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Researcher · University of the Witwatersrand · South Africa

Lee R. Berger

Lee R. Berger publishes mostly in Anthropology, Paleontology and Archeology, on topics such as Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Evolution and Paleontology Studies and Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies.

ORCID 0000-0002-0367-7629 OpenAlex
World rank
#38,497
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#74
of 29,826
Works
269
Citations
9.2k
Citations per work
34.3
h-index
50
i10-index 132Top 0.3% in Anthropology
Lee R. Berger

What does Lee R. Berger research?

Lee R. Berger's work is mostly in Social Sciences (30%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (21%), Arts and Humanities (14%).

Social Sciences: 149 works · 55.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 82 works · 30.5% of their workAnthropology: 74 works · 27.4% of their workArcheology: 8 works · 3.1% of their workArts and Humanities: 38 works · 14.3% of their workArcheology: 38 works · 14.3% of their workPsychology: 29 works · 10.7% of their workSocial Psychology: 29 works · 10.7% of their workPhysical Sciences: 68 works · 25.1% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 56 works · 20.9% of their workPaleontology: 56 works · 20.9% of their workEnvironmental Science: 11 works · 4.2% of their workEcology: 11 works · 4.2% of their workEverything else: 52 works · 19.4% of their workTHEIR WORKLee R. Berger269works
Physical Sciences25%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 Sciences8230.5%
    2. Arts and Humanities3814.3%
    3. Psychology2910.7%
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences5620.9%
    2. Environmental Science114.2%
  3. Everything else5219.4%
  1. 1Anthropology27% of their works
  2. 2Paleontology21% of their works
  3. 3Archeology14% of their works
  4. 4Social Psychology11% of their works
  5. 5Ecology4% of their works
  6. 6Archeology3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Lee R. Berger's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Hominin Genetics, Paleolithic Archaeology, Mammal Evolution, Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis, Age Estimation, Sex Determination, Primates and Social Behavior.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Hominin Genetics1871 topic
  2. Paleolithic Archaeology1871 topic
  3. Mammal Evolution1091 topic
  4. Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis1091 topic
  5. Age Estimation731 topic
  6. Sex Determination731 topic
  7. Primates671 topic
  8. Social Behavior671 topic
  9. Animal Movement271 topic
  10. Occupancy Rates271 topic
  11. Agricultural Origins211 topic
  12. Archaeology211 topic
  13. Radiocarbon Dating211 topic
  14. Southern Africa211 topic
  15. Geometric Morphometrics161 topic
  16. Morphological Integration161 topic

Where does Lee R. Berger work?

Lee R. Berger's main affiliation in the publication record is University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Lee R. Berger have?

OpenAlex counts 269 works and 9,222 citations for Lee R. Berger, an h-index of 50, ranking #38,497 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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