2020  Jenkins, X.A., Pritchard, A.C., Marsh, A.D., Kligman, B.T., Sidor, C.A., Reed, K.E. Using manual ungual morphology to predict substrate use in the Drepanosauromorpha and the description of a new species. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2020.1810058
 
2020  Rowan, J., Beaudrot, L., Franklin, J., Reed, K.E., Smail, I.E., Zamora, A., Kamilar, J.M. Divergent evolutionary and ecological legacies shape large mammal biodiversity in the global tropics and sub-tropics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117: 1559-1565.
 
2019  Braun, D.R., Aldeias, V., Archer, W., Arrowsmith, J.R., Baraki, N., Campisano, C.J., Deino, A.L., DiMaggio, E.N., Dupont-Nivet, G., Engda, B., Feary, D.A., Garello, D.I., Kerfelew, Z., McPherron, S.P., Patterson, D.P., Reeves, J.S., Thompson, J.C., and Reed, K.E. Reply to Sahle and Gossa: Technology and geochronology at the earliest known Oldowan site at Ledi-Geraru, Ethiopia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116: 20261-20262.
 
2019  Braun, D.R., Aldeias, V., Archer, W., Arrowsmith, J.R., Baraki, N., Campisano, C.J., Deino, A.L., DiMaggio, E.N., Dupont-Nivet, G., Engda, B. Feary, D.A., Garello, D.I., Kerfelew, Z., McPherron, S.P., Patterson, D.P., Reeves, J.S., Thompson, J.C., and Reed, K.E. Earliest known Oldowan artifacts at> 2.58 Ma from Ledi-Geraru, Ethiopia, highlight early technological diversity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116: 11712-11717.

2019  A. Cohen, C. Campisano, J R. Arrowsmith, A. Asrat, A. K. Behrensmeyer, A. Deino, C. Feibel, A. Hill, R. Johnson, J. Kingston, H. Lamb, T. Lowenstein, A. Noren, D. Olago, R. B. Owen, R. Potts, K. Reed, R. Renaut, F. Schäbitz, J.-J. Tiercelin, M. H. Trauth, J. Wynn, S. Ivory, K. Brady, R. O’Grady, J. Rodysill, J. Githiri, J. Russell, V. Foerster, R. Dommain, J. S. Rucina, D. Deocampo, J. Russell, A. Billingsley, C. Beck, G. Dorenbeck, L. Dullo, D. Feary, D. Garello, R. Gromig, T. Johnson, Annett Junginger, M. Karanja, E. Kimburi, A. Mbuthia, T. McCartney, E. McNulty, V. Muiruri, E. Nambiro, E. W. Negash, D. Njagi, J. N. Wilson, N. Rabideaux, T. Raub, M. J. Sier, P. Smith, J. Urban, M. Warren, M. Yadeta, C. Yost, B. Zinaye. The Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project: inferring the environmental context of human evolution from eastern African rift lake deposits. https://doi.org/10.25932/publishup-41249
 
2018  Reed, K.E.  Hadar, In The International Encyclopedia of Biological Anthropology. Wiley, pp. 1-2.
 
2018 Reed, K.E. Paleoecology, In The International Encyclopedia of Biological Anthropology. Wiley, pp. 1-7.

2018  Lazagabaster, I.A., Souron, A., Rowan, J., Robinson, J.R., Campisano, C.J., Reed,K.E. Fossil Suidae (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) from Lee Adoyta, Ledi-Geraru, lower Awash Valley, Ethiopia: Implications for late Pliocene turnover and paleoecology. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 504: 186-200.
 
2017 Robinson, J.R., Rowan, J., Campisano, C.J., Reed, K.E. Late Pliocene environmental change during the transition from Australopithecus to Homo. Nature Ecology and Evolution 1: Article number: 0159 doi:10.1038/s41559-017- 0159
 
2017   Christopher J. Campisano, Andrew S. Cohen, J. Ramon Arrowsmith, Asfawossen Asrat, Anna K. Behrensmeyer, Erik T. Brown, Alan L. Deino, Daniel M. Deocampo, Craig S. Feibel, John D. Kingston, Henry F. Lamb, Tim K. Lowenstein, Anders Noren, Daniel O. Olago, R. Bernhart Owen, Jon D. Pelletier, Richard Potts, Kaye E. Reed, Robin W. Renaut, James M. Russell, Joellen L. Russell, Frank Schäbitz, Jeffrey R. Stone, Martin H. Trauth, and Jonathan G. Wynn (2017) "The Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project: High-Resolution Paleoclimate Records from the East African Rift System and Their Implications for Understanding the Environmental Context of Hominin Evolution" PaleoAnthropology 2017:1-43
 
2017   Bibi, Faysal, Rowan, John, Reed, Kaye E. Fossil Bovidae (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) from the Late Pliocene of Ledi-Geraru (Afar, Ethiopia). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
 
2016   Rowan, J., Kamilar, J.M., Beaudrot, L., & Reed, K.E. Strong influence of Last Glacial Maximum climate on the structure of modern African mammal communities. Proceedings of the Royal Society B., 283, 20161207.
 
2016   Wynn, J. G., Reed, K. E., Sponheimer, M., Kimbel, W. H., Alemseged, Z., Bedaso, Z. K., & Campisano, C. J. Dietary flexibility of Australopithecus afarensis in the face of paleoecological change during the middle Pliocene: Faunal evidence from Hadar, Ethiopia. Journal of Human Evolution, 99, 93-106.      
 
2016   Rowan, J., Locke, E. M., Robinson, J. R., Campisano, C. J., Wynn, J. G., & Reed, K. E. Fossil Giraffidae (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) from Lee Adoyta, Ledi-Geraru, and Late Pliocene Dietary Evolution in Giraffids from the Lower Awash Valley, Ethiopia. Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 1-13.
 
2016    Lazagabaster, I. A., Rowan, J., Kamilar, J. M., & Reed, K. E. Evolution of Craniodental Correlates of Diet in African Bovidae. Journal of Mammalian Evolution, 1-12.
 
2015   Villmoare, B., Kimbel, W. H., Seyoum, C., Campisano, C. J., DiMaggio, E. N., Rowan, J., Braun, D.R., Arrowsmith, J R.,  & Reed, K. E. Early Homo at 2.8 Ma from Ledi-Geraru, Afar, Ethiopia. Science, 347(6228), 1352-1355.
 
2015   DiMaggio, E. N., Campisano, C. J., Rowan, J., Dupont-Nivet, G., Deino, A. L., Bibi, F., Lewis, M.E., Souron, A., Garello, D. Werdelin, L. & Reed, K. E. Late Pliocene fossiliferous sedimentary record and the environmental context of early Homo from Afar, Ethiopia. Science, 347(6228), 1355-1359.
 
2015   Kamilar, J., Beaudrot, L., Reed, K. Climate and Species Richness Predict the Phylogenetic Structure of African Mammal Communities. PLoS One. 10(4): e0121808. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0121808
 
2014   Rowan, J. and Reed, K.E. The Paleoclimatic Record and Plio-Pleistocene Paleoenvironments in Tatersall I. and Henke, W. (eds) Handbook of Paleoanthropology.
 
2014   Kamilar, J. M., Beaudrot, L., & Reed, K. E. (2014). The influences of species richness and climate on the phylogenetic structure of African haplorhine and strepsirrhine primate communities. International Journal of Primatology, 35(6), 1105-1121.
 
2014   Beaudrot, L., Kamilar, J., Marshall, A., Reed, K.E. African primate assemblages exhibit a latitudinal gradient in dispersal limitation. International Journal of Primatology, 35 (6), 1088-1104.
 
2013   Sponheimer, M., Alemseged, Z., Cerling, T.E., Grine, F.E., Kimbel, W.H., Leakey, M.G., Lee-Thorp, J.A., Manthi, F.K., Reed, K.E., Wood, B.A., Wynn, J.G. Isotopic evidence of early hominin diets. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110 (26),10513-8.
 
2013   Wynn, J.G., Sponheimer, M., Kimbel, W.H., Alemseged, Z., Reed, K.E., Bedaso, Z.K. and Wilson, J.N., 2013. Diet of Australopithecus afarensis from the Pliocene Hadar formation, Ethiopia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110 (26),10495-10500.
 
2013   Reed, K.E., Spencer, L.M., Rector, A.L. Faunal Approaches in Early Hominin Paleoecology in Sponheimer, M., Thorp, J.L., Reed, K.E., Ungar, P. (eds) Early Hominid Paleoecology, pp. 3-33. University of Colorado Press.
 
2013   Reed, K.E. Multiproxy Paleoecology: Reconstructing evolutionary context in paleoanthropology in Begun, D. (ed) Companion to Biological Anthropology, pp. 203-225. Wiley-Blackwell Publisher. DOI: 10.1002/9781118332344.ch11
 
2013   Behrensmeyer, A.K. and Reed, K.E. Reconstructing the habitats of Australopithecus: paleoenvironments, site taphonomy, and faunas in Reed, K.E., Fleagle, J.G. and Leakey, R. (eds) The Paleobiology of Australopithecus, pp. 41-62. Vertebrate Paleobiology & Paleoanthropology Series, Springer.
 
2013   Geraads, D., Reed, K., & Bobe, R. Pliocene Giraffidae (Mammalia) from the Hadar Formation of Hadar and Ledi-Geraru, Lower Awash, Ethiopia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 33(2), 470-481.
 
2013   Dibble, H.L., Aldeias, V., Jacobs, Z., Olszewski, D.I., Rezek, Z., Lin, S.C., Alvarez-Fernández, E., Barshay-Szmidt, C.C., Hallett-Desguez, E., Reed, D., Reed, K.E., Richter,D., Steele, T.E., Skinner, A.R., Blackwell, B.A.B., Doronicheva, E., and el-Hajraoui, M. On the industrial attributions of the Aterian and Mousterian of the Maghreb.  Journal of Human Evolution 64 (3), 194-210.
 
2012   Dibble, H.L., Aldeias, V., Alvarez-Fernandez, E., Blackwell, B.A., Hallett-Desguez, E., Jacobs, Z., Goldberg, P., Lin, S.C., Morala, A., Meyer, M.C. and Olszewski, D.I., Reed, K.E, Reed, D., Rezek,Z., Richter, D., Roberts, R.G., Sandgathe, D., Schurmans, U., Skinner, A.R., Steele, T.E. and el-Hajraoui, M.  New Excavations at the Site of Contrebandiers Cave, Morocco. PaleoAnthropology 2012:145-201
 
2012   Geraads, D., Bobe, R., Reed, K.E. Pliocene Bovidae (Mammalia) from the Hadar Formation of Hadar and Ledi-Geraru, Lower Awash, Ethiopia.  Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 32: 180-197.
 
2011   Reed, K. E. and Bibi, F. Fossil Tragelaphini (Artiodactyla: Bovidae) from the late Pliocene Hadar Formation, Afar Regional State, Ethiopia.  Journal of Mammalian Evolution 18: 57-69.
 
2010   Rector, A.L. and *Reed, K.E. Middle and Late Pleistocene Faunas of                       Pinnacle Point and their Paleoecological Implications. Journal of Human Evolution 59(3-4):340-357.
 
2009   Pinto-Llona, A., Clark, G., Miller, A., Reed, K.E. Neandertals and Cro-Magnons in northern Spain: ongoing work at the Sopena Rock-shelter, (Asturia, Spain). Pp. 313-322 in Camps, M. and Szmidt, C. (eds) The Mediterranean from 50 000 to 25 000 BP: Turning Points and New Directions.  Oxford: Oxbow Books.
 
2009   Copeland, S.R., Sponheimer, M., Spinage, C.A., Lee-Thorp, J.A., Codron, D, Reed, K.E.  Stable isotope evidence for impala Aepyceros melampus diets at Akagera National Park, Rwanda. African Journal of Ecology 47: 490- 501.
 
2009   Reed, K.E. and Russak, S. M. Tracking ecological change in relation to the emergence of Homo at the Plio-Pleistocene boundary in Grine, F. and Leakey R.E. (eds) The First Humans - Origin and Early Evolution of the Genus Homo. SpringerLink Series in Vertebrate Paleobiology and Anthropology.
 
2008   Assefa, Z., Yirga, S., and *Reed, K.E. The large-mammal fauna from the Kibish Formation. Journal of Human Evolution, 55: 501-512.
 
2008   Dupont-Nivet, G., Sier, M., Campisano, C.J., Arrowsmith, J R., DiMaggio, E., Reed, K., Lockwood, C. Franke, C., and Hüsing, S. Magnetostratigraphy of the eastern Hadar Basin (Ledi-Geraru research area, Ethiopia) and implications for hominin paleoenvironments. Pp.69-85 in Quade, J. and Wynn, J. (eds) The Geological Context of Human Evolution in the Horn of Africa. A Geological Society of America Special Paper, 446.
 
2008   DiMaggio, E.N., Campisano, C.J., Arrowsmith, J.R., Reed, K.E., Swisher, C.C. III, and Lockwood, C.A. Correlation and stratigraphy of the BKT-2 volcanic complex. Pp. 163-177 in west-central Afar, Ethiopia in Quade, J. and Wynn, J. (eds) The Geological Context of Human Evolution in the Horn of Africa. A Geological Society of America Special Paper, 446.
 
2008   Reed, K. E. Paleoecological Patterns at the Hadar Hominin Site, Afar Regional State, Ethiopia. Journal of Human Evolution, 54: 743-768.
 
2007   Reed, K. E. and Rector, A.L.  African Pliocene Paleoecology: Hominin habitats, resources and diets. Pp. 262-288 in Ungar, P. (ed) Early Hominin Diets: The Known, the Unknown, and the Unknowable.  Oxford:  Oxford University Press.
 
2006   Herries, A.I.R., *Reed, K.E., Kuykendall, K.L., Latham, A. G. Speleology and magnetobiostratigraphic chronology of the Buffalo Cave fossil site, Makapansgat, South Africa. Quaternary Research, 66: 233-245.
 
2006   Schubert, B.W., Ungar, P.S., Sponheimer, M., Reed, K.E. Microwear evidence for Plio-Pleistocene bovid diets from Makapansgat Limeworks Cave, South Africa. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 241: 301-319.
 
2005   Reed, K.E. and Fish, J.L.  Tropical and temperate seasonal influences on human evolution. Pp. 491-520 in Brockman, D. K. and van Schaik, C. P. (eds) Seasonality in Primates: Studies of Living and Extinct Human and Non-Human Primates.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press
 
2004   Reed, K.E. and Bidner, L.R.  Primate Communities:  Past Present and Possible Future.  Yearbook of Physical Anthropology, 47: 2-39.
 
2004   Fleagle, J.G. and Reed, K.E. The Evolution of Primate Ecology: Patterns of geography and phylogeny.  In Anapol, F., German, R.Z., & Jablonski, N. (eds) Shaping Primate Evolution:  Papers in Honor of Charles Oxnard.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press.
 
2003   Sponheimer, M., Lee-Thorp, J.A., DeRuiter, D.J., Smith, J.M., van der Merwe, N., Reed, K.E., Grant, C.C., Ayliffe, L.K., Robinson, T.F., Heidelberger, C. and Marcus, W.  Diets of Southern African Bovidae: Stable Isotope Evidence.  Journal of Mammalogy, 84 (2): 471-479.
 
2002   Reed, K. E. The use of paleocommunity and taphonomic studies in reconstructing primate behavior. Pp. 217-259 in Plavcan, M.J., Kay, R., van Schaik, C, and Jungers, W.L. Reconstructing Primate Behavior in the Fossil Record.  New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Press.
 
2001    Sponheimer, M., Thorp, J.-L., Reed, K. E. Isotopic Paleoecology of the Makapansgat Limeworks Perissodactyla.  South African Journal of Science, 97: 327-329.

1999   Reed, K. E.   Body size, population density, and resource partitioning in primate communities. Pp. 116-140 in Fleagle, J.G., Janson, C., and Reed, K.E. (eds) Primate Communities.  New York: Cambridge University Press. 

1999   Fleagle, J. G. and Reed, K. E. Primate communities and phylogeny. Pp. 92-115 in Fleagle, J.G., Janson, C., and Reed, K. E. (eds) Primate Communities.  New York: Cambridge University Press.
 
1999   Sponheimer, M., Reed, K. E., and Lee-Thorpe, J. Combining isotopic and ecomorphological data to refine bovid paleodietary reconstruction:  a case study from the Makapansgat Limeworks hominin locality.  Journal of Human Evolution, 36: 705-718.
 
1998   Reed, K. E. Using large mammal communities to examine ecological and taxonomic organization and predict vegetation in extant and extinct assemblages.  Paleobiology, 24: 384-408.

1997   Reed, K. E.  Early Hominid Evolution and Ecological Change through the African Plio-Pleistocene.  Journal of Human Evolution, 32:  289-322. 
                       
1997    Godfrey, L., Jungers, W. L., Reed, K. E., Simons, E., and Chatrath, P.  Primate Subfossils:  Inferences about Past and Present Primate Community Structure.  Pp. 218-256 in Goodman, Steve and Patterson, Bruce (eds):  Natural and Human Influenced Environmental Change in Madagascar, Washington:  Smithsonian University Press.
 
1996    Kimbel, W.H., Johanson, D.C., Walter, R.C., Reed, K. E., Aronson, J.L., Assefa, Z., Marean, C.M., Eck, G.G., Bobe, R., Hovers, E., Rak, Y., Vondra, C., Yemane, T., York, D., Chen, Y., Evensen, N. and Smith, P.  Late Pliocene Homo and Olduwan tools from the Hadar Formation (Kada Hadar Member), Ethiopia.  Journal of Human Evolution, 31: 549-561.
 
1996    Fleagle, J. G. and Reed, K. E.  Comparing Primate Communities: A Multivariate Approach.  Journal of Human Evolution, 30: 489-510
 
1996    Fleagle, J. G. and Reed, K. E.  Primate Evolution. Pp. 1025-1029 in Levinson, D. And Ember, M. (Eds) The Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology. Volume 3.
       
1995    Reed, K. E. and Fleagle, J. G. Geographic and Climate Control of Primate Diversity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 92: 7874-7876.
 
1994    Marean, C. M., Mudida, N., and Reed, K. E.  Paleoenvironmental implications of Holocene micromammals and community structure from Enakpune Ya Muto Rockshelter (Central Rift, Kenya).  Quaternary Research, 41: 376-389.
 
1993   Reed, K. E., Kitching, J. L., Grine, F. E., Jungers, W. L., and Sokoloff, L. Proximal femur of Australopithecus africanus from Member 4, Makapansgat, South Africa.  American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 92: 1-15.