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Researcher · National Museums of Kenya · Kenya

Meave Gillian Leakey

Meave Gillian Leakey publishes mostly in Paleontology, Anthropology and Social Psychology, on topics such as Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Evolution and Paleontology Studies and Primate Behavior and Ecology.

OpenAlex
World rank
#72,555
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Kenya
#42
of 7,520
Works
108
Citations
9.1k
Citations per work
83.8
h-index
39
i10-index 65Top 4.7% in Paleontology
Meave Gillian Leakey

What does Meave Gillian Leakey research?

Meave Gillian Leakey's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (24%), Social Sciences (22%), Psychology (12%).

Social Sciences: 45 works · 41.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 24 works · 22.1% of their workAnthropology: 24 works · 22.1% of their workPsychology: 13 works · 11.6% of their workSocial Psychology: 13 works · 11.6% of their workArts and Humanities: 8 works · 7.8% of their workArcheology: 8 works · 7.8% of their workPhysical Sciences: 35 works · 32.1% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 26 works · 24.0% of their workPaleontology: 26 works · 24.0% of their workEnvironmental Science: 9 works · 8.1% of their workEcology: 9 works · 8.1% of their workEverything else: 23 works · 21.0% of their workLife Sciences: 6 works · 5.4% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 6 works · 5.4% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 6 works · 5.4% of their workTHEIR WORKMeave GillianLeakey108works
Life Sciences5%Physical Sciences32%Social Sciences42%

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 Sciences2422.1%
    2. Psychology1311.6%
    3. Arts and Humanities87.8%
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences2624.0%
    2. Environmental Science98.1%
  3. Everything else2321.0%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences65.4%
  1. 1Paleontology24% of their works
  2. 2Anthropology22% of their works
  3. 3Social Psychology12% of their works
  4. 4Ecology8% of their works
  5. 5Archeology8% of their works
  6. 6Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Meave Gillian Leakey's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Molecular Phylogeny, Hominin Genetics, Paleolithic Archaeology, Mammal Evolution, Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis, Evolution, 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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Molecular Phylogeny632 topics
  2. Hominin Genetics541 topic
  3. Paleolithic Archaeology541 topic
  4. Mammal Evolution531 topic
  5. Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis531 topic
  6. Evolution362 topics
  7. Primates301 topic
  8. Social Behavior301 topic
  9. Age Estimation151 topic
  10. Sex Determination151 topic
  11. Climate Change142 topics
  12. Animal Movement131 topic
  13. Occupancy Rates131 topic
  14. Bats101 topic
  15. Hibernation101 topic
  16. Dinosaur61 topic
  17. Phylogenetic Analysis61 topic
  18. Glacial Cycles41 topic
  19. Paleoclimatology41 topic

Where does Meave Gillian Leakey work?

Meave Gillian Leakey's main affiliation in the publication record is National Museums of Kenya, Kenya.

How many publications and citations does Meave Gillian Leakey have?

OpenAlex counts 108 works and 9,055 citations for Meave Gillian Leakey, an h-index of 39, ranking #72,555 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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