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Researcher · University of Cape Town · South Africa

Royden Yates

Royden Yates publishes mostly in Anthropology, Archeology and Paleontology, on topics such as Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Archaeology and ancient environmental studies and Archaeology and Rock Art Studies.

OpenAlex
World rank
#139,600
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#444
of 29,826
Works
31
Citations
3.6k
Citations per work
117.2
h-index
22
i10-index 25Top 5.1% in Anthropology
Royden Yates

What does Royden Yates research?

Royden Yates's work is mostly in Social Sciences (55%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (20%), Arts and Humanities (13%).

Social Sciences: 21 works · 68.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 17 works · 54.9% of their workAnthropology: 10 works · 31.7% of their workArcheology: 6 works · 19.5% of their workSociology and Political Science: 1 works · 3.7% of their workArts and Humanities: 4 works · 13.4% of their workArcheology: 3 works · 11.0% of their workHistory: 1 works · 2.4% of their workPhysical Sciences: 6 works · 19.5% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 6 works · 19.5% of their workPaleontology: 6 works · 19.5% of their workEverything else: 4 works · 12.2% of their workTHEIR WORKRoyden Yates31works
Physical Sciences20%Social Sciences68%

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 Sciences1754.9%
    2. Arts and Humanities413.4%
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences619.5%
  3. Everything else412.2%
  1. 1Anthropology32% of their works
  2. 2Archeology20% of their works
  3. 3Paleontology20% of their works
  4. 4Archeology11% of their works
  5. 5Sociology and Political Science4% of their works
  6. 6History2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Royden Yates's research?

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

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 Genetics231 topic
  2. Paleolithic Archaeology231 topic
  3. Archaeology182 topics
  4. Agricultural Origins161 topic
  5. Radiocarbon Dating161 topic
  6. Rock Art161 topic
  7. Southern Africa161 topic
  8. Age Estimation71 topic
  9. Sex Determination71 topic
  10. Climate Change21 topic
  11. Globalization21 topic
  12. Neoliberalism21 topic
  13. Paleoclimatology21 topic
  14. Scandinavia21 topic
  15. South Africa21 topic
  16. Viking Age21 topic
  17. protests21 topic

Where does Royden Yates work?

Royden Yates's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Cape Town, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Royden Yates have?

OpenAlex counts 31 works and 3,633 citations for Royden Yates, an h-index of 22, ranking #139,600 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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