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Researcher · Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History · Germany

Michael D. Petraglia

Michael D. Petraglia publishes mostly in Anthropology, Paleontology and Archeology, on topics such as Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Archaeology and ancient environmental studies and Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies.

ORCID 0000-0003-2522-5727 OpenAlex
World rank
#5,469
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#209
of 364,343
Works
389
Citations
15k
Citations per work
37.7
h-index
65
i10-index 217Top 0.1% in Anthropology
Michael D. Petraglia

What does Michael D. Petraglia research?

Michael D. Petraglia's work is mostly in Social Sciences (28%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (27%), Arts and Humanities (18%).

Social Sciences: 188 works · 48.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 107 works · 27.5% of their workAnthropology: 107 works · 27.5% of their workArts and Humanities: 69 works · 17.8% of their workArcheology: 69 works · 17.8% of their workPsychology: 12 works · 3.0% of their workSocial Psychology: 12 works · 3.0% of their workPhysical Sciences: 117 works · 30.1% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 106 works · 27.3% of their workPaleontology: 76 works · 19.6% of their workAtmospheric Science: 30 works · 7.7% of their workEnvironmental Science: 11 works · 2.8% of their workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 11 works · 2.8% of their workEverything else: 84 works · 21.6% of their workTHEIR WORKMichael D.Petraglia389works
Physical Sciences30%Social Sciences48%

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 Sciences10727.5%
    2. Arts and Humanities6917.8%
    3. Psychology123.0%
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences10627.3%
    2. Environmental Science112.8%
  3. Everything else8421.6%
  1. 1Anthropology28% of their works
  2. 2Paleontology20% of their works
  3. 3Archeology18% of their works
  4. 4Atmospheric Science8% of their works
  5. 5Social Psychology3% of their works
  6. 6Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Michael D. Petraglia's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Hominin Genetics, Paleolithic Archaeology, Agricultural Origins, Radiocarbon Dating, Age Estimation, Sex Determination, Climate Change and Paleoclimatology.

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.

All 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Hominin Genetics2321 topic
  2. Paleolithic Archaeology2321 topic
  3. Agricultural Origins1491 topic
  4. Radiocarbon Dating1491 topic
  5. Age Estimation1291 topic
  6. Sex Determination1291 topic
  7. Climate Change761 topic
  8. Paleoclimatology761 topic
  9. Mammal Evolution451 topic
  10. Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis451 topic
  11. Primates291 topic
  12. Social Behavior291 topic
  13. Archaeology231 topic
  14. Southern Africa231 topic
  15. Animal Movement181 topic
  16. Occupancy Rates181 topic

Where does Michael D. Petraglia work?

Michael D. Petraglia's main affiliation in the publication record is Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Germany.

How many publications and citations does Michael D. Petraglia have?

OpenAlex counts 389 works and 14,678 citations for Michael D. Petraglia, an h-index of 65, ranking #5,469 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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