Vladimı́r Sládek

1.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
43 papers, 942 citations indexed

About

Vladimı́r Sládek is a scholar working on Archeology, Anthropology and Orthopedics and Sports Medicine. According to data from OpenAlex, Vladimı́r Sládek has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 942 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Archeology, 15 papers in Anthropology and 7 papers in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine. Recurrent topics in Vladimı́r Sládek's work include Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (21 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (15 papers) and Paleopathology and ancient diseases (10 papers). Vladimı́r Sládek is often cited by papers focused on Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (21 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (15 papers) and Paleopathology and ancient diseases (10 papers). Vladimı́r Sládek collaborates with scholars based in Czechia, United States and Austria. Vladimı́r Sládek's co-authors include Margit Berner, Martin Hora, Christopher B. Ruff, Eliška Schuplerová, Markku Niskanen, Brigitte Holt, Evan Garofalo, Heather M. Garvin, Sirpa Niinimäki and Heli Maijanen and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and American Journal of Physical Anthropology.

In The Last Decade

Vladimı́r Sládek

41 papers receiving 893 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.

Stature and body mass estimation from skeletal remains in the European Holocene

2012 175 citations Christopher B. Ruff, Brigitte Holt et al. American Journal of Physical Anthropology profile →
Gradual decline in mobility with the adoption of food production in Europe

2015 124 citations Christopher B. Ruff, Brigitte Holt et al. profile →

Peers

Countries citing papers authored by Vladimı́r Sládek

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Vladimı́r Sládek'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 Vladimı́r Sládek with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Vladimı́r Sládek more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Vladimı́r Sládek

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Vladimı́r Sládek. 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 Vladimı́r Sládek. The network helps show where Vladimı́r Sládek may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Vladimı́r Sládek

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Vladimı́r Sládek. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Vladimı́r Sládek 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 Vladimı́r Sládek. Vladimı́r Sládek 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

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Human energy expenditure and thermoregulation during persistence hunting in the Namib 2025 ·Journal of Human Evolution ·Martin Hora, (unknown), (unknown), Herman Pontzer, Vladimı́r Sládek	0
2	FORMOR project: analysis of the formation of complex societies in Early Medieval Moravia 2024 ·Antiquity ·Jiří Macháček, Vladimı́r Sládek, (unknown), (unknown), Zuzana Hofmanová, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown)	1
3	Muscle activity during crouched walking 2023 ·American Journal of Biological Anthropology ·Martin Hora, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Vladimı́r Sládek	4
4	Comparing walking and running in persistence hunting 2022 ·Journal of Human Evolution ·Martin Hora, Herman Pontzer, (unknown), Pauline L. Entin, Vladimı́r Sládek	7
5	Influence of upper limb training and analyzed muscles on estimate of physical activity during cereal grinding using saddle quern and rotary quern 2021 ·PLoS ONE ·(unknown), Martin Hora, Thomas R. Rocek, Vladimı́r Sládek	0
6	Non-destructive lock-picking of a historical treasure chest by means of X-ray computed tomography 2020 ·PLoS ONE ·(unknown), Tomáš Zikmund, Vladimı́r Sládek, Jozef Kaiser	1
7	Error in the estimation of periosteal and endosteal contours from micro‐CT scans for nonadult tibiae and humeri 2019 ·American Journal of Physical Anthropology ·Vladimı́r Sládek, (unknown), Tomáš Zikmund, Jozef Kaiser	3
8	Dehydration and persistence hunting in Homo erectus 2019 ·Journal of Human Evolution ·Martin Hora, Herman Pontzer, Cara M. Wall‐Scheffler, Vladimı́r Sládek	16
9	Effect of deriving periosteal and endosteal contours from microCTscans on computation of cross‐sectional properties in non‐adults: the femur 2018 ·Journal of Anatomy ·Vladimı́r Sládek, (unknown), Ondřej Šebesta, Tomáš Zikmund, Jozef Kaiser, (unknown)	10
10	The effect of hydrochloric acid on microstructure of porcine (Sus scrofa domesticus) cortical bone tissue 2018 ·Forensic Science International ·(unknown), (unknown), Vladimı́r Sládek	11
11	Population specificity of sex estimation from vertebrae 2018 ·Forensic Science International ·Martin Hora, Vladimı́r Sládek	31
12	The impact of subsistence changes on humeral bilateral asymmetry in Terminal Pleistocene and Holocene Europe 2016 ·Journal of Human Evolution ·Vladimı́r Sládek, Christopher B. Ruff, Margit Berner, Brigitte Holt, Markku Niskanen, Eliška Schuplerová, Martin Hora	57
13	Impact of Non-Invasively Induced Motor Deficits on Tibial Cortical Properties in Mutant Lurcher Mice 2016 ·PLoS ONE ·(unknown), Jan Tůma, Vladimı́r Sládek	2
14	The effect of age on body mass estimation using the stature/bi-iliac method 2015 ·Juho‐Antti Junno, Markku Niskanen, (unknown), Brigitte Holt, Vladimı́r Sládek, Margit Berner, Heli Maijanen	1
15	Velkomoravská rotunda z Pohanska u Břeclavi 2014 ·Jiří Macháček, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Antonín Přichystal, (unknown), Eliška Schuplerová, Vladimı́r Sládek	2
16	Variation in sexual dimorphism of postcranial robusticity and body proportions in European Holocene populations 2012 ·ASEP ·Margit Berner, Vladimı́r Sládek, Christopher B. Ruff, Brigitte Holt, Markku Niskanen, (unknown), Eliška Schuplerová, Martin Hora, (unknown), Heather M. Garvin, Evan Garofalo, (unknown)	3
17	Measuring human remains in the field: Grid technique, total station, or MicroScribe? 2012 ·Forensic Science International ·Vladimı́r Sládek, (unknown), (unknown)	8
18	Mobility in Central European Late Eneolithic and Early Bronze Age: Femoral cross‐sectional geometry 2006 ·American Journal of Physical Anthropology ·Vladimı́r Sládek, Margit Berner, (unknown)	56
19	Body size, body proportions, and mobility in the Tyrolean “Iceman” 2006 ·Journal of Human Evolution ·Christopher B. Ruff, Brigitte M. Holt, Vladimı́r Sládek, Margit Berner, William A. Murphy, Dieter zur Nedden, Horst Seidler, Wolfgang Recheis	81
20	Morphological affinities of the al?a 1 frontal bone 2002 ·Journal of Human Evolution ·Vladimı́r Sládek	19

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