| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Historical Overfishing and the Recent Collapse of Coastal Ecosystems | Science | 2001 | 5,242 |
| 2 | Kelp forest ecosystems: biodiversity, stability, resilience and future | Environmental Conservation | 2002 | 1,482 |
| 3 | What a drop can do: Dried blood spots as a minimally invasive method for integrating biomarkers into population-based research | Demography | 2007 | 568 |
| 4 | The Archaeology of Aquatic Adaptations: Paradigms for a New Millennium | Journal of Archaeological Research | 2001 | 473 |
| 5 | Explaining sex differences in dental caries prevalence: Saliva, hormones, and “life‐history” etiologies | American Journal of Human Biology | 2006 | 394 |
| 6 | Lethal aggression in Pan is better explained by adaptive strategies than human impacts | Nature | 2014 | 375 |
| 7 | The impact of multimorbidity on adult physical and mental health in low- and middle-income countries: what does the study on global ageing and adult health (SAGE) reveal? | BMC Medicine | 2015 | 297 |
| 8 | Hardness of cercopithecine foods: Implications for the critical function of enamel thickness in exploiting fallback foods | American Journal of Physical Anthropology | 2004 | 272 |
| 9 | Paleoindian Seafaring, Maritime Technologies, and Coastal Foraging on California’s Channel Islands | Science | 2011 | 261 |
| 10 | Primate phylogenetic relationships and divergence dates inferred from complete mitochondrial genomes | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | 2014 | 260 |
| 11 | Cross-cultural evidence of cognitive adaptations for social exchange among the Shiwiar of Ecuadorian Amazonia | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2002 | 251 |
| 12 | Dental paleopathology and agricultural intensification in South Asia: New evidence from Bronze Age Harappa | American Journal of Physical Anthropology | 1992 | 198 |
| 13 | Macrovertebrate Paleontology and the Pliocene Habitat of Ardipithecus ramidus | Science | 2009 | 194 |
| 14 | Human preferences for sexually dimorphic faces may be evolutionarily novel | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2014 | 169 |
| 15 | Introduction: From the "New Ecology" to the New Ecologies | American Anthropologist | 1999 | 152 |
| 16 | From Pleistocene Mariners to Complex Hunter-Gatherers: The Archaeology of the California Channel Islands | Journal of World Prehistory | 2005 | 152 |
| 17 | Chronic Noncommunicable Diseases in 6 Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Findings From Wave 1 of the World Health Organization's Study on Global Ageing and Adult Health (SAGE) | American Journal of Epidemiology | 2017 | 152 |
| 18 | Evidence for the early beginning (c. 9000 cal. BP) of rice domestication in China: a response | Holocene | 2007 | 148 |
| 19 | Associations between Sleep Duration, Sleep Quality, and Cognitive Test Performance among Older Adults from Six Middle Income Countries: Results from the Study on Global Ageing and Adult Health (SAGE) | Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine | 2014 | 144 |
| 20 | Archaeological Soybean (Glycine max) in East Asia: Does Size Matter? | PLoS ONE | 2011 | 143 |
| 21 | An Archaeological and Paleontological Chronology for Daisy Cave (CA-SMI-261), San Miguel Island, California | Radiocarbon | 1996 | 142 |
| 22 | Ice ages and ecological transitions on temperate coasts | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 2003 | 140 |
| 23 | Sex differences in dental caries experience: clinical evidence, complex etiology | Clinical Oral Investigations | 2011 | 138 |
| 24 | The ‘caries correction factor’: A new method of calibrating dental caries rates to compensate for antemortem loss of teeth | International Journal of Osteoarchaeology | 1995 | 136 |
| 25 | Immune function in Amazonian horticulturalists | Annals of Human Biology | 2016 | 134 |
| 26 | Social roles, prestige, and health risk | Human Nature | 2003 | 131 |
| 27 | Using ancient DNA to study the origins and dispersal of ancestral Polynesian chickens across the Pacific | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2014 | 131 |
| 28 | Common risk factors for chronic non-communicable diseases among older adults in China, Ghana, Mexico, India, Russia and South Africa: the study on global AGEing and adult health (SAGE) wave 1 | BMC Public Health | 2015 | 126 |
| 29 | Tradeoffs between immune function and childhood growth among Amazonian forager-horticulturalists | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2018 | 125 |
| 30 | Evidence for Temporal Fluctuations in Marine Radiocarbon Reservoir Ages in the Santa Barbara Channel, Southern California | Journal of Archaeological Science | 1997 | 124 |
| 31 | Nanodiamonds in the Younger Dryas Boundary Sediment Layer | Science | 2009 | 124 |
| 32 | Ideal free settlement of California’s Northern Channel Islands | Journal of Anthropological Archaeology | 2010 | 123 |
| 33 | Wildfire and abrupt ecosystem disruption on California's Northern Channel Islands at the Ållerød–Younger Dryas boundary (13.0–12.9ka) | Quaternary Science Reviews | 2008 | 120 |
| 34 | Prevalence of and factors associated with frailty and disability in older adults from China, Ghana, India, Mexico, Russia and South Africa | Maturitas | 2016 | 120 |
| 35 | Life on the edge: early maritime cultures of the Pacific Coast of North America | Quaternary Science Reviews | 2008 | 118 |
| 36 | Paleocoastal Marine Fishing on the Pacific Coast of the Americas: Perspectives from Daisy Cave, California | American Antiquity | 2001 | 114 |
| 37 | Archaeological data provide alternative hypotheses on Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii) distribution, abundance, and variability | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2014 | 109 |
| 38 | Physical activity patterns and biomarkers of cardiovascular disease risk in hunter‐gatherers | American Journal of Human Biology | 2017 | 108 |
| 39 | From Asia to the Americas by boat? Paleogeography, paleoecology, and stemmed points of the northwest Pacific | Quaternary International | 2011 | 101 |
| 40 | Prevalence of Loss of All Teeth (Edentulism) and Associated Factors in Older Adults in China, Ghana, India, Mexico, Russia and South Africa | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health | 2014 | 101 |
| 41 | Early State Formation in Southern Mesopotamia: Sea Levels, Shorelines, and Climate Change | Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology | 2006 | 97 |
| 42 | The limitation of human population: a natural history | Science | 1975 | 93 |
| 43 | Activity-induced patterns of dental abrasion in prehistoric Pakistan: Evidence from Mehrgarh and Harappa | American Journal of Physical Anthropology | 1988 | 93 |
| 44 | Human responses to Middle Holocene climate change on California's Channel Islands | Quaternary Science Reviews | 2007 | 93 |
| 45 | Shellfish Feeders, Carrion Eaters, and the Archaeology of Aquatic Adaptations | American Antiquity | 2001 | 89 |
| 46 | Human Impacts on Nearshore Shellfish Taxa: A 7,000 Year Record from Santa Rosa Island, California | American Antiquity | 2007 | 89 |
| 47 | Interpreting sex differences in enamel hypoplasia in human and non-human primates: Developmental, environmental, and cultural considerations | American Journal of Physical Anthropology | 1999 | 88 |
| 48 | Sea level, paleogeography, and archeology on California's Northern Channel islands | Quaternary Research | 2015 | 88 |
| 49 | Health of Indigenous Peoples | Annual Review of Anthropology | 2015 | 88 |
| 50 | Intrashell Radiocarbon Variability in Marine Mollusks | Radiocarbon | 2006 | 87 |
