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Researcher · Bedford College · United Kingdom

Martin Litchfield West

Martin Litchfield West publishes mostly in Anthropology, Archeology and Language and Linguistics, on topics such as Classical Antiquity Studies, Linguistics and language evolution and Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies.

OpenAlex
World rank
#380,419
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#33,627
of 367,258
Works
355
Citations
6.8k
Citations per work
19.2
h-index
40
i10-index 80Top 0.8% in Anthropology
Martin Litchfield West

What does Martin Litchfield West research?

Martin Litchfield West's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (42%), Social Sciences (28%).

Social Sciences: 250 works · 70.4% of their workArts and Humanities: 151 works · 42.4% of their workArcheology: 54 works · 15.1% of their workLanguage and Linguistics: 43 works · 12.2% of their workPhilosophy: 27 works · 7.7% of their workClassics: 14 works · 3.9% of their workLiterature and Literary Theory: 12 works · 3.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 99 works · 28.0% of their workAnthropology: 99 works · 28.0% of their workEverything else: 105 works · 29.6% of their workTHEIR WORKMartin LitchfieldWest355works
Social Sciences70%

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. Arts and Humanities15142.4%
    2. Social Sciences9928.0%
  2. Everything else10529.6%
  1. 1Anthropology28% of their works
  2. 2Archeology15% of their works
  3. 3Language and Linguistics12% of their works
  4. 4Philosophy8% of their works
  5. 5Classics4% of their works
  6. 6Literature and Literary Theory4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Martin Litchfield West's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Ancient Rome, Greek Literature, Indo-European, Linguistics, Ancient Magic, Gnosticism, Aristotle and Plato.

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. Ancient Rome1881 topic
  2. Greek Literature1881 topic
  3. Indo-European671 topic
  4. Linguistics671 topic
  5. Ancient Magic601 topic
  6. Gnosticism601 topic
  7. Aristotle431 topic
  8. Plato431 topic
  9. Cultural Exchange402 topics
  10. Archaeology211 topic
  11. Mediterranean211 topic
  12. Babylonian191 topic
  13. Byzantium191 topic
  14. Eastern Mediterranean191 topic
  15. Mesopotamia191 topic
  16. Biblical Monotheism161 topic
  17. Jewish Society161 topic

Where does Martin Litchfield West work?

Martin Litchfield West's main affiliation in the publication record is Bedford College, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Martin Litchfield West have?

OpenAlex counts 355 works and 6,832 citations for Martin Litchfield West, an h-index of 40, ranking #380,419 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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