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Researcher · Rice University · United States

Mary E. Prendergast

Mary E. Prendergast publishes mostly in Anthropology, Genetics and Paleontology, on topics such as Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Archaeology and ancient environmental studies and Global Maritime and Colonial Histories.

ORCID 0000-0003-0275-6795 OpenAlex
World rank
#68,959
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#26,619
of 1,627,098
Works
97
Citations
4.6k
Citations per work
47.0
h-index
38
i10-index 55Top 1% in Anthropology
Mary E. Prendergast

What does Mary E. Prendergast research?

Mary E. Prendergast's work is mostly in Social Sciences (36%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (12%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (10%).

Social Sciences: 41 works · 42.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 35 works · 35.7% of their workAnthropology: 27 works · 28.1% of their workArcheology: 7 works · 7.6% of their workArts and Humanities: 7 works · 6.8% of their workArcheology: 7 works · 6.8% of their workEverything else: 27 works · 28.3% of their workPhysical Sciences: 16 works · 16.8% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 10 works · 10.4% of their workPaleontology: 10 works · 10.4% of their workEnvironmental Science: 6 works · 6.4% of their workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 6 works · 6.4% of their workLife Sciences: 12 works · 12.4% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 12 works · 12.4% of their workGenetics: 12 works · 12.4% of their workTHEIR WORKMary E.Prendergast97works
Life Sciences12%Physical Sciences17%Social Sciences43%

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 Sciences3535.7%
    2. Arts and Humanities76.8%
  2. Everything else2728.3%
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences1010.4%
    2. Environmental Science66.4%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology1212.4%
  1. 1Anthropology28% of their works
  2. 2Genetics12% of their works
  3. 3Paleontology10% of their works
  4. 4Archeology8% of their works
  5. 5Archeology7% of their works
  6. 6Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Mary E. Prendergast's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Hominin Genetics, Paleolithic Archaeology, Agricultural Origins, Radiocarbon Dating, Indian Ocean, prehistoric movement, Archaeology and Southern Africa.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Hominin Genetics371 topic
  2. Paleolithic Archaeology371 topic
  3. Agricultural Origins241 topic
  4. Radiocarbon Dating241 topic
  5. Indian Ocean211 topic
  6. prehistoric movement211 topic
  7. Archaeology191 topic
  8. Southern Africa191 topic
  9. Ancient DNA161 topic
  10. Genomic Analysis161 topic
  11. Age Estimation151 topic
  12. Pastoralists151 topic
  13. Rangeland Degradation151 topic
  14. Sex Determination151 topic
  15. Genetics101 topic
  16. Race101 topic

Where does Mary E. Prendergast work?

Mary E. Prendergast's main affiliation in the publication record is Rice University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Mary E. Prendergast have?

OpenAlex counts 97 works and 4,563 citations for Mary E. Prendergast, an h-index of 38, ranking #68,959 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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