2026 Nicole Boivin: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	64	1108	969	32	23	232	15257

Overview

Nicole Boivin is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany. Their research spans multiple scientific fields with a primary focus on social sciences and earth and planetary sciences. Within these, they have engaged extensively in subfields including anthropology, paleontology, archaeology, geography, planning and development, and genetics.

The core topics explored in their work include archaeology and ancient environmental studies, Pleistocene-era hominins and archaeology, forensic anthropology and bioarchaeology studies, Pacific and Southeast Asian studies, rangeland management and livestock ecology, archaeology and rock art studies, and forensic and genetic research.

Boivin's publication record includes frequent appearances in prominent scientific journals. Common venues for their research include:

PLoS ONE
Nature Communications
Scientific Reports
iScience
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Boivin illustrate the breadth of their scientific inquiry. Selected publications include:

"People have shaped most of terrestrial nature for at least 12,000 years" (2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
"Mobilizing the past to shape a better Anthropocene" (2021, Nature Ecology & Evolution)
"Ancient genomes reveal complex patterns of population movement, interaction, and replacement in sub-Saharan Africa" (2020, Science Advances)
"Dairying enabled Early Bronze Age Yamnaya steppe expansions" (2021, Nature)
"Dairy pastoralism sustained eastern Eurasian steppe populations for 5,000 years" (2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution)

Frequent coauthors associated with Boivin's publications include:

Patrick Roberts
Michael D. Petraglia
Alison Crowther
Robert N. Spengler
Shevan Wilkin

Best Publications

Ecological consequences of human niche construction: Examining long-term anthropogenic shaping of global species distributions

Nicole L. Boivin;Melinda A. Zeder;Melinda A. Zeder;Dorian Q. Fuller;Alison Crowther

869
Citations
The Formation of Human Populations in South and Central Asia

Vagheesh M. Narasimhan;Nick Patterson;Nick Patterson;Priya Moorjani;Nadin Rohland;Nadin Rohland

785
Citations
People have shaped most of terrestrial nature for at least 12,000 years

Erle C. Ellis;Nicolas Gauthier;Kees Klein Goldewijk;Rebecca Bliege Bird

736
Citations
Archaeological assessment reveals Earth’s early transformation through land use

Lucas Stephens;Dorian Fuller;Nicole Boivin;Torben Rick

559
Citations
Reconstructing Prehistoric African Population Structure

Pontus Skoglund;Jessica C. Thompson;Mary E. Prendergast;Alissa Mittnik

456
Citations
Middle Paleolithic assemblages from the Indian subcontinent before and after the Toba super-eruption.

Michael D. Petraglia;Michael D. Petraglia;Ravi Korisettar;Nicole Boivin;Christopher Clarkson

388
Citations
Rethinking the dispersal of Homo sapiens out of Africa.

Huw S. Groucutt;Michael D. Petraglia;Geoff Bailey;Eleanor M. L. Scerri

348
Citations
Across the Indian Ocean: the prehistoric movement of plants and animals

Dorian Q Fuller;Nicole Boivin;Tom Hoogervorst;Robin Allaby

325
Citations
Zebu Cattle Are an Exclusive Legacy of the South Asia Neolithic

Shanyuan Chen;Bang Zhong Lin;Mumtaz Baig;Bikash Mitra;Bikash Mitra

273
Citations
A Dynamic 6,000-Year Genetic History of Eurasia's Eastern Steppe.

Choongwon Jeong;Choongwon Jeong;Ke Wang;Shevan Wilkin;William Timothy Treal Taylor;William Timothy Treal Taylor

272
Citations
Ancient crops provide first archaeological signature of the westward Austronesian expansion

Alison Crowther;Leilani Lucas;Richard Helm;Mark Horton

270
Citations
Old World globalization and the Columbian exchange: comparison and contrast

Nicole Boivin;Dorian Q. Fuller;Alison Crowther

254
Citations
Shell Middens, Ships and Seeds: Exploring Coastal Subsistence, Maritime Trade and the Dispersal of Domesticates in and Around the Ancient Arabian Peninsula

Nicole Boivin;Dorian Q. Fuller

250
Citations
Involve social scientists in defining the Anthropocene

Erle Ellis;Mark Maslin;Nicole L. Boivin;Andrew Bauer

242
Citations
Human dispersal across diverse environments of Asia during the Upper Pleistocene

Nicole Boivin;Dorian Q. Fuller;Robin Dennell;Robin G. Allaby

239
Citations
Out of Africa: new hypotheses and evidence for the dispersal of Homo sapiens along the Indian Ocean rim

Michael D. Petraglia;Michael Haslam;Dorian Q. Fuller;Nicole Boivin

222
Citations
East Africa and Madagascar in the Indian Ocean world

Nicole Boivin;Alison Crowther;Richard Helm;Dorian Q. Fuller

217
Citations
The palaeogenetics of cat dispersal in the ancient world

Claudio Ottoni;Wim Van Neer;Wim Van Neer;Bea De Cupere;Julien Daligault;Julien Daligault

215
Citations
Life rhythms and floor sequences: excavating time in rural Rajasthan and Neolithic Catalhoyuk

Nicole Boivin

211
Citations
Drivers and trajectories of land cover change in East Africa: human and environmental interactions from 6000 years ago to present

Rob Marchant;Suzi Richer;Oliver Boles;Claudia Capitani

204
Citations
Population increase and environmental deterioration correspond with microlithic innovations in South Asia ca. 35,000 years ago

Michael Petraglia;Christopher Clarkson;Nicole Boivin;Michael Haslam

187
Citations
Material Cultures, Material Minds: The Impact of Things on Human Thought, Society, and Evolution

Nicole Boivin

173
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael D. Petraglia Griffith University

Katerina Douka University of Vienna

Richard G. Roberts University of Wollongong

Swapan Mallick Harvard Medical School

Peter Ditchfield University of Oxford

Nick Patterson Harvard University

Johannes Krause Max Planck Society

Richard F. Helm Virginia Tech

Huw S. Groucutt Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology

Jed O. Kaplan University of Calgary

External Links

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