archaeological Evidence for the Emergence of Language, Symbolism, and Music–An Alternative Multidisciplinary Perspective
    2003 333 citations Francesco d’Errico, Christopher S. Henshilwood et al. Journal of World Prehistory profile →
  2. Early evidence of San material culture represented by organic artifacts from Border Cave, South Africa
    2012 289 citations Francesco d’Errico, Lucinda Backwell et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Immediate Impact

5 by Nobel laureates 54 from Science/Nature 70 hit
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Citing Papers

Large recoverable elastic energy in chiral metamaterials via twist buckling
2025 HitNature
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2024 HitScience
2 intermediate papers

Works of Lucinda Backwell being referenced

Early evidence of San material culture represented by organic artifacts from Border Cave, South Africa
2012 Hit
Middle Stone Age bone tools from the Howiesons Poort layers, Sibudu Cave, South Africa
2008

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Lucinda Backwell 2.0k 1.6k 1.0k 649 394 57 2.6k
John J. Shea 2.8k 1.4× 2.3k 1.5× 1.7k 1.6× 459 0.7× 379 1.0× 109 3.5k
Sally McBrearty 2.3k 1.1× 1.7k 1.1× 1.0k 1.0× 605 0.9× 518 1.3× 24 3.0k
Karen L. van Niekerk 2.0k 1.0× 1.6k 1.0× 984 1.0× 725 1.1× 194 0.5× 40 2.5k
Teresa E. Steele 2.1k 1.0× 1.8k 1.1× 1.1k 1.1× 419 0.6× 187 0.5× 62 2.8k
Naama Goren‐Inbar 2.1k 1.0× 1.7k 1.1× 1.1k 1.1× 253 0.4× 524 1.3× 77 2.9k
Marie Soressi 1.9k 0.9× 1.7k 1.1× 1.1k 1.1× 270 0.4× 144 0.4× 79 2.6k
Alison S. Brooks 2.7k 1.3× 2.1k 1.3× 1.3k 1.2× 678 1.0× 627 1.6× 50 3.9k
Michael Chazan 1.7k 0.8× 1.4k 0.9× 680 0.7× 473 0.7× 224 0.6× 85 2.4k
Erella Hovers 2.4k 1.2× 2.0k 1.2× 1.4k 1.4× 277 0.4× 338 0.9× 77 2.8k
Metin I. Eren 2.6k 1.3× 2.4k 1.5× 1.2k 1.1× 501 0.8× 335 0.9× 159 3.4k

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