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Researcher · Durham County Council · United Kingdom

Iain Watson

Iain Watson publishes mostly in Archeology, Sociology and Political Science and Anthropology, on topics such as Archaeological Research and Protection, Historical and Architectural Studies and Global Maritime and Colonial Histories.

ORCID 0009-0007-2289-8762 OpenAlex
World rank
#1,318,225
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#103,071
of 367,258
Works
39
Citations
403
Citations per work
10.3
h-index
9
i10-index 9Top 25% in Archeology (Arts and Humanities)
Iain Watson

What does Iain Watson research?

Iain Watson's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (35%), Social Sciences (32%).

Social Sciences: 26 works · 67.1% of their workArts and Humanities: 14 works · 35.4% of their workArcheology: 10 works · 25.6% of their workHistory: 2 works · 4.9% of their workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 2 works · 4.9% of their workSocial Sciences: 12 works · 31.7% of their workAnthropology: 5 works · 13.4% of their workSociology and Political Science: 5 works · 13.4% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 2 works · 4.9% of their workEverything else: 13 works · 32.9% of their workTHEIR WORKIain Watson39works
Social Sciences67%

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 Humanities1435.4%
    2. Social Sciences1231.7%
  2. Everything else1332.9%
  1. 1Archeology26% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science13% of their works
  3. 3Anthropology13% of their works
  4. 4Visual Arts and Performing Arts5% of their works
  5. 5Political Science and International Relations5% of their works
  6. 6History5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Iain Watson's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Archaeological Evidence, Archaeology, Cultural Exchange, Archaeoastronomy, Cultural Landscapes, Indian Ocean, LiDAR and prehistoric movement.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Archaeological Evidence72 topics
  2. Archaeology72 topics
  3. Cultural Exchange72 topics
  4. Archaeoastronomy41 topic
  5. Cultural Landscapes41 topic
  6. Indian Ocean41 topic
  7. LiDAR41 topic
  8. Remote Sensing41 topic
  9. prehistoric movement41 topic
  10. Agricultural Origins31 topic
  11. Ancient Egypt31 topic
  12. Arabia31 topic
  13. Byzantine31 topic
  14. Colonial Spanish America31 topic
  15. Linguistics31 topic
  16. Maritime Archaeology31 topic
  17. Mediterranean31 topic
  18. Radiocarbon Dating31 topic
  19. Visual Culture31 topic

Where does Iain Watson work?

Iain Watson's main affiliation in the publication record is Durham County Council, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Iain Watson have?

OpenAlex counts 39 works and 403 citations for Iain Watson, an h-index of 9, ranking #1,318,225 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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