C. K. Brain

4.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
57 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

C. K. Brain is a scholar working on Anthropology, Paleontology and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, C. K. Brain has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Anthropology, 31 papers in Paleontology and 13 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in C. K. Brain's work include Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (36 papers), Evolution and Paleontology Studies (17 papers) and Primate Behavior and Ecology (12 papers). C. K. Brain is often cited by papers focused on Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (36 papers), Evolution and Paleontology Studies (17 papers) and Primate Behavior and Ecology (12 papers). C. K. Brain collaborates with scholars based in South Africa, United States and Spain. C. K. Brain's co-authors include Travis Rayne Pickering, Lee R. Berger, Nikolaas J. van der Merwe, Julia A. Lee‐Thorp, Manuel Domínguez‐Rodrigo, Charles P. Egeland, Ronald J. Clarke, Jason L. Heaton, Darryl J. de Ruiter and Randall L. Susman and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Hydrobiologia and Copeia.

In The Last Decade

C. K. Brain

53 papers receiving 3.1k 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.

The Hunters or the Hunted?: An Introduction to African Cave Taphonomy

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
C. K. Brain South Africa	27	2.8k	2.2k	1.3k	850	848	57	3.5k
F. Clark Howell United States	31	2.2k 0.8×	1.8k 0.8×	1.0k 0.8×	591 0.7×	792 0.9×	77	3.3k
Henry T. Bunn United States	38	3.6k 1.3×	2.2k 1.0×	1.8k 1.3×	1.1k 1.3×	1.4k 1.6×	55	4.5k
Francis Thackeray South Africa	32	2.3k 0.8×	1.9k 0.9×	899 0.7×	709 0.8×	722 0.9×	180	3.3k
Travis Rayne Pickering United States	37	3.0k 1.1×	2.0k 0.9×	1.6k 1.2×	836 1.0×	1.2k 1.4×	91	3.9k
J. A. J. Gowlett United Kingdom	32	1.9k 0.7×	1.6k 0.7×	780 0.6×	318 0.4×	588 0.7×	73	3.0k
G. Philip Rightmire United States	31	3.1k 1.1×	2.2k 1.0×	1.9k 1.4×	295 0.3×	891 1.1×	62	3.8k
Craig S. Feibel United States	31	2.4k 0.9×	2.1k 1.0×	748 0.6×	712 0.8×	1.1k 1.3×	74	3.6k
Laura C. Bishop United Kingdom	26	1.7k 0.6×	1.4k 0.6×	522 0.4×	718 0.8×	734 0.9×	51	2.3k
J. Desmond Clark United States	35	3.0k 1.1×	2.1k 1.0×	1.1k 0.8×	403 0.5×	710 0.8×	153	4.5k
Christopher B. Stringer United Kingdom	24	1.9k 0.7×	1.5k 0.7×	1.1k 0.9×	253 0.3×	492 0.6×	52	2.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of C. K. Brain

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Pickering, Travis Rayne, Ronald J. Clarke, Matthew V. Caruana, et al.. (2025). First articulating os coxae, femur, and tibia of a small adult Paranthropus robustus from Member 1 (Hanging Remnant) of the Swartkrans Formation, South Africa. Journal of Human Evolution. 201. 103647–103647.

Kuman, Kathleen, Darryl E. Granger, Travis Rayne Pickering, et al.. (2021). A new absolute date from Swartkrans Cave for the oldest occurrences of Paranthropus robustus and Oldowan stone tools in South Africa. Journal of Human Evolution. 156. 103000–103000. 31 indexed citations

Pickering, Travis Rayne, et al.. (2016). New early Pleistocene hominin teeth from the Swartkrans Formation, South Africa. Journal of Human Evolution. 100. 1–15. 17 indexed citations

Grine, Frederick E., Timothy G. Bromage, David J. Daegling, David B. Burr, & C. K. Brain. (2015). Microbial osteolysis in an Early Pleistocene hominin (Paranthropus robustus) from Swartkrans, South Africa. Journal of Human Evolution. 85. 126–135. 12 indexed citations

Pickering, Travis Rayne, et al.. (2012). New hominid fossils from Member 1 of the Swartkrans formation, South Africa. Journal of Human Evolution. 62(5). 618–628. 31 indexed citations

Brain, C. K., Anthony R. Prave, D. A. Herd, et al.. (2012). The first animals : ca. 760-million-year-old sponge-like fossils from Namibia : research article. 108. 1–8. 10 indexed citations

Pickering, Travis Rayne & C. K. Brain. (2010). What taphonomically oriented research at Swartkrans caves reveals about early hominid behavior. 8(2). 215–232. 1 indexed citations

Pickering, Travis Rayne, Robyn Pickering, C. K. Brain, et al.. (2009). Newly discovered fossil- and artifact-bearing deposits, uranium-series ages, and Plio-Pleistocene hominids at Swartkrans Cave, South Africa. Journal of Human Evolution. 57(6). 688–696. 26 indexed citations

Pickering, Travis Rayne, et al.. (2007). Testing the “shift in the balance of power” hypothesis at Swartkrans, South Africa: Hominid cave use and subsistence behavior in the Early Pleistocene. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology. 27(1). 30–45. 56 indexed citations

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Pickering, Travis Rayne, Manuel Domínguez‐Rodrigo, Charles P. Egeland, & C. K. Brain. (2004). New data and ideas on the foraging behaviour of Early Stone Age hominids at Swartkrans Cave, South Africa. South African Journal of Science. 100. 215–219. 46 indexed citations

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Egeland, Charles P., Travis Rayne Pickering, Manuel Domínguez‐Rodrigo, & C. K. Brain. (2004). Disentangling Early Stone Age palimpsests: determining the functional independence of hominid- and carnivore-derived portions of archaeofaunas. Journal of Human Evolution. 47(5). 343–357. 54 indexed citations

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Brain, C. K.. (2003). A perspective on the PAST : reviews of current issues and research findings : human origins research in South Africa. South African Journal of Science. 99. 235–236. 1 indexed citations

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Kauppinen, Sami, et al.. (2003). European medium-term conflict detection field trials [ATC]. 1. 2C1–1. 14 indexed citations

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Brain, C. K.. (2001). Some observations on Cloudina, a terminal Proterozoic index fossil from Namibia. Journal of African Earth Sciences. 33(3-4). 475–480. 12 indexed citations

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Susman, Randall L., Darryl J. de Ruiter, & C. K. Brain. (2001). Recently identified postcranial remains of Paranthropus and Early Homo from Swartkrans Cave, South Africa. Journal of Human Evolution. 41(6). 607–629. 82 indexed citations

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Brain, C. K.. (1997). The importance of Nama Group sediments and fossils to the debate about animal origins. University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg Institutional Repository on DSpace (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg). 3 indexed citations

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Brain, C. K.. (1993). Swartkrans. A cave's chronicle of early man. Archäologische Informationen. 18(1). 71–74. 120 indexed citations

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Lee‐Thorp, Julia A., Nikolaas J. van der Merwe, & C. K. Brain. (1989). Isotopic evidence for dietary differences between two extinct baboon species from Swartkrans. Journal of Human Evolution. 18(3). 183–189. 117 indexed citations

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Brain, C. K.. (1981). The Hunters or the Hunted. 253 indexed citations

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Brain, C. K.. (1967). Bone weathering and the problem of bone pseudo-tools. South African Journal of Science. 1967(33). 97–99. 54 indexed citations

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