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American Anthropological Association

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World rank, all time
#28,070
of 34,923
Rank in United States
#5,888
of 7,310
Research works
179
▲ 23% vs 2018-21
Citations
2.6k
14.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
6.7%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
1.03×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
44%
world 40%
International
31%
world 18%
American Anthropological Association

Which fields of science does American Anthropological Association work in?

In 2022-now, 50% of research at American Anthropological Association is in Social Sciences, 39% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (32%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (20%), Computer Science (11%). It does 1.8× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 17 fractional works · 50.1% of its workSocial Sciences: 11 fractional works · 31.8% of its workAnthropology: 4 fractional works · 12.4% of its workSafety Research: 1 fractional works · 3.8% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 fractional works · 3.3% of its workEducation: 1 fractional works · 3.1% of its workCultural Studies: 1 fractional works · 1.7% of its workHealth: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workSociology and Political Science: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workArcheology: 0 fractional works · 1.4% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workGeography, Planning and Development: 0 fractional works · 0.9% of its workCommunication: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workLaw: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workArts and Humanities: 3 fractional works · 8.4% of its workArcheology: 1 fractional works · 3.6% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 1 fractional works · 1.9% of its workHistory: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workMuseology: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPhilosophy: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workPsychology: 3 fractional works · 7.9% of its workSocial Psychology: 2 fractional works · 6.0% of its workClinical Psychology: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPhysical Sciences: 13 fractional works · 38.5% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 7 fractional works · 19.9% of its workPaleontology: 5 fractional works · 15.0% of its workAtmospheric Science: 1 fractional works · 3.8% of its workSpace and Planetary Science: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workEarth-Surface Processes: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workComputer Science: 4 fractional works · 11.0% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 2 fractional works · 5.5% of its workInformation Systems: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workComputer Networks and Communications: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workSignal Processing: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workComputer Science Applications: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnvironmental Science: 2 fractional works · 5.0% of its workGlobal and Planetary Change: 1 fractional works · 2.1% of its workEcology: 1 fractional works · 1.8% of its workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEngineering: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workAerospace Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workMathematics: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNumerical Analysis: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMaterials Science: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workHealth Sciences: 2 fractional works · 5.8% of its workMedicine: 2 fractional works · 5.7% of its workPhysiology: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workPharmacology: 0 fractional works · 1.0% of its workHealth Informatics: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workDermatology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workNeurology: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workOrthopedics and Sports Medicine: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.5% of its workHealth Professions: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 2 fractional works · 5.7% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 2.9% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 fractional works · 2.5% of its workPlant Science: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 1.6% of its workGenetics: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workMolecular Biology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNeuroscience: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 0 fractional works · 1.2% of its workALL ITS WORKAmericanAnthropological…34fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences6%Physical Sciences39%Health Sciences6%Social Sciences50%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this institution does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 17 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences1131.8%
    2. Arts and Humanities38.4%
    3. Psychology37.9%
    4. Decision Sciences01.0%
    5. Economics, Econometrics and Finance01.0%
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences719.9%
    2. Computer Science411.0%
    3. Environmental Science25.0%
    4. Engineering01.2%
    5. Physics and Astronomy00.7%
    6. Mathematics00.5%
    7. Materials Science00.2%
    1. Medicine25.7%
    2. Health Professions00.1%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences12.9%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology11.6%
    3. Neuroscience01.2%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

Field profile

Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.60× its world share, 1 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.30× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Neuroscience: 0.74× its world share, 0 worksNeuroscienceComputer Science: 1.42× its world share, 4 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 12.70× its world share, 7 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 1.01× its world share, 2 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.42× its world share, 0 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.31× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.29× its world share, 2 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 2.91× its world share, 3 worksArts and HumanitiesDecision Sciences: 1.03× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.44× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 2.58× its world share, 3 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 2.52× its world share, 11 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Earth and Planetary Sciences, 12.7×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 17 fields, with their numbers
  1. Earth and Planetary Sciences12.70×7 works
  2. Arts and Humanities2.91×3 works
  3. Psychology2.58×3 works
  4. Social Sciences2.52×11 works
  5. Computer Science1.42×4 works
  6. Decision Sciences1.03×0 works
  7. Environmental Science1.01×2 works
  8. Neuroscience0.74×0 works
  9. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.60×1 works
  10. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.44×0 works
  11. Mathematics0.42×0 works
  12. Physics and Astronomy0.31×0 works
  13. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.30×0 works
  14. Medicine0.29×2 works
  15. Engineering0.08×0 works
  16. Materials Science0.06×0 works
  17. Health Professions0.04×0 works

Who are the top researchers at American Anthropological Association?

Ranked on the quality score, Ryan Cardwell, Malcolm Collier and S. Radtke Martin lead among researchers whose main affiliation is American Anthropological Association.

  1. 1 Ryan Cardwell United States · #1,708,518 worldwide 59 citations · 23 works
  2. 2 Malcolm Collier United States · #2,299,719 worldwide 2k citations · 21 works
  3. 3 S. Radtke Martin United States · #2,317,324 worldwide 0 citations · 50 works
  4. 4 Chris Ryan United States · #2,653,095 worldwide 313 citations · 26 works
  5. 5 Daniel Ginsberg United States · #2,952,037 worldwide 125 citations · 27 works
  6. 6 Christof Schnürer United States · #2,988,625 worldwide 31 citations · 30 works
  7. 7 Christopher Keruru United States · #3,140,613 worldwide 0 citations · 15 works
  8. 8 John M. Cornman United States · #3,230,042 worldwide 195 citations · 21 works
  9. 9 Saeid Ghiasi United States · #3,549,055 worldwide 0 citations · 37 works
  10. 10 Maren P. Hopkins United States · #3,737,797 worldwide 97 citations · 26 works
All ranked researchers at American Anthropological Association

What are the most cited papers from American Anthropological Association?

The most cited paper from American Anthropological Association is "Sediments exposed to high temperatures: reconstructing pyrotechnological processes in Late Bronze and Iron Age Strata at Tel Dor (Israel)" (Francesco Berna, Adi Eliyahu Behar, Ruth Shahack‐Gross et al., 2006), with 312 citations. Next come "Enamel hypoplasia and early mortality: Bioarcheological support for the Barker hypothesis" (220) and "The Golden Marshalltown: A Parable for the Archeology of the 1980s" (185).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Sediments exposed to high temperatures: reconstructing pyrotechnological processes in Late Bronze and Iron Age Strata at Tel Dor (Israel) Francesco Berna, Adi Eliyahu Behar, Ruth Shahack‐Gross et al. · Journal of Archaeological Science 8 Jul 2006 312
2 Enamel hypoplasia and early mortality: Bioarcheological support for the Barker hypothesis George J. Armelagos, Alan H. Goodman, Kristin Nicole Harper et al. · Evolutionary Anthropology Issues News and Reviews Open access Nov 2009 220
3 The Golden Marshalltown: A Parable for the Archeology of the 1980s Kent V. Flannery · American Anthropologist Jun 1982 185
4 The Ascendance of Hunting during the California Middle Archaic: An Evolutionary Perspective William R. Hildebrandt, Kelly R. McGuire · American Antiquity Apr 2002 175
5 Reassessing the Emergence of Village Life in the Near East Brian Franklin Byrd · Journal of Archaeological Research 18 Aug 2005 170
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Which keywords describe research at American Anthropological Association?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Agricultural Origins, Radiocarbon Dating, Ethics, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Globalization, Holocene and Intersectionality.

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's

Size is fractional works in 2022-now in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this institution's work against its share of the world's. The 23 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 23 words, with their numbers
  1. Agricultural Origins5▲ 459×1 topic
  2. Radiocarbon Dating5▲ 459×1 topic
  3. Artificial Intelligence3▲ 5.8×7 topics
  4. Globalization2▲ 3.8×5 topics
  5. Ethics2▲ 14×3 topics
  6. Machine Learning2▲ 2.1×9 topics
  7. Big Data2▲ 7.1×7 topics
  8. Climate Change2▲ 1.99×4 topics
  9. Holocene2▲ 40×2 topics
  10. Intersectionality1▲ 22×3 topics
  11. Glacial Cycles1▲ 58×1 topic
  12. Paleoclimatology1▲ 45×1 topic
  13. African Diaspora1▲ 90×1 topic
  14. Black Feminist Theory1▲ 388×1 topic
  15. Surveillance1▲ 12×2 topics
  16. Archaeology1▲ 25×4 topics
  17. Colonialism1▲ 7.0×2 topics
  18. Cultural Heritage1▲ 5.9×5 topics
  19. International Relations1▲ 14×3 topics
  20. Neoliberalism1▲ 9.2×2 topics
  21. Dialogical Self1▲ 342×1 topic
  22. Experiential Learning1▲ 57×2 topics
  23. Social Representations Theory1▲ 342×1 topic

Which research topics does American Anthropological Association publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Archaeology and ancient environmental studies, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies and Social Representations and Identity.

Archaeology and ancient …5Archaeology and ancient environmental studies: 5 fractional worksGeology and Paleoclimatology Research: 1 fractional worksHistorical and Cultural Archaeology Studies: 1 fractional worksSocial Representations and Identity: 1 fractional worksPleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology: 1 fractional worksEthics and Social Impacts of AI: 1 fractional worksAnthropological Studies and Insights: 1 fractional worksAnthropology: Ethics, History, Culture: 1 fractional worksLaw, AI, and Intellectual Property: 1 fractional worksIntelligence, Security, War Strategy: 1 fractional works
PaleontologyAtmospheric ScienceAnthropologySocial Psychology3 others

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 Archaeology and ancient environmental studies Paleontology 5 works
  2. 2 Geology and Paleoclimatology Research Atmospheric Science 1 works
  3. 3 Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies Anthropology 1 works
  4. 4 Social Representations and Identity Social Psychology 1 works
  5. 5 Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology Anthropology 1 works
  6. 6 Ethics and Social Impacts of AI Safety Research 1 works
  7. 7 Anthropological Studies and Insights Anthropology 1 works
  8. 8 Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture Anthropology 1 works
  9. 9 Law, AI, and Intellectual Property Artificial Intelligence 1 works
  10. 10 Intelligence, Security, War Strategy Political Science and International Relations 1 works

How open and international is its research?

Against the world's own shares: the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

openly available44.0%not open56.0%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors30.8%domestic only69.2%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has American Anthropological Association's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 23% higher than in 2018-2021.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is American Anthropological Association as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000080% in 2024.

still counting0.00050%0.0010%0.0015%American Anthropological Association0.000083% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of American Anthropological Association over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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