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Researcher · Washington University in St. Louis · United States

Erik Trinkaus

Erik Trinkaus publishes mostly in Archeology, Anthropology and Paleontology, on topics such as Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies and Archaeology and ancient environmental studies.

ORCID 0000-0002-5175-1651 OpenAlex
World rank
#1,171
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#491
of 1,627,098
Works
372
Citations
23k
Citations per work
60.5
h-index
84
i10-index 236Top 0.1% in Archeology (Arts and Humanities)
Erik Trinkaus

What does Erik Trinkaus research?

Erik Trinkaus's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (32%), Social Sciences (26%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (11%).

Social Sciences: 215 works · 57.9% of their workArts and Humanities: 118 works · 31.6% of their workArcheology: 118 works · 31.6% of their workSocial Sciences: 98 works · 26.3% of their workAnthropology: 98 works · 26.3% of their workEverything else: 85 works · 22.9% of their workPhysical Sciences: 59 works · 15.9% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 40 works · 10.7% of their workPaleontology: 40 works · 10.7% of their workMathematics: 11 works · 2.9% of their workGeometry and Topology: 11 works · 2.9% of their workEnvironmental Science: 9 works · 2.3% of their workEcology: 9 works · 2.3% of their workLife Sciences: 12 works · 3.3% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 12 works · 3.3% of their workMolecular Biology: 12 works · 3.3% of their workTHEIR WORKErik Trinkaus372works
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences16%Social Sciences58%

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 Humanities11831.6%
    2. Social Sciences9826.3%
  2. Everything else8522.9%
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences4010.7%
    2. Mathematics112.9%
    3. Environmental Science92.3%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology123.3%
  1. 1Archeology32% of their works
  2. 2Anthropology26% of their works
  3. 3Paleontology11% of their works
  4. 4Molecular Biology3% of their works
  5. 5Geometry and Topology3% of their works
  6. 6Ecology2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Erik Trinkaus's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Hominin Genetics, Paleolithic Archaeology, Age Estimation, Sex Determination, Agricultural Origins, Radiocarbon Dating, Ancient Health and Paleoparasitology.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Hominin Genetics2571 topic
  2. Paleolithic Archaeology2571 topic
  3. Age Estimation2301 topic
  4. Sex Determination2301 topic
  5. Agricultural Origins701 topic
  6. Radiocarbon Dating701 topic
  7. Ancient Health371 topic
  8. Paleoparasitology371 topic
  9. Mammal Evolution351 topic
  10. Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis351 topic
  11. Geometric Morphometrics291 topic
  12. Molecular Signaling291 topic
  13. Morphological Integration291 topic
  14. Tooth Development291 topic
  15. Primates211 topic
  16. Social Behavior211 topic

Where does Erik Trinkaus work?

Erik Trinkaus's main affiliation in the publication record is Washington University in St. Louis, United States.

How many publications and citations does Erik Trinkaus have?

OpenAlex counts 372 works and 22,523 citations for Erik Trinkaus, an h-index of 84, ranking #1,171 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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