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Researcher · British Museum · United Kingdom

Nick M. Ashton

Nick M. Ashton publishes mostly in Anthropology, Paleontology and Archeology, on topics such as Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Archaeology and ancient environmental studies and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research.

ORCID 0000-0001-9787-3892 OpenAlex
World rank
#55,604
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#4,595
of 367,258
Works
116
Citations
3.3k
Citations per work
28.4
h-index
33
i10-index 62Top 1.5% in Anthropology
Nick M. Ashton

What does Nick M. Ashton research?

Nick M. Ashton's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (39%), Social Sciences (33%), Arts and Humanities (13%).

Social Sciences: 56 works · 48.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 39 works · 33.2% of their workAnthropology: 35 works · 30.3% of their workArcheology: 3 works · 2.9% of their workArts and Humanities: 15 works · 12.7% of their workArcheology: 15 works · 12.7% of their workPsychology: 3 works · 2.2% of their workSocial Psychology: 3 works · 2.2% of their workPhysical Sciences: 45 works · 39.2% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 45 works · 39.2% of their workPaleontology: 34 works · 29.6% of their workAtmospheric Science: 11 works · 9.6% of their workEverything else: 15 works · 12.7% of their workTHEIR WORKNick M. Ashton116works
Physical Sciences39%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 Sciences3933.2%
    2. Arts and Humanities1512.7%
    3. Psychology32.2%
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences4539.2%
  3. Everything else1512.7%
  1. 1Anthropology30% of their works
  2. 2Paleontology30% of their works
  3. 3Archeology13% of their works
  4. 4Atmospheric Science10% of their works
  5. 5Archeology3% of their works
  6. 6Social Psychology2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Nick M. Ashton's research?

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

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Hominin Genetics891 topic
  2. Paleolithic Archaeology891 topic
  3. Agricultural Origins751 topic
  4. Radiocarbon Dating751 topic
  5. Climate Change301 topic
  6. Paleoclimatology301 topic
  7. Age Estimation241 topic
  8. Sex Determination241 topic
  9. Mammal Evolution161 topic
  10. Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis161 topic
  11. Primates71 topic
  12. Social Behavior71 topic
  13. Ancient Health61 topic
  14. Archaeology61 topic
  15. Paleoparasitology61 topic
  16. Southern Africa61 topic

Where does Nick M. Ashton work?

Nick M. Ashton's main affiliation in the publication record is British Museum, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Nick M. Ashton have?

OpenAlex counts 116 works and 3,298 citations for Nick M. Ashton, an h-index of 33, ranking #55,604 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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