David Bustos

699 total citations · 1 hit paper
22 papers, 427 citations indexed

About

David Bustos is a scholar working on Anthropology, Atmospheric Science and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, David Bustos has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 427 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Anthropology, 12 papers in Atmospheric Science and 8 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in David Bustos's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (12 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (11 papers) and Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (5 papers). David Bustos is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (12 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (11 papers) and Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (5 papers). David Bustos collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Nigeria. David Bustos's co-authors include Matthew R. Bennett, Gary W. Roemer, Daniel Odess, Sally C. Reynolds, Vincent Santucci, Lisa M. Pratt, Kathleen B. Springer, Jeffrey S. Pigati, Thomas M. Urban and Marcin Budka and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and Ecology.

In The Last Decade

David Bustos

21 papers receiving 415 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.

Evidence of humans in North America during the Last Glacial Maximum

2021 103 citations Matthew R. Bennett, David Bustos et al. Science profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
David Bustos United States	10	168	152	142	134	54	22	427
Aurélien Royer France	17	392 2.3×	392 2.6×	233 1.6×	223 1.7×	145 2.7×	52	676
Marco Romano Italy	19	101 0.6×	643 4.2×	121 0.9×	68 0.5×	56 1.0×	87	882
Ismael Ferrusquía-Villafranca Mexico	12	80 0.5×	282 1.9×	73 0.5×	186 1.4×	11 0.2×	46	451
Martin Ivanov Czechia	16	94 0.6×	359 2.4×	69 0.5×	114 0.9×	38 0.7×	68	668
Ellyn J. Cook Australia	8	125 0.7×	93 0.6×	247 1.7×	96 0.7×	12 0.2×	8	347
Alice M. Telka Canada	13	62 0.4×	74 0.5×	300 2.1×	125 0.9×	9 0.2×	23	425
Matthew L. Cupper Australia	13	202 1.2×	208 1.4×	256 1.8×	135 1.0×	78 1.4×	17	559
M. Beech France	13	84 0.5×	158 1.0×	36 0.3×	139 1.0×	152 2.8×	47	431
C. S. Churcher Canada	17	302 1.8×	521 3.4×	212 1.5×	312 2.3×	65 1.2×	62	805
Sarda Sahney United Kingdom	6	45 0.3×	420 2.8×	86 0.6×	135 1.0×	6 0.1×	6	639

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Bustos

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20 of 20 papers shown

Bennett, Matthew R., Thomas M. Urban, David Bustos, et al.. (2025). The ichnology of White Sands (New Mexico): Linear traces and human footprints, evidence of transport technology?. Quaternary Science Advances. 17. 100274–100274.

Fučíková, Karolina, et al.. (2024). First Insights into the Diversity of Green Algae from White Sands National Park and Organ Mountains–Desert Peaks National Monument. Western North American Naturalist. 84(1). 1 indexed citations

Bustos, David, et al.. (2024). Incredible discoveries and devastation of paleontological resources in a changing world preserved at White Sands National Park. 40(1). 1 indexed citations

Pigati, Jeffrey S., Kathleen B. Springer, Harrison J. Gray, Matthew R. Bennett, & David Bustos. (2024). The Geochronology of White Sands Locality 2 is Resolved. PaleoAmerica. 10(1). 28–44. 4 indexed citations

Pigati, Jeffrey S., Kathleen B. Springer, David Wahl, et al.. (2023). Independent age estimates resolve the controversy of ancient human footprints at White Sands. Science. 382(6666). 73–75. 27 indexed citations

Pietrasiak, Nicole, et al.. (2023). Albertania and Egbenema gen. nov. from Nigeria and the United States, expanding biodiversity in the Oculatellaceae (cyanobacteria). Journal of Phycology. 59(6). 1217–1236. 2 indexed citations

Holliday, Vance T., et al.. (2023). Onset of dune construction based on archaeological evidence, White Sands, New Mexico. Quaternary Research. 115. 58–66. 5 indexed citations

James, Darren K., et al.. (2023). Biocrust carbon exchange varies with crust type and time on Chihuahuan Desert gypsum soils. Frontiers in Microbiology. 14. 1128631–1128631. 4 indexed citations

Pigati, Jeffrey S., Kathleen B. Springer, Vance T. Holliday, et al.. (2022). Reply to “Evidence for Humans at White Sands National Park during the Last Glacial Maximum Could Actually be for Clovis People ∼13,000 Years Ago” by C. Vance Haynes, Jr.. PaleoAmerica. 8(2). 99–101. 12 indexed citations

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Bennett, Matthew R., David Bustos, Jeffrey S. Pigati, et al.. (2021). Evidence of humans in North America during the Last Glacial Maximum. Science. 373(6562). 1528–1531. 103 indexed citations breakdown →

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Urban, Thomas M., Matthew R. Bennett, David Bustos, et al.. (2019). 3-D radar imaging unlocks the untapped behavioral and biomechanical archive of Pleistocene ghost tracks. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 16470–16470. 15 indexed citations

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Bennett, Matthew R., et al.. (2019). Soft-sediment deformation below mammoth tracks at White Sands National Monument (New Mexico) with implications for biomechanical inferences from tracks. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 527. 25–38. 10 indexed citations

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Urban, Thomas M., et al.. (2018). Use of magnetometry for detecting and documenting multi-species Pleistocene megafauna tracks at White Sands National Monument, New Mexico, U.S.A. Quaternary Science Reviews. 199. 206–213. 9 indexed citations

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Fenton, L. K., J. L. Bishop, B. Lafuente, et al.. (2016). Sedimentary differentiation of aeolian grains at the White Sands National Monument, New Mexico, USA. Aeolian Research. 26. 117–136. 9 indexed citations

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Bustos, David, et al.. (2014). The application of occupancy modeling to evaluate intraguild predation in a model carnivore system. Ecology. 95(11). 3112–3123. 66 indexed citations

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Szynkiewicz, Anna, Craig H. Moore, M. Glamoclija, David Bustos, & Lisa M. Pratt. (2010). Origin of coarsely crystalline gypsum domes in a saline playa environment at the White Sands National Monument, New Mexico. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 115(F2). 5 indexed citations

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Forbes, Gregory S., et al.. (2010). First Records, Representing Major Range Extensions, of Three Species of Lepidoptera (Erebidae, Noctuidae, and Lasiocampidae) from New Mexico. Southwestern Entomologist. 35(3). 309–311. 9 indexed citations

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Szynkiewicz, Anna, R. C. Ewing, K. E. Fishbaugh, et al.. (2009). GEOMORPHOLOGICAL EVIDENCE OF PLAUSIBLE WATER ACTIVITY AND EVAPORITIC DEPOSITION IN INTERDUNE AREAS OF THE GYPSUM-RICH OLYMPIA UNDAE DUNE FIELD. A.. LPI. 2038. 8 indexed citations

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Bustos, David, et al.. (2009). The Lepidoptera of White Sands National Monument, Otero County, New Mexico, USA 1. Two new species of Noctuidae (Lepidoptera, Noctuinae, Agrotini). ZooKeys. 9. 47–62. 13 indexed citations

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Szynkiewicz, Anna, R. C. Ewing, Craig H. Moore, et al.. (2009). Origin of terrestrial gypsum dunes—Implications for Martian gypsum-rich dunes of Olympia Undae. Geomorphology. 121(1-2). 69–83. 57 indexed citations

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