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Anthropologie
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Anthropologie

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Earth Science 428 23 17 7

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 34
Documents by Best Scientists*: 22
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 1
SCIMAGO H-index: 36
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.419
Impact Factor: N/A

Overview

Top Research Topics at L'Anthropologie?

The journal investigates studies in Humanities, Archaeology, Cave, Mousterian and Early Pleistocene. It connects research in Humanities with the related topic of Iconography.

  • Humanities (21.25%)
  • Archaeology (8.97%)
  • Cave (2.57%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Les industries lithiques préoldowayennes du début du Pléistocène inférieur du site de Dmanissi en Géorgie (93 citations)
  • L'industrie lithique de Cà Belvedere di Monte Poggiolo: stratigraphie, matière première, typologie, remontages et traces d'utilisation (85 citations)
  • Los Angeles: The Getty Conservation Institute (79 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at L'Anthropologie:

The journal publications facilitate discussions on Humanities, Early Pleistocene, Archaeology, Debitage and Iberomaurusian. The journal papers with studies in Humanities featured incorporate elements of Mousterian, Homo ergaster and Aurignacian. The most cited papers focus on Early Pleistocene research which is adjacent to topics in Cave.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Archaeology
  • Paleontology
  • Ecology

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The journal is mainly concerned with subjects like Archaeology, Mammoth, Pleistocene, Assemblage (archaeology) and Archaeological record. It aims to investigate interdisciplinary topics such as Archaeology and Animal origin. Mosaic evolution, Social evolution, Prehistoric archaeology and Economic geography are some topics wherein Pleistocene research discussed in it have an impact.

In it, Homo erectus and Hearth are investigated in conjunction with one another to address concerns in Assemblage (archaeology) research. The journal explores topics in Excavation which can be helpful for research in disciplines like Mousterian, Lithostratigraphy, Magnetostratigraphy and Quaternary. The journal holds forums on Aurignacian that merges themes from other disciplines such as Valencian, Peninsula and Mediterranean Basin.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • L’assemblage lithique du site Acheuléen de Namib IV (Namib central, Namibie) (2 citations)
  • Technological persistency following faunal stability during the Pleistocene: A model for reconstructing Paleolithic adaptation strategies based on mosaic evolution (2 citations)
  • Mammoth bone structures: A Comparison of Dolní V?stonice and Spadzista Street Site in Kraków (1 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in L'Anthropologie (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Marcel Otte (51 papers) published 5 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Marie-Hélène Moncel (46 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Marie Perpère (28 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Romain Pigeaud (26 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Christiane Leroy-Prost (24 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in L'Anthropologie (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Centre national de la recherche scientifique (120 papers) published 8 papers at the last edition,
  • University of Liège (34 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • University of Paris (25 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition,
  • French Academy of Sciences (25 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition,
  • Spanish National Research Council (21 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 50.88% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 53.57% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 7.14% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 3.57% of all publications and 35.71% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

Top Publications

  • Isochron 26Al/10Be burial dating of Xihoudu: Evidence for the earliest human settlement in northern China

    Guanjun Shen;Yiren Wang;Hua Tu;Haowen Tong

    (2020)
    18 Citations
  • Hibernation in hominins from Atapuerca, Spain half a million years ago

    Antonis Bartsiokas;Juan Luis Arsuaga;Juan Luis Arsuaga

    (2020)
    16 Citations
  • Pre-Quaternary hominin settlements in Asia: Archaeology, bio-lithostratigraphy and magnetostratigraphy evidences at Masol, Siwaliks, Northwestern India

    (2021)
    12 Citations
  • The evolution of stone tool technology at Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania): Contributions from the Olduvai Paleoanthropology and Paleoecology Project

    (2022)
    12 Citations
  • Technological persistency following faunal stability during the Pleistocene: A model for reconstructing Paleolithic adaptation strategies based on mosaic evolution

    Meir Finkel;Ran Barkai

    (2021)
    10 Citations
  • Une vue d’ensemble sur Melka Kunture, grand complexe de sites pléistocènes dans la vallée supérieure de l’Awash (Éthiopie)

    (2022)
    7 Citations
  • New Oldowan localities at high level within Kilombe Caldera, Kenya

    (2021)
    7 Citations
  • La redécouverte du site de Moulin Quignon (Somme) et les premiers Acheuléens du Nord-Ouest de l’Europe (650 ka)

    Marie-Hélène Moncel;Pierre Antoine;David Herisson;Jean-Luc Locht

    (2021)
    3 Citations
  • Preliminary study of two deciduous human molars from the Late Pleistocene layers of Song Terus (East Java): A window into the last Homo erectus and the first Homo sapiens in Java

    (2023)
    3 Citations
  • Le Moustérien du Zagros : une vision synthétique à partir de la grotte de Shanidar

    (2022)
    2 Citations

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