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Researcher · University of the Witwatersrand · South Africa

Lyn Wadley

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

ORCID 0000-0003-0053-0813 OpenAlex
World rank
#9,105
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#8
of 29,826
Works
191
Citations
11k
Citations per work
55.4
h-index
58
i10-index 124Top 0.1% in Anthropology
Lyn Wadley

What does Lyn Wadley research?

Lyn Wadley's work is mostly in Social Sciences (49%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (23%), Arts and Humanities (7%).

Social Sciences: 108 works · 56.6% of their workSocial Sciences: 94 works · 49.3% of their workAnthropology: 56 works · 29.1% of their workArcheology: 39 works · 20.2% of their workArts and Humanities: 14 works · 7.3% of their workArcheology: 14 works · 7.3% of their workPhysical Sciences: 48 works · 25.0% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 45 works · 23.3% of their workPaleontology: 35 works · 18.3% of their workAtmospheric Science: 10 works · 5.0% of their workChemistry: 3 works · 1.7% of their workOrganic Chemistry: 3 works · 1.7% of their workEverything else: 35 works · 18.4% of their workTHEIR WORKLyn Wadley191works
Physical Sciences25%Social Sciences57%

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 Sciences9449.3%
    2. Arts and Humanities147.3%
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences4523.3%
    2. Chemistry31.7%
  3. Everything else3518.4%
  1. 1Anthropology29% of their works
  2. 2Archeology20% of their works
  3. 3Paleontology18% of their works
  4. 4Archeology7% of their works
  5. 5Atmospheric Science5% of their works
  6. 6Organic Chemistry2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Lyn Wadley's research?

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

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. Hominin Genetics1371 topic
  2. Paleolithic Archaeology1371 topic
  3. Archaeology1112 topics
  4. Rock Art1041 topic
  5. Southern Africa1041 topic
  6. Agricultural Origins841 topic
  7. Radiocarbon Dating841 topic
  8. Climate Change261 topic
  9. Paleoclimatology261 topic
  10. Age Estimation211 topic
  11. Sex Determination211 topic
  12. Mammal Evolution71 topic
  13. Pacific Islands71 topic
  14. Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis71 topic
  15. settlement71 topic
  16. South Africa51 topic
  17. protests51 topic

Where does Lyn Wadley work?

Lyn Wadley's main affiliation in the publication record is University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Lyn Wadley have?

OpenAlex counts 191 works and 10,579 citations for Lyn Wadley, an h-index of 58, ranking #9,105 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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