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.
Bantu expansion shows that habitat alters the route and pace of human dispersals
This map shows the geographic impact of Koen Bostoen's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Koen Bostoen with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Koen Bostoen more than expected).
This network shows the impact of papers produced by Koen Bostoen. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Koen Bostoen. The network helps show where Koen Bostoen may publish in the future.
Co-authorship network of co-authors of Koen Bostoen
This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Koen Bostoen.
A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Koen Bostoen 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 Koen Bostoen. Koen Bostoen is excluded from
the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.
Bostoen, Koen, et al.. (2021). Le projet BantuFirst : rapport sur les recherches de terrain archéologiques le long du bas Kasaï dans les provinces du Kwilu et du Mai-Ndombe (RDC). 25–30.2 indexed citations
Clist, Bernard, et al.. (2015). Archaeological research on the Kongo kingdom in the Lower Congo region of Central Africa. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University).1 indexed citations
Clist, Bernard, et al.. (2015). Le projet KongoKing: les prospections et fouilles menées en 2015 dans la province du Kongo Central (République Démocratique du Congo). Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 84. 128–141.1 indexed citations
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Clist, Bernard, et al.. (2014). Le projet KongoKing: Les prospections et fouilles menées en 2014 à Misenga, Sumbi et Ngongo M bata (Province du Bas-Congo, RDC). Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University).1 indexed citations
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Bostoen, Koen, et al.. (2014). Le projet KongoKing: prospections archéologiques et enquêtes ethnoarchéologiques dans la vallée de l’Inkisi et régions avoisinantes (Province du Bas-Congo, RDC). Dépôt institutionnel de l'Université libre de Bruxelles (Université Libre de Bruxelles). 82(82). 57–65.2 indexed citations
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Clist, Bernard, et al.. (2013). The KongoKing Project: 2012 Fieldwork Report from the Lower Congo Province (DRC). Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 80. 22–31.7 indexed citations
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Dom, Sebastian, et al.. (2012). Documenting variation in the Kikongo dialect cluster: Report on the 2012 fieldwork in the Lower Congo Province (DRC). Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University).1 indexed citations
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Schryver, Gilles-Maurice de, et al.. (2012). Bantu Forensic Lexicography : a Kikongo case study. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University).1 indexed citations
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Bostoen, Koen. (2007). Pearl millet in early Bantu speech communities in Central Africa: A reconsideration of the lexical evidence. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 89. 183–213.13 indexed citations
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Bostoen, Koen. (2007). Review of Kaji, Shigeki. 2004. A Runyankore Vocabulary. Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Asian and African Lexicon n° 44. Journal of African Languages and Linguistics. 28(2). 220–224.7 indexed citations
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Bostoen, Koen. (2005). Review of Ngessimo M. Mutaka & Sammy B Chumbow. (eds.). 2001. Research Mate in African Linguistics: Focus on Cameroon. A fieldworker’s tool for deciphering the stories Cameroonian languages have to tell. In honor of Larry N. Hyman. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag. Journal of African Languages and Linguistics. 26. 93–95.5 indexed citations
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Bostoen, Koen, et al.. (2005). Studies in African Comparative Linguistics with special focus on Bantu and Mande. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University).17 indexed citations
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