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Betty J. Meggers

Betty J. Meggers publishes mostly in History, Visual Arts and Performing Arts and Anthropology, on topics such as Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory, Latin American history and culture and Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond.

World rank
#32,691
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#15,235
of 358,040
Works
50
Citations
234
Citations per work
4.7

What does Betty J. Meggers research?

History: 17.5%Visual Arts and Performing Arts: 8.8%Anthropology: 8.8%Political Science and International Relations: 7.0%other fields: 57.9%18%top field
History17.5%Visual Arts and Performing Arts8.8%Anthropology8.8%Political Science and International Relations7.0%other fields57.9%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1History18% of their works
  2. 2Visual Arts and Performing Arts9% of their works
  3. 3Anthropology9% of their works
  4. 4Political Science and International Relations7% of their works
  5. 5General Health Professions7% of their works
  6. 6Ecology7% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Betty J. Meggers's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Amazonia, Historical Ecology, pre-Columbian, Colonial Spanish America, Visual Culture, Archaeology, Biocultural Conservation and Earth Stewardship.

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.

All 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Amazonia122 topics
  2. Historical Ecology81 topic
  3. pre-Columbian81 topic
  4. Colonial Spanish America51 topic
  5. Visual Culture51 topic
  6. Archaeology42 topics
  7. Biocultural Conservation41 topic
  8. Earth Stewardship41 topic
  9. Health41 topic
  10. Indigenous Populations41 topic
  11. Agricultural Origins31 topic
  12. Radiocarbon Dating31 topic
  13. Caribbean21 topic
  14. Central America21 topic
  15. Environmental Services21 topic
  16. Pacific Islands21 topic
  17. Tropical Deforestation21 topic
  18. settlement21 topic

Where does Betty J. Meggers work?

Betty J. Meggers's main affiliation in the publication record is Smithsonian Institution, United States.

How many publications and citations does Betty J. Meggers have?

Science Explorer counts 50 works and 234 citations for Betty J. Meggers, ranking #32,691 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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