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Researcher · University of Toronto · Canada

David R. Begun

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

ORCID 0000-0001-8916-6442 OpenAlex
World rank
#317,264
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#11,060
of 183,316
Works
163
Citations
5.2k
Citations per work
31.9
h-index
44
i10-index 82Top 3% in Paleontology
David R. Begun

What does David R. Begun research?

David R. Begun's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (25%), Psychology (23%), Social Sciences (15%).

Social Sciences: 62 works · 38.2% of their workPsychology: 38 works · 23.2% of their workSocial Psychology: 38 works · 23.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 24 works · 15.0% of their workAnthropology: 24 works · 15.0% of their workPhysical Sciences: 53 works · 32.8% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 41 works · 24.9% of their workPaleontology: 41 works · 24.9% of their workEnvironmental Science: 7 works · 4.3% of their workEcology: 7 works · 4.3% of their workMathematics: 6 works · 3.6% of their workGeometry and Topology: 6 works · 3.6% of their workEverything else: 37 works · 22.4% of their workLife Sciences: 11 works · 6.6% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 11 works · 6.6% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 11 works · 6.6% of their workTHEIR WORKDavid R. Begun163works
Life Sciences7%Physical Sciences33%Social Sciences38%

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. Psychology3823.2%
    2. Social Sciences2415.0%
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences4124.9%
    2. Environmental Science74.3%
    3. Mathematics63.6%
  3. Everything else3722.4%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences116.6%
  1. 1Paleontology25% of their works
  2. 2Social Psychology23% of their works
  3. 3Anthropology15% of their works
  4. 4Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics7% of their works
  5. 5Ecology4% of their works
  6. 6Geometry and Topology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe David R. Begun's research?

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

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Molecular Phylogeny1142 topics
  2. Mammal Evolution941 topic
  3. Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis941 topic
  4. Primates881 topic
  5. Social Behavior881 topic
  6. Hominin Genetics591 topic
  7. Paleolithic Archaeology591 topic
  8. Climate Change272 topics
  9. Phylogenetic Analysis212 topics
  10. Bats201 topic
  11. Hibernation201 topic
  12. Population Dynamics202 topics
  13. Geometric Morphometrics141 topic
  14. Morphological Integration141 topic
  15. Animal Movement131 topic
  16. Occupancy Rates131 topic
  17. Amphibian Declines71 topic
  18. Chytridiomycosis71 topic
  19. Age Estimation51 topic
  20. Sex Determination51 topic

Where does David R. Begun work?

David R. Begun's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Toronto, Canada.

How many publications and citations does David R. Begun have?

OpenAlex counts 163 works and 5,200 citations for David R. Begun, an h-index of 44, ranking #317,264 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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