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Nicholas Sims‐Williams

Nicholas Sims‐Williams publishes mostly in Language and Linguistics, Anthropology and Classics, on topics such as Eurasian Exchange Networks, Linguistics and language evolution and Byzantine Studies and History.

World rank
#131,173
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#12,334
of 90,785
Works
38
Citations
33
Citations per work
0.9

What does Nicholas Sims‐Williams research?

Language and Linguistics: 35.5%Anthropology: 29.0%Classics: 16.1%Archeology: 9.7%other fields: 9.7%36%top field
Language and Linguistics35.5%Anthropology29.0%Classics16.1%Archeology9.7%other fields9.7%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Language and Linguistics36% of their works
  2. 2Anthropology29% of their works
  3. 3Classics16% of their works
  4. 4Archeology10% of their works
  5. 5Sociology and Political Science6% of their works
  6. 6Philosophy3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Nicholas Sims‐Williams's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Etymology, Linguistics, Eurasian Exchange, Silk Roads, Cultural History, Indo-European, Byzantium and Eastern Mediterranean.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Etymology102 topics
  2. Linguistics102 topics
  3. Eurasian Exchange91 topic
  4. Silk Roads91 topic
  5. Cultural History71 topic
  6. Indo-European71 topic
  7. Byzantium51 topic
  8. Eastern Mediterranean51 topic
  9. Cultural Transmission42 topics
  10. Language Contact42 topics
  11. Morphology31 topic
  12. Turkic31 topic
  13. Ancient Magic21 topic
  14. Christian-Muslim Relations21 topic
  15. Gnosticism21 topic
  16. Gospel Translation21 topic
  17. Babylonian11 topic
  18. Linguistic Diversity11 topic
  19. Mesopotamia11 topic
  20. Semitic Languages11 topic

Where does Nicholas Sims‐Williams work?

Nicholas Sims‐Williams's main affiliation in the publication record is SOAS University of London, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Nicholas Sims‐Williams have?

Science Explorer counts 38 works and 33 citations for Nicholas Sims‐Williams, ranking #131,173 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite 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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