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Researcher · University of Colorado Boulder · United States

Matt Sponheimer

Matt Sponheimer publishes mostly in Ecology, Paleontology and Anthropology, on topics such as Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Isotope Analysis in Ecology and Archaeology and ancient environmental studies.

ORCID 0000-0002-8743-1123 OpenAlex
World rank
#27,344
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#10,270
of 1,627,098
Works
213
Citations
11k
Citations per work
53.0
h-index
57
i10-index 109Top 1.5% in Ecology
Matt Sponheimer

What does Matt Sponheimer research?

Matt Sponheimer's work is mostly in Environmental Science (26%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (23%), Social Sciences (18%).

Physical Sciences: 104 works · 48.9% of their workEnvironmental Science: 55 works · 26.0% of their workEcology: 55 works · 26.0% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 49 works · 22.9% of their workPaleontology: 44 works · 20.7% of their workAtmospheric Science: 5 works · 2.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 72 works · 33.9% of their workSocial Sciences: 39 works · 18.4% of their workAnthropology: 39 works · 18.4% of their workPsychology: 22 works · 10.2% of their workSocial Psychology: 22 works · 10.2% of their workArts and Humanities: 11 works · 5.3% of their workArcheology: 11 works · 5.3% of their workEverything else: 37 works · 17.2% of their workTHEIR WORKMatt Sponheimer213works
Physical Sciences49%Social Sciences34%

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. Environmental Science5526.0%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences4922.9%
    1. Social Sciences3918.4%
    2. Psychology2210.2%
    3. Arts and Humanities115.3%
  3. Everything else3717.2%
  1. 1Ecology26% of their works
  2. 2Paleontology21% of their works
  3. 3Anthropology18% of their works
  4. 4Social Psychology10% of their works
  5. 5Archeology5% of their works
  6. 6Atmospheric Science2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Matt Sponheimer's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Hominin Genetics, Paleolithic Archaeology, Stable Isotopes, Trophic Position, Agricultural Origins, Radiocarbon Dating, 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. 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 Genetics921 topic
  2. Paleolithic Archaeology921 topic
  3. Stable Isotopes671 topic
  4. Trophic Position671 topic
  5. Agricultural Origins571 topic
  6. Radiocarbon Dating571 topic
  7. Primates521 topic
  8. Social Behavior521 topic
  9. Population Dynamics492 topics
  10. Mammal Evolution431 topic
  11. Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis431 topic
  12. Animal Movement361 topic
  13. Occupancy Rates361 topic
  14. Age Estimation191 topic
  15. Sex Determination191 topic
  16. Anthropogenic Noise131 topic
  17. Marine Mammals131 topic

Where does Matt Sponheimer work?

Matt Sponheimer's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Colorado Boulder, United States.

How many publications and citations does Matt Sponheimer have?

OpenAlex counts 213 works and 11,297 citations for Matt Sponheimer, an h-index of 57, ranking #27,344 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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