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Researcher · Smithsonian Institution · United States

William W. Fitzhugh

William W. Fitzhugh publishes mostly in Paleontology, General Health Professions and Anthropology, on topics such as Archaeology and ancient environmental studies, Indigenous Studies and Ecology and Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology.

OpenAlex
World rank
#785,356
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#262,567
of 1,627,098
Works
189
Citations
30k
Citations per work
158.2
h-index
31
i10-index 63Top 9.4% in Paleontology
William W. Fitzhugh

What does William W. Fitzhugh research?

William W. Fitzhugh's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (14%), Health Professions (12%), Social Sciences (12%).

Everything else: 82 works · 43.3% of their workPhysical Sciences: 38 works · 19.9% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 26 works · 13.9% of their workPaleontology: 26 works · 13.9% of their workEngineering: 11 works · 6.0% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 11 works · 6.0% of their workSocial Sciences: 32 works · 17.0% of their workSocial Sciences: 22 works · 11.6% of their workAnthropology: 22 works · 11.6% of their workArts and Humanities: 10 works · 5.4% of their workArcheology: 10 works · 5.4% of their workHealth Sciences: 23 works · 12.3% of their workHealth Professions: 23 works · 12.3% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 23 works · 12.3% of their workLife Sciences: 14 works · 7.5% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 14 works · 7.5% of their workMolecular Biology: 14 works · 7.5% of their workTHEIR WORKWilliam W.Fitzhugh189works
Life Sciences8%Physical Sciences20%Health Sciences12%Social Sciences17%

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 else8243.3%
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences2613.9%
    2. Engineering116.0%
    1. Social Sciences2211.6%
    2. Arts and Humanities105.4%
    1. Health Professions2312.3%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology147.5%
  1. 1Paleontology14% of their works
  2. 2General Health Professions12% of their works
  3. 3Anthropology12% of their works
  4. 4Molecular Biology8% of their works
  5. 5Electrical and Electronic Engineering6% of their works
  6. 6Archeology5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe William W. Fitzhugh's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Agricultural Origins, Radiocarbon Dating, Climate Change, Arctic Indigenous Peoples, Traditional Knowledge, Hominin Genetics, Paleolithic Archaeology and Holocene.

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 Origins671 topic
  2. Radiocarbon Dating671 topic
  3. Climate Change642 topics
  4. Arctic Indigenous Peoples511 topic
  5. Traditional Knowledge511 topic
  6. Hominin Genetics291 topic
  7. Paleolithic Archaeology291 topic
  8. Holocene272 topics
  9. Mass Spectrometry231 topic
  10. Proteomics231 topic
  11. High-Throughput Analysis161 topic
  12. Protein Microarrays161 topic
  13. Maritime Archaeology141 topic
  14. Mediterranean141 topic
  15. Genomic Profiles131 topic
  16. Glacial Cycles131 topic
  17. Paleoclimatology131 topic
  18. Small-Cell Lung Cancer131 topic

Where does William W. Fitzhugh work?

William W. Fitzhugh's main affiliation in the publication record is Smithsonian Institution, United States.

How many publications and citations does William W. Fitzhugh have?

OpenAlex counts 189 works and 29,907 citations for William W. Fitzhugh, an h-index of 31, ranking #785,356 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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