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Peter Turchin

Peter Turchin publishes mostly in Ecology, Sociology and Political Science and Economics and Econometrics, on topics such as Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies, Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation and Plant and animal studies.

World rank
#77,360
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#34,549
of 358,040
Works
38
Citations
357
Citations per work
9.4

What does Peter Turchin research?

Ecology: 16.7%Sociology and Political Science: 12.5%Economics and Econometrics: 6.3%Paleontology: 6.3%other fields: 58.2%17%top field
Ecology16.7%Sociology and Political Science12.5%Economics and Econometrics6.3%Paleontology6.3%other fields58.2%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Ecology17% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science12% of their works
  3. 3Economics and Econometrics6% of their works
  4. 4Paleontology6% of their works
  5. 5Genetics6% of their works
  6. 6Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Peter Turchin's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Invasive Species, Island Ecosystems, Population Dynamics, Altruism, Cooperation, Agricultural Origins, Ecosystem Services and Pollinator Decline.

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.

All 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Invasive Species112 topics
  2. Island Ecosystems81 topic
  3. Population Dynamics81 topic
  4. Altruism61 topic
  5. Cooperation61 topic
  6. Agricultural Origins31 topic
  7. Ecosystem Services31 topic
  8. Pollinator Decline31 topic
  9. Radiocarbon Dating31 topic
  10. Adaptation21 topic
  11. Culture21 topic
  12. Early-warning Signals21 topic
  13. Econophysics21 topic
  14. Evolution21 topic
  15. Institutions21 topic
  16. Multifractal Analysis21 topic
  17. Regime Shifts21 topic

Where does Peter Turchin work?

Peter Turchin's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Connecticut, United States.

How many publications and citations does Peter Turchin have?

Science Explorer counts 38 works and 357 citations for Peter Turchin, ranking #77,360 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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