Keith M. Prufer

3.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
53 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Keith M. Prufer is a scholar working on Paleontology, Atmospheric Science and Anthropology. According to data from OpenAlex, Keith M. Prufer has authored 53 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Paleontology, 18 papers in Atmospheric Science and 16 papers in Anthropology. Recurrent topics in Keith M. Prufer's work include Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (39 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (17 papers) and Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (16 papers). Keith M. Prufer is often cited by papers focused on Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (39 papers), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (17 papers) and Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (16 papers). Keith M. Prufer collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Keith M. Prufer's co-authors include Douglas J. Kennett, Amy E. Thompson, James U.L. Baldini, Sebastian F. M. Breitenbach, Brendan J. Culleton, Harriet E. Ridley, Victor J. Polyak, Valorie V. Aquino, Norbert Marwan and Yemane Asmerom and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Keith M. Prufer

51 papers receiving 1.9k 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.

Development and Disintegration of Maya Political Systems in Response to Climate Change

2012 391 citations Douglas J. Kennett, Sebastian F. M. Breitenbach et al. profile →

Peers

Keith M. Prufer

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ANTHR

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Sheryl Luzzadder‐Beach United States

Jaime J. Awe United States

Nicholas P. Dunning United States

Charlotte Pearson United States

Rupert A. Housley United Kingdom

Charles French United Kingdom

Gretel Boswijk New Zealand

Sturt W. Manning United States

Susan Zimmerman United States

Michael F. Rosenmeier United States

Sheryl Luzzadder‐Beach United States

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618 ×0.7

253 ×0.6

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228 ×0.7

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89 ×0.3

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Countries citing papers authored by Keith M. Prufer

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Fields of papers citing papers by Keith M. Prufer

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Keith M. Prufer

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20 of 20 papers shown

Codding, Brian F., et al.. (2025). Modeling the rise and demise of Classic Maya cities: Climate, conflict, and economies of scale. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(42). e2512325122–e2512325122.

Mes, J., et al.. (2023). The development of early farming diets and population change in the Maya region and their climate context. Quaternary International. 689-690. 66–78. 2 indexed citations

Breitenbach, Sebastian F. M., Franziska A. Lechleitner, Lisa M. Baldini, et al.. (2023). Decline in seasonal predictability potentially destabilized Classic Maya societies. Communications Earth & Environment. 4(1). 82–82. 10 indexed citations

Thompson, Amy E. & Keith M. Prufer. (2021). Household Inequality, Community Formation, and Land Tenure in Classic Period Lowland Maya Society. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory. 28(4). 1276–1313. 18 indexed citations

Kennett, Douglas J., Keith M. Prufer, Brendan J. Culleton, et al.. (2020). Early isotopic evidence for maize as a staple grain in the Americas. Science Advances. 6(23). 76 indexed citations

Prufer, Keith M., et al.. (2020). Pottery production in a limestone-poor region of the Maya lowlands: Thin section petrography and scanning electron microscopy-energy dispersive spectrometry (SEM-EDS) analysis on pottery from Uxbenká, southern Belize. Journal of Archaeological Science Reports. 32. 102371–102371. 4 indexed citations

Prufer, Keith M., Mark Robinson, Brendan J. Culleton, et al.. (2019). Linking late Paleoindian stone tool technologies and populations in North, Central and South America. PLoS ONE. 14(7). e0219812–e0219812. 27 indexed citations

Hill, Ethan C., Willa Trask, Catriona J. McKenzie, et al.. (2018). Current research on Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene human remains from the Bladen Nature Reserve in southern Belize. 2 indexed citations

Robinson, Mark, Jonas Gregório de Souza, S. Yoshi Maezumi, et al.. (2018). Uncoupling human and climate drivers of late Holocene vegetation change in southern Brazil. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 7800–7800. 57 indexed citations

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Lechleitner, Franziska A., Sebastian F. M. Breitenbach, Kira Rehfeld, et al.. (2017). Tropical rainfall over the last two millennia: evidence for a low-latitude hydrologic seesaw. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 45809–45809. 54 indexed citations

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Смирнов, Д. А., Sebastian F. M. Breitenbach, Georg Feulner, et al.. (2017). A regime shift in the Sun-Climate connection with the end of the Medieval Climate Anomaly. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 11131–11131. 6 indexed citations

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Prufer, Keith M. & Amy E. Thompson. (2016). Lidar-Based Analyses of Anthropogenic Landscape Alterations as a Component of the Built Environment. Advances in Archaeological Practice. 4(3). 393–409. 19 indexed citations

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Baldini, Lisa M., James U.L. Baldini, Jim McElwaine, et al.. (2016). Persistent northward North Atlantic tropical cyclone track migration over the past five centuries. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 37522–37522. 57 indexed citations

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Baldini, Lisa M., James U.L. Baldini, Amy Frappier, et al.. (2015). North Atlantic tropical cyclone track migration since 1550 A.D. revealed using a Belizean stalagmite. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 11828.

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Ridley, Harriet E., Yemane Asmerom, James U.L. Baldini, et al.. (2015). Aerosol forcing of the position of the intertropical convergence zone since ad 1550. Nature Geoscience. 8(3). 195–200. 122 indexed citations

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Prufer, Keith M., et al.. (2014). Resilience and Redundance: Resource Networks and the Neolithic Chert Economy at Çatalhöyük, Turkey. European Journal of Archaeology. 18(3). 402–428. 6 indexed citations

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Breitenbach, Sebastian F. M., Kira Rehfeld, Bedartha Goswami, et al.. (2012). COnstructing Proxy-Record Age models (COPRA). 4 indexed citations

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Breitenbach, Sebastian F. M., Kira Rehfeld, Bedartha Goswami, et al.. (2012). COnstructing Proxy Records from Age models (COPRA). Climate of the past. 8(5). 1765–1779. 192 indexed citations

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Prufer, Keith M., et al.. (2009). A shaman's burial from an Early Classic cave in the Maya Mountains of Belize, Central America. World Archaeology. 41(2). 295–320. 16 indexed citations

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Brady, James E. & Keith M. Prufer. (1999). Caves and Crystalmancy: Evidence for the Use of Crystals in Ancient Maya Religion. Journal of Anthropological Research. 55(1). 129–144. 23 indexed citations

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