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Researcher · Pennsylvania State University · United States

Douglas J. Kennett

Douglas J. Kennett publishes mostly in Paleontology, Anthropology and Atmospheric Science, on topics such as Archaeology and ancient environmental studies, Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research.

ORCID 0000-0001-6144-7365 OpenAlex
World rank
#15,528
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#5,523
of 1,627,098
Works
370
Citations
19k
Citations per work
52.2
h-index
72
i10-index 207Top 0.3% in Paleontology
Douglas J. Kennett

What does Douglas J. Kennett research?

Douglas J. Kennett's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (33%), Social Sciences (20%), Environmental Science (9%).

Physical Sciences: 155 works · 41.9% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 121 works · 32.7% of their workPaleontology: 82 works · 22.2% of their workAtmospheric Science: 39 works · 10.5% of their workEnvironmental Science: 34 works · 9.2% of their workEcology: 34 works · 9.2% of their workEverything else: 111 works · 29.9% of their workSocial Sciences: 104 works · 28.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 75 works · 20.2% of their workAnthropology: 40 works · 10.8% of their workGeography, Planning and Development: 35 works · 9.4% of their workArts and Humanities: 30 works · 8.0% of their workArcheology: 30 works · 8.0% of their workTHEIR WORKDouglas J.Kennett370works
Physical Sciences42%Social Sciences28%

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 Sciences12132.7%
    2. Environmental Science349.2%
  2. Everything else11129.9%
    1. Social Sciences7520.2%
    2. Arts and Humanities308.0%
  1. 1Paleontology22% of their works
  2. 2Anthropology11% of their works
  3. 3Atmospheric Science10% of their works
  4. 4Geography, Planning and Development9% of their works
  5. 5Ecology9% of their works
  6. 6Archeology8% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Douglas J. Kennett's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Agricultural Origins, Radiocarbon Dating, Pacific Islands, settlement, Climate Change, Paleoclimatology, Hominin Genetics and Paleolithic Archaeology.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Agricultural Origins2041 topic
  2. Radiocarbon Dating2041 topic
  3. Pacific Islands911 topic
  4. settlement911 topic
  5. Climate Change881 topic
  6. Paleoclimatology881 topic
  7. Hominin Genetics791 topic
  8. Paleolithic Archaeology791 topic
  9. Stable Isotopes551 topic
  10. Trophic Position551 topic
  11. Age Estimation461 topic
  12. Sex Determination461 topic
  13. Ancient DNA441 topic
  14. Genomic Analysis441 topic
  15. Colonial Spanish America171 topic
  16. Visual Culture171 topic

Where does Douglas J. Kennett work?

Douglas J. Kennett's main affiliation in the publication record is Pennsylvania State University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Douglas J. Kennett have?

OpenAlex counts 370 works and 19,325 citations for Douglas J. Kennett, an h-index of 72, ranking #15,528 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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