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Raymonde Bonnefille

Raymonde Bonnefille

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
44
Citations
7527
World Ranking
6734
National Ranking
291

Raymonde Bonnefille publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Raymonde Bonnefille sits on this spectrum.

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41 publications 687+

This scientist: 99 publications — 13th percentile

13% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 687 publications or more.

Raymonde Bonnefille D-index placement in Environmental Sciences in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Environmental Sciences scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Raymonde Bonnefille sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 125+

This scientist: 44 D-Index — 32nd percentile

32% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 125 D-Index or more.

Overview

Raymonde Bonnefille is a researcher affiliated with Aix-Marseille University in France. Their work primarily spans across social sciences, earth and planetary sciences, and environmental science, with focused subfields including anthropology, archeology, atmospheric science, ecology, and paleontology. The scientist's research topics encompass Pleistocene-era hominins and archaeology, geology and paleoclimatology research, evolution and paleontology studies, forensic anthropology and bioarchaeology, rangeland management and livestock ecology, isotope analysis in ecology, and primate behavior and ecology.

Their publication record includes recent papers highlighting early human tool use and paleoenvironmental conditions. Notable publications include:

  • Early Homo erectus lived at high altitudes and produced both Oldowan and Acheulean tools (2023), published in Science
  • After the emergence of the Acheulean at Melka Kunture (Upper Awash, Ethiopia): From Gombore IB (1.6 Ma) to Gombore Iγ (1.4 Ma), Gombore Iδ (1.3 Ma) and Gombore II OAM Test Pit C (1.2 Ma) (2021), published in Quaternary International
  • A surge in obsidian exploitation more than 1.2 million years ago at Simbiro III (Melka Kunture, Upper Awash, Ethiopia) (2023), published in Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Isotopic insights into the Early Acheulean (1.95 Ma-1.66 Ma) high-elevation paleoenvironments at Melka Kunture (Upper Awash Valley, Ethiopia) (2023), published in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences
  • Age and formation processes of an Acheulean site with extensive accumulation of large cutting tools: Garba I (Melka Kunture, Upper Awash, Ethiopia) (2022), published in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences

Frequent collaborative partners in their research include Margherita Mussi, Denis Geraads, Rita Teresa Melis, Giuseppe Briatico, and Eduardo Méndez-Quintas. Their works frequently appear in journals such as Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, Science, Quaternary International, Nature Ecology & Evolution, and L Anthropologie.

Best Publications

  • Tropical climates at the Last Glacial Maximum: a new synthesis of terrestrial palaeoclimate data. I. Vegetation, lake-levels and geochemistry

    I. Farrera;S. P. Harrison;I. C. Prentice;G. Ramstein

  • Biome reconstruction from pollen and plant macrofossil data for Africa and the Arabian peninsula at 0 and 6000 years

    Dominique Jolly;I. Colin Prentice;Raymonde Bonnefille;Aziz Ballouche

  • Cenozoic vegetation, climate changes and hominid evolution in tropical Africa

    Raymonde Bonnefille

  • Temperature and rainfall estimates for the past 40,000 years in equatorial Africa

    R Bonnefille;Jc Roeland;Joel Guiot

  • Simulated climate and biomes of Africa during the late quaternary: comparison with pollen and lake status data

    D. Jolly;S. P. Harrison;B. Damnati;R. Bonnefille

  • Pollen‐based biome reconstruction for southern Europe and Africa 18,000 yr bp

    H. Elenga;O. Peyron;R. Bonnefille;D. Jolly

  • Phytoliths as paleoenvironmental indicators, West Side Middle Awash Valley, Ethiopia

    Doris Barboni;Raymonde Bonnefille;Anne Alexandre;Jean-Dominique Meunier

  • Mid-Holocene land-surface conditions in northern Africa and the Arabian Peninsula: A data set for the analysis of biogeophysical feedbacks in the climate system

    P. Hoelzmann;D. Jolly;S. P. Harrison;F. Laarif

  • High-resolution vegetation and climate change associated with Pliocene Australopithecus afarensis

    Raymonde Bonnefille;R. Potts;F. Chalié;D. Jolly

  • Comparative study of modern phytolith assemblages from inter-tropical Africa

    Doris Barboni;Laurent Bremond;Raymonde Bonnefille

  • Pollen-inferred precipitation time-series from equatorial mountains, Africa, the last 40 kyr BP

    Raymonde Bonnefille;Françoise Chalié

  • The Kashiru pollen sequence (Burundi) palaeoclimatic implications for the last 40,000 yr B.P. in tropical Africa

    Raymonde Bonnefille;Guy Riollet

  • Northeast African vegetation change over 12 m.y.

    Sarah J. Feakins;Naomi E. Levin;Hannah M. Liddy;Alexa Sieracki

  • The Ziway–Shala lake basin system, Main Ethiopian Rift: Influence of volcanism, tectonics, and climatic forcing on basin formation and sedimentation

    Caroline Le Turdu;Jean-Jacques Tiercelin;Elisabeth Gibert;Yves Travi

  • Evidence for a cooler and drier climate in the Ethiopian uplands towards 2.5 Myr ago

    R. Bonnefille

  • The geological, isotopic, botanical, invertebrate, and lower vertebrate surroundings of Ardipithecus ramidus.

    Giday WoldeGabriel;Stanley H. Ambrose;Doris Barboni;Raymonde Bonnefille

  • Palynology, stratigraphy and palaeoenvironment of a pliocene hominid site (2.9-3.3 M.Y.) at Hadar, Ethiopia

    R. Bonnefille;A. Vincens;G. Buchet

  • Quantitative estimates of full glacial temperatures in equatorial Africa from palynological data

    Raymonde Bonnefille;F. Chalié;J. Guiot;A. Vincens

  • Vegetation dynamics in central Africa since 18,000 yr BP: pollen records from the interlacustrine highlands of Burundi, Rwanda and western Uganda

    Dominique Jolly;David Taylor;Robert Marchant;Alan Hamilton

  • Late Pleistocene and Holocene vegetation history of the Bale Mountains, Ethiopia

    M. Umer;H.-F. Lamb;Raymonde Bonnefille;A.-M. Lézine

Frequent Co-Authors

Annie Vincens
Annie Vincens Aix-Marseille University
Anne-Marie Lézine
Anne-Marie Lézine Sorbonne University
Rachid Cheddadi
Rachid Cheddadi University of Montpellier
Hermann Behling
Hermann Behling University of Göttingen
Eric C. Grimm
Eric C. Grimm University of Minnesota
Tadamichi Oba
Tadamichi Oba Hokkaido University
R. Scott Anderson
R. Scott Anderson Northern Arizona University
Karin F. Helmens
Karin F. Helmens Stockholm University
Cathy Whitlock
Cathy Whitlock Montana State University
Henry Hooghiemstra
Henry Hooghiemstra University of Amsterdam

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