Meave G. Leakey

9.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
62 papers, 6.1k citations indexed

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Meave G. Leakey is a scholar working on Paleontology, Anthropology and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Meave G. Leakey has authored 62 papers receiving a total of 6.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in Paleontology, 41 papers in Anthropology and 24 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Meave G. Leakey's work include Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (41 papers), Evolution and Paleontology Studies (41 papers) and Primate Behavior and Ecology (24 papers). Meave G. Leakey is often cited by papers focused on Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (41 papers), Evolution and Paleontology Studies (41 papers) and Primate Behavior and Ecology (24 papers). Meave G. Leakey collaborates with scholars based in United States, Kenya and United Kingdom. Meave G. Leakey's co-authors include Thure E. Cerling, John Harris, Alan Walker, James R. Ehleringer, Véra Eisenmann, Jay Quade, Bruce J. MacFadden, Craig S. Feibel, Ian McDougall and Louise Leakey and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Meave G. Leakey

60 papers receiving 5.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Global vegetation change through the Miocene/Pliocene boundary

1997 1.6k citations Thure E. Cerling, John Harris et al. Nature profile →
Growth processes in teeth distinguish modern humans from Homo erectus and earlier hominins

2001 342 citations Meave G. Leakey et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Meave G. Leakey United States	34	3.5k	3.0k	1.9k	1.8k	1.1k	62	6.1k
David Pilbeam United States	43	3.5k 1.0×	2.3k 0.8×	1.4k 0.8×	2.3k 1.3×	559 0.5×	95	5.8k
Denis Geraads France	36	4.0k 1.1×	3.0k 1.0×	1.8k 1.0×	1.2k 0.7×	530 0.5×	206	5.4k
Matt Sponheimer United States	49	4.1k 1.2×	3.3k 1.1×	4.4k 2.4×	1.9k 1.0×	717 0.7×	115	7.9k
Lorenzo Rook Italy	38	4.0k 1.2×	3.1k 1.0×	1.7k 0.9×	1.0k 0.5×	767 0.7×	252	5.4k
Jean‐Jacques Jaeger France	43	4.5k 1.3×	1.4k 0.5×	1.7k 0.9×	1.6k 0.9×	875 0.8×	209	7.0k
Mikael Fortelius Finland	49	5.0k 1.4×	2.2k 0.7×	3.3k 1.8×	889 0.5×	1.2k 1.1×	160	7.9k
Michel Brunet France	33	2.5k 0.7×	1.6k 0.5×	1.1k 0.6×	760 0.4×	678 0.6×	197	4.5k
Martín Pickford France	36	3.6k 1.0×	1.7k 0.6×	1.4k 0.8×	1.6k 0.9×	613 0.6×	271	5.0k
Anna K. Behrensmeyer United States	48	6.6k 1.9×	5.4k 1.8×	2.5k 1.3×	1.3k 0.7×	1.8k 1.6×	130	9.8k
Frederick E. Grine United States	47	4.4k 1.3×	5.0k 1.7×	1.5k 0.8×	2.7k 1.5×	335 0.3×	162	7.6k

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Present, Theodore M., Elizabeth Niespolo, Catherine E. Clarke, et al.. (2024). Nondestructive geochemical characterization of fossil hominin taphonomy and burial history. Quaternary Science Reviews. 328. 108525–108525.

Phillips, David, Erin Matchan, Andrew Gleadow, et al.. (2023). ⁴⁰ Ar/ ³⁹ Ar eruption ages of Turkana Basin tuffs: millennial-scale resolution constrains palaeoclimate proxy tuning models and hominin fossil ages. Journal of the Geological Society. 180(4). 10 indexed citations

Grine, Frederick E., Meave G. Leakey, Frank H. Brown, et al.. (2019). Complete permanent mandibular dentition of early Homo from the upper Burgi Member of the Koobi Fora Formation, Ileret, Kenya. Journal of Human Evolution. 131. 152–175. 9 indexed citations

Fortelius, Mikael, Indrė Žliobaitė, Ferhat Kaya, et al.. (2016). An ecometric analysis of the fossil mammal record of the Turkana Basin. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 371(1698). 20150232–20150232. 71 indexed citations

Jungers, William L., et al.. (2015). New hominin fossils from Ileret (Kolom Odiet), Kenya. 7 indexed citations

Wallace, Ian J., Meave G. Leakey, & Louise Leakey. (2014). Implications of a New Aff. Hippopotamus Karumensis Mandible From the Koobi Fora Formation, Turkana Basin, Kenya. SINET Ethiopian Journal of Science. 37(2). 143–148. 1 indexed citations

Cerling, Thure E., Fredrick K. Manthi, Emma Mbua, et al.. (2013). Stable isotope-based diet reconstructions of Turkana Basin hominins. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(26). 10501–10506. 157 indexed citations

Wood, Bernard & Meave G. Leakey. (2011). The Omo‐Turkana Basin Fossil Hominins and Their Contribution to Our Understanding of Human Evolution in Africa. Evolutionary Anthropology Issues News and Reviews. 20(6). 264–292. 85 indexed citations

Macho, Gabriele A., Iain R. Spears, Meave G. Leakey, et al.. (2011). An Exploratory Study on the Combined Effects of External and Internal Morphology on Load Dissipation in Primate Capitates: Its Potential for an Understanding of the Positional and Locomotor Repertoire of Early Hominins. Folia Primatologica. 81(5). 292–304. 11 indexed citations

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Fleagle, John G. & Meave G. Leakey. (2011). The Turkana Basin. Evolutionary Anthropology Issues News and Reviews. 20(6). 201–201. 3 indexed citations

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Spoor, Fred, Meave G. Leakey, & Louise Leakey. (2010). Hominin diversity in the Middle Pliocene of eastern Africa: the maxilla of KNM-WT 40000. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 365(1556). 3377–3388. 23 indexed citations

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Jablonski, Nina G. & Meave G. Leakey. (2008). The fossil monkeys. 13 indexed citations

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Leakey, Meave G., et al.. (2003). Lothagam. Columbia University Press eBooks. 161 indexed citations

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Harris, John & Meave G. Leakey. (2003). Geology and vertebrate paleontology of the Early Pliocene site of Kanapoi, Northern Kenya. Introduction.. Contributions in science. 498. 1–7. 5 indexed citations

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Hill, Andrew, Meave G. Leakey, John D. Kingston, & Steve Ward. (2002). New cercopithecoids and a hominoid from 12·5Ma in the Tugen Hills succession, Kenya. Journal of Human Evolution. 42(1-2). 75–93. 37 indexed citations

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Cerling, Thure E., John Harris, Bruce J. MacFadden, et al.. (1997). Global vegetation change through the Miocene/Pliocene boundary. Nature. 389(6647). 153–158. 1632 indexed citations breakdown →

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Spoor, Fred & Meave G. Leakey. (1996). Absence of the subarcuate fossa in cercopithecids. Journal of Human Evolution. 31(6). 569–575. 17 indexed citations

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Leakey, Meave G.. (1995). The dawn of humans: the farthest horizon. National geographic/The complete National geographic/The National geographic magazine. 188(3). 38–51. 1 indexed citations

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Harris, John, Frank H. Brown, & Meave G. Leakey. (1988). Stratigraphy and paleontology of Pliocene and Pleistocene localities west of Lake Turkana, Kenya. Contributions in science. 399. 1–128. 169 indexed citations

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Leakey, Meave G. & Richard E. Leakey. (1978). The fossil hominids and an introduction to their context, 1968-1974. Oxford University Press eBooks. 53 indexed citations

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