Thure E. Cerling

36.1k total citations · 12 hit papers
262 papers, 26.4k citations indexed

About

Thure E. Cerling is a scholar working on Ecology, Paleontology and Anthropology. According to data from OpenAlex, Thure E. Cerling has authored 262 papers receiving a total of 26.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 141 papers in Ecology, 125 papers in Paleontology and 91 papers in Anthropology. Recurrent topics in Thure E. Cerling's work include Isotope Analysis in Ecology (114 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (91 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (81 papers). Thure E. Cerling is often cited by papers focused on Isotope Analysis in Ecology (114 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (91 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (81 papers). Thure E. Cerling collaborates with scholars based in United States, Kenya and United Kingdom. Thure E. Cerling's co-authors include James R. Ehleringer, Jay Quade, John Harris, Benjamin H. Passey, John R. Bowman, Bruce J. MacFadden, Meave G. Leakey, Brent R. Helliker, Naomi E. Levin and Francis H. Brown and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Thure E. Cerling

256 papers receiving 25.2k citations

Hit Papers

Global vegetation change ... 1984 2026 1998 2012 1997 1984 1997 1999 1989 500 1000 1.5k
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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.

  1. Global vegetation change through the Miocene/Pliocene boundary
    1997 1.6k citations Thure E. Cerling, John Harris et al. profile →
  2. The stable isotopic composition of modern soil carbonate and its relationship to climate
    1984 1.2k citations Thure E. Cerling Earth and Planetary Science Letters profile →
  3. C 4 photosynthesis, atmospheric CO 2 , and climate
    1997 1.1k citations James R. Ehleringer, Thure E. Cerling et al. profile →
  4. Carbon isotope fractionation between diet and bioapatite in ungulate mammals and implications for ecological and paleoecological studies
    1999 832 citations Thure E. Cerling, John Harris profile →
  5. Development of Asian monsoon revealed by marked ecological shift during the latest Miocene in northern Pakistan
    1989 740 citations Thure E. Cerling et al. profile →
  6. On the isotopic composition of carbon in soil carbon dioxide
    1991 627 citations Thure E. Cerling et al. profile →
  7. Expansion of C4 ecosystems as an indicator of global ecological change in the late Miocene
    1993 546 citations Thure E. Cerling et al. profile →
  8. Carbon isotopes in soils and palaeosols as ecology and palaeoecology indicators
    1989 487 citations Thure E. Cerling et al. profile →
  9. Carbon isotope fractionation between diet, breath CO2, and bioapatite in different mammals
    2005 478 citations Thure E. Cerling, M. Denise Dearing et al. profile →
  10. Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere; evidence from Cenozoic and Mesozoic Paleosols
    1991 458 citations Thure E. Cerling profile →
  11. High-temperature environments of human evolution in East Africa based on bond ordering in paleosol carbonates
    2010 369 citations Naomi E. Levin, Thure E. Cerling et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  12. Woody cover and hominin environments in the past 6 million years
    2011 360 citations Thure E. Cerling, Naomi E. Levin et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Thure E. Cerling 12.6k 11.9k 9.9k 7.5k 2.4k 262 26.4k
Jay Quade 6.6k 0.5× 4.7k 0.4× 10.1k 1.0× 3.7k 0.5× 874 0.4× 212 19.2k
Paul L. Koch 6.4k 0.5× 8.8k 0.7× 4.2k 0.4× 3.2k 0.4× 630 0.3× 138 14.4k
Paul R. Renne 8.7k 0.7× 1.4k 0.1× 9.1k 0.9× 3.1k 0.4× 1.2k 0.5× 385 27.6k
James R. Ehleringer 5.8k 0.5× 14.7k 1.2× 16.5k 1.7× 2.5k 0.3× 510 0.2× 446 51.2k
Henry P. Schwarcz 8.2k 0.7× 5.8k 0.5× 5.2k 0.5× 4.2k 0.6× 288 0.1× 346 17.5k
David A. T. Harper 9.6k 0.8× 6.5k 0.5× 5.7k 0.6× 817 0.1× 385 0.2× 364 26.0k
Michael J. DeNiro 8.4k 0.7× 15.1k 1.3× 3.9k 0.4× 3.1k 0.4× 272 0.1× 91 21.5k
Hai Cheng 10.1k 0.8× 12.0k 1.0× 39.5k 4.0× 9.8k 1.3× 227 0.1× 729 47.4k
Michael I. Bird 2.6k 0.2× 4.3k 0.4× 5.5k 0.6× 2.2k 0.3× 419 0.2× 352 18.4k
Peter B deMenocal 4.0k 0.3× 3.5k 0.3× 10.6k 1.1× 3.3k 0.4× 352 0.1× 95 14.0k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Kelson, Julia R., et al.. (2025). Pedogenic carbonate as a transient soil component in a humid, temperate forest (Michigan, USA). Quaternary Research. 124. 105–120. 2 indexed citations
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Uno, Kevin T., et al.. (2025). Strontium isotope mapping of elephant enamel supports an integrated microsampling-modeling workflow to reconstruct herbivore migrations. Communications Biology. 8(1). 274–274. 1 indexed citations
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Fernández, Diego P., et al.. (2024). Limited herbivore migration during the Last Glacial Period of Kenya. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 8(6). 1191–1198. 5 indexed citations
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Uno, Kevin T., Thure E. Cerling, Ogeto Mwebi, et al.. (2024). Intra-tooth stable isotope analysis reveals seasonal dietary variability and niche partitioning among bushpigs/red river hogs and warthogs. Current Zoology. 70(6). 739–751. 5 indexed citations
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Phillips, David, Erin Matchan, Andrew Gleadow, et al.. (2023). 40 Ar/ 39 Ar eruption ages of Turkana Basin tuffs: millennial-scale resolution constrains palaeoclimate proxy tuning models and hominin fossil ages. Journal of the Geological Society. 180(4). 10 indexed citations
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Bowen, Gabriel J., et al.. (2023). BITS: A Bayesian Isotope Turnover and Sampling model for strontium isotopes in proboscideans and its potential utility in movement ecology. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 14(11). 2800–2813. 6 indexed citations
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Cerling, Thure E., et al.. (2022). 14-Carbon demonstrates that some illegal ivory is being taken from government stockpiles. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(44). e2211550119–e2211550119.
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Hopley, Philip J., Thure E. Cerling, Lars Werdelin, et al.. (2022). Stable isotope analysis of carnivores from the Turkana Basin, Kenya: Evidence for temporally-mixed fossil assemblages. Quaternary International. 650. 12–27. 3 indexed citations
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Carey, Anne E., et al.. (2020). The isotopic geochemistry of CaCO3 encrustations in Taylor Valley, Antarctica: Implications for their origin. Acta geographica Slovenica. 60(2). 125–139. 5 indexed citations
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Tejada‐Lara, Julia V., John J. Flynn, Pierre‐Olivier Antoine, et al.. (2020). Comparative isotope ecology of western Amazonian rainforest mammals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(42). 26263–26272. 28 indexed citations
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Ehleringer, James R., et al.. (2020). Stable isotopes in hair reveal dietary protein sources with links to socioeconomic status and health. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(33). 20044–20051. 12 indexed citations
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Martin, Jeremy E., Théo Tacail, José Braga, Thure E. Cerling, & Vincent Balter. (2020). Calcium isotopic ecology of Turkana Basin hominins. Nature Communications. 11(1). 3587–3587. 29 indexed citations
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Tacail, Théo, Jeremy E. Martin, Florent Arnaud‐Godet, et al.. (2019). Calcium isotopic patterns in enamel reflect different nursing behaviors among South African early hominins. Science Advances. 5(8). eaax3250–eaax3250. 34 indexed citations
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Martin, Jeremy E., Théo Tacail, Thure E. Cerling, & Vincent Balter. (2018). Calcium isotopes in enamel of modern and Plio-Pleistocene East African mammals. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 503. 227–235. 36 indexed citations
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Cotton, Jennifer M., Thure E. Cerling, Kathryn A. Hoppe, Thomas Mosier, & Christopher J. Still. (2016). Climate, CO 2 , and the history of North American grasses since the Last Glacial Maximum. Science Advances. 2(3). e1501346–e1501346. 57 indexed citations
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Blumenthal, Scott A., Thomas W. Plummer, Thure E. Cerling, et al.. (2015). Late Pliocene to Late Pleistocene paleoenvironments in southwestern Kenya from carbon isotopes in herbivore tooth enamel. Queensland's institutional digital repository (The University of Queensland). 1 indexed citations
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Badgley, Catherine, John C. Barry, Michèle E. Morgan, et al.. (2008). Ecological changes in Miocene mammalian record show impact of prolonged climatic forcing. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(34). 12145–12149. 159 indexed citations
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Cerling, Thure E., George Wittemyer, Henrik B. Rasmussen, et al.. (2006). Stable isotopes in elephant hair document migration patterns and diet changes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103(2). 371–373. 158 indexed citations
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Ward, Joy, John Harris, Thure E. Cerling, et al.. (2005). Carbon starvation in glacial trees recovered from the La Brea tar pits, southern California. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(3). 690–694. 83 indexed citations

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