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Researcher · Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro · Brazil

Rita Scheel-Ybert

Rita Scheel-Ybert publishes mostly in History, Plant Science and Paleontology, on topics such as Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory, Archaeology and ancient environmental studies and Cassava research and cyanide.

ORCID 0000-0002-9428-9348 OpenAlex
World rank
#309,298
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Brazil
#1,299
of 253,246
Works
104
Citations
1.4k
Citations per work
13.1
h-index
19
i10-index 37Top 1.9% in History
Rita Scheel-Ybert

What does Rita Scheel-Ybert research?

Rita Scheel-Ybert's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (26%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (15%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (8%).

Everything else: 46 works · 44.7% of their workSocial Sciences: 28 works · 26.5% of their workArts and Humanities: 28 works · 26.5% of their workHistory: 22 works · 21.3% of their workArcheology: 5 works · 5.2% of their workLife Sciences: 16 works · 15.2% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 16 works · 15.2% of their workPlant Science: 9 works · 8.8% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 7 works · 6.4% of their workPhysical Sciences: 14 works · 13.6% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 8 works · 8.0% of their workPaleontology: 8 works · 8.0% of their workEnvironmental Science: 6 works · 5.6% of their workEcology: 6 works · 5.6% of their workTHEIR WORKRita Scheel-Ybert104works
Life Sciences15%Physical Sciences14%Social Sciences26%

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. Everything else4644.7%
    1. Arts and Humanities2826.5%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences1615.2%
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences88.0%
    2. Environmental Science65.6%
  1. 1History21% of their works
  2. 2Plant Science9% of their works
  3. 3Paleontology8% of their works
  4. 4Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics6% of their works
  5. 5Ecology6% of their works
  6. 6Archeology5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Rita Scheel-Ybert's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Amazonia, Historical Ecology, pre-Columbian, Agricultural Origins, Radiocarbon Dating, Holocene, Cassava and Cyanogenic Glycosides.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Amazonia612 topics
  2. Historical Ecology531 topic
  3. pre-Columbian531 topic
  4. Agricultural Origins191 topic
  5. Radiocarbon Dating191 topic
  6. Holocene182 topics
  7. Cassava171 topic
  8. Cyanogenic Glycosides171 topic
  9. Angiosperm Phylogeny151 topic
  10. Flowering Plants151 topic
  11. Climate Change101 topic
  12. Paleoclimatology101 topic
  13. Stable Isotopes101 topic
  14. Trophic Position101 topic
  15. Health81 topic
  16. Indigenous Populations81 topic
  17. Maritime Archaeology81 topic
  18. Mediterranean81 topic

Where does Rita Scheel-Ybert work?

Rita Scheel-Ybert's main affiliation in the publication record is Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

How many publications and citations does Rita Scheel-Ybert have?

OpenAlex counts 104 works and 1,365 citations for Rita Scheel-Ybert, an h-index of 19, ranking #309,298 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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