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Researcher · University of Cambridge · United Kingdom

John Robb

John Robb publishes mostly in Archeology, Paleontology and Genetics, on topics such as Archaeology and ancient environmental studies, Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies and Music History and Culture.

ORCID 0000-0002-7987-4549 OpenAlex
World rank
#46,156
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#3,688
of 367,258
Works
199
Citations
4.5k
Citations per work
22.5
h-index
38
i10-index 67Top 0.5% in Archeology (Arts and Humanities)
John Robb

What does John Robb research?

John Robb's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (26%), Social Sciences (13%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (12%).

Everything else: 79 works · 39.8% of their workSocial Sciences: 78 works · 39.2% of their workArts and Humanities: 52 works · 26.0% of their workArcheology: 41 works · 20.6% of their workMusic: 11 works · 5.4% of their workSocial Sciences: 26 works · 13.2% of their workAnthropology: 17 works · 8.4% of their workSociology and Political Science: 10 works · 4.8% of their workPhysical Sciences: 24 works · 12.1% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 24 works · 12.1% of their workPaleontology: 24 works · 12.1% of their workLife Sciences: 18 works · 8.9% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 18 works · 8.9% of their workGenetics: 18 works · 8.9% of their workTHEIR WORKJohn Robb199works
Life Sciences9%Physical Sciences12%Social Sciences39%

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. Everything else7939.8%
    1. Arts and Humanities5226.0%
    2. Social Sciences2613.2%
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences2412.1%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology188.9%
  1. 1Archeology21% of their works
  2. 2Paleontology12% of their works
  3. 3Genetics9% of their works
  4. 4Anthropology8% of their works
  5. 5Music5% of their works
  6. 6Sociology and Political Science5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe John Robb's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Agricultural Origins, Radiocarbon Dating, Ancient DNA, Age Estimation, Sex Determination, Human Evolution, Culture and Music.

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. Agricultural Origins561 topic
  2. Radiocarbon Dating561 topic
  3. Ancient DNA523 topics
  4. Age Estimation391 topic
  5. Sex Determination391 topic
  6. Human Evolution352 topics
  7. Culture221 topic
  8. Music221 topic
  9. Ancient Health201 topic
  10. Paleoparasitology201 topic
  11. Yersinia pestis171 topic
  12. plague171 topic
  13. Genomic Analysis151 topic
  14. Population History151 topic
  15. Hominin Genetics141 topic
  16. Paleolithic Archaeology141 topic
  17. African Diaspora121 topic
  18. Black Feminist Theory121 topic

Where does John Robb work?

John Robb's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does John Robb have?

OpenAlex counts 199 works and 4,474 citations for John Robb, an h-index of 38, ranking #46,156 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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