Elisabeth S. Vrba

12.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
61 papers, 7.8k citations indexed

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Elisabeth S. Vrba is a scholar working on Paleontology, Anthropology and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Elisabeth S. Vrba has authored 61 papers receiving a total of 7.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Paleontology, 21 papers in Anthropology and 16 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Elisabeth S. Vrba's work include Evolution and Paleontology Studies (30 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (20 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (13 papers). Elisabeth S. Vrba is often cited by papers focused on Evolution and Paleontology Studies (30 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (20 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (13 papers). Elisabeth S. Vrba collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Africa and Spain. Elisabeth S. Vrba's co-authors include Stephen Jay Gould, Manuel Hérnandez Fernández, David Degusta, Niles Eldredge, William K. Hart, Tim D. White, Giday WoldeGabriel, Paul R. Renne, J. Desmond Clark and Jean de Heinzelin and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Trends in Ecology & Evolution.

In The Last Decade

Elisabeth S. Vrba

59 papers receiving 7.1k 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.

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Elisabeth S. Vrba United States	37	3.0k	1.9k	1.8k	1.5k	1.3k	61	7.8k
Niles Eldredge United States	34	3.2k 1.1×	1.1k 0.6×	617 0.4×	1.9k 1.3×	1.3k 0.9×	132	9.0k
George Gaylord Simpson United States	33	3.2k 1.1×	1.9k 1.0×	604 0.3×	2.1k 1.4×	2.5k 1.9×	174	8.8k
John Damuth United States	30	1.9k 0.6×	2.7k 1.4×	736 0.4×	811 0.5×	1.5k 1.1×	42	5.3k
David Pilbeam United States	43	3.5k 1.1×	1.4k 0.7×	2.3k 1.3×	481 0.3×	985 0.7×	95	5.8k
R. D. E. MacPhee United States	41	3.3k 1.1×	2.4k 1.3×	1.1k 0.6×	1.6k 1.1×	2.1k 1.6×	137	7.1k
Leigh Van Valen United States	39	2.1k 0.7×	2.6k 1.3×	450 0.3×	2.4k 1.6×	2.3k 1.7×	124	8.9k
Colin P. Groves Australia	47	2.1k 0.7×	2.8k 1.4×	913 0.5×	1.5k 1.0×	1.8k 1.3×	248	7.6k
Michael J. Novacek United States	43	4.7k 1.5×	1.6k 0.8×	451 0.3×	977 0.7×	2.3k 1.7×	116	7.1k
Charles R. Marshall United States	37	3.1k 1.0×	1.9k 1.0×	341 0.2×	1.1k 0.7×	1.9k 1.4×	75	7.7k
Robert Foley United Kingdom	33	1.5k 0.5×	627 0.3×	1.9k 1.1×	1.2k 0.8×	610 0.5×	116	6.6k

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Vrba, Elisabeth S., et al.. (2015). First Asian record of a late Pleistocene reduncine (Artiodactyla, Bovidae, Reduncini),Sivacobus sankaliai, sp. nov., from Gopnath (Miliolite Formation) Gujarat, India, and a revision of the Asian genusSivacobusPilgrim, 1939. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 35(4). e943399–e943399. 8 indexed citations

Vrba, Elisabeth S.. (2006). A possible ancestor of the living waterbuck and lechwes:Kobus basilcookeisp. nov. (Reduncini, Bovidae, Artiodactyla) from the Early Pliocene of the Middle Awash, Ethiopia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa. 61(2). 63–74. 9 indexed citations

Vrba, Elisabeth S.. (2005). Mass turnover and heterochrony events in response to physical change. Paleobiology. 31(sp5). 157–174. 42 indexed citations

Eldredge, Niles & Elisabeth S. Vrba. (2005). Preface. Paleobiology. 31(sp5). iv–v. 1 indexed citations

Fernández, Manuel Hérnandez & Elisabeth S. Vrba. (2005). A complete estimate of the phylogenetic relationships in Ruminantia: a dated species-level supertree of the extant ruminants. Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 80(2). 269–302. 281 indexed citations

Lieberman, Bruce S. & Elisabeth S. Vrba. (2005). Stephen Jay Gould on species selection: 30 years of insight. Paleobiology. 31(sp5). 113–121. 23 indexed citations

Fernández, Manuel Hérnandez & Elisabeth S. Vrba. (2005). Body size, biomic specialization and range size of African large mammals. Journal of Biogeography. 32(7). 1243–1256. 58 indexed citations

Eldredge, Niles, Stephen Jay Gould, & Elisabeth S. Vrba. (2005). Macroevolution : diversity, disparity, contingency : essays in honor of Stephen Jay Gould. 3 indexed citations

Gatesy, John, et al.. (1997). A Cladistic Analysis of Mitochondrial Ribosomal DNA from the Bovidae. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 7(3). 303–319. 128 indexed citations

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Lieberman, Bruce S. & Elisabeth S. Vrba. (1995). Hierarchy Theory, Selection, and Sorting. BioScience. 45(6). 394–399. 18 indexed citations

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White, Tim D., Gen Suwa, William K. Hart, et al.. (1993). New discoveries of Australopithecus at Maka in Ethiopia. Nature. 366(6452). 261–265. 116 indexed citations

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Gatesy, John, Deborah Yelon, Rob DeSalle, & Elisabeth S. Vrba. (1992). Phylogeny of the Bovidae (Artiodactyla, Mammalia), based on mitochondrial ribosomal DNA sequences.. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 9(3). 433–46. 73 indexed citations

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Templeton, Alan R. & Elisabeth S. Vrba. (1987). Species and Speciation.. Evolution. 41(1). 233–233. 54 indexed citations

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Vrba, Elisabeth S. & Stephen Jay Gould. (1986). The hierarchical expansion of sorting and selection: sorting and selection cannot be equated. Paleobiology. 12(2). 217–228. 231 indexed citations

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Vrba, Elisabeth S.. (1985). Environment and evolution: alternative causes of the temporal distribution of evolutionary events. South African Journal of Science. 81(5). 229–236. 275 indexed citations

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Vrba, Elisabeth S.. (1985). African Bovidae: evolutionary events since the Miocene. South African Journal of Science. 81(5). 263–266. 115 indexed citations

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Vrba, Elisabeth S.. (1985). Species and speciation. Development and speciation. Faunal case histories. 4(1).

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Vrba, Elisabeth S. & Niles Eldredge. (1984). Individuals, hierarchies and processes: towards a more complete evolutionary theory. Paleobiology. 10(2). 146–171. 206 indexed citations

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Blumenberg, Bennett, Kurt M. Fristrup, Ralph L. Holloway, et al.. (1983). The Evolution of the Advanced Hominid Brain [and Comments and Reply]. Current Anthropology. 24(5). 589–623. 49 indexed citations

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Vrba, Elisabeth S., et al.. (1981). Age of the chiwondo beds northern malawi. 33(1). 1–8. 21 indexed citations

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