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Researcher · British Museum · United Kingdom

Stuart Needham

Stuart Needham publishes mostly in Paleontology, Archeology and Anthropology, on topics such as Archaeology and ancient environmental studies, Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology and Maritime and Coastal Archaeology.

OpenAlex
World rank
#499,540
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#43,458
of 367,258
Works
73
Citations
1.2k
Citations per work
16.3
h-index
19
i10-index 28Top 27% in Paleontology
Stuart Needham

What does Stuart Needham research?

Stuart Needham's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (32%), Social Sciences (27%), Arts and Humanities (26%).

Social Sciences: 39 works · 53.8% of their workSocial Sciences: 20 works · 27.4% of their workAnthropology: 13 works · 18.1% of their workArcheology: 7 works · 9.3% of their workArts and Humanities: 19 works · 26.4% of their workArcheology: 17 works · 23.8% of their workHistory: 2 works · 2.6% of their workPhysical Sciences: 25 works · 33.7% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 23 works · 31.6% of their workPaleontology: 23 works · 31.6% of their workComputer Science: 2 works · 2.1% of their workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 2 works · 2.1% of their workEverything else: 9 works · 12.5% of their workTHEIR WORKStuart Needham73works
Physical Sciences34%Social Sciences54%

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 Sciences2027.4%
    2. Arts and Humanities1926.4%
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences2331.6%
    2. Computer Science22.1%
  3. Everything else912.5%
  1. 1Paleontology32% of their works
  2. 2Archeology24% of their works
  3. 3Anthropology18% of their works
  4. 4Archeology9% of their works
  5. 5History3% of their works
  6. 6Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Stuart Needham's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Agricultural Origins, Radiocarbon Dating, Hominin Genetics, Paleolithic Archaeology, Archaeological Analysis, Iron Production, Maritime Archaeology and Mediterranean.

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. Agricultural Origins611 topic
  2. Radiocarbon Dating611 topic
  3. Hominin Genetics221 topic
  4. Paleolithic Archaeology221 topic
  5. Archaeological Analysis111 topic
  6. Iron Production111 topic
  7. Maritime Archaeology111 topic
  8. Mediterranean111 topic
  9. African Diaspora91 topic
  10. Black Feminist Theory91 topic
  11. Archaeology71 topic
  12. Southern Africa71 topic
  13. Babylonian61 topic
  14. Bronze Age61 topic
  15. Corded Ware Culture61 topic
  16. Mesopotamia61 topic

Where does Stuart Needham work?

Stuart Needham's main affiliation in the publication record is British Museum, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Stuart Needham have?

OpenAlex counts 73 works and 1,187 citations for Stuart Needham, an h-index of 19, ranking #499,540 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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