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Researcher · Frobenius-Institut · Germany

Nikolas Gestrich

Nikolas Gestrich publishes mostly in Anthropology, Sociology and Political Science and Archeology, on topics such as African Studies and Geopolitics, African Studies and Ethnography and Archaeology and Rock Art Studies.

ORCID 0000-0001-6376-1972 OpenAlex
World rank
#2,153,830
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#106,246
of 364,343
Works
21
Citations
233
Citations per work
11.1
h-index
7
i10-index 6Top 40% in Anthropology
Nikolas Gestrich

What does Nikolas Gestrich research?

Nikolas Gestrich's work is mostly in Social Sciences (62%), Arts and Humanities (8%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (7%).

Social Sciences: 15 works · 70.4% of their workSocial Sciences: 13 works · 62.2% of their workAnthropology: 7 works · 31.1% of their workSociology and Political Science: 3 works · 16.4% of their workArcheology: 2 works · 9.8% of their workCultural Studies: 1 works · 4.9% of their workArts and Humanities: 2 works · 8.2% of their workArcheology: 2 works · 8.2% of their workEverything else: 5 works · 23.0% of their workPhysical Sciences: 1 works · 6.6% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 works · 6.6% of their workPaleontology: 1 works · 6.6% of their workTHEIR WORKNikolas Gestrich21works
Physical Sciences7%Social Sciences70%

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 Sciences1362.2%
    2. Arts and Humanities28.2%
  2. Everything else523.0%
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences16.6%
  1. 1Anthropology31% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science16% of their works
  3. 3Archeology10% of their works
  4. 4Archeology8% of their works
  5. 5Paleontology7% of their works
  6. 6Cultural Studies5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Nikolas Gestrich's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Archaeology, Migrations, Sahara, Africa, Governance, Rock Art, Southern Africa and Smallholder Farmers.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Archaeology193 topics
  2. Migrations111 topic
  3. Sahara111 topic
  4. Africa101 topic
  5. Governance101 topic
  6. Rock Art61 topic
  7. Southern Africa61 topic
  8. Smallholder Farmers52 topics
  9. Agricultural Origins41 topic
  10. Radiocarbon Dating41 topic
  11. Agroforestry31 topic
  12. Colonialism31 topic
  13. Post-Colonial Africa31 topic
  14. Tree Domestication31 topic
  15. Ancient Egypt21 topic
  16. Linguistics21 topic
  17. Livestock Farming21 topic
  18. Sustainability21 topic

Where does Nikolas Gestrich work?

Nikolas Gestrich's main affiliation in the publication record is Frobenius-Institut, Germany.

How many publications and citations does Nikolas Gestrich have?

OpenAlex counts 21 works and 233 citations for Nikolas Gestrich, an h-index of 7, ranking #2,153,830 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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