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Researcher · Scottish Enterprise · United Kingdom

Hildur Gestsdóttir

Hildur Gestsdóttir publishes mostly in Paleontology, Archeology and Ecology, on topics such as Archaeology and ancient environmental studies, Isotope Analysis in Ecology and Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies.

ORCID 0000-0002-8382-5985 OpenAlex
World rank
#1,954,136
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#144,169
of 367,258
Works
34
Citations
870
Citations per work
25.6
h-index
13
i10-index 15Top 48% in Paleontology
Hildur Gestsdóttir

What does Hildur Gestsdóttir research?

Hildur Gestsdóttir's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (26%), Arts and Humanities (19%), Environmental Science (17%).

Physical Sciences: 15 works · 43.8% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 9 works · 26.3% of their workPaleontology: 6 works · 18.8% of their workAtmospheric Science: 3 works · 7.5% of their workEnvironmental Science: 6 works · 17.5% of their workEcology: 6 works · 17.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 8 works · 23.8% of their workArts and Humanities: 6 works · 18.8% of their workArcheology: 6 works · 18.8% of their workSocial Sciences: 2 works · 5.0% of their workAnthropology: 2 works · 5.0% of their workEverything else: 8 works · 23.6% of their workHealth Sciences: 3 works · 8.8% of their workHealth Professions: 3 works · 8.8% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 3 works · 8.8% of their workTHEIR WORKHildurGestsdóttir34works
Physical Sciences44%Health Sciences9%Social Sciences24%

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 Sciences926.3%
    2. Environmental Science617.5%
    1. Arts and Humanities618.8%
    2. Social Sciences25.0%
  3. Everything else823.6%
    1. Health Professions38.8%
  1. 1Paleontology19% of their works
  2. 2Archeology19% of their works
  3. 3Ecology18% of their works
  4. 4General Health Professions9% of their works
  5. 5Atmospheric Science8% of their works
  6. 6Anthropology5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Hildur Gestsdóttir's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Agricultural Origins, Radiocarbon Dating, Stable Isotopes, Trophic Position, Climate Change, Age Estimation, Sex Determination and Glacial Cycles.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Agricultural Origins151 topic
  2. Radiocarbon Dating151 topic
  3. Stable Isotopes131 topic
  4. Trophic Position131 topic
  5. Climate Change112 topics
  6. Age Estimation81 topic
  7. Sex Determination81 topic
  8. Glacial Cycles61 topic
  9. Paleoclimatology61 topic
  10. Arctic Indigenous Peoples51 topic
  11. Traditional Knowledge51 topic
  12. Hominin Genetics41 topic
  13. Paleolithic Archaeology41 topic
  14. Ancient DNA31 topic
  15. Genomic Analysis31 topic
  16. Scandinavia31 topic
  17. Viking Age31 topic

Where does Hildur Gestsdóttir work?

Hildur Gestsdóttir's main affiliation in the publication record is Scottish Enterprise, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Hildur Gestsdóttir have?

OpenAlex counts 34 works and 870 citations for Hildur Gestsdóttir, an h-index of 13, ranking #1,954,136 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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