Antonio Rosas

19.2k total citations · 5 hit papers
191 papers, 8.1k citations indexed

About

Antonio Rosas is a scholar working on Anthropology, Archeology and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, Antonio Rosas has authored 191 papers receiving a total of 8.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 133 papers in Anthropology, 121 papers in Archeology and 74 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in Antonio Rosas's work include Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (133 papers), Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (81 papers) and Evolution and Paleontology Studies (48 papers). Antonio Rosas is often cited by papers focused on Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (133 papers), Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (81 papers) and Evolution and Paleontology Studies (48 papers). Antonio Rosas collaborates with scholars based in Spain, Germany and United Kingdom. Antonio Rosas's co-authors include Markus Bastir, José Marı́a Bermúdez de Castro, Marco de la Rasilla Vives, Eudald Carbonell, Carles Lalueza‐Fox, Almudena Estalrrich, Juan Luís Arsuaga, Antonio García‐Tabernero, Javier Fortea and Marina Mosquera and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Antonio Rosas

179 papers receiving 7.8k citations

Hit Papers

A Hominid from the Lower Pleistocene of Atapuerca, Spain:... 1995 2026 2005 2015 1997 1995 2009 2007 2010 100 200 300 400
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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 threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. A Hominid from the Lower Pleistocene of Atapuerca, Spain: Possible Ancestor to Neandertals and Modern Humans
    1997 439 citations José Marı́a Bermúdez de Castro, Antonio Rosas et al. Science profile →
  2. Lower Pleistocene Hominids and Artifacts from Atapuerca-TD6 (Spain)
    1995 354 citations José Marı́a Bermúdez de Castro, Antonio Rosas et al. Science profile →
  3. Targeted Retrieval and Analysis of Five Neandertal mtDNA Genomes
    2009 342 citations Carles Lalueza‐Fox, Vladimir B. Doronichev et al. Science profile →
  4. The Derived FOXP2 Variant of Modern Humans Was Shared with Neandertals
    2007 315 citations Carles Lalueza‐Fox, Marco de la Rasilla Vives et al. profile →
  5. Targeted Investigation of the Neandertal Genome by Array-Based Sequence Capture
    2010 202 citations Matthias Meyer, Marco de la Rasilla Vives et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Antonio Rosas Spain 49 5.0k 4.1k 3.5k 1.8k 1.2k 191 8.1k
Jean‐Jacques Hublin Germany 63 7.7k 1.5× 5.5k 1.3× 6.0k 1.7× 1.6k 0.9× 1.1k 0.9× 333 12.2k
Chris Stringer United Kingdom 59 7.0k 1.4× 5.0k 1.2× 5.4k 1.6× 1.1k 0.6× 697 0.6× 201 10.9k
Philipp Gunz Germany 41 3.3k 0.7× 2.2k 0.5× 2.9k 0.8× 3.8k 2.1× 607 0.5× 122 7.2k
Katerina Harvati Germany 42 3.5k 0.7× 2.7k 0.7× 2.6k 0.7× 1.3k 0.7× 343 0.3× 175 5.6k
Erik Trinkaus United States 66 9.8k 1.9× 8.5k 2.1× 6.2k 1.8× 1.9k 1.1× 941 0.8× 262 14.7k
Bernard Wood United States 60 5.7k 1.1× 2.5k 0.6× 5.1k 1.5× 1.6k 0.9× 754 0.6× 233 10.2k
Markus Bastir Spain 38 2.5k 0.5× 2.2k 0.5× 1.5k 0.4× 2.0k 1.1× 527 0.4× 154 4.8k
José Marı́a Bermúdez de Castro Spain 64 9.7k 1.9× 7.1k 1.7× 7.5k 2.2× 1.0k 0.6× 984 0.8× 276 12.4k
Stefano Benazzi Italy 37 2.6k 0.5× 2.4k 0.6× 2.0k 0.6× 509 0.3× 490 0.4× 196 4.9k
Christoph P. E. Zollikofer Switzerland 41 2.5k 0.5× 1.6k 0.4× 2.1k 0.6× 1.1k 0.6× 365 0.3× 93 5.1k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Belcastro, Maria Giovanna, Rita Sorrentino, Valentina Mariotti, et al.. (2025). The Digitization of Human Skeletal Collections: New Challenges and Perspectives. Heritage. 8(11). 488–488.
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Rosas, Antonio, Markus Bastir, Antonio García‐Tabernero, & José Antonio Alarcón. (2025). Mosaic evolution. An example in the origin of Neandertals. Spanish Journal of Palaeontology. 1 indexed citations
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Rosas, Antonio, et al.. (2025). Widespread evidence of Middle Stone Age (MSA) presence in Equatorial Guinea (West-Central Atlantic Africa). Quaternary International. 736-737. 109849–109849.
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Rosas, Antonio, et al.. (2024). Middle Stone Age (MSA) in the Atlantic rainforests of Central Africa. The case of Río Campo region in Equatorial Guinea. Quaternary Science Reviews. 349. 109132–109132. 1 indexed citations
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Bastir, Markus, et al.. (2023). Modern human atlas ranges of motion and Neanderthal estimations. Journal of Human Evolution. 187. 103482–103482. 3 indexed citations
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Morales, Juan Ignacio, Artur Cebrià, María Soto, et al.. (2023). A new assemblage of late Neanderthal remains from Cova Simanya (NE Iberia). Frontiers in Earth Science. 11. 3 indexed citations
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Morales, Juan Ignacio, Artur Cebrià, Josep María Vergès, et al.. (2022). Palaeolithic archaeology in the conglomerate caves of north-eastern Iberia. Antiquity. 96(387). 710–718. 6 indexed citations
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Rosas, Antonio, et al.. (2022). The scarcity of fossils in the African rainforest. Archaeo-paleontological surveys and actualistic taphonomy in Equatorial Guinea. Historical Biology. 34(8). 1582–1590. 10 indexed citations
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Rosas, Antonio, et al.. (2021). Bushmeat skeletal waste from an Atlantic African rainforest (Equatorial Guinea) as a test for the Mammal Community Structure Analysis in paleoecology. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology. 31(3). 440–455. 4 indexed citations
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Petr, Martin, Mateja Hajdinjak, Qiaomei Fu, et al.. (2020). The evolutionary history of Neanderthal and Denisovan Y chromosomes. Science. 369(6511). 1653–1656. 68 indexed citations
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Rosas, Antonio, Markus Bastir, & José Antonio Alarcón. (2019). Tempo and mode in the Neandertal evolutionary lineage: A structuralist approach to mandible variation. Quaternary Science Reviews. 217. 62–75. 22 indexed citations
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García‐Martínez, Daniel, Markus Bastir, Rosa Huguet, et al.. (2017). The costal remains of the El Sidrón Neanderthal site (Asturias, northern Spain) and their importance for understanding Neanderthal thorax morphology. Journal of Human Evolution. 111. 85–101. 27 indexed citations
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Rosas, Antonio, Luis Ríos, Almudena Estalrrich, et al.. (2017). The growth pattern of Neandertals, reconstructed from a juvenile skeleton from El Sidrón (Spain). Science. 357(6357). 1282–1287. 63 indexed citations
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Rosas, Antonio. (2016). Sobrevolando el mundo de los neandertales. 6–13.
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Radini, Anita, Stephen Buckley, Antonio Rosas, et al.. (2016). Neanderthals, trees and dental calculus: new evidence from El Sidrón. Antiquity. 90(350). 290–301. 35 indexed citations
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Martı́nez-Maza, Cayetana, Antonio Rosas, Samuel García‐Vargas, Almudena Estalrrich, & Marco de la Rasilla Vives. (2011). Bone remodelling in Neanderthal mandibles from the El Sidrón site (Asturias, Spain). Biology Letters. 7(4). 593–596. 26 indexed citations
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Made, Jan van der, Emiliano Aguirre, Markus Bastir, et al.. (2003). El registro paleontológico y arqueológico de los yacimientos de la Trinchera del Ferrocarril en la Sierra de Atapuerca. 345–372. 20 indexed citations
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Rosas, Antonio, et al.. (1999). Restos humanos neandertales de la cueva del Sidrón, Piloña, Asturias. Nota preliminar. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 22 indexed citations
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