Sarah E. Freidline

2.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
23 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Sarah E. Freidline is a scholar working on Anthropology, Archeology and Geometry and Topology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sarah E. Freidline has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Anthropology, 16 papers in Archeology and 14 papers in Geometry and Topology. Recurrent topics in Sarah E. Freidline's work include Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (18 papers), Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (15 papers) and Morphological variations and asymmetry (14 papers). Sarah E. Freidline is often cited by papers focused on Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (18 papers), Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (15 papers) and Morphological variations and asymmetry (14 papers). Sarah E. Freidline collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and France. Sarah E. Freidline's co-authors include Philipp Gunz, Katerina Harvati, Inga Bergmann, Jean‐Jacques Hublin, Matthew M. Skinner, Shara E. Bailey, Abdelouahed Ben-Ncer, Stefano Benazzi, Simon Neubauer and Adeline Le Cabec and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Scientific Reports and Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Sarah E. Freidline

22 papers receiving 1.1k 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.

New fossils from Jebel Irhoud, Morocco and the pan-African origin of Homo sapiens

2017 581 citations Jean‐Jacques Hublin, Abdelouahed Ben-Ncer et al. Nature profile →
A late Middle Pleistocene Denisovan mandible from the Tibetan Plateau

2019 278 citations Fahu Chen, Frido Welker et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sarah E. Freidline Germany	11	691	506	463	207	175	23	1.1k
Jean‐Jacques Hublin Germany	16	961 1.4×	690 1.4×	714 1.5×	257 1.2×	197 1.1×	24	1.7k
Adeline Le Cabec Germany	17	757 1.1×	633 1.3×	536 1.2×	88 0.4×	133 0.8×	44	1.4k
Silvana Condémi France	20	1.2k 1.7×	958 1.9×	905 2.0×	119 0.6×	218 1.2×	46	1.7k
Florent Détroit France	15	578 0.8×	428 0.8×	375 0.8×	60 0.3×	147 0.8×	37	902
Antonio García‐Tabernero Spain	22	1.1k 1.6×	887 1.8×	734 1.6×	226 1.1×	107 0.6×	58	1.5k
Inga Bergmann Germany	4	518 0.7×	339 0.7×	388 0.8×	51 0.2×	149 0.9×	6	881
Abdelouahed Ben-Ncer Morocco	7	540 0.8×	360 0.7×	401 0.9×	52 0.3×	121 0.7×	11	941
Isabelle Crevecœur France	19	773 1.1×	601 1.2×	564 1.2×	51 0.2×	110 0.6×	54	1.1k
Rolf Quam Spain	23	1.2k 1.7×	885 1.7×	845 1.8×	123 0.6×	64 0.4×	58	1.6k
Vladimir B. Doronichev Russia	17	860 1.2×	634 1.3×	694 1.5×	110 0.5×	317 1.8×	48	1.3k

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Gunz, Philipp, Chiara Villa, Bruno Maureille, et al.. (2025). Human midfacial growth pattern differs from that of Neanderthals and chimpanzees. Journal of Human Evolution. 202. 103667–103667. 2 indexed citations

Freidline, Sarah E., et al.. (2025). Shaping the human face: Periosteal bone modeling across ontogeny. The Anatomical Record. 309(2). 271–292. 1 indexed citations

Heuzé, Yann, Philipp Gunz, Michael A. Berthaume, et al.. (2024). A shared pattern of midfacial bone modelling in hominids suggests deep evolutionary roots for human facial morphogenesis. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 291(2021). 20232738–20232738. 2 indexed citations

Freidline, Sarah E., et al.. (2024). The Undescribed Juvenile Maxilla from Contrebandiers Cave, Morocco—A Study on Middle Stone Age Facial Growth. Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology. 7(1). 1 indexed citations

Freidline, Sarah E., et al.. (2024). Analyse morphométrique et microscopique du maxillaire de la grotte de Coupe-Gorge (350 ka) à Montmaurin (Haute-Garonne, France). Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d anthropologie de Paris. 36((s)). 1 indexed citations

Schultz, John J., et al.. (2023). Analyzing Cut Mark Characteristics on Bone from Chopping/Hacking Tools. 1 indexed citations

Bergmann, Inga, et al.. (2022). The relevance of late MSA mandibles on the emergence of modern morphology in Northern Africa. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 8841–8841. 10 indexed citations

Gunz, Philipp, et al.. (2021). Quantifying maxillary development in chimpanzees and humans: An analysis of prognathism and orthognathism at the morphological and microscopic scales. Journal of Human Evolution. 157. 103031–103031. 4 indexed citations

Bergmann, Inga, Jean‐Jacques Hublin, Philipp Gunz, & Sarah E. Freidline. (2021). How did modern morphology evolve in the human mandible? The relationship between static adult allometry and mandibular variability in Homo sapiens. Journal of Human Evolution. 157. 103026–103026. 11 indexed citations

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Gunz, Philipp, et al.. (2020). Intraspecific variability in human maxillary bone modeling patterns during ontogeny. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 173(4). 655–670. 9 indexed citations

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Chen, Fahu, Frido Welker, Chuan‐Chou Shen, et al.. (2019). A late Middle Pleistocene Denisovan mandible from the Tibetan Plateau. Nature. 569(7756). 409–412. 278 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kupczik, Kornelius, et al.. (2019). Ontogeny of the human maxilla: a study of intra‐population variability combining surface bone histology and geometric morphometrics. Journal of Anatomy. 235(2). 233–245. 12 indexed citations

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Hublin, Jean‐Jacques, Abdelouahed Ben-Ncer, Shara E. Bailey, et al.. (2017). New fossils from Jebel Irhoud, Morocco and the pan-African origin of Homo sapiens. Nature. 546(7657). 289–292. 581 indexed citations breakdown →

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Freidline, Sarah E., Philipp Gunz, & Jean‐Jacques Hublin. (2015). Ontogenetic and static allometry in the human face: Contrasting Khoisan and Inuit. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 158(1). 116–131. 38 indexed citations

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Martı́nez-Maza, Cayetana, Sarah E. Freidline, André Strauss, & Manuel Nieto‐Díaz. (2015). Bone Growth Dynamics of the Facial Skeleton and Mandible in Gorilla gorilla and Pan troglodytes. Evolutionary Biology. 43(1). 60–80. 21 indexed citations

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Freidline, Sarah E., Philipp Gunz, Katerina Harvati, & Jean‐Jacques Hublin. (2013). Evaluating developmental shape changes in Homo antecessor subadult facial morphology. Journal of Human Evolution. 65(4). 404–423. 37 indexed citations

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Freidline, Sarah E., Philipp Gunz, Katerina Harvati, & Jean‐Jacques Hublin. (2012). Middle Pleistocene human facial morphology in an evolutionary and developmental context. Journal of Human Evolution. 63(5). 723–740. 49 indexed citations

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Freidline, Sarah E., Philipp Gunz, Ivor Janković, Katerina Harvati, & J.-J. Hublin. (2011). A comprehensive morphometric analysis of the frontal and zygomatic bone of the Zuttiyeh fossil from Israel. Journal of Human Evolution. 62(2). 225–241. 44 indexed citations

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Freidline, Sarah E., et al.. (2009). 3D Landmark and semilandmark geometric morphometric analysis of the Zuttiyeh fronto-zygomatic fragment. MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society). 1 indexed citations

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Baab, Karen L., et al.. (2009). Relationship of cranial robusticity to cranial form, geography and climate in Homo sapiens. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 141(1). 97–115. 42 indexed citations

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