Kathy Schick

3.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
47 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Kathy Schick is a scholar working on Anthropology, Paleontology and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Kathy Schick has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Anthropology, 19 papers in Paleontology and 17 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Kathy Schick's work include Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (27 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (17 papers) and Evolution and Paleontology Studies (14 papers). Kathy Schick is often cited by papers focused on Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (27 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (17 papers) and Evolution and Paleontology Studies (14 papers). Kathy Schick collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Kathy Schick's co-authors include Nicholas Toth, Dietrich Stout, Thierry Chaminade, E. Sue Savage‐Rumbaugh, Rose A. Sevcik, Duane M. Rumbaugh, J. Desmond Clark, Jackson K. Njau, Harald Stollhofen and Ian G. Stanistreet and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Kathy Schick

45 papers receiving 2.2k 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.

Paleoindian Cave Dwellers in the Amazon: The Peopling of the Americas

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kathy Schick United States	23	1.3k	900	869	472	268	47	2.4k
Nicholas Toth United States	29	1.7k 1.3×	1.2k 1.3×	1.3k 1.5×	652 1.4×	240 0.9×	56	3.2k
J. A. J. Gowlett United Kingdom	32	1.9k 1.4×	1.6k 1.8×	588 0.7×	780 1.7×	419 1.6×	73	3.0k
Michael Haslam United Kingdom	27	1.2k 0.9×	943 1.0×	788 0.9×	544 1.2×	292 1.1×	71	2.2k
Robert G. Bednarik China	23	1.3k 1.0×	921 1.0×	305 0.4×	412 0.9×	165 0.6×	147	2.0k
Glynn Ll. Isaac United States	19	1.4k 1.1×	1.1k 1.2×	714 0.8×	573 1.2×	304 1.1×	34	2.5k
Julio Mercader Canada	22	887 0.7×	667 0.7×	499 0.6×	264 0.6×	321 1.2×	56	1.8k
Stephen J. Lycett United Kingdom	42	2.7k 2.0×	2.0k 2.3×	852 1.0×	1.1k 2.3×	141 0.5×	95	3.9k
Michael Rogers United States	19	1.2k 0.9×	839 0.9×	680 0.8×	406 0.9×	179 0.7×	56	1.9k
Ignacio de la Torre United Kingdom	36	2.6k 2.0×	1.7k 1.9×	1.1k 1.3×	1.1k 2.3×	304 1.1×	127	3.5k
Alison S. Brooks United States	24	2.7k 2.0×	2.1k 2.3×	629 0.7×	1.3k 2.7×	448 1.7×	50	3.9k

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McHenry, Lindsay J., Ian G. Stanistreet, Harald Stollhofen, et al.. (2024). Wide & deep learning for predicting relative mineral compositions of sediment cores solely based on XRF scans, a case study from Pleistocene Paleolake Olduvai, Tanzania. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5. 100088–100088. 1 indexed citations

Smedley, Rachel, Ian G. Stanistreet, Harald Stollhofen, et al.. (2023). Age-depth model for uppermost Ndutu Beds constrains Middle Stone Age technology and climate-induced paleoenvironmental changes at Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania). Journal of Human Evolution. 186. 103465–103465. 2 indexed citations

McHenry, Lindsay J., Ian G. Stanistreet, Harald Stollhofen, et al.. (2020). Lake conditions and detrital sources of Paleolake Olduvai, Tanzania, reconstructed using X-ray Diffraction analysis of cores. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 556. 109855–109855. 19 indexed citations

Karty, Jonathan A., Angela M. Hansen, Katherine H. Freeman, et al.. (2020). Biogeochemical evidence from OGCP Core 2A sediments for environmental changes preceding deposition of Tuff IB and climatic transitions in Upper Bed I of the Olduvai Basin. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 555. 109824–109824. 7 indexed citations

Stollhofen, Harald, Ian G. Stanistreet, Nicholas Toth, et al.. (2020). Olduvai's oldest Oldowan. Journal of Human Evolution. 150. 102910–102910. 15 indexed citations

Stanistreet, Ian G., Thomas A. Hughes, Harald Stollhofen, et al.. (2020). Changing depocentre environments of Palaeolake Olduvai and carbonates as marker horizons for hiatuses and lake-level extremes. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 560. 110032–110032. 14 indexed citations

Rodríguez-Cintas, Àgata, Rosa M. Albert, Marion K. Bamford, et al.. (2020). Palaeovegetation changes recorded in Palaeolake Olduvai OGCP Core 2A (2.09–2.12 Ma) Naibor Soit Formation Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 557. 109928–109928. 7 indexed citations

McHenry, Lindsay J., Ian G. Stanistreet, Harald Stollhofen, et al.. (2020). Tuff fingerprinting and correlations between OGCP cores and outcrops for Pre-Bed I and Beds I/II at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 548. 109630–109630. 14 indexed citations

Karty, Jonathan A., Angela M. Hansen, Katherine H. Freeman, et al.. (2019). Biogeochemical evidence for environmental changes of Pleistocene Lake Olduvai during the transitional sequence of OGCP core 2A that encompasses Tuff IB (~1.848 Ma). Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 532. 109267–109267. 10 indexed citations

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Toth, Nicholas & Kathy Schick. (2019). Why did the Acheulean happen? Experimental studies into the manufacture and function of Acheulean artifacts. L Anthropologie. 123(4-5). 724–768. 31 indexed citations

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Freeman, Katherine H., Jackson K. Njau, Ian G. Stanistreet, et al.. (2019). Aquatic biomarkers record Pleistocene environmental changes at Paleolake Olduvai, Tanzania. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 524. 250–261. 19 indexed citations

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Sauer, Peter E., Katherine H. Freeman, Jackson K. Njau, et al.. (2018). Sub-Milankovitch paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental variability in East Africa recorded by Pleistocene lacustrine sediments from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 495. 284–291. 34 indexed citations

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Schick, Kathy & Nicholas Toth. (2017). Acheulean Industries of the Early and Middle Pleistocene, Middle Awash, Ethiopia. L Anthropologie. 121(5). 451–491. 23 indexed citations

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Whiten, Andrew, Kathy Schick, & Nicholas Toth. (2009). The evolution and cultural transmission of percussive technology: integrating evidence from palaeoanthropology and primatology. Journal of Human Evolution. 57(4). 420–435. 71 indexed citations

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Mauser, M., et al.. (2008). Vorderwandinfarkt bei angiographisch nachgewiesener Muskelbrücke des Ramus interventricularis anterior. DMW - Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift. 113(14). 551–554.

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Marzke, Mary W., Nicholas Toth, Kathy Schick, et al.. (1998). EMG study of hand muscle recruitment during hard hammer percussion manufacture of Oldowan tools. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 105(3). 315–332. 104 indexed citations

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Sahnouni, Mohamed, Kathy Schick, & Nicholas Toth. (1997). An Experimental Investigation into the Nature of Faceted Limestone “Spheroids” in the Early Palaeolithic. Journal of Archaeological Science. 24(8). 701–713. 67 indexed citations

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Blackwell, Bonnie A.B., et al.. (1993). ESR dating tooth enamel from the paleolithic site at Longola, Zambia. Applied Radiation and Isotopes. 44(1-2). 253–260. 4 indexed citations

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Schick, Kathy, et al.. (1993). Early paleolithic of China and eastern Asia. Evolutionary Anthropology Issues News and Reviews. 2(1). 22–35. 77 indexed citations

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Toth, Nicholas, Kathy Schick, E. Sue Savage‐Rumbaugh, Rose A. Sevcik, & Duane M. Rumbaugh. (1993). Pan the Tool-Maker: Investigations into the Stone Tool-Making and Tool-Using Capabilities of a Bonobo (Pan paniscus). Journal of Archaeological Science. 20(1). 81–91. 225 indexed citations

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