Deborah M. Pearsall

4.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
64 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

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Deborah M. Pearsall is a scholar working on Paleontology, Geography, Planning and Development and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Deborah M. Pearsall has authored 64 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Paleontology, 33 papers in Geography, Planning and Development and 21 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Deborah M. Pearsall's work include Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (37 papers), Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (33 papers) and Silicon Effects in Agriculture (14 papers). Deborah M. Pearsall is often cited by papers focused on Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (37 papers), Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (33 papers) and Silicon Effects in Agriculture (14 papers). Deborah M. Pearsall collaborates with scholars based in United States, Panama and China. Deborah M. Pearsall's co-authors include Dolores R. Piperno, Karol Chandler-Ezell, James A. Zeidler, Robert A. Benfer, Zhijun Zhao, Mary Jane Berman, Sonia Zarrillo, J. Scott Raymond, Neil A. Duncan and John G. Jones and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Quaternary Science Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Deborah M. Pearsall

60 papers receiving 2.8k citations

Hit Papers

1 papers align trajectories

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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.

Starch Fossils and the Domestication and Dispersal of Chili Peppers ( Capsicum spp. L.) in the Americas

2007 282 citations Linda Perry, Ruth Dickau 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
Deborah M. Pearsall United States	32	1.6k	1.3k	1.2k	709	580	64	2.9k
Irene Holst Panama	18	1.1k 0.7×	833 0.7×	839 0.7×	244 0.3×	471 0.8×	24	2.6k
Terry Ball United States	20	1.1k 0.7×	523 0.4×	1.3k 1.1×	830 1.2×	488 0.8×	30	2.5k
Carol Lentfer Australia	21	776 0.5×	784 0.6×	719 0.6×	377 0.5×	451 0.8×	43	1.8k
Luc Vrydaghs Belgium	18	697 0.4×	381 0.3×	929 0.8×	467 0.7×	318 0.5×	67	1.8k
G. C. Hillman United Kingdom	24	1.4k 0.9×	536 0.4×	533 0.5×	369 0.5×	814 1.4×	53	2.5k
Daniel H. Sandweiss United States	26	1.4k 0.8×	665 0.5×	282 0.2×	1.0k 1.5×	740 1.3×	60	2.9k
Ruth Dickau United Kingdom	14	528 0.3×	462 0.4×	676 0.6×	173 0.2×	190 0.3×	20	1.6k
Michael Charles United Kingdom	32	2.1k 1.3×	829 0.7×	743 0.6×	462 0.7×	640 1.1×	76	3.5k
Anthony J. Ranere United States	16	669 0.4×	523 0.4×	560 0.5×	142 0.2×	306 0.5×	23	1.7k
Irwin Rovner United States	9	463 0.3×	251 0.2×	466 0.4×	445 0.6×	219 0.4×	21	998

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Siegel, Peter E. & Deborah M. Pearsall. (2023). Plant resource diversity in the ethnobotanical record of precolonial Puerto Rico: Evidence from microbotanical remains. Journal of Archaeological Science. 160. 105859–105859. 1 indexed citations

Pearsall, Deborah M.. (2018). Case Studies in Paleoethnobotany: Understanding Ancient Lifeways through the Study of Phytoliths, Starch, Macroremains, and Pollen. 7 indexed citations

Pearsall, Deborah M., et al.. (2016). Human–environment interactions during the early mid-Holocene in coastal Ecuador as revealed by mangrove coring in Santa Elena Province. The Holocene. 26(8). 1262–1289. 5 indexed citations

Pearsall, Deborah M.. (2015). The Phytoliths in the Flora of Ecuador project: Perspectives on phytolith classification, identification, and establishing regional phytolith databases. Journal of Archaeological Science. 68. 89–97. 10 indexed citations

Siegel, Peter E., John G. Jones, Deborah M. Pearsall, et al.. (2015). Paleoenvironmental evidence for first human colonization of the eastern Caribbean. Quaternary Science Reviews. 129. 275–295. 44 indexed citations

Gu, Yansheng, Zhijun Zhao, & Deborah M. Pearsall. (2012). Phytolith morphology research on wild and domesticated rice species in East Asia. Quaternary International. 287. 141–148. 83 indexed citations

Stahl, Peter W. & Deborah M. Pearsall. (2011). Late pre-Columbian agroforestry in the tropical lowlands of western Ecuador. Quaternary International. 249. 43–52. 8 indexed citations

Pearsall, Deborah M.. (2009). Investigating the Transition to Agriculture. Current Anthropology. 50(5). 609–613. 19 indexed citations

Perry, Linda, Ruth Dickau, Sonia Zarrillo, et al.. (2007). Starch Fossils and the Domestication and Dispersal of Chili Peppers ( Capsicum spp. L.) in the Americas. Science. 315(5814). 986–988. 282 indexed citations breakdown →

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Pearsall, Deborah M.. (2006). From Foraging to Planting. Science. 313(5784). 173–174. 3 indexed citations

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Neff, Héctor, et al.. (2006). Early Maya Adaptive Patterns: Mid-Late Holocene Paleoenvironmental Evidence from Pacific Guatemala. Latin American Antiquity. 17(3). 287–315. 51 indexed citations

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Neff, Héctor, et al.. (2005). Climate change and population history in the pacific lowlands of Southern Mesoamerica. Quaternary Research. 65(3). 390–400. 53 indexed citations

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Piperno, Dolores R., et al.. (1998). The silica bodies of tropical American grasses : morphology, taxonomy, and implications for grass systematics and fossil phytolith identification. Biodiversity Heritage Library (Smithsonian Institution). 80 indexed citations

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Zeidler, James A., et al.. (1996). Regional Archaeology in Northern Manabf, Ecuador.. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 2(2). 355–355. 3 indexed citations

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Piperno, Dolores R. & Deborah M. Pearsall. (1993). Phytoliths in the Reproductive Structures of Maize and Teosinte: Implications for the Study of Maize Evolution. Journal of Archaeological Science. 20(3). 337–362. 70 indexed citations

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Pearsall, Deborah M. & Dolores R. Piperno. (1990). Antiquity of Maize Cultivation in Ecuador: Summary and Reevaluation of the Evidence. American Antiquity. 55(2). 324–337. 68 indexed citations

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Pearsall, Deborah M., et al.. (1986). Paleoethnobotany of the Osage and Missouri Indians: Analysis of Plant Remains From Historic Village Sites. 47. 173–196. 1 indexed citations

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Clark, Jeffrey T., Melinda S. Allen, Carl C. Christensen, et al.. (1983). Archaeological Investigations of the Mudlane-Waimea-Kawaihae Road Corridor, Island of Hawaii: An Interdisciplinary Study of an Environmental Transect.. 29 indexed citations

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Pearsall, Deborah M., et al.. (1981). Beans for Valdivia. Science. 212(4496). 811–812. 20 indexed citations

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Pearsall, Deborah M.. (1979). The application of ethnobotanical techniques to the problem of subsistence in the Ecuadorian Formative. University Microfilms International eBooks. 28 indexed citations

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