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Researcher · British Museum · United Kingdom

Nigel Barley

Nigel Barley publishes mostly in Anthropology, Sociology and Political Science and Political Science and International Relations, on topics such as African history and culture studies, Asian Studies and History and Global Maritime and Colonial Histories.

OpenAlex
World rank
#1,325,283
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#103,569
of 367,258
Works
83
Citations
828
Citations per work
10.0
h-index
13
i10-index 16Top 16% in Anthropology
Nigel Barley

What does Nigel Barley research?

Nigel Barley's work is mostly in Social Sciences (50%), Medicine (5%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (3%).

Social Sciences: 42 works · 50.0% of their workSocial Sciences: 42 works · 50.0% of their workAnthropology: 19 works · 22.6% of their workSociology and Political Science: 15 works · 17.8% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 5 works · 6.2% of their workGeography, Planning and Development: 3 works · 3.4% of their workEverything else: 35 works · 41.8% of their workHealth Sciences: 4 works · 4.8% of their workMedicine: 4 works · 4.8% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 4 works · 4.8% of their workLife Sciences: 3 works · 3.4% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 3 works · 3.4% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 3 works · 3.4% of their workTHEIR WORKNigel Barley83works
Life Sciences3%Health Sciences5%Social Sciences50%

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 Sciences4250.0%
  2. Everything else3541.8%
    1. Medicine44.8%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences33.4%
  1. 1Anthropology23% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science18% of their works
  3. 3Political Science and International Relations6% of their works
  4. 4Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health5% of their works
  5. 5Geography, Planning and Development3% of their works
  6. 6Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Nigel Barley's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Colonialism, Post-Colonial Africa, Democratization, Indonesia, Indian Ocean, prehistoric movement, Eritrea and Ethiopia.

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. Colonialism171 topic
  2. Post-Colonial Africa171 topic
  3. Democratization71 topic
  4. Indonesia71 topic
  5. Indian Ocean61 topic
  6. prehistoric movement61 topic
  7. Eritrea51 topic
  8. Ethiopia51 topic
  9. Climate Change31 topic
  10. Legal Semiotics31 topic
  11. Multiculturalism31 topic
  12. Pacific Islands31 topic
  13. Processionary Moth31 topic
  14. Singapore31 topic
  15. Visual Jurisprudence31 topic
  16. settlement31 topic

Where does Nigel Barley work?

Nigel Barley's main affiliation in the publication record is British Museum, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Nigel Barley have?

OpenAlex counts 83 works and 828 citations for Nigel Barley, an h-index of 13, ranking #1,325,283 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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