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Researcher · University of the Witwatersrand · South Africa

Thomas N. Huffman

Thomas N. Huffman publishes mostly in Anthropology, Archeology and Sociology and Political Science, on topics such as Archaeology and Rock Art Studies, Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology and Archaeology and ancient environmental studies.

ORCID 0000-0003-0974-464X OpenAlex
World rank
#75,222
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#192
of 29,826
Works
116
Citations
3.7k
Citations per work
31.6
h-index
32
i10-index 62Top 1.7% in Anthropology
Thomas N. Huffman

What does Thomas N. Huffman research?

Thomas N. Huffman's work is mostly in Social Sciences (59%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (7%), Arts and Humanities (7%).

Social Sciences: 76 works · 65.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 68 works · 58.7% of their workAnthropology: 30 works · 25.6% of their workArcheology: 29 works · 24.6% of their workSociology and Political Science: 10 works · 8.5% of their workArts and Humanities: 8 works · 6.6% of their workArcheology: 8 works · 6.6% of their workEverything else: 27 works · 23.5% of their workPhysical Sciences: 8 works · 6.9% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 8 works · 6.9% of their workPaleontology: 8 works · 6.9% of their workLife Sciences: 5 works · 4.3% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 5 works · 4.3% of their workMolecular Biology: 5 works · 4.3% of their workTHEIR WORKThomas N. Huffman116works
Life Sciences4%Physical Sciences7%Social Sciences65%

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 Sciences6858.7%
    2. Arts and Humanities86.6%
  2. Everything else2723.5%
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences86.9%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology54.3%
  1. 1Anthropology26% of their works
  2. 2Archeology25% of their works
  3. 3Sociology and Political Science8% of their works
  4. 4Paleontology7% of their works
  5. 5Archeology7% of their works
  6. 6Molecular Biology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Thomas N. Huffman's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Archaeology, Southern Africa, Hominin Genetics, Paleolithic Archaeology, Agricultural Origins, Radiocarbon Dating, protests and South Africa.

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. Archaeology751 topic
  2. Southern Africa751 topic
  3. Hominin Genetics291 topic
  4. Paleolithic Archaeology291 topic
  5. Agricultural Origins211 topic
  6. Radiocarbon Dating211 topic
  7. South Africa171 topic
  8. protests171 topic
  9. Globalization151 topic
  10. Neoliberalism151 topic
  11. Geomagnetic Field131 topic
  12. Magnetosome Formation131 topic
  13. Indian Ocean121 topic
  14. prehistoric movement121 topic
  15. Climate Change111 topic
  16. Paleoclimatology111 topic

Where does Thomas N. Huffman work?

Thomas N. Huffman's main affiliation in the publication record is University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.

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

OpenAlex counts 116 works and 3,661 citations for Thomas N. Huffman, an h-index of 32, ranking #75,222 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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