David Pleurdeau

1.2k total citations
48 papers, 756 citations indexed

About

David Pleurdeau is a scholar working on Anthropology, Paleontology and Archeology. According to data from OpenAlex, David Pleurdeau has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 756 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Anthropology, 30 papers in Paleontology and 17 papers in Archeology. Recurrent topics in David Pleurdeau's work include Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (45 papers), Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (23 papers) and Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (16 papers). David Pleurdeau is often cited by papers focused on Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (45 papers), Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (23 papers) and Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (16 papers). David Pleurdeau collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and Ethiopia. David Pleurdeau's co-authors include Jean‐Jacques Bahain, Alice Leplongeon, Florent Détroit, Erella Hovers, Asfawossen Asrat, David Lordkipanidze, Zelalem Assefa, Marie‐Hélène Moncel, Joséphine Lesur and Matthieu Lebon and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

David Pleurdeau

42 papers receiving 723 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
David Pleurdeau France 18 586 473 357 160 71 48 756
Florent Détroit France 15 578 1.0× 375 0.8× 428 1.2× 57 0.4× 85 1.2× 37 902
Jamie L. Clark United States 14 614 1.0× 484 1.0× 370 1.0× 126 0.8× 76 1.1× 24 700
Jayson Orton South Africa 18 666 1.1× 579 1.2× 195 0.5× 389 2.4× 76 1.1× 37 781
Ralf Vogelsang Germany 12 730 1.2× 580 1.2× 235 0.7× 296 1.9× 262 3.7× 27 915
Susan M. Mentzer Germany 14 555 0.9× 596 1.3× 328 0.9× 75 0.5× 238 3.4× 34 834
Zelalem Assefa United States 13 613 1.0× 457 1.0× 282 0.8× 90 0.6× 74 1.0× 14 721
Rosalia Gallotti France 18 839 1.4× 640 1.4× 424 1.2× 77 0.5× 135 1.9× 36 976
Mike W. Morley Australia 15 597 1.0× 498 1.1× 346 1.0× 55 0.3× 235 3.3× 32 778
S. N. Collcutt United Kingdom 16 759 1.3× 602 1.3× 501 1.4× 77 0.5× 270 3.8× 19 1.1k
D. R. Hobbs Australia 12 573 1.0× 396 0.8× 253 0.7× 72 0.5× 118 1.7× 12 758

Countries citing papers authored by David Pleurdeau

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Fields of papers citing papers by David Pleurdeau

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Pleurdeau

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

All Works

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Leplongeon, Alice, et al.. (2025). The Last Glacial Maximum in the Tropics: Human Responses to Global Change, 30–10 ka. Journal of World Prehistory. 38(2).
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Saulieu, Geoffroy de, et al.. (2025). Pahon Cave, Gabon: New insights into the Later Stone Age in the African rainforest. PLoS ONE. 20(12). e0336405–e0336405.
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Leplongeon, Alice, et al.. (2023). New technological considerations on some Lupemban museum collections from the Congo Basin. L Anthropologie. 127(4). 103190–103190. 3 indexed citations
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Pleurdeau, David, et al.. (2023). The Scraper Planes from Leopard Cave, Erongo Mountains, Namibia. Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology. 6(1).
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Pereira, Telmo, et al.. (2023). The Middle Stone Age of Atlantic Africa: A critical review. L Anthropologie. 127(5). 103209–103209.
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Lebatard, Anne-Élisabeth, et al.. (2023). Evidence for Earlier Stone Age ‘coastal use’: The site of Dungo IV, Benguela Province, Angola. PLoS ONE. 18(2). e0278775–e0278775. 7 indexed citations
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Caron, Benoît, Lucile Beck, Florent Détroit, et al.. (2021). Standardization Procedure to Provide a Unified Multi-Method Elemental Compositional Dataset, Application to Ferruginous Colouring Matters from Namibia. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations
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Caron, Benoît, et al.. (2021). Data pretreatment and multivariate analyses for ochre sourcing: Application to Leopard Cave (Erongo, Namibia). Journal of Archaeological Science Reports. 35. 102757–102757. 19 indexed citations
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Pleurdeau, David, et al.. (2021). L’assemblage lithique du site Acheuléen de Namib IV (Namib central, Namibie). L Anthropologie. 125(1). 102848–102848. 9 indexed citations
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Jull, Andrew, C. Solı́s, E. Chávez, et al.. (2020). RDC volume 62 issue 6 Cover and Front matter. Radiocarbon. 62(6). f1–f5. 1 indexed citations
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Zirah, Séverine, Antoine Zazzo, Sophie Cersoy, et al.. (2020). Palaeoproteomics gives new insight into early southern African pastoralism. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 14427–14427. 14 indexed citations
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Leplongeon, Alice, et al.. (2020). Using morphometrics to reappraise old collections: The study case of the Congo Basin Middle Stone Age bifacial industry. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 7(1). 22 indexed citations
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Benda, Petr, Mohammed Kasso, Violaine Nicolas, et al.. (2019). New data on bats from Dire Dawa region, eastern Ethiopia, with the first record of Rhinopoma microphyllum in the country. Journal of Natural History. 53(41-42). 2579–2591. 6 indexed citations
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Tribolo, Chantal, Asfawossen Asrat, Jean‐Jacques Bahain, et al.. (2017). Across the Gap: Geochronological and Sedimentological Analyses from the Late Pleistocene-Holocene Sequence of Goda Buticha, Southeastern Ethiopia. PLoS ONE. 12(1). e0169418–e0169418. 37 indexed citations
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Pleurdeau, David, et al.. (2012). “Of Sheep and Men”: Earliest Direct Evidence of Caprine Domestication in Southern Africa at Leopard Cave (Erongo, Namibia). PLoS ONE. 7(7). e40340–e40340. 68 indexed citations
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Pinhasi, Ron, Médéa Nioradzé, David Lordkipanidze, et al.. (2012). New chronology for the Middle Palaeolithic of the southern Caucasus suggests early demise of Neanderthals in this region. Journal of Human Evolution. 63(6). 770–780. 30 indexed citations
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Bourdonnec, François‐Xavier Le, Sébastien Nomade, Gérard Poupeau, et al.. (2011). Multiple origins of Bondi Cave and Ortvale Klde (NW Georgia) obsidians and human mobility in Transcaucasia during the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic. Journal of Archaeological Science. 39(5). 1317–1330. 40 indexed citations
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Pleurdeau, David, et al.. (2007). Le complexe Djruchula-Koudaro au sud Caucase (Géorgie). Remarques sur les assemblages lithiques pléistocènes de Koudaro I, Tsona et Djruchula. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe). 45(1). 1–18. 10 indexed citations

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