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Researcher · University of the Witwatersrand · South Africa

Sarah Wurz

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

ORCID 0000-0002-0949-5391 OpenAlex
World rank
#103,772
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#305
of 29,826
Works
90
Citations
2.4k
Citations per work
27.0
h-index
25
i10-index 45Top 3.6% in Anthropology
Sarah Wurz

What does Sarah Wurz research?

Sarah Wurz's work is mostly in Social Sciences (46%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (32%), Arts and Humanities (10%).

Social Sciences: 52 works · 58.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 41 works · 46.0% of their workAnthropology: 28 works · 30.8% of their workArcheology: 14 works · 15.2% of their workArts and Humanities: 9 works · 9.7% of their workArcheology: 9 works · 9.7% of their workPsychology: 2 works · 2.5% of their workSocial Psychology: 2 works · 2.5% of their workPhysical Sciences: 28 works · 31.6% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 28 works · 31.6% of their workPaleontology: 23 works · 25.3% of their workAtmospheric Science: 6 works · 6.3% of their workEverything else: 9 works · 10.2% of their workTHEIR WORKSarah Wurz90works
Physical Sciences32%Social Sciences58%

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 Sciences4146.0%
    2. Arts and Humanities99.7%
    3. Psychology22.5%
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences2831.6%
  3. Everything else910.2%
  1. 1Anthropology31% of their works
  2. 2Paleontology25% of their works
  3. 3Archeology15% of their works
  4. 4Archeology10% of their works
  5. 5Atmospheric Science6% of their works
  6. 6Social Psychology2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Sarah Wurz's research?

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

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Hominin Genetics721 topic
  2. Paleolithic Archaeology721 topic
  3. Agricultural Origins521 topic
  4. Radiocarbon Dating521 topic
  5. Archaeology341 topic
  6. Southern Africa341 topic
  7. Age Estimation201 topic
  8. Sex Determination201 topic
  9. Climate Change151 topic
  10. Paleoclimatology151 topic
  11. Mammal Evolution61 topic
  12. Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis61 topic
  13. Primates41 topic
  14. Social Behavior41 topic
  15. Avian Vocal Communication21 topic
  16. Birdsong21 topic

Where does Sarah Wurz work?

Sarah Wurz's main affiliation in the publication record is University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Sarah Wurz have?

OpenAlex counts 90 works and 2,434 citations for Sarah Wurz, an h-index of 25, ranking #103,772 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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