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Researcher · Institute of Natural Sciences · Belgium

Patrick Semal

Patrick Semal publishes mostly in Archeology, Anthropology and Paleontology, on topics such as Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies and Archaeology and ancient environmental studies.

ORCID 0000-0002-4048-7728 OpenAlex
World rank
#255,394
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Belgium
#1,965
of 67,186
Works
126
Citations
5.8k
Citations per work
45.9
h-index
28
i10-index 45Top 1.8% in Archeology (Arts and Humanities)
Patrick Semal

What does Patrick Semal research?

Patrick Semal's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (21%), Social Sciences (18%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (15%).

Social Sciences: 49 works · 38.9% of their workArts and Humanities: 26 works · 20.8% of their workArcheology: 26 works · 20.8% of their workSocial Sciences: 23 works · 18.1% of their workAnthropology: 23 works · 18.1% of their workEverything else: 46 works · 36.4% of their workPhysical Sciences: 24 works · 19.3% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 19 works · 15.4% of their workPaleontology: 15 works · 12.1% of their workGeology: 4 works · 3.3% of their workComputer Science: 5 works · 3.9% of their workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 5 works · 3.9% of their workLife Sciences: 7 works · 5.4% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 7 works · 5.4% of their workGenetics: 7 works · 5.4% of their workTHEIR WORKPatrick Semal126works
Life Sciences5%Physical Sciences19%Social Sciences39%

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. Arts and Humanities2620.8%
    2. Social Sciences2318.1%
  2. Everything else4636.4%
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences1915.4%
    2. Computer Science53.9%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology75.4%
  1. 1Archeology21% of their works
  2. 2Anthropology18% of their works
  3. 3Paleontology12% of their works
  4. 4Genetics5% of their works
  5. 5Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition4% of their works
  6. 6Geology3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Patrick Semal's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Hominin Genetics, Paleolithic Archaeology, Age Estimation, Sex Determination, Agricultural Origins, Radiocarbon Dating, Cultural Heritage and Ancient DNA.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Hominin Genetics601 topic
  2. Paleolithic Archaeology601 topic
  3. Age Estimation441 topic
  4. Sex Determination441 topic
  5. Agricultural Origins341 topic
  6. Radiocarbon Dating341 topic
  7. Cultural Heritage212 topics
  8. Ancient DNA111 topic
  9. Genomic Analysis111 topic
  10. Photogrammetry111 topic
  11. UAV111 topic
  12. Climate Change101 topic
  13. Fragmented Objects101 topic
  14. Reconstruction101 topic
  15. Species Distribution Modeling101 topic
  16. Bronze Age81 topic
  17. Neolithic81 topic

Where does Patrick Semal work?

Patrick Semal's main affiliation in the publication record is Institute of Natural Sciences, Belgium.

How many publications and citations does Patrick Semal have?

OpenAlex counts 126 works and 5,780 citations for Patrick Semal, an h-index of 28, ranking #255,394 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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