Nicole Boivin

14.9k total citations · 4 hit papers
192 papers, 6.1k citations indexed

About

Nicole Boivin is a scholar working on Anthropology, Paleontology and Archeology. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicole Boivin has authored 192 papers receiving a total of 6.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 112 papers in Anthropology, 93 papers in Paleontology and 61 papers in Archeology. Recurrent topics in Nicole Boivin's work include Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (88 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (71 papers) and Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (43 papers). Nicole Boivin is often cited by papers focused on Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (88 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (71 papers) and Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (43 papers). Nicole Boivin collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Australia and United Kingdom. Nicole Boivin's co-authors include Dorian Q. Fuller, Alison Crowther, Michael D. Petraglia, Patrick Roberts, Ravi Korisettar, Ceri Shipton, Chris Clarkson, Jon M. Erlandson, Robin G. Allaby and Greger Larson and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Nicole Boivin

186 papers receiving 5.8k 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.

Ecological consequences of human niche construction: Examining long-term anthropogenic shaping of global species distributions

2016 498 citations Nicole Boivin, Dorian Q. Fuller et al. profile →
People have shaped most of terrestrial nature for at least 12,000 years

2021 475 citations Nicole Boivin, Dorian Q. Fuller et al. profile →
Rethinking the dispersal of Homo sapiens out of Africa

2015 209 citations Huw S. Groucutt, Michael D. Petraglia et al. profile →
Mobilizing the past to shape a better Anthropocene

2021 90 citations Nicole Boivin, Alison Crowther profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nicole Boivin Germany	41	2.9k	2.6k	1.5k	1.0k	838	192	6.1k
Stephen Shennan United Kingdom	48	3.0k 1.0×	4.5k 1.7×	1.7k 1.1×	904 0.9×	607 0.7×	144	7.6k
Michael D. Petraglia United Kingdom	50	5.3k 1.8×	4.5k 1.7×	3.4k 2.2×	648 0.6×	793 0.9×	235	8.0k
Melinda A. Zeder United States	34	1.7k 0.6×	2.7k 1.0×	1.4k 0.9×	834 0.8×	1.2k 1.4×	62	6.2k
Judith Sealy South Africa	41	3.2k 1.1×	4.2k 1.6×	2.1k 1.4×	1.2k 1.1×	2.4k 2.9×	120	6.4k
Douglas J. Kennett United States	46	2.1k 0.7×	4.1k 1.5×	1.1k 0.7×	1.4k 1.3×	2.3k 2.7×	206	7.2k
Robert L. Bettinger United States	35	2.1k 0.7×	2.3k 0.9×	611 0.4×	666 0.6×	578 0.7×	160	4.1k
Geoff Bailey United Kingdom	36	2.7k 0.9×	3.1k 1.2×	1.9k 1.2×	550 0.5×	957 1.1×	142	5.1k
Mike Smith Australia	34	1.6k 0.6×	1.5k 0.6×	499 0.3×	745 0.7×	672 0.8×	126	3.9k
Sue O’Connor Australia	38	3.1k 1.1×	2.2k 0.8×	1.2k 0.8×	2.5k 2.4×	869 1.0×	232	4.8k
Patrick Roberts Germany	32	1.3k 0.4×	1.4k 0.5×	728 0.5×	587 0.6×	635 0.8×	184	3.2k

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Jha, Deepak Kumar, Robert Patalano, Hema Achyuthan, et al.. (2024). Preservation of plant‐wax biomarkers in deserts: implications for Quaternary environment and human evolutionary studies. Journal of Quaternary Science. 39(3). 349–358. 6 indexed citations

Clément, Charles R., Thomas Larsen, Flávia Machado Durgante, et al.. (2024). Insights into Growth, Ring Formation and Maximum Ages of Brazil Nut Trees (Bertholletia excelsa) Using ¹⁴C Dating and Tree-Ring Analysis. Radiocarbon. 66(2). 306–325. 2 indexed citations

Spengler, Robert N., Frank Kienast, Patrick Roberts, et al.. (2023). Bearing Fruit: Miocene Apes and Rosaceous Fruit Evolution. Biological Theory. 18(2). 134–151. 1 indexed citations

Prendergast, Mary E., Jennifer M. Miller, Ogeto Mwebi, et al.. (2023). Small game forgotten: Late Pleistocene foraging strategies in eastern Africa, and remote capture at Panga ya Saidi, Kenya. Quaternary Science Reviews. 305. 108032–108032. 4 indexed citations

Amano, Noel, et al.. (2023). Of forests and grasslands: human, primate, and ungulate palaeoecology in Late Pleistocene-Holocene Sri Lanka. Frontiers in Earth Science. 11. 2 indexed citations

Wilkin, Shevan, Peter Hommel, Alicia Ventresca Miller, et al.. (2023). Curated cauldrons: Preserved proteins from early copper-alloy vessels illuminate feasting practices in the Caucasian steppe. iScience. 26(9). 107482–107482. 4 indexed citations

Miller, Alicia Ventresca, Shevan Wilkin, Jamsranjav Bayarsaikhan, et al.. (2023). Permafrost preservation reveals proteomic evidence for yak milk consumption in the 13th century. Communications Biology. 6(1). 351–351. 5 indexed citations

Roberts, Patrick, Quan Hua, Madeleine Bleasdale, et al.. (2023). Ecological flexibility and adaptation to past climate change in the Middle Nile Valley: A multiproxy investigation of dietary shifts between the Neolithic and Kerma periods at Kadruka 1 and Kadruka 21. PLoS ONE. 18(2). e0280347–e0280347. 4 indexed citations

Stock, Jay T., Emma Pomeroy, Oshan Wedage, et al.. (2022). Early Holocene Human Burials from Fa Hien-lena and Kuragala, Sri Lanka. Apollo (University of Cambridge). 1. 4 indexed citations

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Roberts, Patrick, Jay T. Stock, Nicole Boivin, et al.. (2022). From Forests to the Coast - Multidisciplinary Investigation of Human Adaptations at the Mini-athiliya Shell Midden, Sri Lanka. 1. 3 indexed citations

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Janzen, Anneke, Kristine Korzow Richter, Ogeto Mwebi, et al.. (2021). Distinguishing African bovids using Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry (ZooMS): New peptide markers and insights into Iron Age economies in Zambia. PLoS ONE. 16(5). e0251061–e0251061. 31 indexed citations

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Roberts, Patrick, Richard A. Cosgrove, Andrew Fairbairn, et al.. (2021). Reimagining the relationship between Gondwanan forests and Aboriginal land management in Australia's “Wet Tropics”. iScience. 24(3). 102190–102190. 30 indexed citations

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Janzen, Anneke, Samantha Brown, Mary E. Prendergast, et al.. (2021). Collagen fingerprinting traces the introduction of caprines to island Eastern Africa. Royal Society Open Science. 8(7). 202341–202341. 10 indexed citations

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Taylor, William, Jamsranjav Bayarsaikhan, James D. Murdoch, et al.. (2021). High altitude hunting, climate change, and pastoral resilience in eastern Eurasia. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 14287–14287. 17 indexed citations

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Roberts, Patrick, Julien Louys, Jana Zech, et al.. (2020). Isotopic evidence for initial coastal colonization and subsequent diversification in the human occupation of Wallacea. Nature Communications. 11(1). 2068–2068. 44 indexed citations

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Spengler, Robert N., Li Tang, Ayushi Nayak, Nicole Boivin, & Luca M. Olivieri. (2020). The southern Central Asian mountains as an ancient agricultural mixing zone: new archaeobotanical data from Barikot in the Swat valley of Pakistan. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany. 30(4). 463–476. 24 indexed citations

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Murphy, Charlene, Alison Weisskopf, Nimal Perera, et al.. (2018). Early agriculture in Sri Lanka: New Archaeobotanical analyses and radiocarbon dates from the early historic sites of Kirinda and Kantharodai (Kandarodai). Archaeological Research in Asia. 16. 88–102. 11 indexed citations

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Boivin, Nicole, et al.. (2007). First farmers in South India: the role of internal processes and external influences in the emergence and transformation of south India's earliest settled societies. UCL Discovery (University College London). 18(2). 29–30. 9 indexed citations

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Boivin, Nicole. (2006). Shamanism and Indian rock art. MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society). 2006(4). 1–3. 1 indexed citations

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Boivin, Nicole. (1997). Insidious or just boring? An examination of academic writing in archaeology. MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society). 14(2). 105–125. 6 indexed citations

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