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Researcher · Institute for Advanced Study · United States

Homer A. Thompson

Homer A. Thompson publishes mostly in Archeology, Anthropology and Space and Planetary Science, on topics such as Classical Antiquity Studies, Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History and Archaeological Research and Protection.

OpenAlex
World rank
#262,604
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#96,219
of 1,627,098
Works
96
Citations
1.7k
Citations per work
17.8
h-index
23
i10-index 35Top 3.5% in Archeology (Arts and Humanities)
Homer A. Thompson

What does Homer A. Thompson research?

Homer A. Thompson's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (43%), Social Sciences (34%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (10%).

Social Sciences: 73 works · 76.5% of their workArts and Humanities: 41 works · 42.8% of their workArcheology: 38 works · 39.9% of their workClassics: 3 works · 2.9% of their workSocial Sciences: 32 works · 33.7% of their workAnthropology: 30 works · 30.8% of their workSociology and Political Science: 3 works · 2.9% of their workEverything else: 13 works · 13.9% of their workPhysical Sciences: 9 works · 9.6% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 9 works · 9.6% of their workSpace and Planetary Science: 6 works · 6.7% of their workPaleontology: 3 works · 2.9% of their workTHEIR WORKHomer A. Thompson96works
Physical Sciences10%Social Sciences76%

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 Humanities4142.8%
    2. Social Sciences3233.7%
  2. Everything else1313.9%
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences99.6%
  1. 1Archeology40% of their works
  2. 2Anthropology31% of their works
  3. 3Space and Planetary Science7% of their works
  4. 4Classics3% of their works
  5. 5Sociology and Political Science3% of their works
  6. 6Paleontology3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Homer A. Thompson's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Archaeology, Ancient Rome, Greek Literature, Cultural Exchange, Mediterranean, Pottery Production, LiDAR and Remote Sensing.

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. Archaeology743 topics
  2. Ancient Rome601 topic
  3. Greek Literature601 topic
  4. Cultural Exchange562 topics
  5. Mediterranean501 topic
  6. Pottery Production501 topic
  7. LiDAR141 topic
  8. Remote Sensing141 topic
  9. Ancient Egypt101 topic
  10. Archaeoastronomy101 topic
  11. Cultural Landscapes101 topic
  12. Linguistics101 topic
  13. Arabia91 topic
  14. Byzantine91 topic
  15. Agricultural Origins61 topic
  16. Byzantium61 topic
  17. Eastern Mediterranean61 topic
  18. Radiocarbon Dating61 topic

Where does Homer A. Thompson work?

Homer A. Thompson's main affiliation in the publication record is Institute for Advanced Study, United States.

How many publications and citations does Homer A. Thompson have?

OpenAlex counts 96 works and 1,708 citations for Homer A. Thompson, an h-index of 23, ranking #262,604 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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