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Researcher · Australian Museum · Australia

Robin Torrence

Robin Torrence publishes mostly in Geography, Planning and Development, Anthropology and Paleontology, on topics such as Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies, Archaeology and ancient environmental studies and Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology.

ORCID 0000-0001-8519-2395 OpenAlex
World rank
#142,053
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Australia
#4,846
of 140,210
Works
183
Citations
5.3k
Citations per work
29.0
h-index
38
i10-index 94Top 0.9% in Geography, Planning and Development
Robin Torrence

What does Robin Torrence research?

Robin Torrence's work is mostly in Social Sciences (39%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (21%), Arts and Humanities (8%).

Social Sciences: 86 works · 47.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 71 works · 38.7% of their workGeography, Planning and Development: 39 works · 21.2% of their workAnthropology: 32 works · 17.5% of their workArts and Humanities: 15 works · 8.4% of their workArcheology: 15 works · 8.4% of their workEverything else: 52 works · 28.5% of their workPhysical Sciences: 45 works · 24.4% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 39 works · 21.4% of their workPaleontology: 32 works · 17.3% of their workAtmospheric Science: 8 works · 4.1% of their workEnvironmental Science: 5 works · 3.0% of their workEcology: 5 works · 3.0% of their workTHEIR WORKRobin Torrence183works
Physical Sciences24%Social Sciences47%

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 Sciences7138.7%
    2. Arts and Humanities158.4%
  2. Everything else5228.5%
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences3921.4%
    2. Environmental Science53.0%
  1. 1Geography, Planning and Development21% of their works
  2. 2Anthropology18% of their works
  3. 3Paleontology17% of their works
  4. 4Archeology8% of their works
  5. 5Atmospheric Science4% of their works
  6. 6Ecology3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Robin Torrence's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Archaeology, Pacific Islands, settlement, Agricultural Origins, Radiocarbon Dating, Hominin Genetics, Paleolithic Archaeology and Climate Change.

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. Archaeology1062 topics
  2. Pacific Islands971 topic
  3. settlement971 topic
  4. Agricultural Origins801 topic
  5. Radiocarbon Dating801 topic
  6. Hominin Genetics501 topic
  7. Paleolithic Archaeology501 topic
  8. Climate Change252 topics
  9. Glacial Cycles181 topic
  10. Paleoclimatology181 topic
  11. African Diaspora131 topic
  12. Black Feminist Theory131 topic
  13. Stable Isotopes101 topic
  14. Trophic Position101 topic
  15. LiDAR91 topic
  16. Remote Sensing91 topic
  17. Arctic Indigenous Peoples71 topic
  18. Traditional Knowledge71 topic

Where does Robin Torrence work?

Robin Torrence's main affiliation in the publication record is Australian Museum, Australia.

How many publications and citations does Robin Torrence have?

OpenAlex counts 183 works and 5,312 citations for Robin Torrence, an h-index of 38, ranking #142,053 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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