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Researcher · Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará · Brazil

Myrtle P. Shock

Myrtle P. Shock publishes mostly in History, General Health Professions and Plant Science, on topics such as Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory, Indigenous Health and Education and Cassava research and cyanide.

ORCID 0000-0001-9129-0442 OpenAlex
World rank
#836,537
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Brazil
#4,908
of 253,246
Works
59
Citations
824
Citations per work
14.0
h-index
15
i10-index 20Top 3.9% in History
Myrtle P. Shock

What does Myrtle P. Shock research?

Myrtle P. Shock's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (31%), Health Professions (14%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (12%).

Social Sciences: 21 works · 36.4% of their workArts and Humanities: 19 works · 31.4% of their workHistory: 19 works · 31.4% of their workSocial Sciences: 3 works · 5.0% of their workAnthropology: 3 works · 5.0% of their workEverything else: 16 works · 27.2% of their workHealth Sciences: 8 works · 14.3% of their workHealth Professions: 8 works · 14.3% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 8 works · 14.3% of their workLife Sciences: 7 works · 12.1% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 7 works · 12.1% of their workPlant Science: 7 works · 12.1% of their workPhysical Sciences: 6 works · 10.0% of their workEnvironmental Science: 6 works · 10.0% of their workGlobal and Planetary Change: 3 works · 5.0% of their workNature and Landscape Conservation: 3 works · 5.0% of their workTHEIR WORKMyrtle P. Shock59works
Life Sciences12%Physical Sciences10%Health Sciences14%Social Sciences36%

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 Humanities1931.4%
    2. Social Sciences35.0%
  2. Everything else1627.2%
    1. Health Professions814.3%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences712.1%
    1. Environmental Science610.0%
  1. 1History31% of their works
  2. 2General Health Professions14% of their works
  3. 3Plant Science12% of their works
  4. 4Global and Planetary Change5% of their works
  5. 5Nature and Landscape Conservation5% of their works
  6. 6Anthropology5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Myrtle P. Shock's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Amazonia, Historical Ecology, pre-Columbian, Health, Indigenous Populations, Cassava, Cyanogenic Glycosides and Agricultural Origins.

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. Amazonia632 topics
  2. Historical Ecology441 topic
  3. pre-Columbian441 topic
  4. Health191 topic
  5. Indigenous Populations191 topic
  6. Cassava91 topic
  7. Cyanogenic Glycosides91 topic
  8. Agricultural Origins71 topic
  9. Environmental Services71 topic
  10. Radiocarbon Dating71 topic
  11. Tropical Deforestation71 topic
  12. Fish Biodiversity61 topic
  13. Freshwater Ecoregions61 topic
  14. Banana41 topic
  15. Genetics41 topic
  16. Stable Isotopes31 topic
  17. Trophic Position31 topic

Where does Myrtle P. Shock work?

Myrtle P. Shock's main affiliation in the publication record is Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará, Brazil.

How many publications and citations does Myrtle P. Shock have?

OpenAlex counts 59 works and 824 citations for Myrtle P. Shock, an h-index of 15, ranking #836,537 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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