Francisco Estrada-Belli

911 total citations · 1 hit paper
26 papers, 508 citations indexed

About

Francisco Estrada-Belli is a scholar working on Paleontology, Visual Arts and Performing Arts and Anthropology. According to data from OpenAlex, Francisco Estrada-Belli has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 508 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Paleontology, 10 papers in Visual Arts and Performing Arts and 8 papers in Anthropology. Recurrent topics in Francisco Estrada-Belli's work include Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (16 papers), Latin American history and culture (10 papers) and Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (5 papers). Francisco Estrada-Belli is often cited by papers focused on Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (16 papers), Latin American history and culture (10 papers) and Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (5 papers). Francisco Estrada-Belli collaborates with scholars based in United States, Guatemala and Slovenia. Francisco Estrada-Belli's co-authors include Alexandre Tokovinine, David Wahl, L. Anderson, Marcello A. Canuto, Juan Carlos Fernández-Diaz, Luke Auld-Thomas, Thomas G. Garrison, Cyril Castanet, Stephen Houston and Milan Kováč and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology and Journal of Archaeological Science.

In The Last Decade

Francisco Estrada-Belli

25 papers receiving 477 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

  1. Ancient lowland Maya complexity as revealed by airborne laser scanning of northern Guatemala
    2018 231 citations Marcello A. Canuto, Francisco Estrada-Belli et al. Science profile →

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Francisco Estrada-Belli United States 11 323 172 155 95 91 26 508
Gyles Iannone Canada 12 282 0.9× 171 1.0× 99 0.6× 88 0.9× 77 0.8× 22 432
Jason Yaeger United States 12 384 1.2× 172 1.0× 122 0.8× 97 1.0× 149 1.6× 25 543
Alexandre Tokovinine United States 9 233 0.7× 162 0.9× 140 0.9× 103 1.1× 63 0.7× 23 426
Philippe Nondédéo France 10 255 0.8× 169 1.0× 102 0.7× 88 0.9× 50 0.5× 28 433
Flory Pinzón United States 10 266 0.8× 144 0.8× 90 0.6× 70 0.7× 78 0.9× 15 386
Thomas G. Garrison United States 10 302 0.9× 332 1.9× 64 0.4× 166 1.7× 74 0.8× 20 579
Daniela Triadan United States 17 649 2.0× 174 1.0× 246 1.6× 72 0.8× 228 2.5× 35 815
Ivan Šprajc Slovenia 11 213 0.7× 97 0.6× 102 0.7× 36 0.4× 29 0.3× 45 318
Julie A. Hoggarth United States 13 374 1.2× 74 0.4× 72 0.5× 23 0.2× 157 1.7× 42 530
Timothy Murtha United States 11 135 0.4× 135 0.8× 26 0.2× 79 0.8× 37 0.4× 36 300

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Fields of papers citing papers by Francisco Estrada-Belli

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Francisco Estrada-Belli

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Estrada-Belli, Francisco, Marcello A. Canuto, Ivan Šprajc, & Juan Carlos Fernández-Diaz. (2025). New regional-scale Classic Maya population density estimates and settlement distribution models through airborne lidar scanning. Journal of Archaeological Science Reports. 66. 105288–105288.
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Tokovinine, Alexandre, et al.. (2024). The team for a new age: Naranjo and Holmul under Kaanu'l's sway. Ancient Mesoamerica. 35(3). 784–805. 2 indexed citations
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Estrada-Belli, Francisco, et al.. (2024). The rise of the Kaanuˀl kingdom and the city of Dzibanche. Ancient Mesoamerica. 35(3). 726–747. 3 indexed citations
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Auld-Thomas, Luke, et al.. (2024). Running out of empty space: environmental lidar and the crowded ancient landscape of Campeche, Mexico. Antiquity. 98(401). 1340–1358. 2 indexed citations
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Estrada-Belli, Francisco, et al.. (2023). Architecture, wealth and status in Classic Maya urbanism revealed by airborne lidar mapping. Journal of Archaeological Science. 157. 105835–105835. 4 indexed citations
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Estrada-Belli, Francisco & Alexandre Tokovinine. (2022). Chochkitam: A New Classic Maya Dynasty and the Rise of the Kaanu'l (Snake) Kingdom. Latin American Antiquity. 33(4). 713–732. 6 indexed citations
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Estrada-Belli, Francisco, et al.. (2021). Dzibanché e Ichkabal grandes ciudades mayas reveladas por la nueva tecnología LIDAR. Arqueología mexicana. 28(170). 62–67. 1 indexed citations
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Wahl, David, Lewis E. Anderson, Francisco Estrada-Belli, & Alexandre Tokovinine. (2019). Fire on the Mountain: Total War in the Maya Lowlands. AGUFM. 2019. 1 indexed citations
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Wahl, David, L. Anderson, Francisco Estrada-Belli, & Alexandre Tokovinine. (2019). Palaeoenvironmental, epigraphic and archaeological evidence of total warfare among the Classic Maya. Nature Human Behaviour. 3(10). 1049–1054. 17 indexed citations
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Canuto, Marcello A., Francisco Estrada-Belli, Thomas G. Garrison, et al.. (2018). Ancient lowland Maya complexity as revealed by airborne laser scanning of northern Guatemala. Science. 361(6409). 231 indexed citations breakdown →
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Tokovinine, Alexandre & Francisco Estrada-Belli. (2017). From stucco to digital: Topometric documentation of Classic Maya facades at Holmul. Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage. 6. 18–28. 10 indexed citations
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Estrada-Belli, Francisco. (2016). Holmul y la hegemonía del reino Kaanul en el este de Petén. Arqueología mexicana. 23(137). 52–59. 1 indexed citations
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Estrada-Belli, Francisco & Alexandre Tokovinine. (2016). A King's Apotheosis: Iconography, Text, and Politics from a Classic Maya Temple at Holmul. Latin American Antiquity. 27(2). 149–168. 16 indexed citations
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Wahl, David, Francisco Estrada-Belli, & L. Anderson. (2013). A 3400 year paleolimnological record of prehispanic human–environment interactions in the Holmul region of the southern Maya lowlands. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 379-380. 17–31. 28 indexed citations
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Estrada-Belli, Francisco. (2010). The First Maya Civilization. 26 indexed citations
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Estrada-Belli, Francisco. (2001). Maya kingship at Holmul, Guatemala. Antiquity. 75(290). 685–686. 3 indexed citations
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Estrada-Belli, Francisco, et al.. (2000). PRECLASSIC THROUGH POSTCLASSIC. Ancient Mesoamerica. 11(2). 199–215. 10 indexed citations
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Estrada-Belli, Francisco, et al.. (1999). Late Preclassic Ceramic Industries of Pacific Guatemala and El Salvador: The Pacific Coast as Core, Not Periphery. Journal of Field Archaeology. 26(4). 377–377. 2 indexed citations
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Estrada-Belli, Francisco. (1998). The evolution of complex societies in southeastern Pacific Coastal Guatemala : a regional GIS archaeological approach. UMI eBooks. 5 indexed citations
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Hammond, Norman, Amanda Clarke, & Francisco Estrada-Belli. (1992). Middle Preclassic Maya buildings and burials at Cuello, Belize. Antiquity. 66(253). 955–964. 21 indexed citations

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