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Researcher · Curt Engelhorn Centre Archaeometry · Germany

Ernst Pernicka

Ernst Pernicka publishes mostly in Archeology, Paleontology and Archeology, on topics such as Archaeology and ancient environmental studies, Metallurgy and Cultural Artifacts and Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies.

ORCID 0000-0003-4746-9239 OpenAlex
World rank
#131,190
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#6,835
of 364,343
Works
292
Citations
9.9k
Citations per work
33.7
h-index
48
i10-index 123Top 0.2% in Archeology (Arts and Humanities)
Ernst Pernicka

What does Ernst Pernicka research?

Ernst Pernicka's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (23%), Physics and Astronomy (17%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (14%).

Social Sciences: 100 works · 34.4% of their workArts and Humanities: 66 works · 22.7% of their workArcheology: 66 works · 22.7% of their workSocial Sciences: 34 works · 11.7% of their workArcheology: 34 works · 11.7% of their workEverything else: 100 works · 34.4% of their workPhysical Sciences: 91 works · 31.2% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 49 works · 16.9% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 23 works · 7.9% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 13 works · 4.6% of their workRadiation: 13 works · 4.4% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 42 works · 14.3% of their workPaleontology: 42 works · 14.3% of their workTHEIR WORKErnst Pernicka292works
Physical Sciences31%Social Sciences34%

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 Humanities6622.7%
    2. Social Sciences3411.7%
  2. Everything else10034.4%
    1. Physics and Astronomy4916.9%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences4214.3%
  1. 1Archeology23% of their works
  2. 2Paleontology14% of their works
  3. 3Archeology12% of their works
  4. 4Nuclear and High Energy Physics8% of their works
  5. 5Astronomy and Astrophysics5% of their works
  6. 6Radiation4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ernst Pernicka's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Agricultural Origins, Radiocarbon Dating, Archaeological Analysis, Iron Production, Bronze Age, Corded Ware Culture, Raman Spectroscopy and X-Ray Fluorescence.

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 Origins1081 topic
  2. Radiocarbon Dating1081 topic
  3. Archaeological Analysis871 topic
  4. Iron Production871 topic
  5. Bronze Age451 topic
  6. Corded Ware Culture451 topic
  7. Raman Spectroscopy411 topic
  8. X-Ray Fluorescence411 topic
  9. Scandinavia251 topic
  10. Viking Age251 topic
  11. Babylonian231 topic
  12. Geochronology231 topic
  13. Mesopotamia231 topic
  14. Solar System Abundances231 topic
  15. Terrestrial Planets231 topic
  16. Zircon231 topic

Where does Ernst Pernicka work?

Ernst Pernicka's main affiliation in the publication record is Curt Engelhorn Centre Archaeometry, Germany.

How many publications and citations does Ernst Pernicka have?

OpenAlex counts 292 works and 9,851 citations for Ernst Pernicka, an h-index of 48, ranking #131,190 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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