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Researcher · University of California, Berkeley · United States

Patrick Vinton Kirch

Patrick Vinton Kirch publishes mostly in Geography, Planning and Development, Paleontology and Demography, on topics such as Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies, Archaeology and ancient environmental studies and Island Studies and Pacific Affairs.

ORCID 0000-0003-4264-6689 OpenAlex
World rank
#38,176
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#14,616
of 1,627,098
Works
473
Citations
9.7k
Citations per work
20.5
h-index
51
i10-index 152Top 0.2% in Geography, Planning and Development
Patrick Vinton Kirch

What does Patrick Vinton Kirch research?

Patrick Vinton Kirch's work is mostly in Social Sciences (55%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (10%), Environmental Science (7%).

Social Sciences: 260 works · 54.9% of their workSocial Sciences: 260 works · 54.9% of their workGeography, Planning and Development: 165 works · 34.9% of their workDemography: 46 works · 9.7% of their workCultural Studies: 27 works · 5.7% of their workAnthropology: 22 works · 4.6% of their workEverything else: 130 works · 27.4% of their workPhysical Sciences: 84 works · 17.7% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 49 works · 10.3% of their workPaleontology: 49 works · 10.3% of their workEnvironmental Science: 35 works · 7.4% of their workEcology: 35 works · 7.4% of their workTHEIR WORKPatrick VintonKirch473works
Physical Sciences18%Social Sciences55%

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 Sciences26054.9%
  2. Everything else13027.4%
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences4910.3%
    2. Environmental Science357.4%
  1. 1Geography, Planning and Development35% of their works
  2. 2Paleontology10% of their works
  3. 3Demography10% of their works
  4. 4Ecology7% of their works
  5. 5Cultural Studies6% of their works
  6. 6Anthropology5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Patrick Vinton Kirch's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Pacific Islands, settlement, Pacific, Vulnerability, Agricultural Origins, Radiocarbon Dating, Islands and Small States.

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. Pacific Islands3151 topic
  2. settlement3151 topic
  3. Pacific1202 topics
  4. Vulnerability1092 topics
  5. Agricultural Origins921 topic
  6. Radiocarbon Dating921 topic
  7. Islands871 topic
  8. Small States871 topic
  9. Stable Isotopes551 topic
  10. Trophic Position551 topic
  11. Climate Change452 topics
  12. Holocene402 topics
  13. Asian American331 topic
  14. Transnational331 topic
  15. Glacial Cycles231 topic
  16. Paleoclimatology231 topic
  17. Arctic Indigenous Peoples221 topic
  18. Traditional Knowledge221 topic
  19. Maritime Archaeology171 topic
  20. Mediterranean171 topic

Where does Patrick Vinton Kirch work?

Patrick Vinton Kirch's main affiliation in the publication record is University of California, Berkeley, United States.

How many publications and citations does Patrick Vinton Kirch have?

OpenAlex counts 473 works and 9,713 citations for Patrick Vinton Kirch, an h-index of 51, ranking #38,176 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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