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Nicole Boivin

Nicole Boivin

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
64
Citations
15257
World Ranking
1108
National Ranking
32

Nicole Boivin publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Nicole Boivin sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 232 publications — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Nicole Boivin D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Nicole Boivin sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 64 D-Index — 86th percentile

86% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

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

  • The Formation of Human Populations in South and Central Asia

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

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

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

  • Archaeological assessment reveals Earth’s early transformation through land use

    Lucas Stephens;Dorian Fuller;Nicole Boivin;Torben Rick

  • Reconstructing Prehistoric African Population Structure

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

  • 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

  • Rethinking the dispersal of Homo sapiens out of Africa.

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

  • Across the Indian Ocean: the prehistoric movement of plants and animals

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

  • Zebu Cattle Are an Exclusive Legacy of the South Asia Neolithic

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

  • 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

  • Ancient crops provide first archaeological signature of the westward Austronesian expansion

    Alison Crowther;Leilani Lucas;Richard Helm;Mark Horton

  • Old World globalization and the Columbian exchange: comparison and contrast

    Nicole Boivin;Dorian Q. Fuller;Alison Crowther

  • 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

  • Involve social scientists in defining the Anthropocene

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

  • Human dispersal across diverse environments of Asia during the Upper Pleistocene

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

  • 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

  • East Africa and Madagascar in the Indian Ocean world

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

  • The palaeogenetics of cat dispersal in the ancient world

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

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

    Nicole Boivin

  • 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

  • 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

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

    Nicole Boivin

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael D. Petraglia
Michael D. Petraglia Griffith University
Mary E. Prendergast
Mary E. Prendergast Rice University
Katerina Douka
Katerina Douka University of Vienna
Swapan Mallick
Swapan Mallick Harvard Medical School
Richard G. Roberts
Richard G. Roberts University of Wollongong
Peter Ditchfield
Peter Ditchfield University of Oxford
Nick Patterson
Nick Patterson Harvard University
Johannes Krause
Johannes Krause Max Planck Society
Huw S. Groucutt
Huw S. Groucutt Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology
Richard F. Helm
Richard F. Helm Virginia Tech

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