| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Why do female adders copulate so frequently? | Nature | 1992 | 339 |
| 2 | Dental wear scoring technique | American Journal of Physical Anthropology | 1979 | 291 |
| 3 | Reclaiming Applied Anthropology: Its Past, Present, and Future | American Anthropologist | 2006 | 215 |
| 4 | Long-term human response to uncertain environmental conditions in the Andes | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2004 | 175 |
| 5 | Evaluating fair trade consumption: politics, defetishization and producer participation | International Journal of Consumer Studies | 2006 | 145 |
| 6 | (null) | Human Ecology | 2001 | 128 |
| 7 | Factors influencing the etiology of cribra orbitalia in prehistoric Nubia | Journal of Human Evolution | 1974 | 117 |
| 8 | Rural-Urban Differences in Environmental Knowledge and Actions | Journal of Environmental Education | 1993 | 113 |
| 9 | The Moral Economy of Water: Equity and Antiquity in the Andean Commons | American Anthropologist | 2001 | 113 |
| 10 | On conflicted Swedish consumers, the effort to stop shopping and neoliberal environmental governance | Journal of Consumer Behaviour | 2010 | 113 |
| 11 | Coping and the biosocial consequences of food insecurity in the 21st century | American Journal of Physical Anthropology | 2012 | 106 |
| 12 | Early cultural evidence from Monte Verde in Chile | Nature | 1988 | 105 |
| 13 | On a Pleistocene human occupation at Pedra Furada, Brazil | Antiquity | 1994 | 104 |
| 14 | Gender equity in fairtrade–organic coffee producer organizations: Cases from Mesoamerica | Geoforum | 2010 | 91 |
| 15 | Assessing the feasibility of identifying maize through the analysis of cross-shaped size and three-dimensional morphology of phytoliths in the grasslands of southeastern South America | Journal of Archaeological Science | 2003 | 77 |
| 16 | Coppice swidden fallows in tropical deciduous forest: Biological, technological, and sociocultural determinants of secondary forest successions | Human Ecology | 1989 | 73 |
| 17 | A comparison of the diversity of Jivaroan Gardens with that of the tropical forest | Human Ecology | 1983 | 70 |
| 18 | A Method for Estimating Sex Using Metric Analysis of the Scapula* | Journal of Forensic Sciences | 2010 | 67 |
| 19 | Chronology, mound-building and environment at Huaca Prieta, coastal Peru, from 13 700 to 4000 years ago | Antiquity | 2012 | 66 |
| 20 | Working from the inside out: Implications of breast cancer activism for biomedical policies and practices | Social Science and Medicine | 1997 | 61 |
| 21 | Monte Verde | Science | 1989 | 58 |
| 22 | Growth differences between children of highland and coastal Ecuador | American Journal of Physical Anthropology | 1995 | 57 |
| 23 | Beyond the buildings: Formation processes of ancient Maya houselots and methods for the study of non-architectural space | Journal of Anthropological Archaeology | 2007 | 57 |
| 24 | Carnivore alteration of human bone from a late prehistoric site in illinois | American Journal of Physical Anthropology | 1989 | 56 |
| 25 | Maize Productivity in the Eastern Woodlands and Great Plains of North America | American Antiquity | 1999 | 54 |
| 26 | The triple burden: the impact of time poverty on women’s participation in coffee producer organizational governance in Mexico | Agriculture and Human Values | 2017 | 54 |
| 27 | American children at risk: Poverty and its consequences for children's health, growth, and school achievement | American Journal of Physical Anthropology | 1995 | 53 |
| 28 | Food consumption, activity, and overweight among elementary school children in an Appalachian Kentucky community | | 2000 | 53 |
| 29 | The contribution of size and shape variation to patterns of sexual dimorphism of the human femur | American Journal of Physical Anthropology | 1972 | 52 |
| 30 | Pre-industrial human and environment interactions in northern Peru during the late Holocene | Holocene | 2004 | 52 |
| 31 | Fair Trade Coffee and Human Rights in Guatemala | Journal of Consumer Policy | 2007 | 52 |
| 32 | THE PERSONAL IS PATRILINEAL:NAMUSAS SOVEREIGNTY | Identities | 2008 | 52 |
| 33 | Heat Treating of Chert: Methods of Interpretation and Their Application | Plains Anthropologist | 1974 | 50 |
| 34 | Gift Remitting and Alliance Building in Zambian Modernity: Old Answers to Modern Problems | American Anthropologist | 2003 | 50 |
| 35 | Deglaciation and Holocene climate change in the western Peruvian Andes | Quaternary Research | 2006 | 50 |
| 36 | Impact of Empire Expansion on Household Diet: The Inka in Northern Chile's Atacama Desert | PLoS ONE | 2009 | 48 |
| 37 | The Health and Nutrition of a Medieval Nubian Population: The Impact of Political and Economic Change | American Anthropologist | 1995 | 47 |
| 38 | Child growth and nutritional status in a high-poverty community in eastern Kentucky | American Journal of Physical Anthropology | 1999 | 47 |
| 39 | Remitting the gift: Zambian mobility and anthropological insights for migration studies | Population, Space and Place | 2005 | 47 |
| 40 | Anthropology, Demography, and the Search for a Critical Analysis of Fertility: Insights from Russia | American Anthropologist | 2003 | 46 |
| 41 | The Ecology of Wealth-in-People: Agriculture, Settlement, and Society on the Perpetual Frontier | American Anthropologist | 1992 | 44 |
| 42 | Middle Preceramic Public and Residential Sites on the Forested Slope of the Western Andes, Northern Peru | American Antiquity | 1989 | 42 |
| 43 | ARCHAEOLOGY: Climate and Human Migrations | Science | 2002 | 42 |
| 44 | Principal axis analysis of dental attrition data | American Journal of Physical Anthropology | 1979 | 40 |
| 45 | Tracking the first Americans | Nature | 2003 | 40 |
| 46 | Cultural Logic and Practical Reason: the Structure of Discard in Ancient Maya Houselots | Cambridge Archaeological Journal | 2007 | 40 |
| 47 | Ancient Cultigens or Modern Intrusions?: Evaluating Plant Remains in an Andean Case Study | Journal of Archaeological Science | 1996 | 37 |
| 48 | A Ceramic Perspective on the Formative to Classic Transition in Southern Veracruz, Mexico | Latin American Antiquity | 2000 | 37 |
| 49 | Temporal Heterogeneity in the Study of African Land Use | Human Ecology | 2007 | 37 |
| 50 | Migrant land rights reception and 'clearing to claim' in sub-Saharan Africa: A deforestation example from southern Zambia | Natural Resources Forum | 2005 | 35 |
