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Researcher · University of Cape Town · South Africa

John E. Parkington

John E. Parkington publishes mostly in Anthropology, Paleontology and Archeology, on topics such as Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Archaeology and Rock Art Studies and Archaeology and ancient environmental studies.

ORCID 0000-0001-6127-6826 OpenAlex
World rank
#31,628
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#59
of 29,826
Works
172
Citations
8.2k
Citations per work
47.4
h-index
47
i10-index 101Top 0.4% in Anthropology
John E. Parkington

What does John E. Parkington research?

John E. Parkington's work is mostly in Social Sciences (45%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (21%), Arts and Humanities (9%).

Social Sciences: 93 works · 54.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 78 works · 45.2% of their workAnthropology: 45 works · 26.2% of their workArcheology: 29 works · 17.1% of their workGeography, Planning and Development: 3 works · 1.9% of their workArts and Humanities: 16 works · 9.1% of their workArcheology: 16 works · 9.1% of their workEverything else: 42 works · 24.5% of their workPhysical Sciences: 36 works · 21.2% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 36 works · 21.2% of their workPaleontology: 30 works · 17.3% of their workAtmospheric Science: 7 works · 3.9% of their workTHEIR WORKJohn E.Parkington172works
Physical Sciences21%Social Sciences54%

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 Sciences7845.2%
    2. Arts and Humanities169.1%
  2. Everything else4224.5%
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences3621.2%
  1. 1Anthropology26% of their works
  2. 2Paleontology17% of their works
  3. 3Archeology17% of their works
  4. 4Archeology9% of their works
  5. 5Atmospheric Science4% of their works
  6. 6Geography, Planning and Development2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe John E. Parkington's research?

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

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 Genetics1061 topic
  2. Paleolithic Archaeology1061 topic
  3. Archaeology862 topics
  4. Rock Art791 topic
  5. Southern Africa791 topic
  6. Agricultural Origins641 topic
  7. Radiocarbon Dating641 topic
  8. Holocene252 topics
  9. Climate Change181 topic
  10. Paleoclimatology181 topic
  11. Age Estimation171 topic
  12. Sex Determination171 topic
  13. Mammal Evolution101 topic
  14. Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis101 topic
  15. Maritime Archaeology71 topic
  16. Mediterranean71 topic
  17. Pacific Islands71 topic
  18. settlement71 topic

Where does John E. Parkington work?

John E. Parkington's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Cape Town, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does John E. Parkington have?

OpenAlex counts 172 works and 8,158 citations for John E. Parkington, an h-index of 47, ranking #31,628 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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