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Researcher · University of Oxford · United Kingdom

Thomas Higham

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

ORCID 0000-0002-5949-598X OpenAlex
World rank
#3,219
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#207
of 367,258
Works
414
Citations
29k
Citations per work
70.1
h-index
88
i10-index 258Top 0.1% in Paleontology
Thomas Higham

What does Thomas Higham research?

Thomas Higham's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (31%), Social Sciences (24%), Arts and Humanities (21%).

Social Sciences: 185 works · 44.7% of their workSocial Sciences: 97 works · 23.5% of their workAnthropology: 75 works · 18.2% of their workGeography, Planning and Development: 22 works · 5.3% of their workArts and Humanities: 88 works · 21.2% of their workArcheology: 88 works · 21.2% of their workPhysical Sciences: 128 works · 30.8% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 128 works · 30.8% of their workPaleontology: 101 works · 24.3% of their workAtmospheric Science: 27 works · 6.5% of their workEverything else: 83 works · 20.0% of their workLife Sciences: 19 works · 4.5% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 19 works · 4.5% of their workGenetics: 19 works · 4.5% of their workTHEIR WORKThomas Higham414works
Life Sciences4%Physical Sciences31%Social Sciences45%

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 Sciences9723.5%
    2. Arts and Humanities8821.2%
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences12830.8%
  3. Everything else8320.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology194.5%
  1. 1Paleontology24% of their works
  2. 2Archeology21% of their works
  3. 3Anthropology18% of their works
  4. 4Atmospheric Science6% of their works
  5. 5Geography, Planning and Development5% of their works
  6. 6Genetics4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Thomas Higham's research?

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

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Agricultural Origins2581 topic
  2. Radiocarbon Dating2581 topic
  3. Hominin Genetics1891 topic
  4. Paleolithic Archaeology1891 topic
  5. Age Estimation1081 topic
  6. Sex Determination1081 topic
  7. Archaeology812 topics
  8. Climate Change651 topic
  9. Paleoclimatology651 topic
  10. Pacific Islands591 topic
  11. settlement591 topic
  12. Stable Isotopes331 topic
  13. Trophic Position331 topic
  14. Ancient DNA301 topic
  15. Genomic Analysis301 topic
  16. Bronze Age221 topic
  17. Neolithic221 topic

Where does Thomas Higham work?

Thomas Higham's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Oxford, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Thomas Higham have?

OpenAlex counts 414 works and 29,026 citations for Thomas Higham, an h-index of 88, ranking #3,219 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality 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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