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Researcher · Uppsala University · Sweden

Ben Raffield

Ben Raffield publishes mostly in History, Paleontology and Anthropology, on topics such as Historical and Archaeological Studies, Archaeology and ancient environmental studies and Medieval Literature and History.

ORCID 0000-0002-5753-4535 OpenAlex
World rank
#342,272
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Sweden
#4,024
of 71,437
Works
47
Citations
482
Citations per work
10.3
h-index
12
i10-index 12Top 6.8% in History
Ben Raffield

What does Ben Raffield research?

Ben Raffield's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (47%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (12%), Social Sciences (12%).

Social Sciences: 27 works · 58.4% of their workArts and Humanities: 22 works · 46.7% of their workHistory: 15 works · 31.1% of their workArcheology: 4 works · 7.8% of their workClassics: 4 works · 7.8% of their workSocial Sciences: 5 works · 11.7% of their workAnthropology: 5 works · 11.7% of their workEverything else: 12 works · 25.0% of their workPhysical Sciences: 5 works · 11.7% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 5 works · 11.7% of their workPaleontology: 5 works · 11.7% of their workLife Sciences: 2 works · 4.9% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 2 works · 4.9% of their workGenetics: 2 works · 4.9% of their workTHEIR WORKBen Raffield47works
Life Sciences5%Physical Sciences12%Social Sciences58%

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 Humanities2246.7%
    2. Social Sciences511.7%
  2. Everything else1225.0%
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences511.7%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology24.9%
  1. 1History31% of their works
  2. 2Paleontology12% of their works
  3. 3Anthropology12% of their works
  4. 4Archeology8% of their works
  5. 5Classics8% of their works
  6. 6Genetics5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ben Raffield's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Medieval, Religion, Scandinavia, Viking Age, Agricultural Origins, Radiocarbon Dating, Cultural Identity and Literature.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Medieval352 topics
  2. Religion352 topics
  3. Scandinavia271 topic
  4. Viking Age271 topic
  5. Agricultural Origins121 topic
  6. Radiocarbon Dating121 topic
  7. Cultural Identity82 topics
  8. Literature81 topic
  9. Society81 topic
  10. African Diaspora51 topic
  11. Black Feminist Theory51 topic
  12. Indo-European41 topic
  13. Linguistics41 topic
  14. Altruism31 topic
  15. Bronze Age31 topic
  16. Cooperation31 topic
  17. Corded Ware Culture31 topic
  18. Wales31 topic
  19. Welsh literature31 topic

Where does Ben Raffield work?

Ben Raffield's main affiliation in the publication record is Uppsala University, Sweden.

How many publications and citations does Ben Raffield have?

OpenAlex counts 47 works and 482 citations for Ben Raffield, an h-index of 12, ranking #342,272 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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