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Researcher · University of the South Pacific · Fiji

Frank R. Thomas

Frank R. Thomas publishes mostly in Geography, Planning and Development, Paleontology and Demography, on topics such as Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies, Archaeology and ancient environmental studies and Island Studies and Pacific Affairs.

OpenAlex
World rank
#1,106,334
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Fiji
#43
of 368
Works
76
Citations
2.1k
Citations per work
28.0
h-index
17
i10-index 21Top 8.8% in Geography, Planning and Development
Frank R. Thomas

What does Frank R. Thomas research?

Frank R. Thomas's work is mostly in Social Sciences (44%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (11%), Environmental Science (9%).

Social Sciences: 33 works · 43.9% of their workSocial Sciences: 33 works · 43.9% of their workGeography, Planning and Development: 21 works · 28.1% of their workDemography: 7 works · 9.6% of their workSociology and Political Science: 5 works · 6.2% of their workEverything else: 23 works · 29.7% of their workPhysical Sciences: 15 works · 19.7% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 8 works · 10.7% of their workPaleontology: 8 works · 10.7% of their workEnvironmental Science: 7 works · 9.0% of their workEcology: 7 works · 9.0% of their workHealth Sciences: 5 works · 6.7% of their workHealth Professions: 5 works · 6.7% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 5 works · 6.7% of their workTHEIR WORKFrank R. Thomas76works
Physical Sciences20%Health Sciences7%Social Sciences44%

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 Sciences3343.9%
  2. Everything else2329.7%
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences810.7%
    2. Environmental Science79.0%
    1. Health Professions56.7%
  1. 1Geography, Planning and Development28% of their works
  2. 2Paleontology11% of their works
  3. 3Demography10% of their works
  4. 4Ecology9% of their works
  5. 5General Health Professions7% of their works
  6. 6Sociology and Political Science6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Frank R. Thomas's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Pacific Islands, settlement, Vulnerability, Climate Change, Agricultural Origins, Radiocarbon Dating, Islands and Small States.

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. Pacific Islands491 topic
  2. settlement491 topic
  3. Vulnerability343 topics
  4. Climate Change304 topics
  5. Agricultural Origins191 topic
  6. Radiocarbon Dating191 topic
  7. Islands171 topic
  8. Small States171 topic
  9. Arctic Indigenous Peoples101 topic
  10. Traditional Knowledge101 topic
  11. Stable Isotopes91 topic
  12. Trophic Position91 topic
  13. Environmental Refugees71 topic
  14. Glacial Cycles71 topic
  15. Migration71 topic
  16. Paleoclimatology71 topic
  17. Anthropogenic Noise61 topic
  18. Marine Mammals61 topic

Where does Frank R. Thomas work?

Frank R. Thomas's main affiliation in the publication record is University of the South Pacific, Fiji.

How many publications and citations does Frank R. Thomas have?

OpenAlex counts 76 works and 2,127 citations for Frank R. Thomas, an h-index of 17, ranking #1,106,334 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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