Brian Villmoare

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
26 papers, 682 citations indexed

About

Brian Villmoare is a scholar working on Anthropology, Social Psychology and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, Brian Villmoare has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 682 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Anthropology, 13 papers in Social Psychology and 12 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in Brian Villmoare's work include Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (16 papers), Primate Behavior and Ecology (13 papers) and Evolution and Paleontology Studies (11 papers). Brian Villmoare is often cited by papers focused on Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (16 papers), Primate Behavior and Ecology (13 papers) and Evolution and Paleontology Studies (11 papers). Brian Villmoare collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Brian Villmoare's co-authors include William H. Kimbel, David R. Braun, Kaye E. Reed, John Rowan, J Ramón Arrowsmith, Erin DiMaggio, Chalachew Seyoum, Christopher J. Campisano, Kevin G. Hatala and Jennifer L. Fish and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Brian Villmoare

25 papers receiving 662 citations

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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 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.

Early Homo at 2.8 Ma from Ledi-Geraru, Afar, Ethiopia

2015 212 citations Brian Villmoare, William H. Kimbel et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Brian Villmoare United States	14	401	339	227	164	137	26	682
Jean Dumoncel France	18	382 1.0×	326 1.0×	125 0.6×	258 1.6×	165 1.2×	43	736
Kenneth Mowbray United States	8	490 1.2×	315 0.9×	289 1.3×	253 1.5×	196 1.4×	8	814
Kevin G. Hatala United States	17	540 1.3×	362 1.1×	339 1.5×	270 1.6×	89 0.6×	34	928
Neil T. Roach United States	13	272 0.7×	198 0.6×	200 0.9×	124 0.8×	44 0.3×	18	734
Lucas K. Delezene United States	13	335 0.8×	290 0.9×	169 0.7×	194 1.2×	74 0.5×	28	499
E. Wayhu Saptomo Australia	7	699 1.7×	505 1.5×	333 1.5×	391 2.4×	96 0.7×	8	943
Job M. Kibii South Africa	10	747 1.9×	538 1.6×	344 1.5×	278 1.7×	138 1.0×	19	938
Antonio Profico Italy	19	386 1.0×	419 1.2×	101 0.4×	285 1.7×	306 2.2×	85	921
Justin A. Ledogar United States	15	180 0.4×	326 1.0×	247 1.1×	84 0.5×	159 1.2×	29	710
Tea Jashashvili United States	16	850 2.1×	718 2.1×	402 1.8×	410 2.5×	196 1.4×	44	1.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Brian Villmoare

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Brian Villmoare. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Brian Villmoare based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Brian Villmoare. Brian Villmoare is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Villmoare, Brian, et al.. (2024). Evolutionary origins of temporal discounting: Modeling how time and uncertainty constrain optimal decision-making strategies across taxa. PLoS ONE. 19(11). e0310658–e0310658.

Villmoare, Brian & William H. Kimbel. (2024). On the scientific credibility of paleoanthropology. Evolutionary Anthropology Issues News and Reviews. 33(4). e22037–e22037. 1 indexed citations

Ledogar, Justin A., Sascha Senck, Brian Villmoare, et al.. (2022). Mechanical compensation in the evolution of the early hominin feeding apparatus. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 289(1977). 20220711–20220711. 5 indexed citations

Villmoare, Brian & Mark Grabowski. (2022). Did the transition to complex societies in the Holocene drive a reduction in brain size? A reassessment of the DeSilva et al. (2021) hypothesis. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 10. 6 indexed citations

Villmoare, Brian. (2022). The Evolution of Everything. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 1 indexed citations

Villmoare, Brian, Kevin G. Hatala, & William L. Jungers. (2019). Sexual dimorphism in Homo erectus inferred from 1.5 Ma footprints near Ileret, Kenya. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 7687–7687. 16 indexed citations

Esteve‐Altava, Borja, et al.. (2018). Primate modularity and evolution: first anatomical network analysis of primate head and neck musculoskeletal system. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 2341–2341. 22 indexed citations

Hatala, Kevin G., Neil T. Roach, Kelly R. Ostrofsky, et al.. (2017). Hominin track assemblages from Okote Member deposits near Ileret, Kenya, and their implications for understanding fossil hominin paleobiology at 1.5 Ma. Journal of Human Evolution. 112. 93–104. 29 indexed citations

Hatala, Kevin G., Neil T. Roach, Kelly R. Ostrofsky, et al.. (2016). Footprints reveal direct evidence of group behavior and locomotion in Homo erectus. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 28766–28766. 68 indexed citations

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Tocheri, Matthew W., René Dommain, Shannon C. McFarlin, et al.. (2016). The evolutionary origin and population history of the grauer gorilla. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 159(S61). 4–18. 25 indexed citations

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Roach, Neil T., Kevin G. Hatala, Kelly R. Ostrofsky, et al.. (2016). Pleistocene footprints show intensive use of lake margin habitats by Homo erectus groups. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 26374–26374. 58 indexed citations

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Reed, Kaye E., Erin DiMaggio, Christopher J. Campisano, et al.. (2015). Paleoanthropology of the Ledi-Geraru, Afar Regional State, Ethiopia. 1 indexed citations

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Esteve‐Altava, Borja, Julia C. Boughner, Rui Diogo, Brian Villmoare, & Diego Rasskin‐Gutman. (2015). Anatomical Network Analysis Shows Decoupling of Modular Lability and Complexity in the Evolution of the Primate Skull. PLoS ONE. 10(5). e0127653–e0127653. 30 indexed citations

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Villmoare, Brian, William H. Kimbel, Chalachew Seyoum, et al.. (2015). Early Homo at 2.8 Ma from Ledi-Geraru, Afar, Ethiopia. Science. 347(6228). 1352–1355. 212 indexed citations breakdown →

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Villmoare, Brian, et al.. (2014). Craniofacial modularity, character analysis, and the evolution of the premaxilla in early African hominins. Journal of Human Evolution. 77. 143–154. 10 indexed citations

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Hatala, Kevin G., Anna K. Behrensmeyer, René Bobe, et al.. (2014). Hominin size, behavior, and ecology based on 1.5-million-year-old footprint assemblages from Ileret Kenya. 153. 221. 1 indexed citations

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Villmoare, Brian, et al.. (2013). Continuous dental eruption identifies Sts 5 as the developmentally oldest fossil hominin and informs the taxonomy of Australopithecus africanus. Journal of Human Evolution. 65(6). 798–805. 8 indexed citations

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Villmoare, Brian, Jennifer L. Fish, & William L. Jungers. (2011). Selection, Morphological Integration, and Strepsirrhine Locomotor Adaptations. Evolutionary Biology. 38(1). 88–99. 28 indexed citations

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Villmoare, Brian & William H. Kimbel. (2011). CT-based study of internal structure of the anterior pillar in extinct hominins and its implications for the phylogeny of robust Australopithecus. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(39). 16200–16205. 12 indexed citations

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Villmoare, Brian. (2005). Metric and non-metric randomization methods, geographic variation, and the single-species hypothesis for Asian and African Homo erectus. Journal of Human Evolution. 49(6). 680–701. 24 indexed citations

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