Science Explorer Back to mapMap
Discussion
Researcher · Smithsonian Institution · United States

Wilcomb E. Washburn

Wilcomb E. Washburn publishes mostly in Anthropology, Sociology and Political Science and Political Science and International Relations, on topics such as Colonialism, slavery, and trade, Archaeology and Natural History and American Constitutional Law and Politics.

OpenAlex
World rank
#488,726
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#170,687
of 1,627,098
Works
259
Citations
1.9k
Citations per work
7.4
h-index
24
i10-index 41Top 4% in Anthropology
Wilcomb E. Washburn

What does Wilcomb E. Washburn research?

Wilcomb E. Washburn's work is mostly in Social Sciences (45%), Environmental Science (6%), Business, Management and Accounting (4%).

Social Sciences: 129 works · 49.7% of their workSocial Sciences: 117 works · 45.3% of their workAnthropology: 51 works · 19.5% of their workSociology and Political Science: 27 works · 10.3% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 23 works · 8.9% of their workCultural Studies: 17 works · 6.6% of their workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 11 works · 4.4% of their workMarketing: 11 works · 4.4% of their workEverything else: 114 works · 43.9% of their workPhysical Sciences: 17 works · 6.4% of their workEnvironmental Science: 17 works · 6.4% of their workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 17 works · 6.4% of their workTHEIR WORKWilcomb E.Washburn259works
Physical Sciences6%Social Sciences50%

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 Sciences11745.3%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting114.4%
  2. Everything else11443.9%
    1. Environmental Science176.4%
  1. 1Anthropology20% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science10% of their works
  3. 3Political Science and International Relations9% of their works
  4. 4Cultural Studies7% of their works
  5. 5Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law6% of their works
  6. 6Marketing4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Wilcomb E. Washburn's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: History, Atlantic History, Transatlantic Slave Trade, Traditional Irrigation, Water Sustainability, American founding, Constitutional government and Conservation.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. History482 topics
  2. Atlantic History381 topic
  3. Transatlantic Slave Trade381 topic
  4. Traditional Irrigation351 topic
  5. Water Sustainability351 topic
  6. American founding301 topic
  7. Constitutional government301 topic
  8. Conservation291 topic
  9. Environmental Movement291 topic
  10. Asian American251 topic
  11. Transnational251 topic
  12. Branding231 topic
  13. Marketing231 topic
  14. Decolonization161 topic
  15. Indigenous Health161 topic
  16. Black Studies121 topic
  17. Civil Rights Movement121 topic

Where does Wilcomb E. Washburn work?

Wilcomb E. Washburn's main affiliation in the publication record is Smithsonian Institution, United States.

How many publications and citations does Wilcomb E. Washburn have?

OpenAlex counts 259 works and 1,917 citations for Wilcomb E. Washburn, an h-index of 24, ranking #488,726 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.

Papers, co-authors, who cited this work and researchers on the nearest topics have tabs of their own, above. Is this your page? Claim it with your ORCID iD, or request a correction or removal.

Discussion

Ask a question or share a note about Wilcomb E. Washburn. Keep it to the research: no personal attacks, advertising or links. Any reader can report a post, which collapses it for everyone until it is opened.