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D-Index
43
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6471
World Ranking
7165
National Ranking
2552

Travis Rayne Pickering publication distribution in Environmental Sciences in 2026

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This scientist: 95 publications — 11th percentile

11% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Travis Rayne Pickering 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 Travis Rayne Pickering sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 126+

This scientist: 43 D-Index — 29th percentile

29% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Travis Rayne Pickering is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research primarily spans the Social Sciences and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on several subfields including Anthropology, Paleontology, Archeology, Geometry and Topology, and Atmospheric Science.

Their main research topics cover:

  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Evolution and Paleontology Studies
  • Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
  • Morphological variations and asymmetry
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Paleopathology and ancient diseases
  • Craniofacial Disorders and Treatments

Pickering has contributed to several scientific journals, with the most frequent publication venues including:

  • Journal of Human Evolution
  • South African Journal of Science
  • Scientific Reports
  • Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Forensic Science
  • Folia Primatologica

Among their recent published papers are:

  • "A new absolute date from Swartkrans Cave for the oldest occurrences of Paranthropus robustus and Oldowan stone tools in South Africa" (2021), Journal of Human Evolution
  • "The pectoral girdle of StW 573 ('Little Foot') and its implications for shoulder evolution in the Hominina" (2021), Journal of Human Evolution
  • "The atlas of StW 573 and the late emergence of human-like head mobility and brain metabolism" (2020), Scientific Reports
  • "Cruel traces: Bone surface modifications and their relevance to forensic science" (2020), Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Forensic Science
  • "StW 573 Australopithecus prometheus: Its Significance for an Australopith Bauplan" (2021), Folia Primatologica

Collaborations form an important part of Pickering's research output. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Jason L. Heaton
  • Kathleen Kuman
  • Ronald J. Clarke
  • Dominic Stratford
  • Laurent Bruxelles

Best Publications

  • 2.6-Million-year-old stone tools and associated bones from OGS-6 and OGS-7, Gona, Afar, Ethiopia.

    Sileshi Semaw;Michael J Rogers;Jay Quade;Paul R Renne;Paul R Renne

  • Experimental patterns of hammerstone percussion damage on bones: implications for inferences of carcass processing by humans

    Travis Rayne Pickering;Travis Rayne Pickering;Travis Rayne Pickering;Charles P. Egeland;Charles P. Egeland

  • Cutmarked bones from Pliocene archaeological sites at Gona, Afar, Ethiopia: implications for the function of the world's oldest stone tools.

    Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo;Travis Rayne Pickering;Sileshi Semaw;Michael J. Rogers

  • Reconsideration of criteria for differentiating faunal assemblages accumulated by hyenas and hominids

    Travis Rayne Pickering

  • Configurational approach to identifying the earliest hominin butchers.

    Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo;Travis Rayne Pickering;Henry T. Bunn

  • Nutritional composition of some wild plant foods and honey used by Hadza foragers of Tanzania

    Shawn S. Murray;Margaret J. Schoeninger;Henry T. Bunn;Travis R. Pickering

  • Early hominid hunting and scavenging: A zooarcheological review

    Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo;Travis Rayne Pickering

  • Savanna chimpanzees use tools to harvest the underground storage organs of plants

    R. Adriana Hernandez-Aguilar;Jim Moore;Travis Rayne Pickering

  • First partial skeleton of a 1.34-million-year-old paranthropus boisei from Bed II, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania

    Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo;Travis Rayne Pickering;Travis Rayne Pickering;Travis Rayne Pickering;Enrique Baquedano;Audax Mabulla

  • Skeletal Element Equifinality in Zooarchaeology Begins with Method: The Evolution and Status of the "Shaft Critique"

    Curtis W. Marean;Manuel Domínguez Rodrigo;Travis Rayne Pickering

  • Importance of limb bone shaft fragments in zooarchaeology: a response to “On in situ attrition and vertebrate body part profiles” (2002), by M.C. Stiner

    Travis Rayne Pickering;Travis Rayne Pickering;Curtis W. Marean;Manuel Domı́nguez-Rodrigo

  • Bovid mortality profiles in paleoecological context falsify hypotheses of endurance running–hunting and passive scavenging by early Pleistocene hominins

    Henry T. Bunn;Travis Rayne Pickering;Travis Rayne Pickering

  • Beyond leopards: tooth marks and the contribution of multiple carnivore taxa to the accumulation of the Swartkrans Member 3 fossil assemblage

    Travis Rayne Pickering;Manuel Domı́nguez-Rodrigo;Charles P. Egeland;C.K. Brain

  • Role of carnivores in the accumulation of the Sterkfontein Member 4 hominid assemblage: a taphonomic reassessment of the complete hominid fossil sample (1936-1999).

    Travis Rayne Pickering;Travis Rayne Pickering;Ron J. Clarke;Jacopo Moggi-Cecchi;Jacopo Moggi-Cecchi

  • Cosmogenic nuclide burial dating of hominin-bearing Pleistocene cave deposits at Swartkrans, South Africa

    Ryan J. Gibbon;Travis Rayne Pickering;Travis Rayne Pickering;Travis Rayne Pickering;Morris B. Sutton;Jason L. Heaton;Jason L. Heaton;Jason L. Heaton

  • The contribution of limb bone fracture patterns to reconstructing early hominid behaviour at Swartkrans cave (South Africa): archaeological application of a new analytical method

    T. R. Pickering;M. Domínguez-Rodrigo;C. P. Egeland;C. K. Brain

  • Breathing life into fossils : taphonomic studies in honor of C.K. (Bob) Brain

    C. K. Brain;Travis Rayne Pickering;Kathy Diane Schick;Nicholas Patrick Toth

  • The meat of the matter: an evolutionary perspective on human carnivory

    Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo;Travis Rayne Pickering

  • Earliest Porotic Hyperostosis on a 1.5-Million-Year-Old Hominin, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania

    Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo;Travis Rayne Pickering;Travis Rayne Pickering;Travis Rayne Pickering;Fernando Diez-Martín;Audax Mabulla

  • Taphonomy of ungulate ribs and the consumption of meat and bone by 1.2-million-year-old hominins at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania

    Travis Rayne Pickering;Travis Rayne Pickering;Travis Rayne Pickering;Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo;Jason L. Heaton;Jason L. Heaton;José Yravedra

  • Bone Modifications Resulting from Captive Chimpanzee Mastication: Implications for the Interpretation of Pliocene Archaeological Faunas

    Travis Rayne Pickering;Janette Wallis

  • Experimental study of cut marks made with rocks unmodified by human flaking and its bearing on claims of ∼3.4-million-year-old butchery evidence from Dikika, Ethiopia

    Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo;Travis Rayne Pickering;Travis Rayne Pickering;Henry T. Bunn

  • ORIGINAL ARTICLE Nutritional Composition of Some Wild Plant Foods and Honey Used by Hadza Foragers of Tanzania

    Shawn S. Murray;Margaret J. Schoeninger;Henry T. Bunn;Travis R. Pickering

Frequent Co-Authors

Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo
Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo University of Alcalá
Henry T. Bunn
Henry T. Bunn University of Wisconsin–Madison
Audax Mabulla
Audax Mabulla University of Dar es Salaam
Enrique Baquedano
Enrique Baquedano University of Alcalá
José Yravedra
José Yravedra Complutense University of Madrid
Gail M. Ashley
Gail M. Ashley Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Paul R. Renne
Paul R. Renne Berkeley Geochronology Center
Jordi Rosell
Jordi Rosell Rovira i Virgili University
Curtis W. Marean
Curtis W. Marean Arizona State University
Ruth Blasco
Ruth Blasco Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution

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