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Researcher · The University of Queensland · Australia

Alison Crowther

Alison Crowther publishes mostly in Anthropology, Paleontology and Geography, Planning and Development, on topics such as Global Maritime and Colonial Histories, Archaeology and ancient environmental studies and Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies.

ORCID 0000-0002-2394-1917 OpenAlex
World rank
#22,973
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Australia
#615
of 140,210
Works
136
Citations
6.7k
Citations per work
49.1
h-index
39
i10-index 65Top 0.9% in Anthropology
Alison Crowther

What does Alison Crowther research?

Alison Crowther's work is mostly in Social Sciences (43%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (12%), Environmental Science (9%).

Social Sciences: 69 works · 50.7% of their workSocial Sciences: 58 works · 42.8% of their workAnthropology: 44 works · 32.0% of their workGeography, Planning and Development: 15 works · 10.8% of their workArts and Humanities: 11 works · 7.9% of their workArcheology: 11 works · 7.9% of their workEverything else: 33 works · 24.0% of their workPhysical Sciences: 29 works · 21.3% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 17 works · 12.2% of their workPaleontology: 17 works · 12.2% of their workEnvironmental Science: 12 works · 9.1% of their workEcology: 12 works · 9.1% of their workLife Sciences: 5 works · 4.0% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 5 works · 4.0% of their workGenetics: 5 works · 4.0% of their workTHEIR WORKAlison Crowther136works
Life Sciences4%Physical Sciences21%Social Sciences51%

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 Sciences5842.8%
    2. Arts and Humanities117.9%
  2. Everything else3324.0%
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences1712.2%
    2. Environmental Science129.1%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology54.0%
  1. 1Anthropology32% of their works
  2. 2Paleontology12% of their works
  3. 3Geography, Planning and Development11% of their works
  4. 4Ecology9% of their works
  5. 5Archeology8% of their works
  6. 6Genetics4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Alison Crowther's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Archaeology, Indian Ocean, prehistoric movement, Agricultural Origins, Radiocarbon Dating, Pacific Islands, settlement and Hominin Genetics.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Archaeology512 topics
  2. Indian Ocean441 topic
  3. prehistoric movement441 topic
  4. Agricultural Origins411 topic
  5. Radiocarbon Dating411 topic
  6. Pacific Islands381 topic
  7. settlement381 topic
  8. Hominin Genetics331 topic
  9. Paleolithic Archaeology331 topic
  10. Atlantic History181 topic
  11. Transatlantic Slave Trade181 topic
  12. Stable Isotopes161 topic
  13. Trophic Position161 topic
  14. Rock Art131 topic
  15. Southern Africa131 topic
  16. Age Estimation121 topic
  17. Sex Determination121 topic

Where does Alison Crowther work?

Alison Crowther's main affiliation in the publication record is The University of Queensland, Australia.

How many publications and citations does Alison Crowther have?

OpenAlex counts 136 works and 6,676 citations for Alison Crowther, an h-index of 39, ranking #22,973 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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