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David Gaimster

David Gaimster publishes mostly in Archeology, History and Paleontology, on topics such as Archaeology and ancient environmental studies, Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies and Historical and Archaeological Studies.

OpenAlex
World rank
#1,294,766
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#101,532
of 367,258
Works
79
Citations
632
Citations per work
8.0

What does David Gaimster research?

David Gaimster's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (43%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (18%), Social Sciences (11%).

Physical Sciences18%Social Sciences54%

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 Humanities3443.3%
    2. Social Sciences911.2%
  1. Everything else2227.3%
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences1418.2%
  1. 1Archeology20% of their works
  2. 2History15% of their works
  3. 3Paleontology12% of their works
  4. 4Anthropology11% of their works
  5. 5History and Philosophy of Science8% of their works
  6. 6Space and Planetary Science6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe David Gaimster's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Archaeology, Agricultural Origins, Radiocarbon Dating, African Diaspora, Black Feminist Theory, Cultural Heritage, Scandinavia and Viking Age.

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. Archaeology292 topics
  2. Agricultural Origins231 topic
  3. Radiocarbon Dating231 topic
  4. African Diaspora191 topic
  5. Black Feminist Theory191 topic
  6. Cultural Heritage192 topics
  7. Scandinavia181 topic
  8. Viking Age181 topic
  9. LiDAR111 topic
  10. Remote Sensing111 topic
  11. Adaptive Reuse81 topic
  12. Castle Construction81 topic
  13. Intangible Heritage81 topic
  14. Medieval Architecture81 topic
  15. Maritime Archaeology71 topic
  16. Mediterranean71 topic
  17. Bronze Age61 topic
  18. Corded Ware Culture61 topic

Where does David Gaimster work?

David Gaimster's main affiliation in the publication record is British Museum, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does David Gaimster have?

OpenAlex counts 79 works and 632 citations for David Gaimster, an h-index of 12, ranking #1,294,766 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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