Renee Pennington

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
15 papers, 864 citations indexed

About

Renee Pennington is a scholar working on Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Gender Studies and Nutrition and Dietetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Renee Pennington has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 864 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, 5 papers in Gender Studies and 3 papers in Nutrition and Dietetics. Recurrent topics in Renee Pennington's work include Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (7 papers), Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences (5 papers) and Child Nutrition and Water Access (3 papers). Renee Pennington is often cited by papers focused on Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (7 papers), Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences (5 papers) and Child Nutrition and Water Access (3 papers). Renee Pennington collaborates with scholars based in United States. Renee Pennington's co-authors include Henry Harpending, Thomas D. Kocher, Linda Vigilant, Allan C. Wilson, Brett Kennedy, Gregory Cochran and Chandler Gatenbee and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, American Journal of Physical Anthropology and Infection Genetics and Evolution.

In The Last Decade

Renee Pennington

14 papers receiving 807 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Mitochondrial DNA sequences in single hairs from a southern African population.

1989 444 citations Linda Vigilant, Renee Pennington et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Renee Pennington United States	13	360	213	195	134	129	15	864
Alan G. Fix United States	20	350 1.0×	49 0.2×	129 0.7×	163 1.2×	204 1.6×	40	848
Clare Holden United Kingdom	11	221 0.6×	57 0.3×	197 1.0×	87 0.6×	361 2.8×	13	1.0k
Frank B. Livingstone United States	19	513 1.4×	89 0.4×	103 0.5×	39 0.3×	203 1.6×	66	1.6k
Percy A. Rohde Germany	11	202 0.6×	289 1.4×	171 0.9×	76 0.6×	96 0.7×	11	686
Gabriel W. Lasker United States	22	635 1.8×	48 0.2×	54 0.3×	138 1.0×	359 2.8×	92	1.6k
Albert Jacquard France	14	628 1.7×	126 0.6×	45 0.2×	38 0.3×	138 1.1×	80	1.1k
Fiona M. Jordan United Kingdom	16	154 0.4×	118 0.6×	185 0.9×	42 0.3×	337 2.6×	46	1.2k
Gregory Cochran United States	8	224 0.6×	69 0.3×	150 0.8×	15 0.1×	153 1.2×	12	707
Linda D. Wolfe United States	17	144 0.4×	24 0.1×	178 0.9×	77 0.6×	145 1.1×	46	978
J. N. Spuhler United States	11	131 0.4×	22 0.1×	332 1.7×	48 0.4×	219 1.7×	26	797

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15 of 15 papers shown

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Pennington, Renee, Chandler Gatenbee, Brett Kennedy, Henry Harpending, & Gregory Cochran. (2009). Group differences in proneness to inflammation. Infection Genetics and Evolution. 9(6). 1371–1380. 22 indexed citations

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Pennington, Renee. (2003). The biodemography of human reproduction and fertility. American Journal of Human Biology. 16(1). 101–102. 19 indexed citations

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Pennington, Renee. (1996). Causes of early human population growth. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 99(2). 259–274. 35 indexed citations

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Pennington, Renee & Henry Harpending. (1993). The Structure of an African Pastoralist Community. 33 indexed citations

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Pennington, Renee & Henry Harpending. (1993). The Structure of an African Pastoralist Community: Demography, History, and Ecology of the Ngamiland Herero. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 41 indexed citations

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Pennington, Renee. (1992). Did food increase fertility? Evaluation of !Kung and Herero history.. PubMed. 64(4). 497–521. 19 indexed citations

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Pennington, Renee & Henry Harpending. (1991). Effect of infertility on the population structure of the Herero and Mbanderu of southern Africa. Biodemography and Social Biology. 38(1-2). 127–139. 1 indexed citations

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Harpending, Henry & Renee Pennington. (1991). Age structure and sex-biased mortality among Herero pastoralists.. PubMed. 63(3). 329–53. 43 indexed citations

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Pennington, Renee & Henry Harpending. (1991). Infertility in Herero pastoralists of southern Africa. American Journal of Human Biology. 3(2). 135–153. 20 indexed citations

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Pennington, Renee. (1991). Child fostering as a reproductive strategy among Southern African pastoralists. Ethology and Sociobiology. 12(2). 83–104. 50 indexed citations

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Pennington, Renee & Henry Harpending. (1991). Life History and Unmarried Mothers: The Herero of Botswana. 63.

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Harpending, Henry & Renee Pennington. (1990). Herero households. Human Ecology. 18(4). 417–439. 12 indexed citations

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Pennington, Renee. (1990). Fertility of the Herero and Mbanderu pastoralists of Botswana. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 29 indexed citations

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Vigilant, Linda, Renee Pennington, Henry Harpending, Thomas D. Kocher, & Allan C. Wilson. (1989). Mitochondrial DNA sequences in single hairs from a southern African population.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 86(23). 9350–9354. 444 indexed citations breakdown →

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Pennington, Renee & Henry Harpending. (1988). Fitness and fertility among kalahari !Kung. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 77(3). 303–319. 96 indexed citations

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