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Researcher · Cincinnati Museum Center · United States

C. Wesley Cowan

C. Wesley Cowan publishes mostly in Anthropology, Archeology and Plant Science, on topics such as Archaeology and Natural History, American Environmental and Regional History and Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies.

ORCID 0009-0004-4507-9485 OpenAlex
World rank
#3,036,755
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#870,158
of 1,627,098
Works
30
Citations
762
Citations per work
25.4
h-index
9
i10-index 9Top 29% in Anthropology
C. Wesley Cowan

What does C. Wesley Cowan research?

C. Wesley Cowan's work is mostly in Social Sciences (24%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (16%), Arts and Humanities (10%).

Everything else: 13 works · 42.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 10 works · 33.8% of their workSocial Sciences: 7 works · 23.9% of their workAnthropology: 5 works · 18.3% of their workSociology and Political Science: 2 works · 5.6% of their workArts and Humanities: 3 works · 9.9% of their workArcheology: 3 works · 9.9% of their workLife Sciences: 5 works · 15.5% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 5 works · 15.5% of their workPlant Science: 3 works · 9.9% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 2 works · 5.6% of their workPhysical Sciences: 3 works · 8.5% of their workEnvironmental Science: 3 works · 8.5% of their workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 3 works · 8.5% of their workTHEIR WORKC. Wesley Cowan30works
Life Sciences16%Physical Sciences9%Social Sciences34%

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. Everything else1342.2%
    1. Social Sciences723.9%
    2. Arts and Humanities39.9%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences515.5%
    1. Environmental Science38.5%
  1. 1Anthropology18% of their works
  2. 2Archeology10% of their works
  3. 3Plant Science10% of their works
  4. 4Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law8% of their works
  5. 5Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics6% of their works
  6. 6Sociology and Political Science6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe C. Wesley Cowan's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Sustainability, Traditional Irrigation, Water Sustainability, Biogeography, Conservation, Environmental Movement, African Diaspora and Black Feminist Theory.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Sustainability82 topics
  2. Traditional Irrigation71 topic
  3. Water Sustainability71 topic
  4. Biogeography62 topics
  5. Conservation61 topic
  6. Environmental Movement61 topic
  7. African Diaspora51 topic
  8. Black Feminist Theory51 topic
  9. Cyperus41 topic
  10. Phylogeny41 topic
  11. Agricultural Origins31 topic
  12. Radiocarbon Dating31 topic
  13. Adaptation21 topic
  14. Angiosperm Phylogeny21 topic
  15. Cucurbit Genetics21 topic
  16. Flowering Plants21 topic
  17. Genomics21 topic
  18. Livestock Farming21 topic

Where does C. Wesley Cowan work?

C. Wesley Cowan's main affiliation in the publication record is Cincinnati Museum Center, United States.

How many publications and citations does C. Wesley Cowan have?

OpenAlex counts 30 works and 762 citations for C. Wesley Cowan, an h-index of 9, ranking #3,036,755 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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