To cite the roadDB R package, please use:

Sommer C, Pedersen J, Kanaeva Z, Streicher T, Kandel A, Conard N, Hochschild V (2026). “roadDB: An R package for exploring early human prehistory and environments with the ROCEEH Out of Africa Database.” PLOS ONE, 21(10), e0359952. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0359952.

To cite data derived from ROAD, please use:

Kandel A, Sommer C, Kanaeva Z, Bolus M, Bruch A, Groth C, Haidle M, Hertler C, Heß J, Malina M, Maerker M, Hochschild V, Mosbrugger V, Schrenk F, Conard N (2023). “The ROCEEH Out of Africa Database (ROAD): A large-scale research database serves as an indispensable tool for human evolutionary studies.” PLOS ONE, 18(8), e0289513. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0289513.

Corresponding BibTeX entries:

  @Article{,
    title = {roadDB: An R package for exploring early human prehistory
      and environments with the ROCEEH Out of Africa Database},
    author = {C. Sommer and J. B. Pedersen and Z. Kanaeva and T. P.
      Streicher and A. W. Kandel and N. J. Conard and V. Hochschild},
    journal = {PLOS ONE},
    year = {2026},
    volume = {21},
    number = {10},
    pages = {e0359952},
    doi = {10.1371/journal.pone.0359952},
  }

  @Article{,
    title = {The ROCEEH Out of Africa Database (ROAD): A large-scale
      research database serves as an indispensable tool for human
      evolutionary studies},
    author = {A. W. Kandel and C. Sommer and Z. Kanaeva and M. Bolus
      and A. A. Bruch and C. Groth and M. N. Haidle and C. Hertler and
      J. Heß and M. Malina and M. Maerker and V. Hochschild and V.
      Mosbrugger and F. Schrenk and N. J. Conard},
    journal = {PLOS ONE},
    year = {2023},
    volume = {18},
    number = {8},
    pages = {e0289513},
    doi = {10.1371/journal.pone.0289513},
  }