Dolores R. Piperno

15.9k total citations · 8 hit papers
112 papers, 10.1k citations indexed

About

Dolores R. Piperno is a scholar working on Plant Science, Geography, Planning and Development and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, Dolores R. Piperno has authored 112 papers receiving a total of 10.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 49 papers in Plant Science, 48 papers in Geography, Planning and Development and 44 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in Dolores R. Piperno's work include Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (48 papers), Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (43 papers) and Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory (40 papers). Dolores R. Piperno is often cited by papers focused on Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (48 papers), Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (43 papers) and Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory (40 papers). Dolores R. Piperno collaborates with scholars based in Panama, United States and Netherlands. Dolores R. Piperno's co-authors include Irene Holst, Deborah M. Pearsall, Amanda G. Henry, Carlos A. Baied, Irwin Rovner, Mark B. Bush, Anthony J. Ranere, Alison S. Brooks, José Iriarte and Ruth Dickau and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Dolores R. Piperno

110 papers receiving 9.6k citations

Hit Papers

Phytolith Analysis: An Archaeological and Geological Pers... 1989 2026 2001 2013 1990 1989 2009 2010 2011 100 200 300 400 500
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Phytolith Analysis: An Archaeological and Geological Perspective
    1990 556 citations Dolores R. Piperno et al. profile →
  2. Phytolith Analysis: An Archaeological and Geological Perspective.
    1989 553 citations Dolores R. Piperno et al. profile →
  3. Starch grain and phytolith evidence for early ninth millennium B.P. maize from the Central Balsas River Valley, Mexico
    2009 415 citations Dolores R. Piperno, Anthony J. Ranere et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  4. Microfossils in calculus demonstrate consumption of plants and cooked foods in Neanderthal diets (Shanidar III, Iraq; Spy I and II, Belgium)
    2010 355 citations Dolores R. Piperno et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  5. The Origins of Plant Cultivation and Domestication in the New World Tropics
    2011 315 citations Dolores R. Piperno Current Anthropology profile →
  6. Starch Fossils and the Domestication and Dispersal of Chili Peppers ( Capsicum spp. L.) in the Americas
    2007 282 citations Linda Perry, Irene Holst et al. profile →
  7. Anthropogenic influence on Amazonian forests in pre‐history: An ecological perspective
    2015 86 citations Mark B. Bush, Crystal N. H. McMichael et al. profile →
  8. Amazonia and the Anthropocene: What was the spatial extent and intensity of human landscape modification in the Amazon Basin at the end of prehistory?
    2015 75 citations Dolores R. Piperno, Crystal N. H. McMichael et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Dolores R. Piperno Panama 57 4.6k 3.4k 3.0k 2.5k 2.1k 112 10.1k
Dorian Q. Fuller United Kingdom 69 5.7k 1.3× 3.8k 1.1× 3.8k 1.3× 2.7k 1.1× 3.7k 1.8× 232 15.5k
Tim Denham Australia 28 1.4k 0.3× 955 0.3× 1.7k 0.6× 441 0.2× 952 0.5× 129 3.9k
Houyuan Lü China 54 3.4k 0.7× 1.6k 0.5× 2.3k 0.8× 4.8k 1.9× 1.8k 0.9× 169 8.2k
Amy Bogaard United Kingdom 41 4.1k 0.9× 362 0.1× 1.6k 0.5× 912 0.4× 1.3k 0.6× 142 5.6k
Nicole Boivin Germany 41 2.6k 0.6× 283 0.1× 1.0k 0.3× 809 0.3× 2.9k 1.4× 192 6.1k
Valentı́ Rull Spain 38 1.2k 0.3× 566 0.2× 400 0.1× 2.6k 1.0× 443 0.2× 231 5.8k
Tom D. Dillehay United States 34 2.1k 0.5× 311 0.1× 661 0.2× 619 0.2× 1.8k 0.9× 128 3.9k
Michael Charles United Kingdom 32 2.1k 0.5× 743 0.2× 829 0.3× 462 0.2× 640 0.3× 76 3.5k
Simon Haberle Australia 41 1.2k 0.3× 315 0.1× 1.2k 0.4× 3.3k 1.3× 1.5k 0.7× 171 6.2k
Irene Holst Panama 18 1.1k 0.2× 839 0.2× 833 0.3× 244 0.1× 471 0.2× 24 2.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Dolores R. Piperno

Since Specialization
Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Dolores R. Piperno's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Dolores R. Piperno with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Dolores R. Piperno more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Dolores R. Piperno

Since Specialization
Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Dolores R. Piperno. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Dolores R. Piperno. The network helps show where Dolores R. Piperno may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Dolores R. Piperno

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
1.
McMichael, Crystal N. H., William D. Gosling, André Braga Junqueira, et al.. (2023). Spatial and temporal abilities of proxies used to detect pre-Columbian Indigenous human activity in Amazonian ecosystems. Quaternary Science Reviews. 321. 108354–108354. 3 indexed citations
2.
Valencia, Renato, et al.. (2022). Long‐term fire and vegetation change in northwestern Amazonia. Biotropica. 55(1). 197–209. 12 indexed citations
3.
Piperno, Dolores R., Crystal N. H. McMichael, Nigel C. A. Pitman, et al.. (2021). A 5,000-year vegetation and fire history for tierra firme forests in the Medio Putumayo-Algodón watersheds, northeastern Peru. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(40). 26 indexed citations
4.
Piperno, Dolores R.. (2018). A model of agricultural origins. Nature Human Behaviour. 2(7). 446–447. 10 indexed citations
5.
Lorant, Anne, Sarah Pedersen, Irene Holst, et al.. (2017). The potential role of genetic assimilation during maize domestication. PLoS ONE. 12(9). e0184202–e0184202. 18 indexed citations
6.
Dillehay, Tom D., S. L. Goodbred, Mario Pino, et al.. (2017). Simple technologies and diverse food strategies of the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene at Huaca Prieta, Coastal Peru. Science Advances. 3(5). e1602778–e1602778. 83 indexed citations
7.
Sambodo, Maxensius Tri & Dolores R. Piperno. (2015). KEMISKINAN energi listrik. 1 indexed citations
8.
Gremillion, Kristen J., Loukas Barton, & Dolores R. Piperno. (2014). Particularism and the retreat from theory in the archaeology of agricultural origins. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(17). 6171–6177. 86 indexed citations
9.
Piperno, Dolores R., et al.. (2014). Teosinte before domestication: Experimental study of growth and phenotypic variability in Late Pleistocene and early Holocene environments. Quaternary International. 363. 65–77. 40 indexed citations
10.
Sheets, Payson, et al.. (2012). Ancient Manioc Agriculture South of the Ceren Village, El Salvador. Latin American Antiquity. 23(3). 259–281. 42 indexed citations
11.
Bonavía, Duccio, et al.. (2011). Preceramic maize from Paredones and Huaca Prieta, Peru. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(5). 1755–1759. 90 indexed citations
12.
Perry, Linda, et al.. (2006). Early maize agriculture and interzonal interaction in southern Peru. Nature. 440(7080). 76–79. 97 indexed citations
13.
Piperno, Dolores R., Ehud Weiss, Irene Holst, & Dani Nadel. (2004). Processing of wild cereal grains in the Upper Palaeolithic revealed by starch grain analysis. Nature. 430(7000). 670–673. 331 indexed citations
14.
15.
Piperno, Dolores R., et al.. (2000). Starch grains reveal early root crop horticulture in the Panamanian tropical forest. Nature. 407(6806). 894–897. 239 indexed citations
16.
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
17.
Pohl, Mary, Kevin Pope, John G. Jones, et al.. (1996). Early Agriculture in the Maya Lowlands. Latin American Antiquity. 7(4). 355–372. 224 indexed citations
18.
Piperno, Dolores R. & Gayle J. Fritz. (1994). On the Emergence of Agriculture in the New World. Current Anthropology. 35(5). 637–643. 17 indexed citations
19.
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
20.
Piperno, Dolores R., Mark B. Bush, & Paul A. Colinvaux. (1991). Paleoecological perspectives on human adaptation in central Panama. I. The Pleistocene. Geoarchaeology. 6(3). 201–226. 59 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact

Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Dorian Q. Fuller Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Tim Denham Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Houyuan Lü Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Amy Bogaard Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Nicole Boivin Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Valentı́ Rull Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Tom D. Dillehay Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Michael Charles Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Simon Haberle Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Irene Holst
Rankless by CCL
2026