2026 David Lordkipanidze: Earth Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Earth Science	35	7457	6904	1	1	97	7379

Research.com Recognitions

2010 - Member of Academia Europaea
2007 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

David Lordkipanidze is affiliated with the Georgian National Museum in Georgia and has a substantial publication record primarily in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research spans several subfields including Anthropology, Paleontology, Genetics, Archeology, and Ecology. The main topics of their work focus on Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies, Evolution and Paleontology Studies, Archaeology and ancient environmental studies, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Forensic and Genetic Research, and Genetic diversity and population structure.

They have published frequently in venues such as:

Journal of Human Evolution
Nature
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Vegetation History and Archaeobotany

Notable recent papers include:

Population genomics of post-glacial western Eurasia, 2024, Nature
The dental proteome of Homo antecessor, 2020, Nature
The primitive brain of early Homo, 2021, Science
Population genomics of postglacial western eurasia, 2022, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Genome-scale sequencing and analysis of human, wolf, and bison DNA from 25,000-year-old sediment, 2021, Current Biology

Frequent coauthors who have collaborated with David Lordkipanidze include:

Maia Bukhsianidze
Lorenzo Rook
Omar Cirilli
Raymond L. Bernor
Carles Lalueza-Fox

David Lordkipanidze has been recognized by professional bodies, holding memberships such as:

Member of Academia Europaea (2010)
Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2007)

Best Publications

Earliest Pleistocene hominid cranial remains from Dmanisi, Republic of Georgia: taxonomy, geological setting, and age.

Leo Gabunia;Abesalom Vekua;David Lordkipanidze;Carl C. Swisher

843
Citations
Postcranial evidence from early Homo from Dmanisi, Georgia

David Lordkipanidze;Tea Jashashvili;Tea Jashashvili;Abesalom Vekua;Marcia S. Ponce de León

661
Citations
A complete skull from Dmanisi, Georgia, and the evolutionary biology of early Homo.

David Lordkipanidze;Marcia S. Ponce de León;Ann Margvelashvili;Yoel Rak

585
Citations
A New Skull of Early Homo from Dmanisi, Georgia

Abesalom Vekua;David Lordkipanidze;G. Philip Rightmire;Jordi Agusti

519
Citations
Anatomical descriptions, comparative studies and evolutionary significance of the hominin skulls from Dmanisi, Republic of Georgia.

G. Philip Rightmire;David Lordkipanidze;Abesalom Vekua

359
Citations
Early Neolithic wine of Georgia in the South Caucasus

Patrick McGovern;Mindia Jalabadze;Stephen Batiuk;Michael P. Callahan

354
Citations
Earliest human occupations at Dmanisi (Georgian Caucasus) dated to 1.85-1.78 Ma.

Reid Ferring;Oriol Oms;Jordi Agustí;Francesco Berna

352
Citations
Anthropology: the earliest toothless hominin skull.

David Lordkipanidze;Abesalom Vekua;Reid Ferring;G. Philip Rightmire

250
Citations
Dental evidence on the hominin dispersals during the Pleistocene

María Martinón-Torres;J. M. Bermúdez De Castro;Aida Gómez-Robles;J. L. Arsuaga

250
Citations
Quaternary time scales for the Pontocaspian domain : Interbasinal connectivity and faunal evolution

W. Krijgsman;A. Tesakov;T. Yanina;S. Lazarev

241
Citations
Dmanisi and dispersal

Leo Gabunia;Susan C. Antón;David Lordkipanidze;Abesalom Vekua

222
Citations
Découverte d'un nouvel hominidé à Dmanissi (Transcaucasie, Géorgie)

Léo Gabounia;Marie-Antoinette de Lumley;Abesalom Vekua;David Lordkipanidze

219
Citations
A fourth hominin skull from Dmanisi, Georgia.

David Lordkipanidze;Abesalom Vekua;Reid Ferring;G. Philip Rightmire;G. Philip Rightmire

164
Citations
Dental remains from Dmanisi (Republic of Georgia): morphological analysis and comparative study.

María Martinón-Torres;José María Bermúdez de Castro;Aida Gómez-Robles;Ann Margvelashvili

164
Citations
Datation par la méthode 40Ar / 39Ar de la couche de cendres volcaniques (couche VI) de Dmanissi (Géorgie) qui a livré des restes d'hominidés fossiles de 1,81 Ma

Henry de Lumley;David Lordkipanidze;Gilbert Féraud;Tristan Garcia

129
Citations
Hominin occupations at the Dmanisi site, Georgia, Southern Caucasus: raw materials and technical behaviours of Europe's first hominins.

Ana Mgeladze;David Lordkipanidze;Marie-Hélène Moncel;Jackie Despriee

111
Citations
Late Quaternary record of the vegetation and catchment-related changes from Lake Paravani (Javakheti, South Caucasus)

Erwan Messager;Soumaya Belmecheri;Ulrich Von Grafenstein;Sébastien Nomade

106
Citations
Venturing out safely: The biogeography of Homo erectus dispersal out of Africa

F. Carotenuto;N. Tsikaridze;L. Rook;D. Lordkipanidze

99
Citations
Multiple origins of Bondi Cave and Ortvale Klde (NW Georgia) obsidians and human mobility in Transcaucasia during the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic

François-Xavier Le Bourdonnec;Sébastien Nomade;Gérard Poupeau;Gérard Poupeau;Hervé Guillou

89
Citations
How “African” was the early human dispersal out of Africa?

Jordi Agustí;David Lordkipanidze

88
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Lorenzo Rook University of Florence

Jordi Agustí Rovira i Virgili University

Sébastien Nomade Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University

Eske Willerslev University of Copenhagen

Marie-Hélène Moncel National Museum of Natural History

Bienvenido Martínez-Navarro Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution

Oriol Oms Autonomous University of Barcelona

Anna Belfer-Cohen Hebrew University of Jerusalem

María Martinón-Torres University College London

Jesper V. Olsen University of Copenhagen

External Links

Personal website of David Lordkipanidze

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