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Researcher · Oxford Archaeology · United Kingdom

Ian A. Law

Ian A. Law publishes mostly in Paleontology, Archeology and Anthropology, on topics such as Archaeology and ancient environmental studies, Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies and Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology.

OpenAlex
World rank
#490,194
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#42,717
of 367,258
Works
18
Citations
1.4k
Citations per work
76.1
h-index
15
i10-index 16Top 40% in Paleontology
Ian A. Law

What does Ian A. Law research?

Ian A. Law's work is mostly in Social Sciences (32%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (32%), Arts and Humanities (17%).

Social Sciences: 9 works · 48.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 6 works · 31.6% of their workAnthropology: 2 works · 13.0% of their workGeography, Planning and Development: 2 works · 13.0% of their workLaw: 1 works · 5.6% of their workArts and Humanities: 3 works · 16.7% of their workArcheology: 3 works · 16.7% of their workPhysical Sciences: 6 works · 31.5% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 6 works · 31.5% of their workPaleontology: 5 works · 25.9% of their workSpace and Planetary Science: 1 works · 5.6% of their workEverything else: 4 works · 20.2% of their workTHEIR WORKIan A. Law18works
Physical Sciences32%Social Sciences48%

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 Sciences631.6%
    2. Arts and Humanities316.7%
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences631.5%
  3. Everything else420.2%
  1. 1Paleontology26% of their works
  2. 2Archeology17% of their works
  3. 3Anthropology13% of their works
  4. 4Geography, Planning and Development13% of their works
  5. 5Space and Planetary Science6% of their works
  6. 6Law6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ian A. Law's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Agricultural Origins, Radiocarbon Dating, Archaeology, Cultural Heritage, Pacific Islands, settlement, Hominin Genetics and Paleolithic Archaeology.

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.

All 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Agricultural Origins141 topic
  2. Radiocarbon Dating141 topic
  3. Archaeology102 topics
  4. Cultural Heritage73 topics
  5. Pacific Islands71 topic
  6. settlement71 topic
  7. Hominin Genetics61 topic
  8. Paleolithic Archaeology61 topic
  9. LiDAR31 topic
  10. Remote Sensing31 topic
  11. Age Estimation21 topic
  12. Fragmented Objects21 topic
  13. Raman Spectroscopy21 topic
  14. Reconstruction21 topic
  15. Sex Determination21 topic
  16. X-Ray Fluorescence21 topic
  17. Ancient DNA11 topic
  18. Genomic Analysis11 topic

Where does Ian A. Law work?

Ian A. Law's main affiliation in the publication record is Oxford Archaeology, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Ian A. Law have?

OpenAlex counts 18 works and 1,369 citations for Ian A. Law, an h-index of 15, ranking #490,194 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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