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Researcher · University of the Witwatersrand · South Africa

Paloma de la Peña

Paloma de la Peña publishes mostly in Archeology, Anthropology and Paleontology, on topics such as Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Archaeology and ancient environmental studies and Archaeological and Geological Studies.

ORCID 0000-0001-9731-7001 OpenAlex
World rank
#196,144
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#666
of 29,826
Works
71
Citations
1.1k
Citations per work
15.3
h-index
20
i10-index 29Top 5.1% in Archeology (Arts and Humanities)
Paloma de la Peña

What does Paloma de la Peña research?

Paloma de la Peña's work is mostly in Social Sciences (36%), Arts and Humanities (28%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (19%).

Social Sciences: 45 works · 63.7% of their workSocial Sciences: 26 works · 36.0% of their workAnthropology: 17 works · 24.3% of their workArcheology: 8 works · 11.7% of their workArts and Humanities: 20 works · 27.7% of their workArcheology: 20 works · 27.7% of their workPhysical Sciences: 14 works · 19.4% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 14 works · 19.4% of their workPaleontology: 9 works · 13.1% of their workGeophysics: 3 works · 4.4% of their workAtmospheric Science: 1 works · 1.9% of their workEverything else: 12 works · 16.9% of their workTHEIR WORKPaloma de la Peña71works
Physical Sciences19%Social Sciences64%

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 Sciences2636.0%
    2. Arts and Humanities2027.7%
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences1419.4%
  3. Everything else1216.9%
  1. 1Archeology28% of their works
  2. 2Anthropology24% of their works
  3. 3Paleontology13% of their works
  4. 4Archeology12% of their works
  5. 5Geophysics4% of their works
  6. 6Atmospheric Science2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Paloma de la Peña's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Archaeology, Hominin Genetics, Paleolithic Archaeology, Iberian Peninsula, Settlement Patterns, Iron Age, Agricultural Origins and Bronze Age.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Archaeology653 topics
  2. Hominin Genetics451 topic
  3. Paleolithic Archaeology451 topic
  4. Iberian Peninsula422 topics
  5. Settlement Patterns422 topics
  6. Iron Age412 topics
  7. Agricultural Origins241 topic
  8. Bronze Age241 topic
  9. Neolithic241 topic
  10. Radiocarbon Dating241 topic
  11. Rock Art231 topic
  12. Southern Africa231 topic
  13. Celtic culture181 topic
  14. Romanization181 topic
  15. Age Estimation101 topic
  16. Sex Determination101 topic
  17. Western Mediterranean81 topic
  18. geodynamics81 topic
  19. Climate Change41 topic
  20. Paleoclimatology41 topic

Where does Paloma de la Peña work?

Paloma de la Peña's main affiliation in the publication record is University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Paloma de la Peña have?

OpenAlex counts 71 works and 1,083 citations for Paloma de la Peña, an h-index of 20, ranking #196,144 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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