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Researcher · Smithsonian Institution · United States

Torben C. Rick

Torben C. Rick publishes mostly in Paleontology, Ecology and Anthropology, on topics such as Archaeology and ancient environmental studies, Isotope Analysis in Ecology and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research.

ORCID 0000-0002-8254-5885 OpenAlex
World rank
#181,011
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#67,567
of 1,627,098
Works
266
Citations
8k
Citations per work
30.0
h-index
46
i10-index 121Top 2.4% in Paleontology
Torben C. Rick

What does Torben C. Rick research?

Torben C. Rick's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (26%), Social Sciences (18%), Environmental Science (18%).

Physical Sciences: 115 works · 43.2% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 68 works · 25.7% of their workPaleontology: 48 works · 18.0% of their workAtmospheric Science: 20 works · 7.7% of their workEnvironmental Science: 47 works · 17.5% of their workEcology: 47 works · 17.5% of their workEverything else: 81 works · 30.6% of their workSocial Sciences: 70 works · 26.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 48 works · 18.1% of their workAnthropology: 27 works · 10.3% of their workGeography, Planning and Development: 21 works · 7.8% of their workArts and Humanities: 22 works · 8.1% of their workArcheology: 22 works · 8.1% of their workTHEIR WORKTorben C. Rick266works
Physical Sciences43%Social Sciences26%

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. Earth and Planetary Sciences6825.7%
    2. Environmental Science4717.5%
  2. Everything else8130.6%
    1. Social Sciences4818.1%
    2. Arts and Humanities228.1%
  1. 1Paleontology18% of their works
  2. 2Ecology18% of their works
  3. 3Anthropology10% of their works
  4. 4Archeology8% of their works
  5. 5Geography, Planning and Development8% of their works
  6. 6Atmospheric Science8% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Torben C. Rick's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Agricultural Origins, Radiocarbon Dating, Climate Change, Holocene, Stable Isotopes, Trophic Position, Glacial Cycles and Paleoclimatology.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Agricultural Origins1281 topic
  2. Radiocarbon Dating1281 topic
  3. Climate Change1143 topics
  4. Holocene1052 topics
  5. Stable Isotopes591 topic
  6. Trophic Position591 topic
  7. Glacial Cycles551 topic
  8. Paleoclimatology551 topic
  9. Pacific Islands541 topic
  10. settlement541 topic
  11. Maritime Archaeology501 topic
  12. Mediterranean501 topic
  13. Hominin Genetics391 topic
  14. Paleolithic Archaeology391 topic
  15. Anthropogenic Noise321 topic
  16. Marine Mammals321 topic
  17. Arctic Indigenous Peoples271 topic
  18. Traditional Knowledge271 topic

Where does Torben C. Rick work?

Torben C. Rick's main affiliation in the publication record is Smithsonian Institution, United States.

How many publications and citations does Torben C. Rick have?

OpenAlex counts 266 works and 7,982 citations for Torben C. Rick, an h-index of 46, ranking #181,011 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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