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Researcher · University of West Georgia · United States

Thomas N. Layton

Thomas N. Layton publishes mostly in Anthropology, Atmospheric Science and Paleontology, on topics such as Archaeology and Natural History, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research and Archaeology and ancient environmental studies.

OpenAlex
World rank
#2,974,207
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#855,080
of 1,627,098
Works
31
Citations
149
Citations per work
4.8
h-index
8
i10-index 5Top 34% in Anthropology
Thomas N. Layton

What does Thomas N. Layton research?

Thomas N. Layton's work is mostly in Social Sciences (51%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (22%), Environmental Science (8%).

Social Sciences: 17 works · 55.4% of their workSocial Sciences: 16 works · 50.8% of their workAnthropology: 14 works · 44.6% of their workSociology and Political Science: 2 works · 6.2% of their workArts and Humanities: 1 works · 4.6% of their workArcheology: 1 works · 4.6% of their workPhysical Sciences: 9 works · 29.3% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 7 works · 21.6% of their workAtmospheric Science: 3 works · 10.8% of their workPaleontology: 3 works · 10.8% of their workEnvironmental Science: 2 works · 7.7% of their workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 2 works · 7.7% of their workEverything else: 5 works · 15.3% of their workTHEIR WORKThomas N. Layton31works
Physical Sciences29%Social Sciences55%

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 Sciences1650.8%
    2. Arts and Humanities14.6%
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences721.6%
    2. Environmental Science27.7%
  3. Everything else515.3%
  1. 1Anthropology45% of their works
  2. 2Atmospheric Science11% of their works
  3. 3Paleontology11% of their works
  4. 4Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law8% of their works
  5. 5Sociology and Political Science6% of their works
  6. 6Archeology5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Thomas N. Layton's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Traditional Irrigation, Water Sustainability, Holocene, African Diaspora, Agricultural Origins, Climate Change, Paleoclimatology and Radiocarbon Dating.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Traditional Irrigation141 topic
  2. Water Sustainability141 topic
  3. Holocene92 topics
  4. African Diaspora82 topics
  5. Agricultural Origins71 topic
  6. Climate Change71 topic
  7. Paleoclimatology71 topic
  8. Radiocarbon Dating71 topic
  9. Conservation51 topic
  10. Environmental Movement51 topic
  11. Hominin Genetics51 topic
  12. Paleolithic Archaeology51 topic
  13. Archaeology of Resistance41 topic
  14. Atlantic History41 topic
  15. Black Feminist Theory41 topic
  16. Transatlantic Slave Trade41 topic
  17. Maritime Archaeology21 topic
  18. Mediterranean21 topic

Where does Thomas N. Layton work?

Thomas N. Layton's main affiliation in the publication record is University of West Georgia, United States.

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

OpenAlex counts 31 works and 149 citations for Thomas N. Layton, an h-index of 8, ranking #2,974,207 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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