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Researcher · University of Cambridge · United Kingdom

Colin Renfrew

Colin Renfrew publishes mostly in Archeology, Paleontology and Anthropology, on topics such as Archaeology and ancient environmental studies, Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History and Maritime and Coastal Archaeology.

OpenAlex
World rank
#17,052
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#1,175
of 367,258
Works
439
Citations
21k
Citations per work
47.5
h-index
77
i10-index 188Top 0.1% in Archeology (Arts and Humanities)
Colin Renfrew

What does Colin Renfrew research?

Colin Renfrew's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (32%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (18%), Social Sciences (9%).

Social Sciences: 183 works · 41.7% of their workArts and Humanities: 142 works · 32.4% of their workArcheology: 116 works · 26.5% of their workLanguage and Linguistics: 26 works · 5.9% of their workSocial Sciences: 41 works · 9.3% of their workAnthropology: 41 works · 9.3% of their workEverything else: 155 works · 35.2% of their workPhysical Sciences: 81 works · 18.4% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 81 works · 18.4% of their workPaleontology: 63 works · 14.3% of their workSpace and Planetary Science: 18 works · 4.1% of their workLife Sciences: 21 works · 4.7% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 21 works · 4.7% of their workGenetics: 21 works · 4.7% of their workTHEIR WORKColin Renfrew439works
Life Sciences5%Physical Sciences18%Social Sciences42%

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 Humanities14232.4%
    2. Social Sciences419.3%
  2. Everything else15535.2%
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences8118.4%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology214.7%
  1. 1Archeology26% of their works
  2. 2Paleontology14% of their works
  3. 3Anthropology9% of their works
  4. 4Language and Linguistics6% of their works
  5. 5Genetics5% of their works
  6. 6Space and Planetary Science4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Colin Renfrew's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Agricultural Origins, Radiocarbon Dating, Mediterranean, Archaeology, Bronze Age, Cultural Exchange, Pottery Production and Maritime Archaeology.

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. Agricultural Origins1471 topic
  2. Radiocarbon Dating1471 topic
  3. Mediterranean1092 topics
  4. Archaeology1082 topics
  5. Bronze Age982 topics
  6. Cultural Exchange661 topic
  7. Pottery Production661 topic
  8. Maritime Archaeology431 topic
  9. Sea-Level Change431 topic
  10. LiDAR421 topic
  11. Remote Sensing421 topic
  12. Babylonian371 topic
  13. Mesopotamia371 topic
  14. Archaeological Finds321 topic
  15. Corded Ware Culture321 topic
  16. Indo-European321 topic
  17. Linguistics321 topic
  18. Cultural Evolution311 topic
  19. Language311 topic

Where does Colin Renfrew work?

Colin Renfrew's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Colin Renfrew have?

OpenAlex counts 439 works and 20,863 citations for Colin Renfrew, an h-index of 77, ranking #17,052 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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