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Researcher · SIL International · United States

Thomas N. Headland

Thomas N. Headland publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, General Health Professions and Language and Linguistics, on topics such as Indigenous Studies and Ecology, Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior and Linguistic Variation and Morphology.

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World rank
#234,388
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#86,449
of 1,627,098
Works
65
Citations
3.9k
Citations per work
60.6
h-index
25
i10-index 31Top 3.7% in Sociology and Political Science
Thomas N. Headland

What does Thomas N. Headland research?

Thomas N. Headland's work is mostly in Social Sciences (26%), Health Professions (10%), Arts and Humanities (9%).

Everything else: 32 works · 49.4% of their workSocial Sciences: 27 works · 40.9% of their workSocial Sciences: 17 works · 25.6% of their workSociology and Political Science: 7 works · 10.4% of their workAnthropology: 5 works · 8.3% of their workLinguistics and Language: 4 works · 6.9% of their workArts and Humanities: 6 works · 9.0% of their workLanguage and Linguistics: 6 works · 9.0% of their workPsychology: 4 works · 6.3% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 4 works · 6.3% of their workHealth Sciences: 6 works · 9.7% of their workHealth Professions: 6 works · 9.7% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 6 works · 9.7% of their workTHEIR WORKThomas N.Headland65works
Health Sciences10%Social Sciences41%

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. Everything else3249.4%
    1. Social Sciences1725.6%
    2. Arts and Humanities69.0%
    3. Psychology46.3%
    1. Health Professions69.7%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science10% of their works
  2. 2General Health Professions10% of their works
  3. 3Language and Linguistics9% of their works
  4. 4Anthropology8% of their works
  5. 5Linguistics and Language7% of their works
  6. 6Experimental and Cognitive Psychology6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Thomas N. Headland's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Ethnicity, Adaptation, Climate Change, Ecological Knowledge, Arctic Indigenous Peoples, Evolutionary Psychology, Human Behavior and Language 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. 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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Ethnicity132 topics
  2. Adaptation122 topics
  3. Climate Change122 topics
  4. Ecological Knowledge122 topics
  5. Arctic Indigenous Peoples81 topic
  6. Evolutionary Psychology81 topic
  7. Human Behavior81 topic
  8. Language Change81 topic
  9. Sociolinguistic Variation81 topic
  10. Traditional Knowledge81 topic
  11. Agricultural Origins61 topic
  12. Radiocarbon Dating61 topic
  13. Nationalism51 topic
  14. Pacific Islands51 topic
  15. Philippines51 topic
  16. settlement51 topic
  17. Conversation Analysis41 topic
  18. Interactional Linguistics41 topic
  19. Pastoralists41 topic
  20. Rangeland Degradation41 topic

Where does Thomas N. Headland work?

Thomas N. Headland's main affiliation in the publication record is SIL International, United States.

How many publications and citations does Thomas N. Headland have?

OpenAlex counts 65 works and 3,940 citations for Thomas N. Headland, an h-index of 25, ranking #234,388 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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