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Researcher · University of California, Berkeley · United States

J. Desmond Clark

J. Desmond Clark publishes mostly in Anthropology, Archeology and Archeology, on topics such as Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Archaeology and Rock Art Studies and Archaeology and ancient environmental studies.

ORCID 0000-0001-7338-7144 OpenAlex
World rank
#45,032
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#17,329
of 1,627,098
Works
258
Citations
8k
Citations per work
31.0
h-index
48
i10-index 103Top 0.3% in Anthropology
J. Desmond Clark

What does J. Desmond Clark research?

J. Desmond Clark's work is mostly in Social Sciences (41%), Arts and Humanities (10%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (9%).

Social Sciences: 141 works · 54.8% of their workSocial Sciences: 105 works · 40.7% of their workAnthropology: 64 works · 24.8% of their workArcheology: 23 works · 9.0% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 18 works · 6.9% of their workArts and Humanities: 27 works · 10.5% of their workArcheology: 27 works · 10.5% of their workPsychology: 9 works · 3.6% of their workSocial Psychology: 9 works · 3.6% of their workEverything else: 94 works · 36.6% of their workPhysical Sciences: 22 works · 8.6% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 22 works · 8.6% of their workPaleontology: 22 works · 8.6% of their workTHEIR WORKJ. Desmond Clark258works
Physical Sciences9%Social Sciences55%

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 Sciences10540.7%
    2. Arts and Humanities2710.5%
    3. Psychology93.6%
  2. Everything else9436.6%
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences228.6%
  1. 1Anthropology25% of their works
  2. 2Archeology10% of their works
  3. 3Archeology9% of their works
  4. 4Paleontology9% of their works
  5. 5Political Science and International Relations7% of their works
  6. 6Social Psychology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe J. Desmond Clark's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Hominin Genetics, Paleolithic Archaeology, Archaeology, Rock Art, Southern Africa, Cultural Exchange, Agricultural Origins and Radiocarbon Dating.

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. Hominin Genetics831 topic
  2. Paleolithic Archaeology831 topic
  3. Archaeology712 topics
  4. Rock Art541 topic
  5. Southern Africa541 topic
  6. Cultural Exchange462 topics
  7. Agricultural Origins371 topic
  8. Radiocarbon Dating371 topic
  9. Indian Ocean291 topic
  10. prehistoric movement291 topic
  11. Eritrea251 topic
  12. Ethiopia251 topic
  13. Primates191 topic
  14. Social Behavior191 topic
  15. Age Estimation171 topic
  16. Migrations171 topic
  17. Sahara171 topic
  18. Sex Determination171 topic

Where does J. Desmond Clark work?

J. Desmond Clark's main affiliation in the publication record is University of California, Berkeley, United States.

How many publications and citations does J. Desmond Clark have?

OpenAlex counts 258 works and 8,008 citations for J. Desmond Clark, an h-index of 48, ranking #45,032 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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