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Researcher · National Museum · South Africa

Roger Summers

Roger Summers publishes mostly in Anthropology, Archeology and Political Science and International Relations, on topics such as Archaeology and Rock Art Studies, African history and culture analysis and Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology.

OpenAlex
World rank
#908,482
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#3,594
of 29,826
Works
46
Citations
390
Citations per work
8.5
h-index
11
i10-index 12Top 22% in Anthropology
Roger Summers

What does Roger Summers research?

Roger Summers's work is mostly in Social Sciences (69%), Environmental Science (5%), Arts and Humanities (4%).

Social Sciences: 33 works · 72.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 32 works · 68.8% of their workAnthropology: 13 works · 28.4% of their workArcheology: 10 works · 22.0% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 5 works · 10.1% of their workSociology and Political Science: 4 works · 8.3% of their workArts and Humanities: 2 works · 3.7% of their workArcheology: 2 works · 3.7% of their workEverything else: 10 works · 22.0% of their workPhysical Sciences: 3 works · 5.5% of their workEnvironmental Science: 3 works · 5.5% of their workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 3 works · 5.5% of their workTHEIR WORKRoger Summers46works
Physical Sciences5%Social Sciences72%

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 Sciences3268.8%
    2. Arts and Humanities23.7%
  2. Everything else1022.0%
    1. Environmental Science35.5%
  1. 1Anthropology28% of their works
  2. 2Archeology22% of their works
  3. 3Political Science and International Relations10% of their works
  4. 4Sociology and Political Science8% of their works
  5. 5Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law6% of their works
  6. 6Archeology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Roger Summers's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Archaeology, Southern Africa, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Hominin Genetics, Paleolithic Archaeology, Indian Ocean and prehistoric 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.

All 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Archaeology241 topic
  2. Southern Africa241 topic
  3. Eritrea111 topic
  4. Ethiopia111 topic
  5. Hominin Genetics101 topic
  6. Paleolithic Archaeology101 topic
  7. Indian Ocean91 topic
  8. prehistoric movement91 topic
  9. Pastoralists61 topic
  10. Rangeland Degradation61 topic
  11. Colonialism41 topic
  12. Post-Colonial Africa41 topic
  13. South Africa41 topic
  14. protests41 topic
  15. Agricultural Origins31 topic
  16. Radiocarbon Dating31 topic

Where does Roger Summers work?

Roger Summers's main affiliation in the publication record is National Museum, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Roger Summers have?

OpenAlex counts 46 works and 390 citations for Roger Summers, an h-index of 11, ranking #908,482 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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