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Researcher · Phillips Academy · United States

Douglas S. Byers

Douglas S. Byers publishes mostly in Anthropology, Paleontology and Archeology, on topics such as Archaeology and ancient environmental studies, Archaeology and Natural History and Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies.

OpenAlex
World rank
#2,195,121
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#658,782
of 1,627,098
Works
42
Citations
442
Citations per work
10.5
h-index
11
i10-index 11Top 22% in Anthropology
Douglas S. Byers

What does Douglas S. Byers research?

Douglas S. Byers's work is mostly in Social Sciences (28%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (27%), Arts and Humanities (10%).

Social Sciences: 16 works · 38.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 12 works · 28.1% of their workAnthropology: 12 works · 28.1% of their workArts and Humanities: 4 works · 10.4% of their workArcheology: 4 works · 10.4% of their workPhysical Sciences: 15 works · 35.4% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 11 works · 27.1% of their workPaleontology: 8 works · 19.8% of their workSpace and Planetary Science: 3 works · 7.3% of their workEnvironmental Science: 3 works · 8.3% of their workEcology: 2 works · 5.2% of their workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 1 works · 3.1% of their workEverything else: 11 works · 26.1% of their workTHEIR WORKDouglas S. Byers42works
Physical Sciences35%Social Sciences39%

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 Sciences1228.1%
    2. Arts and Humanities410.4%
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences1127.1%
    2. Environmental Science38.3%
  3. Everything else1126.1%
  1. 1Anthropology28% of their works
  2. 2Paleontology20% of their works
  3. 3Archeology10% of their works
  4. 4Space and Planetary Science7% of their works
  5. 5Ecology5% of their works
  6. 6Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Douglas S. Byers's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Agricultural Origins, Cultural Heritage, Radiocarbon Dating, Traditional Irrigation, Water Sustainability, African Diaspora, Black Feminist Theory and 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.

All 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Agricultural Origins191 topic
  2. Cultural Heritage192 topics
  3. Radiocarbon Dating191 topic
  4. Traditional Irrigation121 topic
  5. Water Sustainability121 topic
  6. African Diaspora91 topic
  7. Black Feminist Theory91 topic
  8. Archaeology71 topic
  9. Remote Sensing71 topic
  10. Hominin Genetics51 topic
  11. Paleolithic Archaeology51 topic
  12. Colonial Spanish America31 topic
  13. Conservation31 topic
  14. Environmental Movement31 topic
  15. Maritime Archaeology31 topic
  16. Mediterranean31 topic
  17. Visual Culture31 topic

Where does Douglas S. Byers work?

Douglas S. Byers's main affiliation in the publication record is Phillips Academy, United States.

How many publications and citations does Douglas S. Byers have?

OpenAlex counts 42 works and 442 citations for Douglas S. Byers, an h-index of 11, ranking #2,195,121 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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