Grant D. Zazula

8.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
80 papers, 4.3k citations indexed

About

Grant D. Zazula is a scholar working on Atmospheric Science, Ecology and Anthropology. According to data from OpenAlex, Grant D. Zazula has authored 80 papers receiving a total of 4.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in Atmospheric Science, 39 papers in Ecology and 32 papers in Anthropology. Recurrent topics in Grant D. Zazula's work include Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (42 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (32 papers) and Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (18 papers). Grant D. Zazula is often cited by papers focused on Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (42 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (32 papers) and Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (18 papers). Grant D. Zazula collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Grant D. Zazula's co-authors include Duane Froese, Hendrik N. Poinar, Régis Debruyne, G. Brian Golding, Christine King, Fabrice Calmels, Lindsay Kalan, Mariya Morar, Wilson W. L. Sung and Vanessa M. D’Costa and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Grant D. Zazula

79 papers receiving 4.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Grant D. Zazula Canada	34	1.4k	1.1k	959	887	858	80	4.3k
Duane Froese Canada	45	1.9k 1.3×	3.1k 2.8×	1.1k 1.2×	1.0k 1.2×	1.1k 1.2×	153	6.8k
Björn Berglund Sweden	37	979 0.7×	2.8k 2.6×	827 0.9×	1.1k 1.2×	732 0.9×	124	5.7k
Hendrik N. Poinar Canada	42	2.6k 1.9×	377 0.3×	1.6k 1.7×	967 1.1×	3.2k 3.7×	98	9.0k
Régis Debruyne France	15	723 0.5×	75 0.1×	274 0.3×	886 1.0×	823 1.0×	32	2.6k
G. Brian Golding Canada	32	1.2k 0.9×	55 0.0×	155 0.2×	905 1.0×	3.3k 3.9×	79	6.0k
S. M. M. Young United States	23	733 0.5×	185 0.2×	500 0.5×	136 0.2×	172 0.2×	38	3.3k
C. Schwarz Germany	23	668 0.5×	36 0.0×	140 0.1×	890 1.0×	1.3k 1.5×	110	4.1k
Thomas Sicheritz‐Pontén Denmark	38	2.1k 1.4×	72 0.1×	96 0.1×	792 0.9×	5.2k 6.1×	95	9.8k
Tal Dagan Germany	41	1.8k 1.3×	116 0.1×	137 0.1×	174 0.2×	3.6k 4.2×	104	5.3k
Raúl J. Cano United States	28	574 0.4×	53 0.0×	167 0.2×	61 0.1×	1.5k 1.7×	70	3.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Grant D. Zazula

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20 of 20 papers shown

Schwartz‐Narbonne, Rachel, et al.. (2021). Seasonal paleoecological records from antler collagen δ ¹³ C and δ ¹⁵ N. Paleobiology. 47(3). 533–549. 4 indexed citations

Monteath, Alistair, Tara Sadoway, Emil Karpinski, et al.. (2021). Collapse of the mammoth-steppe in central Yukon as revealed by ancient environmental DNA. Nature Communications. 12(1). 7120–7120. 47 indexed citations

Pedersen, Mikkel Winther, Bianca De Sanctis, Nedda F. Saremi, et al.. (2021). Environmental genomics of Late Pleistocene black bears and giant short-faced bears. Current Biology. 31(12). 2728–2736.e8. 36 indexed citations

Trayler, Robin B., et al.. (2021). Dietary reconstruction and evidence of prey shifting in Pleistocene and recent gray wolves (Canis lupus) from Yukon Territory. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 571. 110368–110368. 5 indexed citations

Meiri, Meirav, Adrian M. Lister, П. А. Косинцев, Grant D. Zazula, & Ian Barnes. (2020). Population dynamics and range shifts of moose (Alces alces) during the Late Quaternary. Journal of Biogeography. 47(10). 2223–2234. 13 indexed citations

Karpinski, Emil, Dirk Hackenberger, Grant D. Zazula, et al.. (2020). American mastodon mitochondrial genomes suggest multiple dispersal events in response to Pleistocene climate oscillations. Nature Communications. 11(1). 4048–4048. 11 indexed citations

Longstaffe, Fred J., et al.. (2019). Giant beaver palaeoecology inferred from stable isotopes. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 7179–7179. 19 indexed citations

Longstaffe, Fred J., et al.. (2018). Nitrogen isotopes suggest a change in nitrogen dynamics between the Late Pleistocene and modern time in Yukon, Canada. PLoS ONE. 13(2). e0192713–e0192713. 17 indexed citations

Longstaffe, Fred J., et al.. (2017). Nitrogen and carbon isotopic dynamics of subarctic soils and plants in southern Yukon Territory and its implications for paleoecological and paleodietary studies. PLoS ONE. 12(8). e0183016–e0183016. 14 indexed citations

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Zazula, Grant D., et al.. (2017). A case of early Wisconsinan “over-chill”: New radiocarbon evidence for early extirpation of western camel (Camelops hesternus) in eastern Beringia. Quaternary Science Reviews. 171. 48–57. 10 indexed citations

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Rabanus‐Wallace, M. Timothy, Matthew J. Wooller, Grant D. Zazula, et al.. (2017). Megafaunal isotopes reveal role of increased moisture on rangeland during late Pleistocene extinctions. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 1(5). 125–125. 48 indexed citations

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Enk, Jacob, Alison Devault, Chris Widga, et al.. (2016). Mammuthus Population Dynamics in Late Pleistocene North America: Divergence, Phylogeography, and Introgression. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 4. 59 indexed citations

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Ward, Brent, Jeffrey D. Bond, Britta J.L. Jensen, et al.. (2013). Middle to Late Pleistocene ice extents, tephrochronology and paleoenvironments of the White River area, southwest Yukon. Quaternary Science Reviews. 75. 59–77. 17 indexed citations

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Zazula, Grant D., et al.. (2013). New single amino acid hydroxyproline radiocarbon dates for two problematic American Mastodon fossils from Alaska. Quaternary Geochronology. 20. 23–28. 10 indexed citations

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Ginolhac, Aurélien, Julia T. Vilstrup, Jesper Stenderup, et al.. (2012). Improving the performance of true single molecule sequencing for ancient DNA. BMC Genomics. 13(1). 177–177. 32 indexed citations

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Vavrek, Matthew J., David C. Evans, Dennis R. Braman, Nicolás E. Campione, & Grant D. Zazula. (2012). A Paleogene flora from the upper Bonnet Plume Formation of northeast Yukon Territory, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 49(3). 547–558. 12 indexed citations

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Orlando, Ludovic, Aurélien Ginolhac, Maanasa Raghavan, et al.. (2011). True single-molecule DNA sequencing of a pleistocene horse bone. Genome Research. 21(10). 1705–1719. 88 indexed citations

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Campos, Paula F., Eske Willerslev, Andrei Sher, et al.. (2010). Ancient DNA analyses exclude humans as the driving force behind late Pleistocene musk ox ( Ovibos moschatus ) population dynamics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(12). 5675–5680. 159 indexed citations

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Sanborn, Paul, C. A. S. Smith, Duane Froese, Grant D. Zazula, & John A. Westgate. (2006). Full-glacial paleosols in perennially frozen loess sequences, Klondike goldfields, Yukon Territory, Canada. Quaternary Research. 66(1). 147–157. 44 indexed citations

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Zazula, Grant D.. (2000). The Pleistocene Peopling of Greater Australia: A Re-examination. 14(1). 1 indexed citations

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