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Researcher · Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology · Germany

Shannon Patrick McPherron

Shannon Patrick McPherron publishes mostly in Anthropology, Paleontology and Archeology, on topics such as Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Archaeology and ancient environmental studies and Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies.

ORCID 0000-0002-2063-468X OpenAlex
World rank
#14,696
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#807
of 364,343
Works
228
Citations
8.7k
Citations per work
38.3
h-index
49
i10-index 115Top 0.3% in Anthropology
Shannon Patrick McPherron

What does Shannon Patrick McPherron research?

Shannon Patrick McPherron's work is mostly in Social Sciences (28%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (25%), Arts and Humanities (18%).

Social Sciences: 107 works · 46.9% of their workSocial Sciences: 65 works · 28.5% of their workAnthropology: 59 works · 25.9% of their workArcheology: 6 works · 2.6% of their workArts and Humanities: 42 works · 18.4% of their workArcheology: 42 works · 18.4% of their workPhysical Sciences: 66 works · 28.8% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 57 works · 25.0% of their workPaleontology: 46 works · 20.3% of their workAtmospheric Science: 11 works · 4.7% of their workComputer Science: 9 works · 3.8% of their workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 9 works · 3.8% of their workEverything else: 55 works · 24.3% of their workTHEIR WORKShannon PatrickMcPherron228works
Physical Sciences29%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 Sciences6528.5%
    2. Arts and Humanities4218.4%
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences5725.0%
    2. Computer Science93.8%
  3. Everything else5524.3%
  1. 1Anthropology26% of their works
  2. 2Paleontology20% of their works
  3. 3Archeology18% of their works
  4. 4Atmospheric Science5% of their works
  5. 5Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition4% of their works
  6. 6Archeology3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Shannon Patrick McPherron's research?

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

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 Genetics1421 topic
  2. Paleolithic Archaeology1421 topic
  3. Agricultural Origins851 topic
  4. Radiocarbon Dating851 topic
  5. Age Estimation421 topic
  6. Sex Determination421 topic
  7. Archaeology412 topics
  8. Bronze Age271 topic
  9. Neolithic271 topic
  10. Climate Change261 topic
  11. Paleoclimatology261 topic
  12. Mammal Evolution221 topic
  13. Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis221 topic
  14. Fragmented Objects181 topic
  15. Reconstruction181 topic
  16. Rock Art141 topic
  17. Southern Africa141 topic

Where does Shannon Patrick McPherron work?

Shannon Patrick McPherron's main affiliation in the publication record is Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany.

How many publications and citations does Shannon Patrick McPherron have?

OpenAlex counts 228 works and 8,731 citations for Shannon Patrick McPherron, an h-index of 49, ranking #14,696 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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