Ralf Vogelsang

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
27 papers, 915 citations indexed

About

Ralf Vogelsang is a scholar working on Anthropology, Archeology and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ralf Vogelsang has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 915 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Anthropology, 9 papers in Archeology and 8 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in Ralf Vogelsang's work include Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (19 papers), Archaeology and Rock Art Studies (9 papers) and Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (8 papers). Ralf Vogelsang is often cited by papers focused on Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (19 papers), Archaeology and Rock Art Studies (9 papers) and Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (8 papers). Ralf Vogelsang collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Ethiopia and Australia. Ralf Vogelsang's co-authors include Zenobia Jacobs, Richard G. Roberts, R. F. Galbraith, Alex Mackay, H. J. Deacon, Lyn Wadley, Rainer Grün, Peter Mitchell, Jürgen Richter and Barbara Eichhorn and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Ralf Vogelsang

25 papers receiving 867 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.

Ages for the Middle Stone Age of Southern Africa: Implications for Human Behavior and Dispersal

2008 393 citations Zenobia Jacobs, Richard G. Roberts et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ralf Vogelsang Germany	12	730	580	296	262	235	27	915
Hope M. Williams United States	6	646 0.9×	549 0.9×	175 0.6×	235 0.9×	283 1.2×	7	937
Jo McDonald Australia	17	562 0.8×	506 0.9×	240 0.8×	214 0.8×	265 1.1×	69	922
Thomas P. Volman United States	11	813 1.1×	698 1.2×	281 0.9×	154 0.6×	387 1.6×	12	1.1k
Sylvain Soriano France	19	1.1k 1.4×	888 1.5×	353 1.2×	210 0.8×	453 1.9×	44	1.3k
Tom Minichillo United States	4	580 0.8×	476 0.8×	196 0.7×	126 0.5×	261 1.1×	5	788
Jane Balme Australia	21	823 1.1×	662 1.1×	158 0.5×	277 1.1×	290 1.2×	70	1.2k
Ravi Korisettar India	21	926 1.3×	821 1.4×	161 0.5×	545 2.1×	489 2.1×	56	1.7k
James Blinkhorn United Kingdom	23	1.1k 1.5×	864 1.5×	135 0.5×	289 1.1×	658 2.8×	61	1.4k
Nicola Stern Australia	14	526 0.7×	453 0.8×	90 0.3×	235 0.9×	175 0.7×	30	722
Pierre Vermeersch Belgium	20	919 1.3×	822 1.4×	128 0.4×	350 1.3×	585 2.5×	150	1.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ralf Vogelsang

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Neumann, Katharina, et al.. (2024). Afromontane forests and human impact after the African Humid Period: wood charcoal from the Sodicho rock shelter, SW Ethiopian highlands. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany. 33(4). 529–543.

Richter, Jürgen, et al.. (2024). Cultural rhythms and pulses on MIS 5-3 migration episodes of Homo sapiens dispersal in Northeast Africa. Quaternary Science Advances. 16. 100248–100248.

Vogelsang, Ralf, et al.. (2021). Stratigraphy and Chronology of Sodicho Rockshelter – A New Sedimentological Record of Past Environmental Changes and Human Settlement Phases in Southwestern Ethiopia. Frontiers in Earth Science. 8. 11 indexed citations

Lesur, Joséphine, et al.. (2020). Hunter-gatherers of the high-altitude Afromontane forest – the Holocene occupation of Mount Dendi, Ethiopia. Azania Archaeological Research in Africa. 55(3). 329–359. 3 indexed citations

Bubenzer, Olaf, et al.. (2018). Sodicho Rockshelter and 'Out of Africa II', SW Ethiopia: Initial geoarchaeological investigations. EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts. 13518. 1 indexed citations

Vogelsang, Ralf. (2018). The Mountain Exile Hypothesis: How Humans Benefited from African High Altitude Ecosystems in Ethiopia. 1 indexed citations

Reber, David, Florian Detsch, Ralf Vogelsang, et al.. (2018). High-Altitude Rock Shelters and Settlements in an African Alpine Ecosystem: The Bale Mountains National Park, Ethiopia. Human Ecology. 46(4). 587–600. 10 indexed citations

Vogelsang, Ralf, et al.. (2018). When Hominins Conquered Highlands—an Acheulean Site at 3000 m a.s.l. on Mount Dendi/Ethiopia. Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology. 1(4). 302–313. 10 indexed citations

Foerster, Verena, Ralf Vogelsang, Annett Junginger, et al.. (2016). Reply to the comment on “Environmental change and human occupation of southern Ethiopia and northern Kenya during the last 20,000 years. Quaternary Science Reviews 129: 333–340”. Quaternary Science Reviews. 141. 130–133. 3 indexed citations

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Foerster, Verena, Ralf Vogelsang, Annett Junginger, et al.. (2015). Environmental change and human occupation of southern Ethiopia and northern Kenya during the last 20,000 years. Quaternary Science Reviews. 129. 333–340. 57 indexed citations

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Rifkin, Riaan F., Linda C. Prinsloo, Laure Dayet, et al.. (2015). Characterising pigments on 30 000-year-old portable art from Apollo 11 Cave, Karas Region, southern Namibia. Journal of Archaeological Science Reports. 5. 336–347. 25 indexed citations

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Murray‐Wallace, Colin V., Jürgen Richter, & Ralf Vogelsang. (2015). Aminostratigraphy and taphonomy of ostrich eggshell in the sedimentary infill of Apollo 11 Rockshelter, Namibia. Journal of Archaeological Science Reports. 4. 143–151. 10 indexed citations

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Brandt, Steven, Erich C. Fisher, Elisabeth Hildebrand, et al.. (2012). Early MIS 3 occupation of Mochena Borago Rockshelter, Southwest Ethiopian Highlands: Implications for Late Pleistocene archaeology, paleoenvironments and modern human dispersals. Quaternary International. 274. 38–54. 80 indexed citations

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Richter, Jürgen, Thomas C. Hauck, Ralf Vogelsang, et al.. (2012). “Contextual areas” of early Homo sapiens and their significance for human dispersal from Africa into Eurasia between 200 ka and 70 ka. Quaternary International. 274. 5–24. 34 indexed citations

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Vogelsang, Ralf, Jürgen Richter, Zenobia Jacobs, et al.. (2010). New Excavations of Middle Stone Age Deposits at Apollo 11 Rockshelter, Namibia: Stratigraphy, Archaeology, Chronology and Past Environments. Journal of African Archaeology. 8(2). 185–218. 125 indexed citations

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Jacobs, Zenobia, Richard G. Roberts, R. F. Galbraith, et al.. (2008). Ages for the Middle Stone Age of Southern Africa: Implications for Human Behavior and Dispersal. Science. 322(5902). 733–735. 393 indexed citations breakdown →

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Vogelsang, Ralf, et al.. (2005). POPULATING NO-MAN'S-LAND - ROCK ART IN NORTHERN NAMIBIA. 9. 54. 6 indexed citations

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Breunig, Peter, et al.. (2001). The Chaîne de Gobnangou , SE Burkina Faso : archaeological, archaeobotanical, archaeozoological and geomorphological studies. Lirias (KU Leuven). 21. 127–190. 3 indexed citations

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Eichhorn, Barbara, et al.. (2001). Oruwanje 95/1: a late Holocene stratigraphy in northwestern Namibia. 17. 1–22. 16 indexed citations

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Vogelsang, Ralf, et al.. (1999). Le sable savant: les cordons dunaires sahéliens au Burkina Faso comme archive archéologique et paléoécologique du Holocène. 51–68. 8 indexed citations

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