Sharon N. DeWitte

5.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
71 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Sharon N. DeWitte is a scholar working on Archeology, Genetics and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Sharon N. DeWitte has authored 71 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Archeology, 26 papers in Genetics and 10 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Sharon N. DeWitte's work include Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (34 papers), Paleopathology and ancient diseases (28 papers) and Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research (25 papers). Sharon N. DeWitte is often cited by papers focused on Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (34 papers), Paleopathology and ancient diseases (28 papers) and Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research (25 papers). Sharon N. DeWitte collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Sharon N. DeWitte's co-authors include James W. Wood, Christopher M. Stojanowski, Rebecca Redfern, Hendrik N. Poinar, Johannes Krause, Kirsten I. Bos, Brian K. Coombes, David J. D. Earn, Sarah E. Schmedes and Verena J. Schuenemann and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Sharon N. DeWitte

68 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

align trajectories

What are hit papers?

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.

A draft genome of Yersinia pestis from victims of the Black Death

2011 442 citations Kirsten I. Bos, Verena J. Schuenemann et al. profile →
The Osteological Paradox 20 Years Later: Past Perspectives, Future Directions

2015 187 citations Sharon N. DeWitte et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sharon N. DeWitte United States	27	1.3k	1.1k	393	335	330	71	2.6k
Barbara Bramanti Italy	22	628 0.5×	1.4k 1.3×	458 1.2×	382 1.1×	412 1.2×	51	2.6k
D. Ann Herring Canada	14	380 0.3×	399 0.4×	247 0.6×	289 0.9×	183 0.6×	31	1.8k
John R. Lukacs United States	25	2.2k 1.7×	589 0.5×	156 0.4×	595 1.8×	454 1.4×	63	3.2k
Kirsten I. Bos Germany	24	591 0.5×	1.6k 1.5×	484 1.2×	349 1.0×	727 2.2×	34	2.4k
Rimantas Jankauskas Lithuania	16	1.4k 1.1×	620 0.6×	80 0.2×	475 1.4×	124 0.4×	76	2.0k
Michael Schultz Germany	24	1.1k 0.8×	502 0.5×	104 0.3×	333 1.0×	233 0.7×	62	2.0k
Christina Warinner United States	33	803 0.6×	1.1k 1.0×	264 0.7×	831 2.5×	1.2k 3.5×	84	3.2k
Michel Signoli France	21	626 0.5×	911 0.8×	344 0.9×	115 0.3×	425 1.3×	88	1.6k
Éric Crubézy France	34	1.8k 1.4×	1.7k 1.6×	179 0.5×	699 2.1×	531 1.6×	162	3.8k
Janet W. McGrath United States	17	718 0.5×	265 0.2×	138 0.4×	206 0.6×	47 0.1×	35	1.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Sharon N. DeWitte

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Sharon N. DeWitte's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Sharon N. DeWitte with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Sharon N. DeWitte more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Sharon N. DeWitte

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Sharon N. DeWitte. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Sharon N. DeWitte. The network helps show where Sharon N. DeWitte may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sharon N. DeWitte

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sharon N. DeWitte. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sharon N. DeWitte based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Sharon N. DeWitte. Sharon N. DeWitte is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

Biehler‐Gomez, Lucie, et al.. (2025). Sex Differences in Frailty in Milan Over the Last 2000 Years: A Hazards‐Based and Cumulative Phenotype Approach. American Journal of Biological Anthropology. 187(4). e70111–e70111. 1 indexed citations

DeWitte, Sharon N., et al.. (2025). Childhood nutritional stress and later-life health outcomes in medieval England: Evidence from incremental dentine analysis. Science Advances. 11(31). eadw7076–eadw7076.

DeWitte, Sharon N., et al.. (2024). Frailty or resilience? Hazard-based and cumulative phenotype approaches to discerning signals of health inequality in medieval London. Science Advances. 10(46). eadq5703–eadq5703. 3 indexed citations

DeWitte, Sharon N., et al.. (2024). Dying of pestilence: Stature and mortality from the Black Death in 14th‐century Kyrgyzstan. American Journal of Biological Anthropology. 185(3). e25009–e25009. 1 indexed citations

DeWitte, Sharon N.. (2024). Medieval monastic health: Variation in skeletal signs of inflammation and developmental stress between religious orders in London. American Journal of Human Biology. 36(12). e24052–e24052. 1 indexed citations

DeWitte, Sharon N., et al.. (2023). Survivorship and the second epidemiological transition in industrial‐era London. American Journal of Biological Anthropology. 181(4). 646–652. 7 indexed citations

DeWitte, Sharon N., et al.. (2020). COVID-19 and the Black Death: Nutrition, frailty, inequity, and mortality. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 8 indexed citations

DeWitte, Sharon N., et al.. (2018). Isotopes and Famine: An Isotopic Comparison of Famine and Attritional Burials in a Late Medieval London Cemetery. 1 indexed citations

DeWitte, Sharon N., et al.. (2018). Patterns of frailty in non-adults from medieval London. International Journal of Paleopathology. 22. 1–7. 24 indexed citations

10.

DeWitte, Sharon N., et al.. (2017). Trends in mortality and biological stress in a medieval polish urban population. International Journal of Paleopathology. 19. 24–36. 13 indexed citations

11.

DeWitte, Sharon N., Margaret Kurth, Craig R. Allen, & Igor Linkov. (2016). Disease epidemics: lessons for resilience in an increasingly connected world. Journal of Public Health. 39(2). fdw044–fdw044. 19 indexed citations

12.

DeWitte, Sharon N.. (2014). Differential survival among individuals with active and healed periosteal new bone formation. International Journal of Paleopathology. 7. 38–44. 62 indexed citations

13.

DeWitte, Sharon N.. (2014). Mortality Risk and Survival in the Aftermath of the Medieval Black Death. PLoS ONE. 9(5). e96513–e96513. 108 indexed citations

14.

Bos, Kirsten I., Philip Stevens, Kay Nieselt, et al.. (2012). Yersinia pestis: New Evidence for an Old Infection. PLoS ONE. 7(11). e49803–e49803. 26 indexed citations

15.

DeWitte, Sharon N., et al.. (2012). Stature and frailty during the Black Death: the effect of stature on risks of epidemic mortality in London, A.D. 1348–1350. Journal of Archaeological Science. 39(5). 1412–1419. 93 indexed citations

16.

Schuenemann, Verena J., Kirsten I. Bos, Sharon N. DeWitte, et al.. (2011). Targeted enrichment of ancient pathogens yielding the pPCP1 plasmid of Yersinia pestis from victims of the Black Death. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(38). E746–52. 145 indexed citations

17.

DeWitte, Sharon N., et al.. (2011). The association between periodontal disease and periosteal lesions in the St. Mary Graces cemetery, London, England A.D. 1350-1538. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 146(4). 609–618. 36 indexed citations

18.

DeWitte, Sharon N.. (2010). Sex differentials in frailty in medieval England. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 143(2). 285–297. 80 indexed citations

19.

Gage, Timothy B. & Sharon N. DeWitte. (2009). What Do We Know about the Agricultural Demographic Transition?. Current Anthropology. 50(5). 649–655. 43 indexed citations

20.

Wood, James W., Rebecca J. Ferrell, & Sharon N. DeWitte. (2003). The Temporal Dynamics of the Fourteenth-Century Black Death: New Evidence from English Ecclesiastical Records. Human Biology. 75(4). 427–448. 32 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact