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Researcher · University of the Witwatersrand · South Africa

J. D. Lewis‐Williams

J. D. Lewis‐Williams publishes mostly in Anthropology, Archeology and Paleontology, on topics such as Archaeology and Rock Art Studies, Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology and Archaeology and ancient environmental studies.

OpenAlex
World rank
#56,265
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#131
of 29,826
Works
127
Citations
3.9k
Citations per work
30.8
h-index
33
i10-index 59Top 1.5% in Anthropology
J. D. Lewis‐Williams

What does J. D. Lewis‐Williams research?

J. D. Lewis‐Williams's work is mostly in Social Sciences (63%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (10%), Arts and Humanities (6%).

Social Sciences: 87 works · 68.8% of their workSocial Sciences: 80 works · 63.0% of their workAnthropology: 37 works · 29.1% of their workArcheology: 34 works · 26.9% of their workSociology and Political Science: 9 works · 7.0% of their workArts and Humanities: 7 works · 5.8% of their workArcheology: 7 works · 5.8% of their workEverything else: 25 works · 19.3% of their workPhysical Sciences: 12 works · 9.5% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 12 works · 9.5% of their workPaleontology: 12 works · 9.5% of their workLife Sciences: 3 works · 2.4% of their workNeuroscience: 3 works · 2.4% of their workCognitive Neuroscience: 3 works · 2.4% of their workTHEIR WORKJ. D.Lewis‐Williams127works
Life Sciences2%Physical Sciences10%Social Sciences69%

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 Sciences8063.0%
    2. Arts and Humanities75.8%
  2. Everything else2519.3%
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences129.5%
    1. Neuroscience32.4%
  1. 1Anthropology29% of their works
  2. 2Archeology27% of their works
  3. 3Paleontology10% of their works
  4. 4Sociology and Political Science7% of their works
  5. 5Archeology6% of their works
  6. 6Cognitive Neuroscience2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe J. D. Lewis‐Williams's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Archaeology, Southern Africa, Hominin Genetics, Paleolithic Archaeology, Agricultural Origins, Radiocarbon Dating, Colonialism and Globalization.

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. Archaeology881 topic
  2. Southern Africa881 topic
  3. Hominin Genetics511 topic
  4. Paleolithic Archaeology511 topic
  5. Agricultural Origins311 topic
  6. Radiocarbon Dating311 topic
  7. Colonialism292 topics
  8. Globalization201 topic
  9. Neoliberalism201 topic
  10. South Africa131 topic
  11. protests131 topic
  12. African History91 topic
  13. Post-Colonial Africa91 topic
  14. Indian Ocean81 topic
  15. prehistoric movement81 topic
  16. Adaptive Reuse71 topic
  17. Intangible Heritage71 topic

Where does J. D. Lewis‐Williams work?

J. D. Lewis‐Williams's main affiliation in the publication record is University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does J. D. Lewis‐Williams have?

OpenAlex counts 127 works and 3,906 citations for J. D. Lewis‐Williams, an h-index of 33, ranking #56,265 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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