Jacob Freeman

973 total citations · 1 hit paper
43 papers, 614 citations indexed

About

Jacob Freeman is a scholar working on Paleontology, Sociology and Political Science and Anthropology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jacob Freeman has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 614 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Paleontology, 18 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 18 papers in Anthropology. Recurrent topics in Jacob Freeman's work include Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (21 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (17 papers) and Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (15 papers). Jacob Freeman is often cited by papers focused on Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (21 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (17 papers) and Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (15 papers). Jacob Freeman collaborates with scholars based in United States, Argentina and Chile. Jacob Freeman's co-authors include John M. Anderies, Erick Robinson, Jacopo A. Baggio, Robert L. Kelly, Thomas R. Coyle, David Byers, Robert J. Hard, Raymond Mauldin, Matthew A. Peeples and Adolfo Gil and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Jacob Freeman

43 papers receiving 588 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
Jacob Freeman United States	16	328	249	114	114	99	43	614
David Zeanah United States	12	264 0.8×	290 1.2×	89 0.8×	70 0.6×	49 0.5×	16	533
R. Kyle Bocinsky United States	18	533 1.6×	242 1.0×	100 0.9×	241 2.1×	187 1.9×	38	1.1k
Stefani A. Crabtree United States	13	229 0.7×	107 0.4×	98 0.9×	76 0.7×	83 0.8×	32	535
Mark D. Varien United States	15	684 2.1×	456 1.8×	58 0.5×	133 1.2×	99 1.0×	25	922
Charles Perreault United States	14	293 0.9×	279 1.1×	253 2.2×	98 0.9×	55 0.6×	24	762
David M. Carballo United States	16	586 1.8×	300 1.2×	108 0.9×	36 0.3×	154 1.6×	45	844
Michael A. Jochim United States	12	435 1.3×	379 1.5×	55 0.5×	102 0.9×	85 0.9×	26	701
Barbara Voorhies United States	15	423 1.3×	235 0.9×	108 0.9×	85 0.7×	181 1.8×	30	765
Lisa J. Lucero United States	18	692 2.1×	266 1.1×	65 0.6×	99 0.9×	160 1.6×	47	1.0k
Sean S. Downey United States	17	607 1.9×	404 1.6×	106 0.9×	307 2.7×	241 2.4×	30	1.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jacob Freeman

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Freeman, Jacob, et al.. (2024). A model of long-term population growth with an application to Central West Argentina. PLoS ONE. 19(8). e0307703–e0307703. 1 indexed citations

Freeman, Jacob, et al.. (2024). The long-term expansion and recession of human populations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(12). e2312207121–e2312207121. 7 indexed citations

Freeman, Jacob, et al.. (2023). Population expansion and intensification from a Malthus-Boserup perspective: A multiproxy approach in Central Western Argentina. Quaternary International. 689-690. 55–65. 5 indexed citations

Freeman, Jacob, et al.. (2023). Hunter-Gatherer Population Expansion and Intensification: Malthusian and Boserupian Dynamics. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory. 31(3). 761–781. 4 indexed citations

Lima, Maurício, Eugenia M. Gayó, Sergio A. Estay, et al.. (2023). Positive feedbacks in deep-time transitions of human populations. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 379(1893). 13 indexed citations

Baggio, Jacopo A., Jacob Freeman, Thomas R. Coyle, & John M. Anderies. (2022). Harnessing the benefits of diversity to address socio-environmental governance challenges. PLoS ONE. 17(8). e0263399–e0263399. 3 indexed citations

López, José Manuel, et al.. (2022). Past maize consumption correlates with population change in Central Western Argentina. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology. 68. 101457–101457. 12 indexed citations

Freeman, Jacob, et al.. (2020). A first empirical analysis of population stability in North America using radiocarbon records. The Holocene. 30(9). 1345–1359. 24 indexed citations

Freeman, Jacob, et al.. (2020). The two types of society: Computationally revealing recurrent social formations and their evolutionary trajectories. PLoS ONE. 15(5). e0232609–e0232609. 5 indexed citations

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Robinson, Erick, et al.. (2020). Dendrochronological dates confirm a Late Prehistoric population decline in the American Southwest derived from radiocarbon dates. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 376(1816). 20190718–20190718. 16 indexed citations

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Freeman, Jacob, John M. Anderies, Raymond Mauldin, & Robert J. Hard. (2019). Should I stay or should I go? The emergence of partitioned land use among human foragers. PLoS ONE. 14(7). e0218440–e0218440. 10 indexed citations

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Baggio, Jacopo A., Jacob Freeman, Thomas R. Coyle, et al.. (2019). The importance of cognitive diversity for sustaining the commons. Nature Communications. 10(1). 875–875. 15 indexed citations

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Freeman, Jacob, Robert J. Hard, & Raymond Mauldin. (2017). A theory of regime change on the Texas Coastal Plain. Quaternary International. 446. 83–94. 9 indexed citations

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Freeman, Jacob, et al.. (2017). The Effects of Revenue and Social Capital on Collective Governance: Implications for Political Complexity. Cross-Cultural Research. 52(4). 351–380. 3 indexed citations

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Freeman, Jacob. (2016). The Socioecology of Territory Size and a "Work-Around" Hypothesis for the Adoption of Farming. PLoS ONE. 11(7). e0158743–e0158743. 15 indexed citations

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Hegmon, Michelle, et al.. (2016). Marking and Making Differences: Representational Diversity in the U.S. Southwest. American Antiquity. 81(2). 253–272. 12 indexed citations

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Ullah, Isaac, Ian Kuijt, & Jacob Freeman. (2015). Toward a theory of punctuated subsistence change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(31). 9579–9584. 24 indexed citations

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Freeman, Jacob & John M. Anderies. (2014). A comparative ethnoarchaeological analysis of corporate territorial ownership. Journal of Archaeological Science. 54. 135–147. 14 indexed citations

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Freeman, Jacob, et al.. (2014). Crop Specialization, Exchange and Robustness in a Semi-arid Environment. Human Ecology. 42(2). 297–310. 5 indexed citations

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Freeman, Jacob & John M. Anderies. (2012). Intensification, Tipping Points, and Social Change in a Coupled Forager-Resource System. Human Nature. 23(4). 419–446. 27 indexed citations

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