Tim D. White

15.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
132 papers, 9.4k citations indexed

About

Tim D. White is a scholar working on Anthropology, Paleontology and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Tim D. White has authored 132 papers receiving a total of 9.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 86 papers in Anthropology, 80 papers in Paleontology and 62 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Tim D. White's work include Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (85 papers), Evolution and Paleontology Studies (70 papers) and Primate Behavior and Ecology (62 papers). Tim D. White is often cited by papers focused on Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (85 papers), Evolution and Paleontology Studies (70 papers) and Primate Behavior and Ecology (62 papers). Tim D. White collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and France. Tim D. White's co-authors include Gen Suwa, Berhane Asfaw, Donald C. Johanson, C. Owen Lovejoy, Giday WoldeGabriel, Yonas Beyene, William K. Hart, Scott W. Simpson, Paul R. Renne and Yohannes Haile‐Selassie and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Tim D. White

129 papers receiving 8.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Pleistocene Homo sapiens from Middle Awash, Ethiopia

2003 579 citations Tim D. White, Berhane Asfaw et al. Nature profile →
Ardipithecus ramidus and the Paleobiology of Early Hominids

2009 417 citations Tim D. White, Berhane Asfaw et al. profile →
A Systematic Assessment of Early African Hominids

1979 385 citations Tim D. White et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Tim D. White United States	51	6.1k	5.1k	3.9k	2.3k	1.3k	132	9.4k
Frederick E. Grine United States	47	5.0k 0.8×	4.4k 0.9×	2.7k 0.7×	2.5k 1.1×	1.5k 1.2×	162	7.6k
Gen Suwa Japan	40	4.3k 0.7×	3.5k 0.7×	2.7k 0.7×	1.6k 0.7×	895 0.7×	108	6.7k
Bernard Wood United States	60	5.7k 0.9×	5.1k 1.0×	4.3k 1.1×	2.5k 1.1×	1.9k 1.5×	233	10.2k
Peter Andrews United Kingdom	51	4.7k 0.8×	5.3k 1.0×	2.0k 0.5×	2.0k 0.9×	2.5k 1.9×	173	9.4k
Berhane Asfaw United States	32	3.6k 0.6×	2.8k 0.6×	2.2k 0.6×	1.3k 0.6×	590 0.5×	54	5.2k
Jean‐Jacques Hublin Germany	63	7.7k 1.3×	6.0k 1.2×	1.8k 0.5×	5.5k 2.4×	1.2k 1.0×	333	12.2k
Erik Trinkaus United States	66	9.8k 1.6×	6.2k 1.2×	1.9k 0.5×	8.5k 3.7×	1.2k 0.9×	262	14.7k
Chris Stringer United Kingdom	59	7.0k 1.2×	5.4k 1.1×	1.2k 0.3×	5.0k 2.2×	813 0.6×	201	10.9k
Lee R. Berger South Africa	41	3.8k 0.6×	3.0k 0.6×	1.5k 0.4×	1.6k 0.7×	792 0.6×	162	5.0k
William H. Kimbel United States	36	3.3k 0.5×	2.7k 0.5×	2.2k 0.5×	1.2k 0.5×	753 0.6×	84	4.7k

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20 of 20 papers shown

White, Tim D.. (2023). Beds for rent. Economy and Society. 53(1). 67–91. 17 indexed citations

White, Tim D., et al.. (2022). Does Advanced Imaging Aid in the Preoperative Evaluation of Patients With Moyamoya Disease?. Cureus. 14(10). e29816–e29816. 4 indexed citations

Suwa, Gen, Sileshi Semaw, Michael Rogers, et al.. (2021). Canine sexual dimorphism inArdipithecus ramiduswas nearly human-like. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(49). 9 indexed citations

Semaw, Sileshi, Michael Rogers, Scott W. Simpson, et al.. (2021). Estimating sexual size dimorphism in fossil species from posterior probability densities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(44). 5 indexed citations

León, Marcia S. Ponce de, Toetik Koesbardiati, Marco Milella, et al.. (2018). Human bony labyrinth is an indicator of population history and dispersal from Africa. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(16). 4128–4133. 52 indexed citations

White, Tim D.. (2013). Paleoanthropology: Five’s a Crowd in Our Family Tree. Current Biology. 23(3). R112–R115. 7 indexed citations

Reno, Philip L., Maria A. Serrat, Richard S. Meindl, et al.. (2005). Plio‐Pleistocene Hominid Limb Proportions. Current Anthropology. 46(4). 575–588. 35 indexed citations

White, Tim D.. (2005). Early hominid femora: The inside story. Comptes Rendus Palevol. 5(1-2). 99–108. 8 indexed citations

White, Tim D., Berhane Asfaw, David Degusta, et al.. (2003). Pleistocene Homo sapiens from Middle Awash, Ethiopia. Nature. 423(6941). 742–747. 579 indexed citations breakdown →

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Haile‐Selassie, Yohannes, Berhane Asfaw, & Tim D. White. (2003). Hominid cranial remains from upper pleistocene deposits at Aduma, Middle Awash, Ethiopia. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 123(1). 1–10. 55 indexed citations

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Clark, J. Desmond, Yonas Beyene, Giday WoldeGabriel, et al.. (2003). Stratigraphic, chronological and behavioural contexts of Pleistocene Homo sapiens from Middle Awash, Ethiopia. Nature. 423(6941). 747–752. 234 indexed citations

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Gilbert, W., Tim D. White, & Berhane Asfaw. (2003). Homo erectus, Homo ergaster, Homo “cepranensis,” and the Daka cranium. Journal of Human Evolution. 45(3). 255–259. 31 indexed citations

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Lovejoy, C. Owen, Richard S. Meindl, James C. Ohman, Kingsbury G. Heiple, & Tim D. White. (2002). The Maka femur and its bearing on the antiquity of human walking: Applying contemporary concepts of morphogenesis to the human fossil record. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 119(2). 97–133. 153 indexed citations

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White, Tim D., et al.. (2001). Interactions marketing / supply chain management et e-business : les processus-clés dans le secteur des biens périssables. Revue Française de Gestion Industrielle. 20(4). 39–57.

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Pickering, Travis Rayne, Tim D. White, & Nicholas Toth. (2000). Brief communication: Cutmarks on a Plio-Pleistocene hominid from Sterkfontein, South Africa. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 111(4). 579–584. 44 indexed citations

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White, Tim D., David Degusta, Gary D. Richards, & Steven G. Baker. (1997). Brief communication: Prehistoric dentistry in the American Southwest: A drilled canine from Sky Aerie, Colorado. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 103(3). 409–414. 12 indexed citations

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White, Tim D., Gen Suwa, & Berhane Asfaw. (1994). Australopithecus ramidus, a new species of early hominid from Aramis, Ethiopia. Nature. 371(6495). 306–312. 416 indexed citations

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White, Tim D., Gen Suwa, William K. Hart, et al.. (1993). New discoveries of Australopithecus at Maka in Ethiopia. Nature. 366(6452). 261–265. 116 indexed citations

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White, Tim D.. (1992). Prehistoric Cannibalism at Mancos 5MTUMR-2346. Princeton University Press eBooks. 248 indexed citations

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Asfaw, Berhane, Yonas Beyene, Gen Suwa, et al.. (1992). The earliest Acheulean from Konso-Gardula. Nature. 360(6406). 732–735. 229 indexed citations

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