Carla Figus

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 598 citations indexed

About

Carla Figus is a scholar working on Paleontology, Archeology and Anthropology. According to data from OpenAlex, Carla Figus has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 598 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Paleontology, 10 papers in Archeology and 8 papers in Anthropology. Recurrent topics in Carla Figus's work include Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (9 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (8 papers) and Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (8 papers). Carla Figus is often cited by papers focused on Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (9 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (8 papers) and Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (8 papers). Carla Figus collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Germany and United States. Carla Figus's co-authors include Stefano Benazzi, Gregorio Oxilia, Eugenio Bortolini, Federico Lugli, Rita Sorrentino, Matteo Romandini, Simona Arrighi, Giulia Marciani, Sara Silvestrini and Antonino Vazzana and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Scientific Reports and American Journal of Physical Anthropology.

In The Last Decade

Carla Figus

23 papers receiving 591 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.

Enamel peptides reveal the sex of the Late Antique ‘Lovers of Modena’

2019 281 citations Federico Lugli, Giulia Di Rocco et al. Scientific Reports profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Carla Figus Italy	13	201	172	149	74	69	24	598
Eugenio Bortolini Italy	14	258 1.3×	243 1.4×	227 1.5×	134 1.8×	89 1.3×	49	830
Gregorio Oxilia Italy	14	294 1.5×	279 1.6×	253 1.7×	69 0.9×	79 1.1×	33	767
Laura Buti Italy	10	173 0.9×	103 0.6×	87 0.6×	61 0.8×	94 1.4×	13	483
Rita Sorrentino Italy	11	175 0.9×	96 0.6×	87 0.6×	69 0.9×	75 1.1×	35	539
Frank Williams United States	17	214 1.1×	188 1.1×	183 1.2×	78 1.1×	33 0.5×	69	919
Antonino Vazzana Italy	10	147 0.7×	85 0.5×	89 0.6×	65 0.9×	69 1.0×	31	476
Simona Arrighi Italy	16	334 1.7×	469 2.7×	393 2.6×	61 0.8×	58 0.8×	46	907
Sabrina B. Sholts United States	20	463 2.3×	184 1.1×	173 1.2×	208 2.8×	161 2.3×	58	1.2k
Sergi Civit Spain	14	225 1.1×	153 0.9×	171 1.1×	231 3.1×	76 1.1×	28	614
Elena R. Schroeter United States	14	178 0.9×	132 0.8×	438 2.9×	150 2.0×	170 2.5×	25	766

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Carla Figus

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Carla Figus. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Carla Figus 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 Carla Figus. Carla Figus is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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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.

Figus, Carla, Kristian J. Carlson, Eugenio Bortolini, et al.. (2025). The Ontogeny of the Human Calcaneus: Insights From Morphological and Trabecular Changes During Postnatal Growth. American Journal of Biological Anthropology. 186(2). e70007–e70007. 3 indexed citations

Figus, Carla, Rita Sorrentino, Kristian J. Carlson, et al.. (2023). Becoming adults: exploring the late ontogeny of the human talus. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 11. 6 indexed citations

Sorrentino, Rita, Kristian J. Carlson, Carla Figus, et al.. (2021). The talar morphology of a hypochondroplasic dwarf: A case study from the Italian Late Antique period. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology. 32(2). 429–443. 4 indexed citations

Sorrentino, Rita, Kristian J. Carlson, Caley M. Orr, et al.. (2021). Morphological variation of the hominid navicular bone: Implications for behavioral driven divergence. 1 indexed citations

Sorrentino, Rita, Maria Giovanna Belcastro, Carla Figus, et al.. (2020). Exploring sexual dimorphism of the modern human talus through geometric morphometric methods. PLoS ONE. 15(2). e0229255–e0229255. 23 indexed citations

Badino, Federica, Roberta Pini, Cesare Ravazzi, et al.. (2020). The fast-acting “pulse” of Heinrich Stadial 3 in a mid-latitude boreal ecosystem. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 18031–18031. 10 indexed citations

Arrighi, Simona, Giulia Marciani, Ivan Martini, et al.. (2020). Between the hammerstone and the anvil: bipolar knapping and other percussive activities in the late Mousterian and the Uluzzian of Grotta di Castelcivita (Italy). Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 12(11). 13 indexed citations

Lugli, Federico, Carla Figus, Sara Silvestrini, et al.. (2020). Sex-related morbidity and mortality in non-adult individuals from the Early Medieval site of Valdaro (Italy): the contribution of dental enamel peptide analysis. Journal of Archaeological Science Reports. 34. 102625–102625. 23 indexed citations

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Benazzi, Stefano, Simona Arrighi, Federica Badino, et al.. (2020). Peopling dynamics in the Mediterranean area between 45 and 39 ky ago: State of art and new data. Quaternary International. 551. 1–6. 2 indexed citations

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Lugli, Federico, Giulia Di Rocco, Antonino Vazzana, et al.. (2019). Enamel peptides reveal the sex of the Late Antique ‘Lovers of Modena’. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 281 indexed citations breakdown →

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Figus, Carla, et al.. (2019). Paleopathological analysis of a probable case of Jarcho-Levin Syndrome from the 18th century northern Italy. 3(1). 39–45. 3 indexed citations

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Arrighi, Simona, Adriana Moroni, Francesco Boschin, et al.. (2019). Bone tools, ornaments and other unusual objects during the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in Italy. Quaternary International. 551. 169–187. 33 indexed citations

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Badino, Federica, Roberta Pini, Cesare Ravazzi, et al.. (2019). An overview of Alpine and Mediterranean palaeogeography, terrestrial ecosystems and climate history during MIS 3 with focus on the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition. Quaternary International. 551. 7–28. 36 indexed citations

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Marciani, Giulia, Annamaria Ronchitelli, Simona Arrighi, et al.. (2019). Lithic techno-complexes in Italy from 50 to 39 thousand years BP: An overview of lithic technological changes across the Middle-Upper Palaeolithic boundary. Quaternary International. 551. 123–149. 36 indexed citations

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Sorrentino, Rita, Eugenio Bortolini, Federico Lugli, et al.. (2018). Unravelling biocultural population structure in 4th/3rd century BC Monterenzio Vecchio (Bologna, Italy) through a comparative analysis of strontium isotopes, non-metric dental evidence, and funerary practices. PLoS ONE. 13(3). e0193796–e0193796. 30 indexed citations

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Oxilia, Gregorio, Eugenio Bortolini, Andrea Papini, et al.. (2018). The physiological linkage between molar inclination and dental macrowear pattern. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 166(4). 941–951. 17 indexed citations

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Vazzana, Antonino, Carla Figus, Laura Buti, et al.. (2017). A multianalytic investigation of weapon-related injuries in a Late Antiquity necropolis, Mutina, Italy. Journal of Archaeological Science Reports. 17. 550–559. 11 indexed citations

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Figus, Carla, Gregorio Oxilia, Antonino Vazzana, et al.. (2017). The study of commingled non-adult human remains: Insights from the 16th–18th centuries community of Roccapelago (Italy). Journal of Archaeological Science Reports. 14. 382–391. 12 indexed citations

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Figus, Carla, Antonino Vazzana, Giorgio Gruppioni, et al.. (2016). Neonatal and postnatal mortality in Roccapelago through the study of parish records and histological evidence. Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna). 248–249. 1 indexed citations

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