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Researcher · Georgian National Museum · Georgia

Abesalom Vekua

Abesalom Vekua publishes mostly in Anthropology, Archeology and Paleontology, on topics such as Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies and Archaeology and ancient environmental studies.

OpenAlex
World rank
#444,418
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Georgia
#89
of 1,954
Works
29
Citations
4.2k
Citations per work
143.6
h-index
19
i10-index 21Top 7.3% in Anthropology
Abesalom Vekua

What does Abesalom Vekua research?

Abesalom Vekua's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (29%), Social Sciences (26%), Arts and Humanities (23%).

Social Sciences: 15 works · 52.8% of their workSocial Sciences: 8 works · 26.4% of their workAnthropology: 8 works · 26.4% of their workArts and Humanities: 7 works · 23.0% of their workArcheology: 7 works · 23.0% of their workPsychology: 1 works · 3.4% of their workSocial Psychology: 1 works · 3.4% of their workPhysical Sciences: 10 works · 34.4% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 8 works · 28.7% of their workPaleontology: 6 works · 21.8% of their workOceanography: 2 works · 6.9% of their workEnvironmental Science: 2 works · 5.7% of their workEcology: 2 works · 5.7% of their workEverything else: 4 works · 12.8% of their workTHEIR WORKAbesalom Vekua29works
Physical Sciences34%Social Sciences53%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences826.4%
    2. Arts and Humanities723.0%
    3. Psychology13.4%
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences828.7%
    2. Environmental Science25.7%
  3. Everything else412.8%
  1. 1Anthropology26% of their works
  2. 2Archeology23% of their works
  3. 3Paleontology22% of their works
  4. 4Oceanography7% of their works
  5. 5Ecology6% of their works
  6. 6Social Psychology3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Abesalom Vekua's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Hominin Genetics, Paleolithic Archaeology, Age Estimation, Sex Determination, Agricultural Origins, Radiocarbon Dating, Mammal Evolution and Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Hominin Genetics231 topic
  2. Paleolithic Archaeology231 topic
  3. Age Estimation161 topic
  4. Sex Determination161 topic
  5. Agricultural Origins101 topic
  6. Radiocarbon Dating101 topic
  7. Mammal Evolution91 topic
  8. Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis91 topic
  9. Black Sea61 topic
  10. Holocene61 topic
  11. Ancient Health31 topic
  12. Beaver Dams31 topic
  13. Ecosystem Engineering31 topic
  14. Paleoparasitology31 topic
  15. Primates31 topic
  16. Social Behavior31 topic

Where does Abesalom Vekua work?

Abesalom Vekua's main affiliation in the publication record is Georgian National Museum, Georgia.

How many publications and citations does Abesalom Vekua have?

OpenAlex counts 29 works and 4,165 citations for Abesalom Vekua, an h-index of 19, ranking #444,418 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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