René Bobe

5.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
76 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

René Bobe is a scholar working on Paleontology, Anthropology and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, René Bobe has authored 76 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 56 papers in Paleontology, 45 papers in Anthropology and 37 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in René Bobe's work include Evolution and Paleontology Studies (56 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (45 papers) and Primate Behavior and Ecology (37 papers). René Bobe is often cited by papers focused on Evolution and Paleontology Studies (56 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (45 papers) and Primate Behavior and Ecology (37 papers). René Bobe collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. René Bobe's co-authors include Denis Geraads, Zeresenay Alemseged, Anna K. Behrensmeyer, Jonathan G. Wynn, Denné Reed, Gerald G. Eck, Shannon P. McPherron, Ralph E. Chapman, Curtis W. Marean and William H. Kimbel and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

René Bobe

72 papers receiving 3.0k 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.

Evidence for stone-tool-assisted consumption of animal tissues before 3.39 million years ago at Dikika, Ethiopia

2010 407 citations Zeresenay Alemseged, Jonathan G. Wynn et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
René Bobe United States	26	1.8k	1.8k	1.1k	890	401	76	3.1k
Gildas Merceron France	30	1.5k 0.8×	2.3k 1.3×	840 0.8×	1.4k 1.5×	445 1.1×	104	3.3k
Julien Louys Australia	32	1.5k 0.8×	1.5k 0.8×	402 0.4×	950 1.1×	488 1.2×	125	2.8k
Craig S. Feibel United States	31	2.4k 1.3×	2.1k 1.2×	1.1k 1.0×	712 0.8×	748 1.9×	74	3.6k
Terry Harrison United States	32	1.2k 0.6×	1.7k 0.9×	1.4k 1.3×	651 0.7×	217 0.5×	107	2.8k
David M. Alba Spain	34	2.0k 1.1×	3.2k 1.8×	1.8k 1.7×	846 1.0×	352 0.9×	200	4.1k
Russell L. Ciochon United States	30	1.3k 0.7×	1.6k 0.9×	1.3k 1.2×	478 0.5×	477 1.2×	77	2.9k
Gina M. Semprebon United States	25	1.3k 0.7×	1.9k 1.1×	618 0.6×	1.4k 1.6×	260 0.6×	46	2.5k
Darryl J. de Ruiter United States	40	2.7k 1.4×	2.4k 1.3×	1.3k 1.2×	1.6k 1.7×	952 2.4×	71	4.3k
John Kappelman United States	28	879 0.5×	1.3k 0.7×	660 0.6×	560 0.6×	268 0.7×	61	2.3k
Gerrit D. van den Bergh Australia	24	1.3k 0.7×	1.1k 0.6×	503 0.5×	570 0.6×	563 1.4×	50	2.8k

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Reed, Denné, et al.. (2026). Afar fossil shows broad distribution and versatility of Paranthropus. Nature. 650(8101). 381–388.

Silva, María Joana Ferreira da, Marion K. Bamford, Dora Biro, et al.. (2025). Sex-mediated Gene Flow in Grayfoot Chacma Baboons (Papio ursinus griseipes) in Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique. International Journal of Primatology. 46(3). 705–736. 3 indexed citations

Biro, Dora, René Bobe, Marion K. Bamford, et al.. (2025). West Side Story: Regional Inter‐Troop Variation in Baboon Bark‐Stripping at Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique. American Journal of Biological Anthropology. 187(1). e70057–e70057. 3 indexed citations

Carvalho, Susana, Robert L. Anemone, João d’Oliveira Coelho, & René Bobe. (2025). The Primates of Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique. American Journal of Biological Anthropology. 188(2). e70143–e70143.

Villaseñor, Amelia, Kevin T. Uno, Rahab N. Kinyanjui, et al.. (2023). Pliocene hominins from East Turkana were associated with mesic environments in a semiarid basin. Journal of Human Evolution. 180. 103385–103385. 3 indexed citations

Sponheimer, Matt, et al.. (2022). Problems with Paranthropus. Quaternary International. 650. 40–51. 11 indexed citations

Bobe, René, et al.. (2021). The environments of Australopithecus anamensis at Allia Bay, Kenya: A multiproxy analysis of early Pliocene Bovidae. Journal of Human Evolution. 151. 102928–102928. 8 indexed citations

Negash, Enquye W., Zeresenay Alemseged, René Bobe, et al.. (2020). Dietary trends in herbivores from the Shungura Formation, southwestern Ethiopia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(36). 21921–21927. 26 indexed citations

Richmond, Brian G., Michael R. Lague, Habiba Chirchir, et al.. (2020). The upper limb of Paranthropus boisei from Ileret, Kenya. Journal of Human Evolution. 141. 102727–102727. 17 indexed citations

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Wynn, Jonathan G., Zeresenay Alemseged, René Bobe, et al.. (2020). Isotopic evidence for the timing of the dietary shift toward C ₄ foods in eastern African Paranthropus. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(36). 21978–21984. 28 indexed citations

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Alemseged, Zeresenay, Jonathan G. Wynn, Denis Geraads, et al.. (2020). Fossils from Mille-Logya, Afar, Ethiopia, elucidate the link between Pliocene environmental changes and Homo origins. Nature Communications. 11(1). 2480–2480. 23 indexed citations

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Bobe, René, Fredrick K. Manthi, Carol V. Ward, J. Michael Plavcan, & Susana Carvalho. (2020). The ecology of Australopithecus anamensis in the early Pliocene of Kanapoi, Kenya. Journal of Human Evolution. 140. 102717–102717. 22 indexed citations

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Tóth, Anikó B., S. Kathleen Lyons, W. Andrew Barr, et al.. (2019). Reorganization of surviving mammal communities after the end-Pleistocene megafaunal extinction. Science. 365(6459). 1305–1308. 44 indexed citations

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Bobe, René, et al.. (2019). Paleoecological implications of dental mesowear and hypsodonty in fossil ungulates from Kanapoi. Journal of Human Evolution. 140. 102548–102548. 14 indexed citations

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Braun, David R., W. Andrew Barr, Anna K. Behrensmeyer, et al.. (2019). Comparative isotopic evidence from East Turkana supports a dietary shift within the genus Homo. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 3(7). 1048–1056. 39 indexed citations

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Martínez, Felipe I., Cristian Capelli, María Joana Ferreira da Silva, et al.. (2019). A missing piece of the Papio puzzle: Gorongosa baboon phenostructure and intrageneric relationships. Journal of Human Evolution. 130. 1–20. 16 indexed citations

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Solórzano, Andrés, et al.. (2019). The Early to late Middle Miocene mammalian assemblages from the Cura-Mallín Formation, at Lonquimay, southern Central Andes, Chile (~38°S): Biogeographical and paleoenvironmental implications. Journal of South American Earth Sciences. 96. 102319–102319. 13 indexed citations

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Patterson, David B., David R. Braun, Anna K. Behrensmeyer, et al.. (2017). Landscape scale heterogeneity in the East Turkana ecosystem during the Okote Member (1.56–1.38 Ma). Journal of Human Evolution. 112. 148–161. 18 indexed citations

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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

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Hockings, Kimberley J., Matthew R. McLennan, Susana Carvalho, et al.. (2015). Apes in the Anthropocene: flexibility and survival. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 30(4). 215–222. 121 indexed citations

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