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Researcher · McGill University · Canada

Bruce G. Trigger

Bruce G. Trigger publishes mostly in Archeology, Anthropology and Paleontology, on topics such as Archaeology and ancient environmental studies, Ancient Egypt and Archaeology and Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies.

OpenAlex
World rank
#29,662
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#727
of 183,316
Works
366
Citations
14k
Citations per work
38.1
h-index
56
i10-index 136Top 0.1% in Archeology (Arts and Humanities)
Bruce G. Trigger

What does Bruce G. Trigger research?

Bruce G. Trigger's work is mostly in Social Sciences (30%), Arts and Humanities (22%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (15%).

Social Sciences: 192 works · 52.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 111 works · 30.4% of their workAnthropology: 66 works · 18.0% of their workSociology and Political Science: 25 works · 6.8% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 20 works · 5.6% of their workArts and Humanities: 81 works · 22.1% of their workArcheology: 81 works · 22.1% of their workEverything else: 120 works · 32.8% of their workPhysical Sciences: 54 works · 14.7% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 54 works · 14.7% of their workPaleontology: 40 works · 10.8% of their workSpace and Planetary Science: 14 works · 3.9% of their workTHEIR WORKBruce G. Trigger366works
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 Sciences11130.4%
    2. Arts and Humanities8122.1%
  2. Everything else12032.8%
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences5414.7%
  1. 1Archeology22% of their works
  2. 2Anthropology18% of their works
  3. 3Paleontology11% of their works
  4. 4Sociology and Political Science7% of their works
  5. 5Political Science and International Relations6% of their works
  6. 6Space and Planetary Science4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Bruce G. Trigger's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Archaeology, Agricultural Origins, Radiocarbon Dating, Religion, Ancient Egypt, Linguistics, Cultural Heritage and African Diaspora.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Archaeology942 topics
  2. Agricultural Origins891 topic
  3. Radiocarbon Dating891 topic
  4. Religion822 topics
  5. Ancient Egypt611 topic
  6. Linguistics611 topic
  7. Cultural Heritage522 topics
  8. African Diaspora421 topic
  9. Black Feminist Theory421 topic
  10. Arabia401 topic
  11. Byzantine401 topic
  12. LiDAR331 topic
  13. Remote Sensing331 topic
  14. Arctic Indigenous Peoples251 topic
  15. Climate Change251 topic
  16. Eritrea211 topic
  17. Ethiopia211 topic
  18. Traditional Irrigation191 topic
  19. Water Sustainability191 topic

Where does Bruce G. Trigger work?

Bruce G. Trigger's main affiliation in the publication record is McGill University, Canada.

How many publications and citations does Bruce G. Trigger have?

OpenAlex counts 366 works and 13,932 citations for Bruce G. Trigger, an h-index of 56, ranking #29,662 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality 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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