Most cited papers in Archaeology and Natural History

Archaeology and Natural History

What are the most cited papers in Archaeology and Natural History?

The most cited paper in Archaeology and Natural History is "Monitoring the vernal advancement and retrogradation (green wave effect) of natural vegetation" (John Wilson Rouse, 1973), with 1,767 citations. Next come "Regeneration Through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600-1860" (944) and "Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language among the Western Apache" (865).

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Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 167 citations is listed.

Most cited papers, sortable by citations and release date
#	Paper
1	Monitoring the vernal advancement and retrogradation (green wave effect) of natural vegetation John Wilson Rouse · NASA STI Repository (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) Open access	27 Nov 1973	1,767
2	Regeneration Through Violence: The Mythology of the American Frontier, 1600-1860 Levi S. Peterson, Richard Slotkin · Western Historical Quarterly	1974	944
3	Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language among the Western Apache Sarah B Johnson, Keith H. Basso · Journal of American Folklore	1998	865
4	Fire in America: A Cultural History of Wildland and Rural Fire Harold K. Steen, Stephen J. Pyne · Western Historical Quarterly	1984	784
5	Sinuosity of Alluvial Rivers on the Great Plains Stanley A. Schumm · Geological Society of America Bulletin	1963	662
6	LARGE WOODY DEBRIS JAMS, CHANNEL HYDRAULICS AND HABITAT FORMATION IN LARGE RIVERS Timothy B. Abbe, David R. Montgomery · Regulated Rivers Research & Management	Mar 1996	642
7	Riparian vegetation and fluvial geomorphic processes Cliff R. Hupp, Waite R. Osterkamp · Geomorphology	1996	616
8	Restoring Ecosystem Health in Ponderosa Pine Forests of the Southwest W. Wallace Covington, Peter Z. Fulé, Margaret M. Moore et al. · Journal of Forestry	Apr 1997	598
9	Hydrochemical Evolution of Sodium-Sulfate and Sodium-Chloride Groundwater Beneath the Northern Chihuahuan Desert, Trans-Pecos, Texas, USA Rebecca Fisher, William F. Mullican · Hydrogeology Journal	Feb 1997	571
10	TRADITIONAL ECOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM OF ABORIGINAL PEOPLES IN BRITISH COLUMBIA Nancy J. Turner, Marianne Boelscher Ignace, Ronald E. Ignace · Ecological Applications	Oct 2000	562
11	Effects of Groundwater Decline on Riparian Vegetation of Semiarid Regions: The San Pedro, Arizona Juliet C. Stromberg, Ronald L. Tiller, Brian D. Richter · Ecological Applications	Feb 1996	551
12	Los tipos de vegetación de México y su clasificación Faustino Miranda, Efraim Hernández-X. · Botanical Sciences Open access	15 Sep 1963	535
13	The Discovery of America Paul S. Martin · Science	9 Mar 1973	526
14	Body Ritual among the Nacirema Horace Mitchell Miner · American Anthropologist	Jun 1956	486
15	Dispossessing the Wilderness: Indian Removal and the Making of the National Parks Kurk Dorsey, Mark David Spence · The American Historical Review	Jun 2000	465
16	Development of Vegetation and Climate in the Southwestern United States Thomas R. Van Devender, W. Geoffrey Spaulding · Science	18 May 1979	447
17	The Six Faces of Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Challenges and Opportunities for Canadian Co-Management Arrangements Nicolas Houde · Ecology and Society Open access	2007	413
18	TRADITIONAL ECOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE: THE THIRD ALTERNATIVE (COMMENTARY) Raymond J. Pierotti, Daniel R. Wildcat · Ecological Applications	Oct 2000	406
19	Bed-material entrainment and hydraulic geometry of gravel-bed rivers in Colorado Edmund D. Andrews · Geological Society of America Bulletin	1984	405
20	Fire Mosaics in Southern California and Northern Baja California Richard A. Minnich · Science	18 Mar 1983	405
21	The Climate of the Central North American Grassland John R. Borchert · Annals of the Association of American Geographers	Mar 1950	361
22	In Small Things Forgotten: The Archaeology of Early American Life Ivor Noël Hume, James F. Deetz · Journal of American History	Sep 1978	358
23	The Character of Channel Migration on the Beatton River, Northeast British Columbia, Canada Edward J. Hickin, Gerald C. Nanson · Geological Society of America Bulletin	1975	358
24	FIRE AND GRAZING REGULATE BELOWGROUND PROCESSES IN TALLGRASS PRAIRIE Loretta C. Johnson, John R. Matchett · Ecology	Dec 2001	353
25	Anthropological papers of the University of Arizona William E. Massey · Hispanic American Historical Review	Nov 1960	351
26	Natives and Academics: Researching and Writing about American Indians Ned Blackhawk, Devon A. Mihesuah · Western Historical Quarterly	1999	347
27	Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s James W. Ware, Donald Worster · Journal of American History	Jun 1980	333
28	Stream Corridor Restoration: Principles, Processes, and Practices Jerry Bernard, Ronald W. Tuttle Conference paper	9 Dec 1998	328
29	Indians, Fire, and the Land in the Pacific Northwest Bruce Shelvey, Robert T. Boyd · Western Historical Quarterly	2000	318
30	Groundwater-wetland ecosystem interaction in the semiarid glaciated plains of North America Garth van der Kamp, Masaki Hayashi · Hydrogeology Journal	22 Oct 2008	317
31	Historic aspen recruitment, elk, and wolves in northern Yellowstone National Park, USA William J. Ripple, Eric J. Larsen · Biological Conservation	Oct 2000	307
32	Downstream effects of dams on channel geometry and bottomland vegetation: Regional patterns in the great plains Jonathan M. Friedman, Waite R. Osterkamp, Michael L. Scott et al. · Wetlands	Dec 1998	302
33	From Borderlands to Borders: Empires, Nation-States, and the Peoples in Between in North American History Jeremy Adelman, Stephen Aron · The American Historical Review	Jun 1999	302
34	Frontiers and Boundaries in Archaeological Perspective Kent G. Lightfoot, Antoinette Martinez · Annual Review of Anthropology Open access	Oct 1995	297
35	Pre‐Columbian Native American Use of Fire on Southern Appalachian Landscapes Hazel R. Delcourt, Paul A. Delcourt · Conservation Biology	12 Aug 1997	293
36	Origins of Agriculture in Eastern North America Bruce D. Smith · Science	22 Dec 1989	290
37	Comparison of chemical hydrogeology of the carbonate peninsulas of Florida and Yucatan William Back, Bruce B. Hanshaw · Journal of Hydrology	Jun 1970	280
38	Complex Hunter-Gatherer-Fishers of Prehistoric California: Chiefs, Specialists, and Maritime Adaptations of the Channel Islands Jeanne E. Arnold · American Antiquity	1992	278
39	Geologic analysis of the Upper Jurassic Haynesville Shale in east Texas and west Louisiana Ursula Hammes, H. Scott Hamlin, Thomas E. Ewing · AAPG Bulletin	26 Sep 2011	271
40	Late Pleistocene Stratigraphy and Chronology in Southwestern British Columbia and Northwestern Washington J E Armstrong, Dwight Raymond Crandell, DONALD J. EASTERBROOK et al. · Geological Society of America Bulletin	1965	262
41	A synopsis of Ipomoea (Convolvulaceae) in the Americas Daniel Frank Austin, Z. Huamán · Taxon	Feb 1996	256
42	An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846–1873 Steven W. Hackel · Journal of American History	7 Aug 2017	248
43	The History and Evolution of Wildland Fire Use Jan W. van Wagtendonk · Fire Ecology Open access	Dec 2007	248
44	Evolution of Meander Loops James Coble Brice · Geological Society of America Bulletin	1974	248
45	Women in Prehistory: North America and Mesoamerica Sarah Nelson · American Anthropologist	Dec 1997	242
46	Ancient History in the New World: Integrating Oral Traditions and the Archaeological Record in Deep Time Roger C. Echo-Hawk · American Antiquity	Apr 2000	241
47	Disruption of ecosystem processes in western North America by invasive species Jeffrey S. Dukes, Harold A. Mooney · Revista chilena de historia natural Open access	Sep 2004	239
48	State and Society at Teotihuacan, Mexico George L. Cowgill · Annual Review of Anthropology Review	Oct 1997	230
49	River Channel Change with Time: An Example Luna B. Leopold · Geological Society of America Bulletin	1973	228
50	The Buttermilk Creek Complex and the Origins of Clovis at the Debra L. Friedkin Site, Texas Michael R. Waters, Steven L. Forman, Thomas A. Jennings et al. · Science	24 Mar 2011	225

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