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Researcher · National Museums of Kenya · Kenya

Richard E. F. Leakey

Richard E. F. Leakey publishes mostly in Anthropology, Paleontology and Social Psychology, on topics such as Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Evolution and Paleontology Studies and Primate Behavior and Ecology.

OpenAlex
World rank
#60,409
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Kenya
#37
of 7,520
Works
116
Citations
6.9k
Citations per work
59.6
h-index
50
i10-index 74Top 0.3% in Anthropology
Richard E. F. Leakey

What does Richard E. F. Leakey research?

Richard E. F. Leakey's work is mostly in Social Sciences (23%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (17%), Psychology (15%).

Social Sciences: 49 works · 41.9% of their workSocial Sciences: 27 works · 23.0% of their workAnthropology: 22 works · 19.0% of their workSociology and Political Science: 5 works · 4.0% of their workPsychology: 17 works · 14.6% of their workSocial Psychology: 17 works · 14.6% of their workArts and Humanities: 5 works · 4.3% of their workArcheology: 5 works · 4.3% of their workEverything else: 40 works · 34.4% of their workPhysical Sciences: 27 works · 23.7% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 20 works · 17.0% of their workPaleontology: 20 works · 17.0% of their workEnvironmental Science: 8 works · 6.7% of their workEcology: 8 works · 6.7% of their workTHEIR WORKRichard E. F.Leakey116works
Physical Sciences24%Social Sciences42%

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 Sciences2723.0%
    2. Psychology1714.6%
    3. Arts and Humanities54.3%
  2. Everything else4034.4%
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences2017.0%
    2. Environmental Science86.7%
  1. 1Anthropology19% of their works
  2. 2Paleontology17% of their works
  3. 3Social Psychology15% of their works
  4. 4Ecology7% of their works
  5. 5Archeology4% of their works
  6. 6Sociology and Political Science4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Richard E. F. Leakey's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Molecular Phylogeny, Hominin Genetics, Paleolithic Archaeology, Mammal Evolution, Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis, Primates, Social Behavior and Animal Movement.

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. Molecular Phylogeny482 topics
  2. Hominin Genetics441 topic
  3. Paleolithic Archaeology441 topic
  4. Mammal Evolution401 topic
  5. Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis401 topic
  6. Primates351 topic
  7. Social Behavior351 topic
  8. Animal Movement141 topic
  9. Occupancy Rates141 topic
  10. Age Estimation81 topic
  11. Bats81 topic
  12. Hibernation81 topic
  13. Sex Determination81 topic
  14. Astrobiology61 topic
  15. Extraterrestrial Life61 topic
  16. Acceptance41 topic
  17. Evolutionary Theory41 topic

Where does Richard E. F. Leakey work?

Richard E. F. Leakey's main affiliation in the publication record is National Museums of Kenya, Kenya.

How many publications and citations does Richard E. F. Leakey have?

OpenAlex counts 116 works and 6,914 citations for Richard E. F. Leakey, an h-index of 50, ranking #60,409 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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