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Researcher · Stanford University · United States

Richard G. Klein

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

ORCID 0000-0002-6180-2168 OpenAlex
World rank
#12,379
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#4,301
of 1,627,098
Works
224
Citations
15k
Citations per work
68.5
h-index
68
i10-index 131Top 0.1% in Anthropology
Richard G. Klein

What does Richard G. Klein research?

Richard G. Klein's work is mostly in Social Sciences (30%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (17%), Arts and Humanities (11%).

Social Sciences: 91 works · 40.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 66 works · 29.6% of their workAnthropology: 53 works · 23.5% of their workArcheology: 14 works · 6.1% of their workArts and Humanities: 24 works · 10.9% of their workArcheology: 24 works · 10.9% of their workEverything else: 76 works · 33.9% of their workPhysical Sciences: 50 works · 22.4% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 38 works · 16.9% of their workPaleontology: 38 works · 16.9% of their workEnvironmental Science: 12 works · 5.5% of their workEcology: 12 works · 5.5% of their workLife Sciences: 7 works · 3.2% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 7 works · 3.2% of their workGenetics: 7 works · 3.2% of their workTHEIR WORKRichard G. Klein224works
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences22%Social Sciences40%

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 Sciences6629.6%
    2. Arts and Humanities2410.9%
  2. Everything else7633.9%
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences3816.9%
    2. Environmental Science125.5%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology73.2%
  1. 1Anthropology24% of their works
  2. 2Paleontology17% of their works
  3. 3Archeology11% of their works
  4. 4Archeology6% of their works
  5. 5Ecology6% of their works
  6. 6Genetics3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Richard G. Klein's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Hominin Genetics, Paleolithic Archaeology, Agricultural Origins, Radiocarbon Dating, Age Estimation, Sex Determination, Archaeology and Southern Africa.

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 Genetics1251 topic
  2. Paleolithic Archaeology1251 topic
  3. Agricultural Origins581 topic
  4. Radiocarbon Dating581 topic
  5. Age Estimation441 topic
  6. Sex Determination441 topic
  7. Archaeology341 topic
  8. Southern Africa341 topic
  9. Mammal Evolution321 topic
  10. Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis321 topic
  11. Climate Change272 topics
  12. Animal Movement231 topic
  13. Occupancy Rates231 topic
  14. Arctic Indigenous Peoples151 topic
  15. Traditional Knowledge151 topic
  16. Glacial Cycles121 topic
  17. Paleoclimatology121 topic

Where does Richard G. Klein work?

Richard G. Klein's main affiliation in the publication record is Stanford University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Richard G. Klein have?

OpenAlex counts 224 works and 15,342 citations for Richard G. Klein, an h-index of 68, ranking #12,379 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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