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Researcher · Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont · Spain

David M. Alba

David M. Alba publishes mostly in Paleontology, Anthropology and Social Psychology, on topics such as Evolution and Paleontology Studies, Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology and Primate Behavior and Ecology.

ORCID 0000-0002-8886-5580 OpenAlex
World rank
#181,935
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Spain
#2,709
of 204,306
Works
345
Citations
6.1k
Citations per work
17.7
h-index
41
i10-index 137Top 3.9% in Paleontology
David M. Alba

What does David M. Alba research?

David M. Alba's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (30%), Social Sciences (14%), Psychology (14%).

Physical Sciences: 128 works · 37.2% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 104 works · 30.0% of their workPaleontology: 104 works · 30.0% of their workEnvironmental Science: 25 works · 7.2% of their workEcology: 25 works · 7.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 117 works · 34.0% of their workSocial Sciences: 50 works · 14.4% of their workAnthropology: 50 works · 14.4% of their workPsychology: 48 works · 13.8% of their workSocial Psychology: 48 works · 13.8% of their workArts and Humanities: 20 works · 5.8% of their workArcheology: 20 works · 5.8% of their workEverything else: 82 works · 23.9% of their workLife Sciences: 17 works · 4.9% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 17 works · 4.9% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 17 works · 4.9% of their workTHEIR WORKDavid M. Alba345works
Life Sciences5%Physical Sciences37%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. Earth and Planetary Sciences10430.0%
    2. Environmental Science257.2%
    1. Social Sciences5014.4%
    2. Psychology4813.8%
    3. Arts and Humanities205.8%
  3. Everything else8223.9%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences174.9%
  1. 1Paleontology30% of their works
  2. 2Anthropology14% of their works
  3. 3Social Psychology14% of their works
  4. 4Ecology7% of their works
  5. 5Archeology6% of their works
  6. 6Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe David M. Alba's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Molecular Phylogeny, Mammal Evolution, Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis, Evolution, Hominin Genetics, Paleolithic Archaeology, Primates and Social Behavior.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Molecular Phylogeny2232 topics
  2. Mammal Evolution1931 topic
  3. Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis1931 topic
  4. Evolution1422 topics
  5. Hominin Genetics1131 topic
  6. Paleolithic Archaeology1131 topic
  7. Primates1071 topic
  8. Social Behavior1071 topic
  9. Phylogenetic Analysis622 topics
  10. Climate Change572 topics
  11. Population Dynamics522 topics
  12. Dinosaur351 topic
  13. Paleontology351 topic
  14. Bats301 topic
  15. Hibernation301 topic
  16. Amphibian Declines271 topic
  17. Chytridiomycosis271 topic
  18. Animal Movement251 topic
  19. Occupancy Rates251 topic
  20. Bronze Age191 topic
  21. Neolithic191 topic

Where does David M. Alba work?

David M. Alba's main affiliation in the publication record is Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont, Spain.

How many publications and citations does David M. Alba have?

OpenAlex counts 345 works and 6,123 citations for David M. Alba, an h-index of 41, ranking #181,935 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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