| Timing and climatic impact of Greenland interstadials recorded in stalagmites from northern Turkey D Fleitmann, H Cheng, S Badertscher, RL Edwards, M Mudelsee, ... Geophysical Research Letters 36 (19), 2009 | 494 | 2009 |
| Australopithecus sediba at 1.977 Ma and implications for the origins of the genus Homo R Pickering, PHGM Dirks, Z Jinnah, DJ De Ruiter, SE Churchill, ... science 333 (6048), 1421-1423, 2011 | 244 | 2011 |
| Geological setting and age of Australopithecus sediba from southern Africa PHGM Dirks, JM Kibii, BF Kuhn, C Steininger, SE Churchill, JD Kramers, ... Science 328 (5975), 205-208, 2010 | 234 | 2010 |
| Re-appraisal of the stratigraphy and determination of new U-Pb dates for the Sterkfontein hominin site, South Africa R Pickering, JD Kramers Journal of Human Evolution 59 (1), 70-86, 2010 | 195 | 2010 |
| Contemporaneity of Australopithecus, Paranthropus, and early Homo erectus in South Africa AIR Herries, JM Martin, AB Leece, JW Adams, G Boschian, ... Science 368 (6486), eaaw7293, 2020 | 153 | 2020 |
| Contemporary flowstone development links early hominin bearing cave deposits in South Africa R Pickering, JD Kramers, PJ Hancox, DJ de Ruiter, JD Woodhead Earth and Planetary Science Letters 306 (1-2), 23-32, 2011 | 143 | 2011 |
| New australopithecus robustus fossils and associated U-Pb dates from Cooper's cave (Gauteng, South Africa) DJ de Ruiter, R Pickering, CM Steininger, JD Kramers, PJ Hancox, ... Journal of Human Evolution 56 (5), 497-513, 2009 | 127 | 2009 |
| A Multi-Disciplinary Perspective on the Age of Australopithecus in Southern Africa AIR Herries, R Pickering, JW Adams, D Curnoe, G Warr, AG Latham, ... The paleobiology of Australopithecus, 21-40, 2013 | 123 | 2013 |
| Stratigraphy, U-Th chronology, and paleoenvironments at Gladysvale Cave: insights into the climatic control of South African hominin-bearing cave deposits R Pickering, PJ Hancox, JA Lee-Thorp, R Grün, GE Mortimer, ... Journal of Human evolution 53 (5), 602-619, 2007 | 109 | 2007 |
| The SISAL database: a global resource to document oxygen and carbon isotope records from speleothems K Atsawawaranunt, L Comas-Bru, S Amirnezhad Mozhdehi, M Deininger, ... Earth System Science Data 10 (3), 1687-1713, 2018 | 103 | 2018 |
| U–Pb-dated flowstones restrict South African early hominin record to dry climate phases R Pickering, AIR Herries, JD Woodhead, JC Hellstrom, HE Green, B Paul, ... Nature 565 (7738), 226-229, 2019 | 99 | 2019 |
| U–Pb dating of calcite–aragonite layers in speleothems from hominin sites in South Africa by MC-ICP-MS R Pickering, JD Kramers, T Partridge, J Kodolanyi, T Pettke Quaternary Geochronology 5 (5), 544-558, 2010 | 72 | 2010 |
| Mid-Pleistocene hominin occupation at Elandsfontein, western cape, South Africa DR Braun, NE Levin, D Stynder, AIR Herries, W Archer, F Forrest, ... Quaternary Science Reviews 82, 145-166, 2013 | 71 | 2013 |
| Probable human hair found in a fossil hyaena coprolite from Gladysvale cave, South Africa L Backwell, R Pickering, D Brothwell, L Berger, M Witcomb, D Martill, ... Journal of Archaeological Science 36 (6), 1269-1276, 2009 | 70 | 2009 |
| Paleoanthropologically significant South African sea caves dated to 1.1–1.0 million years using a combination of U–Pb, TT-OSL and palaeomagnetism R Pickering, Z Jacobs, AIR Herries, P Karkanas, M Bar-Matthews, ... Quaternary Science Reviews 65, 39-52, 2013 | 68 | 2013 |
| Innovative Homo sapiens behaviours 105,000 years ago in a wetter Kalahari J Wilkins, BJ Schoville, R Pickering, L Gliganic, B Collins, KS Brown, ... Nature 592 (7853), 248-252, 2021 | 67 | 2021 |
| Connections, culture and environments around 100 000 years ago at Klasies River main site S Wurz, SE Bentsen, J Reynard, L Van Pletzen-Vos, M Brenner, ... Quaternary international 495, 102-115, 2018 | 62 | 2018 |
| Beyond 500 ka: Progress and prospects in the UPb chronology of speleothems, and their application to studies in palaeoclimate, human evolution, biodiversity and tectonics J Woodhead, R Pickering Chemical Geology 322, 290-299, 2012 | 55 | 2012 |
| Evaluating model outputs using integrated global speleothem records of climate change since the last glacial L Comas-Bru, SP Harrison, M Werner, K Rehfeld, N Scroxton, ... Climate of the Past 15 (4), 1557-1579, 2019 | 54 | 2019 |
| U and Pb variability in older speleothems and strategies for their chronology J Woodhead, J Hellstrom, R Pickering, R Drysdale, B Paul, P Bajo Quaternary Geochronology 14, 105-113, 2012 | 46 | 2012 |
