Denné Reed

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
36 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

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Denné Reed is a scholar working on Paleontology, Anthropology and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Denné Reed has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Paleontology, 19 papers in Anthropology and 17 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Denné Reed's work include Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (19 papers), Evolution and Paleontology Studies (19 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (15 papers). Denné Reed is often cited by papers focused on Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (19 papers), Evolution and Paleontology Studies (19 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (15 papers). Denné Reed collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Germany. Denné Reed's co-authors include Denis Geraads, Zeresenay Alemseged, Jonathan G. Wynn, René Bobe, Shannon P. McPherron, Curtis W. Marean, Hamdallah Béarat, William H. Kimbel, Kristine L. Metzger and Diana C. Roman and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Denné Reed

34 papers receiving 1.2k 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 for stone-tool-assisted consumption of animal tissues before 3.39 million years ago at Dikika, Ethiopia

2010 407 citations Shannon P. McPherron, Zeresenay Alemseged et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Denné Reed United States	16	754	615	403	344	265	36	1.3k
Fritz Hertel United States	19	552 0.7×	571 0.9×	287 0.7×	438 1.3×	217 0.8×	31	1.3k
David Degusta United States	15	661 0.9×	602 1.0×	277 0.7×	256 0.7×	363 1.4×	24	1.3k
Jean‐Renaud Boisserie France	21	777 1.0×	965 1.6×	313 0.8×	461 1.3×	233 0.9×	60	1.4k
Louise Leakey United States	11	871 1.2×	749 1.2×	410 1.0×	294 0.9×	277 1.0×	25	1.2k
Reiko T. Kono Japan	20	983 1.3×	770 1.3×	578 1.4×	218 0.6×	542 2.0×	42	1.5k
Noel T. Boaz United States	19	528 0.7×	515 0.8×	247 0.6×	193 0.6×	254 1.0×	50	1.1k
Friedemann Schrenk Germany	23	1.2k 1.6×	929 1.5×	548 1.4×	363 1.1×	689 2.6×	68	1.8k
Rokus Awe Due Australia	12	1.0k 1.4×	822 1.3×	510 1.3×	160 0.5×	552 2.1×	17	1.5k
E. Wahyu Saptomo Australia	19	1.0k 1.4×	725 1.2×	431 1.1×	143 0.4×	560 2.1×	30	1.5k
Fredrick K. Manthi Kenya	22	1.1k 1.5×	1.2k 1.9×	741 1.8×	518 1.5×	312 1.2×	52	1.8k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Reed, Denné, et al.. (2026). Afar fossil shows broad distribution and versatility of Paranthropus. Nature. 650(8101). 381–388.

Marchal, François, Denné Reed, & Sandrine Prat. (2024). Le registre d’hominines fossiles du bassin de l’Omo-Turkana. Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d anthropologie de Paris. 36((s)).

Denys, Christiane, Denné Reed, & Yannicke Dauphin. (2023). Deciphering Alterations of Rodent Bones through In Vitro Digestion: An Avenue to Understand Pre-Diagenetic Agents?. Minerals. 13(1). 124–124. 1 indexed citations

Reed, Denné, et al.. (2023). Hominin nomenclature and the importance of information systems for managing complexity in paleoanthropology. Journal of Human Evolution. 175. 103308–103308. 4 indexed citations

Bae, Christopher J., Leslie C. Aiello, John Hawks, et al.. (2023). Moving away from “the Muddle in the Middle” toward solving the Chibanian puzzle. Evolutionary Anthropology Issues News and Reviews. 33(1). e22011–e22011. 7 indexed citations

Ullmann, Tobias, et al.. (2021). Finding karstic caves and rockshelters in the Inner Asian mountain corridor using predictive modelling and field survey. PLoS ONE. 16(1). e0245170–e0245170. 9 indexed citations

Alemseged, Zeresenay, Jonathan G. Wynn, Denis Geraads, et al.. (2020). Fossils from Mille-Logya, Afar, Ethiopia, elucidate the link between Pliocene environmental changes and Homo origins. Nature Communications. 11(1). 2480–2480. 23 indexed citations

Geraads, Denis, et al.. (2020). The fossil record of camelids demonstrates a late divergence between Bactrian camel and dromedary. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 65. 4 indexed citations

Reed, Denné, Terry Harrison, & Amandus Kwekason. (2019). Eyasi Plateau Paleontological Expedition, Laetoli, Tanzania, fossil specimen database 1998–2005. Scientific Data. 6(1). 304–304. 2 indexed citations

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Thompson, Jessica C., Shannon P. McPherron, René Bobe, et al.. (2015). Taphonomy of fossils from the hominin-bearing deposits at Dikika, Ethiopia. Journal of Human Evolution. 86. 112–135. 42 indexed citations

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Byrom, Andrea E., Wendy A. Ruscoe, Kristine L. Metzger, et al.. (2015). Small mammal diversity and population dynamics in the greater serengeti ecosystem. University of Canberra Research Portal. 323–357. 6 indexed citations

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Miller, Joshua H., Anna K. Behrensmeyer, Andrew Du, et al.. (2014). Ecological fidelity of functional traits based on species presence-absence in a modern mammalian bone assemblage (Amboseli, Kenya). Paleobiology. 40(4). 560–583. 35 indexed citations

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Dibble, Harold L., Vera Aldeias, Zenobia Jacobs, et al.. (2013). On the industrial attributions of the Aterian and Mousterian of the Maghreb. Journal of Human Evolution. 64(3). 194–210. 67 indexed citations

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Reed, Denné & Denis Geraads. (2011). Evidence for a Late Pliocene faunal transition based on a new rodent assemblage from Oldowan locality Hadar A.L. 894, Afar Region, Ethiopia. Journal of Human Evolution. 62(3). 328–337. 9 indexed citations

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Geraads, Denis, Zeresenay Alemseged, René Bobe, & Denné Reed. (2011). Enhydriodon dikikae, sp. nov. (Carnivora: Mammalia), a gigantic otter from the Pliocene of Dikika, Lower Awash, Ethiopia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 31(2). 447–453. 19 indexed citations

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McPherron, Shannon P., Zeresenay Alemseged, Curtis W. Marean, et al.. (2010). Evidence for stone-tool-assisted consumption of animal tissues before 3.39 million years ago at Dikika, Ethiopia. Nature. 466(7308). 857–860. 407 indexed citations breakdown →

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Reed, Denné, T. Michael Anderson, Jan Dempewolf, Kristine L. Metzger, & Suzanne Serneels. (2008). The spatial distribution of vegetation types in the Serengeti ecosystem: the influence of rainfall and topographic relief on vegetation patch characteristics. Journal of Biogeography. 36(4). 770–782. 103 indexed citations

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Wynn, Jonathan G., Zeresenay Alemseged, René Bobe, et al.. (2006). Geological and palaeontological context of a Pliocene juvenile hominin at Dikika, Ethiopia. Nature. 443(7109). 332–336. 59 indexed citations

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Alemseged, Zeresenay, William H. Kimbel, René Bobe, et al.. (2006). A juvenile early hominin skeleton from Dikika, Ethiopia. Nature. 443(7109). 296–301. 233 indexed citations

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Alemseged, Zeresenay, Jonathan G. Wynn, William H. Kimbel, et al.. (2005). A new hominin from the Basal Member of the Hadar Formation, Dikika, Ethiopia, and its geological context. Journal of Human Evolution. 49(4). 499–514. 38 indexed citations

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