Renaud Joannes‐Boyau

3.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
62 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

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Renaud Joannes‐Boyau is a scholar working on Paleontology, Anthropology and Archeology. According to data from OpenAlex, Renaud Joannes‐Boyau has authored 62 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Paleontology, 27 papers in Anthropology and 24 papers in Archeology. Recurrent topics in Renaud Joannes‐Boyau's work include Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (26 papers), Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (20 papers) and Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (14 papers). Renaud Joannes‐Boyau is often cited by papers focused on Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (26 papers), Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (20 papers) and Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (14 papers). Renaud Joannes‐Boyau collaborates with scholars based in Australia, France and United States. Renaud Joannes‐Boyau's co-authors include Rainer Grün, Anthony Dosseto, Christine Austin, Manish Arora, Jean‐Paul Raynal, Mathieu Rué, Maxime Aubert, Fethi Amani, Denis Geraads and Shannon P. McPherron and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Renaud Joannes‐Boyau

61 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

2 papers align trajectories

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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.

The age of the hominin fossils from Jebel Irhoud, Morocco, and the origins of the Middle Stone Age

2017 274 citations Rainer Grün, Renaud Joannes‐Boyau et al. Nature profile →
The age of Homo naledi and associated sediments in the Rising Star Cave, South Africa

2017 193 citations Paul H.G.M. Dirks, Eric M. Roberts et al. eLife profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Renaud Joannes‐Boyau Australia	20	770	738	545	296	203	62	1.6k
Maxime Aubert Australia	28	1.6k 2.0×	1.3k 1.7×	944 1.7×	451 1.5×	300 1.5×	61	2.6k
M. Steven Shackley United States	26	1.5k 1.9×	1.8k 2.4×	977 1.8×	213 0.7×	208 1.0×	143	2.7k
Petrus le Roux South Africa	28	367 0.5×	682 0.9×	357 0.7×	359 1.2×	355 1.7×	141	2.8k
Michael Chazan Canada	27	1.7k 2.2×	1.4k 1.9×	685 1.3×	497 1.7×	190 0.9×	85	2.4k
Gregory Hodgins United States	23	764 1.0×	1.1k 1.6×	486 0.9×	493 1.7×	531 2.6×	83	1.9k
Kira Westaway Australia	22	1.1k 1.5×	824 1.1×	585 1.1×	463 1.6×	307 1.5×	54	1.8k
Alistair Pike United Kingdom	31	1.7k 2.2×	1.8k 2.5×	1.5k 2.7×	648 2.2×	349 1.7×	82	3.3k
Jean‐Luc Schwenninger United Kingdom	21	899 1.2×	783 1.1×	543 1.0×	544 1.8×	173 0.9×	53	1.6k
J.L. Joron France	18	732 1.0×	660 0.9×	491 0.9×	355 1.2×	93 0.5×	35	1.9k
Philippe Duringer France	27	659 0.9×	789 1.1×	267 0.5×	661 2.2×	275 1.4×	78	1.9k

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Vaiglova, Petra, Horst Kierdorf, Carsten Witzel, et al.. (2025). Transport of animals underpinned ritual feasting at the onset of the Neolithic in southwestern Asia. Communications Earth & Environment. 6(1). 1 indexed citations

Morley, Mike W., Anne‐Marie Bacon, Philippe Duringer, et al.. (2024). Late Pleistocene–Holocene (52–10 ka) microstratigraphy, fossil taphonomy and depositional environments from Tam Pà Ling cave (northeastern Laos). Quaternary Science Reviews. 344. 108982–108982. 1 indexed citations

Salles, Tristan, et al.. (2024). Physiography, foraging mobility, and the first peopling of Sahul. Nature Communications. 15(1). 3430–3430. 5 indexed citations

Morley, Mike W., Ian Moffat, Anna M. Kotarba-Morley, et al.. (2023). Why the geosciences are becoming increasingly vital to the interpretation of the human evolutionary record. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 7(12). 1971–1977. 6 indexed citations

Maloney, Tim, Adhi Agus Oktaviana, Pindi Setiawan, et al.. (2022). Surgical amputation of a limb 31,000 years ago in Borneo. Nature. 609(7927). 547–551. 24 indexed citations

Bach, Lennart T., et al.. (2022). Ocean alkalinity enhancement – avoiding runaway CaCO ₃ precipitation during quick and hydrated lime dissolution. Biogeosciences. 19(15). 3537–3557. 78 indexed citations

Richard, Maïlys, Edwige Pons‐Branchu, Stéphane Jaillet, et al.. (2021). Timing of Neanderthal occupations in the southeastern margins of the Massif Central (France): A multi-method approach. Quaternary Science Reviews. 273. 107241–107241. 13 indexed citations

Hocknull, Scott, Lee J. Arnold, Tim Pietsch, et al.. (2020). Extinction of eastern Sahul megafauna coincides with sustained environmental deterioration. Nature Communications. 11(1). 2250–2250. 62 indexed citations

Grün, Rainer, Alistair Pike, Frank McDermott, et al.. (2020). Dating the skull from Broken Hill, Zambia, and its position in human evolution. Nature. 580(7803). 372–375. 54 indexed citations

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Joannes‐Boyau, Renaud, et al.. (2020). Owning humankind: fossils, humans and archaeological remains. Heliyon. 6(6). e04129–e04129. 3 indexed citations

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Joannes‐Boyau, Renaud, et al.. (2020). A reassessment of the age of the fauna from Cumberland Bone Cave, Maryland, (middle Pleistocene) using coupled U-series and electron spin resonance dating (ESR). Quaternary Research. 97. 187–198. 1 indexed citations

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Herries, Andy I.R., Justin W. Adams, Renaud Joannes‐Boyau, et al.. (2019). Integrating palaeocaves into palaeolandscapes: An analysis of cave levels and karstification history across the Gauteng Malmani dolomite, South Africa. Quaternary Science Reviews. 220. 310–334. 7 indexed citations

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Smith, Tanya M., Christine Austin, Daniel R. Green, et al.. (2018). Wintertime stress, nursing, and lead exposure in Neanderthal children. Science Advances. 4(10). eaau9483–eaau9483. 70 indexed citations

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Joannes‐Boyau, Renaud, Mathieu Duval, & Thomas Bodin. (2017). MCDoseE 2.0 A new Markov Chain Monte Carlo program for ESR dose response curve fitting and dose evaluation. Quaternary Geochronology. 44. 13–22. 10 indexed citations

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Dirks, Paul H.G.M., Eric M. Roberts, Hannah L. Hilbert‐Wolf, et al.. (2017). The age of Homo naledi and associated sediments in the Rising Star Cave, South Africa. eLife. 6. 193 indexed citations breakdown →

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Herries, Andy I.R., Justin W. Adams, Renaud Joannes‐Boyau, et al.. (2017). Integrating palaeocaves into palaeolandscapes: Age estimates for the Drimolen hominin bearing palaeocave system and an analysis of cave levels and karstification history across the Gauteng Malmani dolomite, South Africa. Quaternary Science Reviews. 1 indexed citations

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May, Simon Matthias, Dominik Brill, Nik Callow, et al.. (2016). Supratidal beach deposits in Giralia Bay (Exmouth Gulf, Western Australia) - a record for past tropical cyclones?. EGUGA. 1 indexed citations

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Bourdonnec, François‐Xavier Le, et al.. (2016). Sourcing obsidian: a new optimized LA-ICP-MS protocol. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(2). 192–202. 11 indexed citations

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Joannes‐Boyau, Renaud, Anja Scheffers, Rémy Chapoulie, et al.. (2014). Thermal behaviour of organic radicals and paramagnetic centres in chert: A case study of Bergeracois brown chert, Dordogne, France. Quaternary Geochronology. 23. 26–34. 1 indexed citations

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Joannes‐Boyau, Renaud, Rainer Grün, & Thomas Bodin. (2010). Decomposition of the laboratory gamma irradiation component of angular ESR spectra of fossil tooth enamel fragments. Applied Radiation and Isotopes. 68(9). 1798–1808. 15 indexed citations

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