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Amos Frumkin publication distribution in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Earth Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Amos Frumkin sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 510+

This scientist: 141 publications — 31st percentile

31% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 510 publications or more.

Amos Frumkin D-index placement in Earth Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Earth Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Amos Frumkin sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 94+

This scientist: 43 D-Index — 37th percentile

37% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 94 D-Index or more.

Overview

Amos Frumkin is affiliated with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. Their research intersects the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Arts and Humanities, with a significant focus on archeology and paleontology. Their scholarly work spans subfields including Archeology, Paleontology, Earth-Surface Processes, Atmospheric Science, and Anthropology.

Their primary research topics revolve around archaeology and ancient environmental studies, geology and paleoclimatology research, and Pleistocene-era hominins and archaeology. Additional areas of study include karst systems and hydrogeology, archaeology and historical studies, forensic anthropology and bioarchaeology studies, and maritime and coastal archaeology.

Amos Frumkin has published extensively in several venues, with frequent publications in:

  • Geomorphology
  • Quaternary International
  • Geoarchaeology
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Planets
  • Environmental Archaeology

Some recent publications by Amos Frumkin include:

  • The Shaft Tunnel of the Biar aqueduct of Jerusalem: Architecture, hydrology, and dating (2021), Geoarchaeology
  • A roadmap for planetary caves science and exploration (2021), Nature Astronomy
  • Issues of theory and method in the analysis of Paleolithic mortuary behavior: A view from Shanidar Cave (2020), Evolutionary Anthropology Issues News and Reviews
  • Fundamental Science and Engineering Questions in Planetary Cave Exploration (2022), Journal of Geophysical Research Planets
  • Middle Pleistocene Homo behavior and culture at 140,000 to 120,000 years ago and interactions with Homo sapiens (2021), Science

Frequent collaborators include Micka Ullman, Boaz Langford, Azriel Yechezkel, Israël Hershkovitz, and Shemesh Ya'aran, with coauthorship counts ranging from four to eight joint publications.

Best Publications

  • The earliest modern humans outside Africa

    Israel Hershkovitz;Israel Hershkovitz;Gerhard W. Weber;Rolf Quam;Rolf Quam;Mathieu Duval

  • Evidence for habitual use of fire at the end of the Lower Paleolithic: site-formation processes at Qesem Cave, Israel.

    Panagiotis Karkanas;Ruth Shahack-Gross;Avner Ayalon;Mira Bar-Matthews

  • Levantine cranium from Manot Cave (Israel) foreshadows the first European modern humans

    Israel Hershkovitz;Israel Hershkovitz;Ofer Marder;Avner Ayalon;Miryam Bar-Matthews

  • Paleoclimate and location of the border between Mediterranean climate region and the Saharo–Arabian Desert as revealed by speleothems from the northern Negev Desert, Israel

    A. Vaks;M. Bar-Matthews;A. Ayalon;A. Matthews

  • The Holocene climatic record of the salt caves of Mount Sedom Israel

    A. Frumkin;M. Magaritz;I. Carmi;I. Zak

  • Continental Oxygen Isotopic Record of the Last 170,000 Years in Jerusalem☆

    Amos Frumkin;Derek C. Ford;Henry P. Schwarcz

  • Paleoclimate reconstruction based on the timing of speleothem growth and oxygen and carbon isotope composition in a cave located in the rain shadow in Israel

    Anton Vaks;Miryam Bar-Matthews;Avner Ayalon;Bettina Schilman

  • The Sahara-East Mediterranean dust and climate connection revealed by strontium and uranium isotopes in a Jerusalem speleothem

    Amos Frumkin;Mordechai Stein

  • Desert speleothems reveal climatic window for African exodus of early modern humans

    Anton Vaks;Miryam Bar-Matthews;Avner Ayalon;Alan Matthews

  • Middle-Late Quaternary paleoclimate of northern margins of the Saharan-Arabian Desert: reconstruction from speleothems of Negev Desert, Israel

    Anton Vaks;Anton Vaks;Miryam Bar-Matthews;Alan Matthews;Avner Ayalon

  • Uranium series dates from Qesem Cave, Israel, and the end of the Lower Palaeolithic.

    R Barkai;A Gopher;S E Lauritzen;Amos Frumkin

  • Possible paleohydrologic and paleoclimatic effects on hominin migration and occupation of the Levantine Middle Paleolithic.

    Amos Frumkin;Ofer Bar-Yosef;Henry P. Schwarcz

  • The chronology of the late Lower Paleolithic in the Levant based on U–Th ages of speleothems from Qesem Cave, Israel

    A. Gopher;A. Ayalon;M. Bar-Matthews;R. Barkai

  • Morphometry and distribution of isolated caves as a guide for phreatic and confined paleohydrological conditions

    Amos Frumkin;Itay Fischhendler

  • Paleoclimate and vegetation of the Last Glacial Cycles in Jerusalem from a Speleothem Record

    Amos Frumkin;Derek C. Ford;Henry P. Schwarcz

  • The Dead Sea sinkhole hazard: Geophysical assessment of salt dissolution and collapse

    Amos Frumkin;Michael Ezersky;Abdallah Al-Zoubi;Emad Akkawi

  • Pliocene–Pleistocene climate of the northern margin of Saharan–Arabian Desert recorded in speleothems from the Negev Desert, Israel

    A. Vaks;A. Vaks;J. Woodhead;M. Bar-Matthews;A. Ayalon

  • Collapse and subsidence associated with salt karstification along the Dead Sea

    Amos Frumkin;Eli Raz

  • A series of Mousterian occupations in a new type of site: The Nesher Ramla karst depression, Israel

    Yossi Zaidner;Yossi Zaidner;Amos Frumkin;Naomi Porat;Alexander Tsatskin

  • Stromatolites in caves of the Dead Sea Fault Escarpment: implications to latest Pleistocene lake levels and tectonic subsidence

    Sorin Lisker;Anton Vaks;Miryam Bar-Matthews;Roi Porat

Frequent Co-Authors

Miryam Bar-Matthews
Miryam Bar-Matthews Geological Survey of Israel
Avner Ayalon
Avner Ayalon Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Elisabetta Boaretto
Elisabetta Boaretto Weizmann Institute of Science
Naomi Porat
Naomi Porat Physical Research Laboratory
Avi Gopher
Avi Gopher Tel Aviv University
Henry P. Schwarcz
Henry P. Schwarcz McMaster University
Ran Barkai
Ran Barkai Tel Aviv University
Francesco Berna
Francesco Berna Simon Fraser University
Derek C. Ford
Derek C. Ford McMaster University
Efrat Morin
Efrat Morin Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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