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Researcher · New York State Museum · United States

William Nelson Fenton

William Nelson Fenton publishes mostly in Anthropology, Sociology and Political Science and Cultural Studies, on topics such as Archaeology and Natural History, Indigenous Studies and Ecology and Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture.

OpenAlex
World rank
#446,371
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#156,883
of 1,627,098
Works
206
Citations
1.4k
Citations per work
6.6
h-index
20
i10-index 33Top 6.5% in Anthropology
William Nelson Fenton

What does William Nelson Fenton research?

William Nelson Fenton's work is mostly in Social Sciences (40%), Health Professions (5%), Arts and Humanities (5%).

Everything else: 102 works · 49.7% of their workSocial Sciences: 93 works · 45.0% of their workSocial Sciences: 82 works · 39.9% of their workAnthropology: 42 works · 20.3% of their workSociology and Political Science: 18 works · 8.6% of their workCultural Studies: 14 works · 6.7% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 9 works · 4.3% of their workArts and Humanities: 11 works · 5.1% of their workHistory: 11 works · 5.1% of their workHealth Sciences: 11 works · 5.3% of their workHealth Professions: 11 works · 5.3% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 11 works · 5.3% of their workTHEIR WORKWilliam NelsonFenton206works
Health Sciences5%Social Sciences45%

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 else10249.7%
    1. Social Sciences8239.9%
    2. Arts and Humanities115.1%
    1. Health Professions115.3%
  1. 1Anthropology20% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science9% of their works
  3. 3Cultural Studies7% of their works
  4. 4General Health Professions5% of their works
  5. 5History5% of their works
  6. 6Political Science and International Relations4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe William Nelson Fenton's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Traditional Irrigation, Water Sustainability, History, Anthropology, Arctic Indigenous Peoples, Climate Change, Military and Asian American.

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. Traditional Irrigation331 topic
  2. Water Sustainability331 topic
  3. History202 topics
  4. Anthropology181 topic
  5. Arctic Indigenous Peoples181 topic
  6. Climate Change181 topic
  7. Military181 topic
  8. Asian American131 topic
  9. Transnational131 topic
  10. Conservation111 topic
  11. Environmental Movement111 topic
  12. Atlantic History91 topic
  13. Decolonization91 topic
  14. Indigenous Health91 topic
  15. Transatlantic Slave Trade91 topic
  16. Medicine71 topic
  17. Science71 topic

Where does William Nelson Fenton work?

William Nelson Fenton's main affiliation in the publication record is New York State Museum, United States.

How many publications and citations does William Nelson Fenton have?

OpenAlex counts 206 works and 1,357 citations for William Nelson Fenton, an h-index of 20, ranking #446,371 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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