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Researcher · British Museum · United Kingdom

Derek A. Welsby

Derek A. Welsby publishes mostly in Archeology, Political Science and International Relations and Space and Planetary Science, on topics such as Archaeology and Historical Studies, Ancient Egypt and Archaeology and African history and culture analysis.

OpenAlex
World rank
#1,683,273
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#127,025
of 367,258
Works
85
Citations
1.2k
Citations per work
14.6
h-index
14
i10-index 16Top 11% in Archeology (Arts and Humanities)
Derek A. Welsby

What does Derek A. Welsby research?

Derek A. Welsby's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (62%), Social Sciences (14%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (5%).

Social Sciences: 65 works · 76.1% of their workArts and Humanities: 53 works · 61.8% of their workArcheology: 49 works · 57.8% of their workReligious studies: 3 works · 4.0% of their workSocial Sciences: 12 works · 14.3% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 6 works · 6.7% of their workAnthropology: 4 works · 4.9% of their workSociology and Political Science: 2 works · 2.7% of their workEverything else: 16 works · 19.0% of their workPhysical Sciences: 4 works · 4.9% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 4 works · 4.9% of their workSpace and Planetary Science: 4 works · 4.9% of their workTHEIR WORKDerek A. Welsby85works
Physical Sciences5%Social Sciences76%

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 Humanities5361.8%
    2. Social Sciences1214.3%
  2. Everything else1619.0%
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences44.9%
  1. 1Archeology58% of their works
  2. 2Political Science and International Relations7% of their works
  3. 3Space and Planetary Science5% of their works
  4. 4Anthropology5% of their works
  5. 5Religious studies4% of their works
  6. 6Sociology and Political Science3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Derek A. Welsby's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Archaeology, Religion, Arabia, Byzantine, Ancient Egypt, Linguistics, Eritrea and Ethiopia.

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. Archaeology703 topics
  2. Religion602 topics
  3. Arabia521 topic
  4. Byzantine521 topic
  5. Ancient Egypt451 topic
  6. Linguistics451 topic
  7. Eritrea151 topic
  8. Ethiopia151 topic
  9. Mediterranean141 topic
  10. Pottery Production141 topic
  11. LiDAR111 topic
  12. Remote Sensing111 topic
  13. Biblical Monotheism91 topic
  14. Jewish Society91 topic
  15. Ancient Rome51 topic
  16. Archaeoastronomy51 topic
  17. Cultural Landscapes51 topic
  18. Greek Literature51 topic

Where does Derek A. Welsby work?

Derek A. Welsby's main affiliation in the publication record is British Museum, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Derek A. Welsby have?

OpenAlex counts 85 works and 1,239 citations for Derek A. Welsby, an h-index of 14, ranking #1,683,273 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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