J. R. Napier

7.4k total citations · 5 hit papers
49 papers, 5.4k citations indexed

About

J. R. Napier is a scholar working on Anthropology, Social Psychology and Archeology. According to data from OpenAlex, J. R. Napier has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 5.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Anthropology, 6 papers in Social Psychology and 6 papers in Archeology. Recurrent topics in J. R. Napier's work include Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (7 papers), Primate Behavior and Ecology (6 papers) and Evolution and Paleontology Studies (5 papers). J. R. Napier is often cited by papers focused on Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (7 papers), Primate Behavior and Ecology (6 papers) and Evolution and Paleontology Studies (5 papers). J. R. Napier collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Malta. J. R. Napier's co-authors include P. H. Napier, L. Harrison Matthews, Phillip V. Tobias, L. S. B. Leakey, James Dale Smith, C. H. Barnett, M. H. Day, Alan Walker, P. R. Davis and G. H. R. von Koenigswald and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Lancet and Brain.

In The Last Decade

J. R. Napier

44 papers receiving 4.9k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

THE PREHENSILE MOVEMENTS OF THE HUMAN HAND

1956 1.1k citations J. R. Napier profile →
A Handbook of Living Primates

1969 777 citations J. R. Napier, P. H. Napier et al. profile →
A New Species of The Genus Homo From Olduvai Gorge

1964 444 citations L. S. B. Leakey, J. R. Napier et al. Nature profile →
A Handbook of Living Primates

1968 387 citations J. R. Napier, P. H. Napier et al. profile →
Fossil Hand Bones from Olduvai Gorge

1962 152 citations J. R. Napier Nature profile →

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by J. R. Napier

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of J. R. Napier

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Hands 2021 ·Princeton University Press eBooks ·J. R. Napier	1
2	Note on the Breeding of the White-fronted Tern in Franklin Sound, Furneaux Group, Tasmania 2016 ·Australian field ornithology ·J. R. Napier	0
3	natural history of the primates 1994 ·J. R. Napier, P. H. Napier	14
4	Hands 1993 ·Princeton University Press eBooks ·J. R. Napier	141
5	Bigfoot: The Yeti and Sasquatch in Myth and Reality 1975 ·Journal of American Folklore ·(unknown), J. R. Napier	4
6	A Handbook of Living Primates. 1969 ·Man ·Vernon Reynolds, J. R. Napier, P. H. Napier	12
7	Prospects in Primate Biology 1968 ·Proceedings of the United States National Museum ·J. R. Napier	4
8	Evolutionary aspects of primate locomotion 1967 ·American Journal of Physical Anthropology ·J. R. Napier	154
9	The Antiquity of Human Walking 1967 ·Scientific American ·J. R. Napier	80
10	Culture and the Direction of Human Evolution 1966 ·Journal of Anatomy ·J. R. Napier	6
11	A Hominid Toe Bone from Bed I, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania 1966 ·Nature ·M. H. Day, J. R. Napier	28
12	Fossil Hand Bones from Olduvai Gorge 1965 ·Current Anthropology ·J. R. Napier	5
13	A New Species of Genus Homo from Olduvai Gorge 1965 ·Current Anthropology ·L. S. B. Leakey, P. V. Tobias, J. R. Napier	4
14	Fossil Foot Bones 1965 ·Current Anthropology ·M. H. Day, J. R. Napier	5
15	Hominid Fossils from Bed I, Olduvai Gorge, Tanganyika: Fossil Foot Bones 1964 ·Nature ·M. H. Day, J. R. Napier	130
16	The primates : the proceedings of the symposium held on 12th-14th April 1962 at the offices of the Zoological Society of London 1963 ·J. R. Napier, N. A. Barnicot	1
17	A Reconstruction of the Skull of Proconsul Africanus (R.S.51) 1963 ·Folia Primatologica ·P. R. Davis, J. R. Napier	13
18	The Evolution of the Hand 1962 ·Scientific American ·J. R. Napier	154
19	Before Our Time 1961 ·The Lancet ·J. R. Napier	1
20	The form and function of the carpo-metacarpal joint of the thumb. 1955 ·PubMed ·J. R. Napier	153

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