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Researcher · George Washington University · United States

Alison S. Brooks

Alison S. Brooks publishes mostly in Anthropology, Paleontology and Archeology, on topics such as Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Archaeology and ancient environmental studies and Archaeology and Rock Art Studies.

ORCID 0000-0002-7978-8747 OpenAlex
World rank
#195,567
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#72,666
of 1,627,098
Works
123
Citations
7.5k
Citations per work
61.3
h-index
31
i10-index 39Top 1.8% in Anthropology
Alison S. Brooks

What does Alison S. Brooks research?

Alison S. Brooks's work is mostly in Social Sciences (37%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (15%), Arts and Humanities (10%).

Social Sciences: 64 works · 51.9% of their workSocial Sciences: 45 works · 36.8% of their workAnthropology: 31 works · 24.8% of their workArcheology: 10 works · 8.0% of their workSociology and Political Science: 5 works · 4.0% of their workArts and Humanities: 13 works · 10.2% of their workArcheology: 13 works · 10.2% of their workPsychology: 6 works · 4.9% of their workSocial Psychology: 6 works · 4.9% of their workEverything else: 41 works · 33.5% of their workPhysical Sciences: 18 works · 14.6% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 18 works · 14.6% of their workPaleontology: 18 works · 14.6% of their workTHEIR WORKAlison S. Brooks123works
Physical Sciences15%Social Sciences52%

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 Sciences4536.8%
    2. Arts and Humanities1310.2%
    3. Psychology64.9%
  2. Everything else4133.5%
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences1814.6%
  1. 1Anthropology25% of their works
  2. 2Paleontology15% of their works
  3. 3Archeology10% of their works
  4. 4Archeology8% of their works
  5. 5Social Psychology5% of their works
  6. 6Sociology and Political Science4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Alison S. Brooks's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Hominin Genetics, Paleolithic Archaeology, Agricultural Origins, Archaeology, Radiocarbon Dating, Southern Africa, Age Estimation and Mammal Evolution.

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 Genetics511 topic
  2. Paleolithic Archaeology511 topic
  3. Agricultural Origins181 topic
  4. Archaeology181 topic
  5. Radiocarbon Dating181 topic
  6. Southern Africa181 topic
  7. Age Estimation141 topic
  8. Mammal Evolution141 topic
  9. Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis141 topic
  10. Sex Determination141 topic
  11. Primates91 topic
  12. Social Behavior91 topic
  13. Climate Change71 topic
  14. Paleoclimatology71 topic
  15. Astrobiology61 topic
  16. Extraterrestrial Life61 topic

Where does Alison S. Brooks work?

Alison S. Brooks's main affiliation in the publication record is George Washington University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Alison S. Brooks have?

OpenAlex counts 123 works and 7,539 citations for Alison S. Brooks, an h-index of 31, ranking #195,567 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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