Yonas Beyene

4.1k citations

32 papers · 2.4k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 21

Impact in

Paleontology top 0.5%
- Evolution and Paleontology Studies
- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
Anthropology top 0.1%
- Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology

Papers in

Paleontology 16
- Evolution and Paleontology Studies 14
Anthropology 20
- Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology 20

Co-authors: Giday WoldeGabriel Berhane Asfaw Gen Suwa Tim D. White Paul R. Renne William K. Hart Shigehiro Katoh Yohannes Haile‐Selassie
Journals: Nature (6 papers)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (6 papers)Journal of Human Evolution (3 papers)Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (2 papers)Science (2 papers)
Partner nations: Japan United States Ethiopia

In The Last Decade

Yonas Beyene

32 papers receiving 2.3k citations

Hit Papers

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The characteristics and chronology of the earliest Acheulean at Konso, Ethiopia 2013 · 280 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2013 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2009 Science

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1	Endocranial ontogeny and evolution in earlyHomo sapiens: The evidence from Herto, Ethiopia Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Christoph P. E. Zollikofer, F. Puel, Yonas Beyene, Gen Suwa, Berhane Asfaw, Tim D. White, Marcia S. Ponce de León	2022	18
2	Canine sexual dimorphism inArdipithecus ramiduswas nearly human-like Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Gen Suwa, Guillermina Jasso, Sileshi Semaw, Michael Rogers, Scott W. Simpson, Yutaka Kunimatsu, Masato Nakatsukasa, Reiko T. Kono, Yingqi Zhang, Yonas Beyene, Berhane Asfaw, Tim D. White	2021	9
3	Estimating sexual size dimorphism in fossil species from posterior probability densities Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Guillermina Jasso, Sileshi Semaw, Michael Rogers, Scott W. Simpson, Yonas Beyene, Berhane Asfaw, Tim D. White, Gen Suwa	2021	5
4	Integrative geochronology calibrates the Middle and Late Stone Ages of Ethiopia’s Afar Rift Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Elizabeth Niespolo, Giday WoldeGabriel, William K. Hart, Paul R. Renne, Warren D. Sharp, M. Steven Shackley, Stanley H. Ambrose, Berhane Asfaw, Yonas Beyene, Adam Kałowski, Joshua P. Carlson, Yonatan Sahle, Tim D. White	2021	9
5	A 1.4-million-year-old bone handaxe from Konso, Ethiopia, shows advanced tool technology in the early Acheulean Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Katsuhiro Sano, Yonas Beyene, Shigehiro Katoh, Daisuke Koyabu, Hideki Endo, Guillermina Jasso, Berhane Asfaw, Gen Suwa	2020	37
6	New geological and palaeontological age constraint for the gorilla–human lineage split Nature ·Shigehiro Katoh, Yonas Beyene, Tetsumaru Itaya, Hironobu Hyodo, M P Zawar, Koshi Yagi, Chitaro Gouzu, Giday WoldeGabriel, William K. Hart, Stanley H. Ambrose, Hideo Nakaya, Wolf-Peter Funk, Jean‐Renaud Boisserie, Faysal Bibi, Haruo Saegusa, Guillermina Jasso, Katsuhiro Sano, Berhane Asfaw, Gen Suwa	2016	35
7	Newly discovered cercopithecid, equid and other mammalian fossils from the Chorora Formation, Ethiopia Anthropological Science ·Gen Suwa, Yonas Beyene, Hideo Nakaya, J. U. Alves, Jean‐Renaud Boisserie, Faysal Bibi, Stanley H. Ambrose, Katsuhiro Sano, Shigehiro Katoh, Berhane Asfaw	2015	26
8	The characteristics and chronology of the earliest Acheulean at Konso, Ethiopia Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Yonas Beyene, Shigehiro Katoh, Giday WoldeGabriel, William K. Hart, Kozo Uto, Masafumi Sudo, Megumi Kondo, Masayuki Hyodo, Paul R. Renne, Gen Suwa, Berhane Asfaw Hit paper breakdown →	2013	280
9	Archaeological investigations in the Lower Omo Valley (Shungura Formation, Ethiopia): New data and perspectives Journal of Human Evolution ·Anne Delagnes, Jean‐Renaud Boisserie, Yonas Beyene, Mahesh Kurulekar, Yefenxia, Mathieu Schuster	2011	26
10	Geochemistry of the Fejej Tuffs (South Omo, Ethiopia), their Tephrostratigraphical Correlation with Plio-Pleistocene Formations in the Omo-Turkana Basin Comptes Rendus Palevol ·Л. Бонеки, Jean‐Jacques Bahain, Yonas Beyene, Lam Hai Le, Christophe Guy, Michel Jullien, Henry de Lumley, 祥二川人	2011	6
11	Ardipithecus ramidus and the Paleobiology of Early Hominids Science ·Tim D. White, Berhane Asfaw, Yonas Beyene, Yohannes Haile‐Selassie, C. Owen Lovejoy, Gen Suwa, Giday WoldeGabriel Hit paper breakdown →	2009	417
12	A new species of great ape from the late Miocene epoch in Ethiopia Nature ·Gen Suwa, Reiko T. Kono, Shigehiro Katoh, Berhane Asfaw, Yonas Beyene	2007	126
13	Correlation of Plio–Pleistocene Tephra in Ethiopian and Kenyan rift basins: Temporal calibration of geological features and hominid fossil records Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research ·Giday WoldeGabriel, William K. Hart, Shigehiro Katoh, Yonas Beyene, Gen Suwa	2005	34
14	Lithostratigraphy and sedimentary environments of the hominid-bearing Pliocene–Pleistocene Konso Formation in the southern Main Ethiopian Rift, Ethiopia Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology ·Shinji Nagaoka, Shigehiro Katoh, Giday WoldeGabriel, Hiroshi Sato, Hideo Nakaya, Yonas Beyene, Gen Suwa	2005	21
15	Stratigraphic, chronological and behavioural contexts of Pleistocene Homo sapiens from Middle Awash, Ethiopia Nature ·J. Desmond Clark, Yonas Beyene, Giday WoldeGabriel, William K. Hart, Paul R. Renne, Henry Gilbert, Alban Defleur, Gen Suwa, Shigehiro Katoh, K. R. Ludwig, Jean‐Renaud Boisserie, Berhane Asfaw, Tim D. White	2003	234
16	Remains of Homo erectus from Bouri, Middle Awash, Ethiopia Nature ·Berhane Asfaw, W. Gilbert, Yonas Beyene, William K. Hart, Paul R. Renne, Giday WoldeGabriel, Elisabeth S. Vrba, Tim D. White	2002	167
17	Chronostratigraphy and correlation of the Plio-Pleistocene tephra layers of the Konso Formation, southern Main Ethiopian Rift, Ethiopia Quaternary Science Reviews ·Shigehiro Katoh, Shinji Nagaoka, Giday WoldeGabriel, Paul R. Renne, Chris C. Alexion, Yonas Beyene, Gen Suwa	2000	52
18	Preliminary Study on Geomorphological Development since the Early Pleistocene in Konso-Gardula Area(KGA), Southern Ethiopia Shigehiro Katoh, Shinji Nagaoka, Giday WoldeGabriel, Yonas Beyene, Gen Suwa	1996	4
19	Tephra from Fejej, Ethiopia—A reply Journal of Human Evolution ·Berhane Asfaw, Yonas Beyene, Sileshi Semaw, Gen Suwa, Tim D. White, Giday WoldeGabriel	1993	4
20	The earliest Acheulean from Konso-Gardula Nature ·Berhane Asfaw, Yonas Beyene, Gen Suwa, Robert C. Walter, Tim D. White, Giday WoldeGabriel, Tesfaye Yemane	1992	229

About Yonas Beyene

Yonas Beyene is a scholar working on Paleontology, Anthropology, Archeology, Social Psychology and Archeology, having authored 32 papers that have together received 2.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (20 papers), Primate Behavior and Ecology (17 papers), Evolution and Paleontology Studies (14 papers), Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (6 papers), Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (5 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (4 papers), African history and culture analysis (3 papers) and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (3 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Paleontology (1.3k citations), Anthropology (1.7k citations), Archeology (132 citations), Archeology (623 citations) and Social Psychology (895 citations). Yonas Beyene has collaborated with scholars based in Japan, United States and Ethiopia. Frequent co-authors include Giday WoldeGabriel, Berhane Asfaw, Gen Suwa, Tim D. White, Paul R. Renne, William K. Hart, Shigehiro Katoh, Yohannes Haile‐Selassie, C. Owen Lovejoy and Elisabeth S. Vrba. Their work appears in journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Human Evolution, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology and Science.

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