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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
65
Citations
13240
World Ranking
1816
National Ranking
664

Peter S. Ungar publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

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This scientist: 176 publications — 65th percentile

65% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Peter S. Ungar D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Peter S. Ungar sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 65 D-Index — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Peter S. Ungar is affiliated with the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Environmental Science, with a particular focus on subfields including Ecology, Orthodontics, Paleontology, Social Psychology, and Anthropology.

The main topics addressed in Ungar's work include Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Primate Behavior and Ecology, Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Evolution and Paleontology Studies, Dental Materials and Restorations, Dental Erosion and Treatment, and Human-Animal Interaction Studies.

Ungar has contributed to numerous publications in a variety of scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets include Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, Journal of Archaeological Science, Biosurface and Biotribology, Mammalian Biology, and Journal of Human Evolution.

Their recent published papers cover a range of subjects related to dental microwear and early hominin diets, with titles and publication years as follows:

  • Dental microwear as a behavioral proxy for distinguishing between canids at the Upper Paleolithic (Gravettian) site of Předmostí, Czech Republic, 2020, Journal of Archaeological Science
  • The dental microwear of hard-object feeding in laboratory Sapajus apella and its implications for dental microwear formation, 2020, American Journal of Physical Anthropology
  • Grit your teeth and chew your food: Implications of food material properties and abrasives for rates of dental microwear formation in laboratory Sapajus apella (Primates), 2021, Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • Problems with Paranthropus, 2022, Quaternary International
  • Changing perspectives on early hominin diets, 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Ungar often collaborates with a set of frequent co-authors, including Anderson T. Hara, Aleksandr Sokolov, Natalia Sokolova, Dorothée Ehrich, and George J. Eckert.

In 2012, Ungar was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Best Publications

  • Dental microwear texture analysis shows within-species diet variability in fossil hominins

    Robert S. Scott;Peter S. Ungar;Torbjorn S. Bergstrom;Christopher A. Brown

  • Diet and the evolution of the earliest human ancestors

    Mark F. Teaford;Peter S. Ungar

  • Dental microwear texture analysis: technical considerations.

    Robert S. Scott;Peter S. Ungar;Torbjorn S. Bergstrom;Christopher A. Brown

  • Mammal Teeth: Origin, Evolution, and Diversity

    Peter S. Ungar

  • The Diets of Early Hominins

    Peter S. Ungar;Matt Sponheimer

  • Quantification of dental microwear by tandem scanning confocal microscopy and scale-sensitive fractal analyses.

    Peter S Ungar;Christopher A Brown;Torbjorn S Bergstrom;Alan Walkers

  • Dental topography and diets of Australopithecus afarensis and early Homo.

    Peter Ungar

  • Dental Microwear and Diet of the Plio-Pleistocene Hominin Paranthropus boisei

    Peter S. Ungar;Frederick E. Grine;Frederick E. Grine;Mark F. Teaford

  • Diet in early Homo : A review of the evidence and a new model of adaptive versatility

    Peter S. Ungar;Frederick E. Grine;Mark F. Teaford

  • The diet of Australopithecus sediba

    Amanda G. Henry;Peter S. Ungar;Peter S. Ungar;Benjamin H. Passey;Matt Sponheimer;Matt Sponheimer

  • Mammalian dental function and wear: A review

    Peter S. Ungar

  • Dental microwear of European Miocene catarrhines: evidence for diets and tooth use

    Peter S. Ungar

  • A solution to the worn tooth conundrum in primate functional anatomy

    Peter S. Ungar;Francis M'Kirera

  • The dietary adaptations of European Miocene catarrhines.

    Peter S. Ungar;Richard F. Kay

  • Dental microwear texture and anthropoid diets

    Robert S. Scott;Mark F. Teaford;Peter S. Ungar

  • EXPLORING THE EFFECTS OF TOOTH WEAR ON FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY: A PRELIMINARY STUDY USING DENTAL TOPOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS

    Peter Ungar;Malcolm Williamson

  • Error rates in dental microwear quantification using scanning electron microscopy.

    Frederick E. Grine;P. S. Ungar;M. F. Teaford

  • Dust accumulation in the canopy: a potential cause of dental microwear in primates.

    Peter S. Ungar;Mark F. Teaford;Kenneth E. Glander;Robert F. Pastor

  • Dental Microwear Texture Analysis of Varswater Bovids and Early Pliocene Paleoenvironments of Langebaanweg, Western Cape Province, South Africa

    Peter S. Ungar;Gildas Merceron;Robert S. Scott

  • Fruit Preferences of Four Sympatric Primate Species at Ketambe, Northern Sumatra, Indonesia

    Peter S. Ungar

  • Dental allometry, morphology, and wear as evidence for diet in fossil primates

    Peter Ungar

  • Occlusal relief changes with molar wear in Pan troglodytes troglodytes and Gorilla gorilla gorilla.

    Francis M'kirera;Peter S. Ungar

  • Dental microwear and stable isotopes inform the paleoecology of extinct hominins.

    Frederick E. Grine;Matt Sponheimer;Peter S. Ungar;Julia Lee-Thorp

  • Hard-object feeding in sooty mangabeys (Cercocebus atys) and interpretation of early hominin feeding ecology.

    David J. Daegling;W. Scott McGraw;Peter S. Ungar;James D. Pampush

  • Human Diet: Its Origin and Evolution

    Mark F. Teaford;Peter S. Ungar

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark F. Teaford
Mark F. Teaford RMIT University
Frederick E. Grine
Frederick E. Grine Stony Brook University
Matt Sponheimer
Matt Sponheimer University of Colorado Boulder
Linmao Qian
Linmao Qian Southwest Jiaotong University
Zhongrong Zhou
Zhongrong Zhou Southwest Jiaotong University
Richard F. Kay
Richard F. Kay Duke University
Lee R. Berger
Lee R. Berger James Cook University
Callum F. Ross
Callum F. Ross University of Chicago
Jean-Jacques Hublin
Jean-Jacques Hublin Collège de France
Darryl J. de Ruiter
Darryl J. de Ruiter Texas A&M University

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