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Stephen Shennan

Stephen Shennan publishes mostly in Paleontology, Anthropology and Sociology and Political Science, on topics such as Archaeology and ancient environmental studies, Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology and Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies.

World rank
#21,147
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#1,986
of 90,785
Works
52
Citations
464
Citations per work
8.9

What does Stephen Shennan research?

Paleontology: 20.0%Anthropology: 13.3%Sociology and Political Science: 8.3%Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 6.7%other fields: 51.7%20%top field
Paleontology20.0%Anthropology13.3%Sociology and Political Science8.3%Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition6.7%other fields51.7%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Paleontology20% of their works
  2. 2Anthropology13% of their works
  3. 3Sociology and Political Science8% of their works
  4. 4Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition7% of their works
  5. 5Geography, Planning and Development7% of their works
  6. 6Cultural Studies5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Stephen Shennan's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Agricultural Origins, Radiocarbon Dating, Archaeology, Cultural Evolution, Hominin Genetics, Paleolithic Archaeology, Altruism and Cooperation.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Agricultural Origins121 topic
  2. Radiocarbon Dating121 topic
  3. Archaeology83 topics
  4. Cultural Evolution72 topics
  5. Hominin Genetics51 topic
  6. Paleolithic Archaeology51 topic
  7. Altruism41 topic
  8. Cooperation41 topic
  9. Cultural Heritage42 topics
  10. Pacific Islands41 topic
  11. settlement41 topic
  12. Language31 topic
  13. Social Learning31 topic
  14. Fragmented Objects21 topic
  15. LiDAR21 topic
  16. Reconstruction21 topic
  17. Remote Sensing21 topic
  18. Scandinavia21 topic
  19. Viking Age21 topic

Where does Stephen Shennan work?

Stephen Shennan's main affiliation in the publication record is University College London, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Stephen Shennan have?

Science Explorer counts 52 works and 464 citations for Stephen Shennan, ranking #21,147 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite 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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