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Researcher · University of Cambridge · United Kingdom

David Sneath

David Sneath publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law and Anthropology, on topics such as Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology, Eurasian Exchange Networks and Chinese history and philosophy.

OpenAlex
World rank
#197,346
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#17,924
of 367,258
Works
173
Citations
2.3k
Citations per work
13.1
h-index
21
i10-index 30Top 5.7% in Sociology and Political Science
David Sneath

What does David Sneath research?

David Sneath's work is mostly in Social Sciences (50%), Environmental Science (18%), Arts and Humanities (8%).

Social Sciences: 99 works · 57.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 86 works · 49.6% of their workSociology and Political Science: 37 works · 21.3% of their workAnthropology: 29 works · 16.7% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 20 works · 11.6% of their workArts and Humanities: 13 works · 7.5% of their workLanguage and Linguistics: 13 works · 7.5% of their workEverything else: 36 works · 21.0% of their workPhysical Sciences: 32 works · 18.3% of their workEnvironmental Science: 32 works · 18.3% of their workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 32 works · 18.3% of their workHealth Sciences: 6 works · 3.6% of their workHealth Professions: 6 works · 3.6% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 6 works · 3.6% of their workTHEIR WORKDavid Sneath173works
Physical Sciences18%Health Sciences4%Social Sciences57%

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. Social Sciences8649.6%
    2. Arts and Humanities137.5%
  2. Everything else3621.0%
    1. Environmental Science3218.3%
    1. Health Professions63.6%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science21% of their works
  2. 2Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law18% of their works
  3. 3Anthropology17% of their works
  4. 4Political Science and International Relations12% of their works
  5. 5Language and Linguistics8% of their works
  6. 6General Health Professions4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe David Sneath's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Climate Change, Ecological Knowledge, Pastoralists, Rangeland Degradation, Nationalism, Central Asia, History and Eurasian Exchange.

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 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Climate Change822 topics
  2. Ecological Knowledge822 topics
  3. Pastoralists701 topic
  4. Rangeland Degradation701 topic
  5. Nationalism623 topics
  6. Central Asia532 topics
  7. History402 topics
  8. Eurasian Exchange341 topic
  9. Silk Roads341 topic
  10. Colonialism322 topics
  11. China271 topic
  12. Religion271 topic
  13. Uyghur221 topic
  14. Xinjiang221 topic
  15. Linguistics201 topic
  16. Turkic201 topic
  17. Empire191 topic
  18. Soviet Union191 topic
  19. Philippines131 topic
  20. Political Dynasties131 topic
  21. Arctic Indigenous Peoples121 topic
  22. Traditional Knowledge121 topic

Where does David Sneath work?

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

How many publications and citations does David Sneath have?

OpenAlex counts 173 works and 2,268 citations for David Sneath, an h-index of 21, ranking #197,346 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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