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Researcher · University of Cambridge · United Kingdom

David W. Phillipson

David W. Phillipson publishes mostly in Anthropology, Archeology and Political Science and International Relations, on topics such as African history and culture analysis, Archaeology and Rock Art Studies and Global Maritime and Colonial Histories.

OpenAlex
World rank
#150,876
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#13,632
of 367,258
Works
181
Citations
3.5k
Citations per work
19.2
h-index
33
i10-index 46Top 1.5% in Anthropology
David W. Phillipson

What does David W. Phillipson research?

David W. Phillipson's work is mostly in Social Sciences (53%), Arts and Humanities (17%), Environmental Science (4%).

Social Sciences: 127 works · 70.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 96 works · 53.1% of their workAnthropology: 49 works · 26.8% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 25 works · 13.9% of their workArcheology: 22 works · 12.4% of their workArts and Humanities: 31 works · 17.2% of their workArcheology: 31 works · 17.2% of their workEverything else: 40 works · 22.2% of their workPhysical Sciences: 14 works · 7.5% of their workEnvironmental Science: 7 works · 4.0% of their workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 7 works · 4.0% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 6 works · 3.5% of their workPaleontology: 6 works · 3.5% of their workTHEIR WORKDavid W.Phillipson181works
Physical Sciences8%Social Sciences70%

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 Sciences9653.1%
    2. Arts and Humanities3117.2%
  2. Everything else4022.2%
    1. Environmental Science74.0%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences63.5%
  1. 1Anthropology27% of their works
  2. 2Archeology17% of their works
  3. 3Political Science and International Relations14% of their works
  4. 4Archeology12% of their works
  5. 5Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law4% of their works
  6. 6Paleontology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe David W. Phillipson's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Archaeological Evidence, Religion, Archaeology, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Rock Art, Southern Africa and Indian Ocean.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Archaeological Evidence692 topics
  2. Religion672 topics
  3. Archaeology652 topics
  4. Eritrea501 topic
  5. Ethiopia501 topic
  6. Rock Art481 topic
  7. Southern Africa481 topic
  8. Indian Ocean401 topic
  9. prehistoric movement401 topic
  10. Arabia291 topic
  11. Byzantine291 topic
  12. Hominin Genetics261 topic
  13. Paleolithic Archaeology261 topic
  14. Ancient Egypt171 topic
  15. Linguistics171 topic
  16. Pastoralists161 topic
  17. Rangeland Degradation161 topic
  18. Agricultural Origins141 topic
  19. Radiocarbon Dating141 topic

Where does David W. Phillipson work?

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

How many publications and citations does David W. Phillipson have?

OpenAlex counts 181 works and 3,470 citations for David W. Phillipson, an h-index of 33, ranking #150,876 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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