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Researcher · British Museum · United Kingdom

R. A. Skelton

R. A. Skelton publishes mostly in Geography, Planning and Development, Archeology and History, on topics such as Historical Geography and Cartography, Maritime and Coastal Archaeology and Geographic Information Systems Studies.

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World rank
#447,846
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#39,303
of 367,258
Works
102
Citations
704
Citations per work
6.9
h-index
14
i10-index 18Top 13% in Geography, Planning and Development
R. A. Skelton

What does R. A. Skelton research?

R. A. Skelton's work is mostly in Social Sciences (42%), Arts and Humanities (31%), Physics and Astronomy (3%).

Social Sciences: 74 works · 72.8% of their workSocial Sciences: 43 works · 41.8% of their workGeography, Planning and Development: 30 works · 29.9% of their workAnthropology: 9 works · 9.3% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 3 works · 2.6% of their workArts and Humanities: 32 works · 31.0% of their workArcheology: 16 works · 15.5% of their workHistory: 16 works · 15.5% of their workEverything else: 25 works · 24.1% of their workPhysical Sciences: 3 works · 3.1% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 3 works · 3.1% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 3 works · 3.1% of their workTHEIR WORKR. A. Skelton102works
Physical Sciences3%Social Sciences73%

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 Sciences4341.8%
    2. Arts and Humanities3231.0%
  2. Everything else2524.1%
    1. Physics and Astronomy33.1%
  1. 1Geography, Planning and Development30% of their works
  2. 2Archeology16% of their works
  3. 3History16% of their works
  4. 4Anthropology9% of their works
  5. 5Astronomy and Astrophysics3% of their works
  6. 6Political Science and International Relations3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe R. A. Skelton's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Geodesy, Map Projections, Maritime Archaeology, Mediterranean, Rituals, Geospatial Crowdsourcing, Volunteered Geographic Information and Scandinavia.

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. Geodesy441 topic
  2. Map Projections441 topic
  3. Maritime Archaeology151 topic
  4. Mediterranean151 topic
  5. Rituals122 topics
  6. Geospatial Crowdsourcing101 topic
  7. Volunteered Geographic Information101 topic
  8. Scandinavia71 topic
  9. Viking Age71 topic
  10. Diplomacy51 topic
  11. Imperial Court51 topic
  12. Wales51 topic
  13. Welsh literature51 topic
  14. Agricultural Origins41 topic
  15. Antikythera Mechanism41 topic
  16. Astronomical Calculator41 topic
  17. Radiocarbon Dating41 topic

Where does R. A. Skelton work?

R. A. Skelton's main affiliation in the publication record is British Museum, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does R. A. Skelton have?

OpenAlex counts 102 works and 704 citations for R. A. Skelton, an h-index of 14, ranking #447,846 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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