B. Holly Smith

7.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
79 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

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B. Holly Smith is a scholar working on Anthropology, Artificial Intelligence and Archeology. According to data from OpenAlex, B. Holly Smith has authored 79 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Anthropology, 14 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 13 papers in Archeology. Recurrent topics in B. Holly Smith's work include Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (17 papers), Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping (14 papers) and Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (13 papers). B. Holly Smith is often cited by papers focused on Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (17 papers), Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping (14 papers) and Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (13 papers). B. Holly Smith collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. B. Holly Smith's co-authors include Philip D. Gingerich, Barry Bogin, Karen Rosenberg, Stanley M. Garn, Wighart von Koenigswald, Elwyn L. Simons, Helen M. Liversidge, Christophe Boesch, E. M. W. Skinner and Patricia E. Cole and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

B. Holly Smith

75 papers receiving 3.9k citations

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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.

Patterns of molar wear in hunter–gatherers and agriculturalists

1984 698 citations B. Holly Smith American Journal of Physical Anthropology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
B. Holly Smith United States	30	1.4k	1.2k	1.2k	1.1k	811	79	4.2k
Paul Tafforeau France	50	1.1k 0.8×	884 0.7×	3.8k 3.3×	1.4k 1.3×	907 1.1×	227	8.1k
Timothy G. Bromage United States	38	1.4k 1.0×	849 0.7×	1.3k 1.1×	1.8k 1.6×	686 0.8×	174	4.5k
Berhane Asfaw United States	32	1.3k 0.9×	2.2k 1.8×	2.8k 2.4×	3.6k 3.2×	590 0.7×	54	5.2k
Meave G. Leakey United States	34	764 0.5×	1.8k 1.5×	3.5k 3.0×	3.0k 2.7×	1.9k 2.3×	62	6.1k
C. Loring Brace United States	32	1.5k 1.0×	507 0.4×	865 0.7×	1.2k 1.1×	313 0.4×	99	3.4k
Andrew Chamberlain United Kingdom	40	2.0k 1.4×	366 0.3×	1.3k 1.1×	864 0.8×	519 0.6×	122	5.1k
Gen Suwa Japan	40	1.6k 1.2×	2.7k 2.3×	3.5k 3.0×	4.3k 3.8×	895 1.1×	108	6.7k
F. Clark Howell United States	31	1.0k 0.7×	792 0.7×	1.8k 1.5×	2.2k 2.0×	591 0.7×	77	3.3k
David Pilbeam United States	43	547 0.4×	2.3k 2.0×	3.5k 3.0×	2.3k 2.1×	1.4k 1.7×	95	5.8k
Robert Foley United Kingdom	33	1.0k 0.7×	1.5k 1.3×	1.5k 1.3×	1.9k 1.7×	627 0.8×	116	6.6k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Bogin, Barry & B. Holly Smith. (2025). Evolution of the Human Life Cycle, Revisited. American Journal of Human Biology. 37(3). e70018–e70018.

Gingerich, Philip D. & B. Holly Smith. (2025). Allometry of molar size and cranial length in relation to the body weight of mammalian insectivores. Journal of Mammalian Evolution. 32(1).

Simpson, Nicholas, et al.. (2024). Cotinine influences the effect of high and low nicotine concentrations on planarian motility differently. Neuroscience Letters. 841. 137955–137955. 1 indexed citations

Smith, B. Holly, et al.. (2023). Phylogenomic investigation of lampreys (Petromyzontiformes). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 189. 107942–107942. 2 indexed citations

Smith, B. Holly, et al.. (2019). Don't throw the baby teeth out with the bathwater: Estimating subadult age using tooth wear in commingled archaeological assemblages. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology. 29(5). 831–842. 3 indexed citations

Koenigswald, Wighart von, et al.. (2011). Generalized individual dental age stages for fossil and extant placental mammals. Paläontologische Zeitschrift. 85(3). 321–339. 60 indexed citations

Gingerich, Philip D. & B. Holly Smith. (2010). Premolar Development And Eruption In The Early Eocene Adapoids Cantius Ralstoni And Cantius Abditus (Mammalia, Primates). Deep Blue (University of Michigan). 5 indexed citations

Smith, B. Holly & Christophe Boesch. (2010). Magnitude of the "wild effect" in tooth emergence in chimpanzees of the Tai and Gombe forests. Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics. 1 indexed citations

Smith, B. Holly & Christophe Boesch. (2010). Mortality and the magnitude of the “wild effect” in chimpanzee tooth emergence. Journal of Human Evolution. 60(1). 34–46. 45 indexed citations

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Smith, Tanya M., B. Holly Smith, Donald J. Reid, et al.. (2010). Dental development of the Taï Forest chimpanzees revisited. Journal of Human Evolution. 58(5). 363–373. 53 indexed citations

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Liversidge, Helen M., et al.. (2010). Bias and accuracy of age estimation using developing teeth in 946 children. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 143(4). 545–554. 111 indexed citations

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Gingerich, Philip D., et al.. (2009). New Protocetid Whale from the Middle Eocene of Pakistan: Birth on Land, Precocial Development, and Sexual Dimorphism. PLoS ONE. 4(2). e4366–e4366. 91 indexed citations

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Smith, B. Holly. (2008). The Fort à la Corne Kimberlites, Saskatchewan, Canada: Geology, Emplacement and Economics. Journal of the Geological Society of India. 71(1). 11–55. 15 indexed citations

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Teaford, Mark F., Paul T. Sharpe, Jukka Jernvall, et al.. (2000). Development, Function and Evolution of Teeth. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 48 indexed citations

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Smith, B. Holly, et al.. (1996). Geology of the Sturgeon Lake 01 kimberlite block, Saskatchewan. Exploration and Mining Geology. 5(3). 251–261. 10 indexed citations

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Smith, B. Holly. (1994). Patterns of dental development in Homo, Australopithecus, Pan, and Gorilla. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 94(3). 307–325. 69 indexed citations

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Allsopp, H. L., J. W. Bristow, E. M. W. Skinner, B. Holly Smith, & R. V. Danchin. (1985). Rb-Sr geochronology of some Miocene West Australian lamproites. South African Journal of Geology. 88(2). 341–345. 7 indexed citations

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Gingerich, Philip D., B. Holly Smith, & Karen Rosenberg. (1982). Allometric scaling in the dentition of primates and prediction of body weight from tooth size in fossils. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 58(1). 81–100. 325 indexed citations

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Smith, B. Holly & William H. Sweet. (1978). Monoaminergic regulation of central nervous system function: II. Serotonergic systems.. Munich Personal RePEc Archive (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich). 3(2). 257–72. 11 indexed citations

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Matthews, Bruce & B. Holly Smith. (1972). An investigation into the presence of slow-graded fibres in the anterior belly of the rat digastric muscle. Archives of Oral Biology. 17(3). 473–478. 7 indexed citations

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