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Researcher · Museo delle Scienze · Italy

Alex Fontana

Alex Fontana publishes mostly in Archeology, Anthropology and Paleontology, on topics such as Archaeology and ancient environmental studies, Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology and Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History.

ORCID 0009-0005-3703-6319 OpenAlex
World rank
#2,447,382
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Italy
#82,055
of 242,206
Works
24
Citations
98
Citations per work
4.1
h-index
6
i10-index 3Top 43% in Archeology (Arts and Humanities)
Alex Fontana

What does Alex Fontana research?

Alex Fontana's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (32%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (24%), Social Sciences (23%).

Social Sciences: 13 works · 54.9% of their workArts and Humanities: 8 works · 32.3% of their workArcheology: 8 works · 32.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 5 works · 22.6% of their workAnthropology: 5 works · 19.4% of their workGeography, Planning and Development: 1 works · 3.2% of their workPhysical Sciences: 7 works · 29.0% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 6 works · 24.2% of their workPaleontology: 5 works · 19.4% of their workAtmospheric Science: 1 works · 4.8% of their workEnvironmental Science: 1 works · 4.8% of their workEcology: 1 works · 4.8% of their workEverything else: 4 works · 16.1% of their workTHEIR WORKAlex Fontana24works
Physical Sciences29%Social Sciences55%

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. Arts and Humanities832.3%
    2. Social Sciences522.6%
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences624.2%
    2. Environmental Science14.8%
  3. Everything else416.1%
  1. 1Archeology32% of their works
  2. 2Anthropology19% of their works
  3. 3Paleontology19% of their works
  4. 4Ecology5% of their works
  5. 5Atmospheric Science5% of their works
  6. 6Geography, Planning and Development3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Alex Fontana's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Agricultural Origins, Radiocarbon Dating, Hominin Genetics, Paleolithic Archaeology, Archaeology, Bronze Age, Age Estimation and Ancient Health.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Agricultural Origins111 topic
  2. Radiocarbon Dating111 topic
  3. Hominin Genetics101 topic
  4. Paleolithic Archaeology101 topic
  5. Archaeology82 topics
  6. Bronze Age82 topics
  7. Age Estimation41 topic
  8. Ancient Health41 topic
  9. Iberian Peninsula41 topic
  10. Mediterranean41 topic
  11. Neolithic41 topic
  12. Paleoparasitology41 topic
  13. Pottery Production41 topic
  14. Sex Determination41 topic
  15. Climate Change31 topic
  16. Paleoclimatology31 topic
  17. Stable Isotopes21 topic
  18. Trophic Position21 topic

Where does Alex Fontana work?

Alex Fontana's main affiliation in the publication record is Museo delle Scienze, Italy.

How many publications and citations does Alex Fontana have?

OpenAlex counts 24 works and 98 citations for Alex Fontana, an h-index of 6, ranking #2,447,382 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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