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Researcher · Institut de Recherche sur les ArchéoMATériaux · France

Norbert Mercier

Norbert Mercier publishes mostly in Anthropology, Atmospheric Science and Archeology, on topics such as Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research and Archaeology and ancient environmental studies.

ORCID 0000-0002-6375-9108 OpenAlex
World rank
#195,809
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in France
#12,736
of 324,115
Works
438
Citations
15k
Citations per work
33.3
h-index
57
i10-index 171Top 0.1% in Anthropology
Norbert Mercier

What does Norbert Mercier research?

Norbert Mercier's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (31%), Social Sciences (17%), Arts and Humanities (14%).

Physical Sciences: 156 works · 35.6% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 136 works · 31.0% of their workAtmospheric Science: 68 works · 15.5% of their workPaleontology: 49 works · 11.3% of their workGeophysics: 18 works · 4.2% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 20 works · 4.6% of their workRadiation: 20 works · 4.6% of their workEverything else: 147 works · 33.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 135 works · 30.9% of their workSocial Sciences: 75 works · 17.1% of their workAnthropology: 75 works · 17.1% of their workArts and Humanities: 60 works · 13.8% of their workArcheology: 60 works · 13.8% of their workTHEIR WORKNorbert Mercier438works
Physical Sciences36%Social Sciences31%

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. Earth and Planetary Sciences13631.0%
    2. Physics and Astronomy204.6%
  2. Everything else14733.5%
    1. Social Sciences7517.1%
    2. Arts and Humanities6013.8%
  1. 1Anthropology17% of their works
  2. 2Atmospheric Science16% of their works
  3. 3Archeology14% of their works
  4. 4Paleontology11% of their works
  5. 5Radiation5% of their works
  6. 6Geophysics4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Norbert Mercier's research?

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

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. Hominin Genetics1741 topic
  2. Paleolithic Archaeology1741 topic
  3. Climate Change1591 topic
  4. Paleoclimatology1591 topic
  5. Agricultural Origins1111 topic
  6. Radiocarbon Dating1111 topic
  7. Bronze Age521 topic
  8. Neolithic521 topic
  9. Health Effects502 topics
  10. Radionuclides502 topics
  11. Age Estimation291 topic
  12. Sex Determination291 topic
  13. Fukushima Daiichi251 topic
  14. Ionizing Radiation251 topic
  15. Radon251 topic
  16. nuclear accident251 topic
  17. Western Mediterranean231 topic
  18. geodynamics231 topic

Where does Norbert Mercier work?

Norbert Mercier's main affiliation in the publication record is Institut de Recherche sur les ArchéoMATériaux, France.

How many publications and citations does Norbert Mercier have?

OpenAlex counts 438 works and 14,578 citations for Norbert Mercier, an h-index of 57, ranking #195,809 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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