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Researcher · Tel Aviv University · Israel

Yoel Rak

Yoel Rak publishes mostly in Anthropology, Paleontology and Archeology, on topics such as Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Evolution and Paleontology Studies and Primate Behavior and Ecology.

ORCID 0000-0002-1876-1436 OpenAlex
World rank
#105,360
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Israel
#883
of 38,292
Works
100
Citations
6k
Citations per work
60.0
h-index
40
i10-index 56Top 0.8% in Anthropology
Yoel Rak

What does Yoel Rak research?

Yoel Rak's work is mostly in Social Sciences (26%), Earth and Planetary Sciences (22%), Arts and Humanities (15%).

Social Sciences: 53 works · 52.6% of their workSocial Sciences: 26 works · 25.6% of their workAnthropology: 26 works · 25.6% of their workArts and Humanities: 15 works · 15.4% of their workArcheology: 15 works · 15.4% of their workPsychology: 12 works · 11.6% of their workSocial Psychology: 12 works · 11.6% of their workPhysical Sciences: 27 works · 26.7% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 22 works · 21.8% of their workPaleontology: 22 works · 21.8% of their workEnvironmental Science: 3 works · 2.8% of their workEcology: 3 works · 2.8% of their workMathematics: 2 works · 2.1% of their workGeometry and Topology: 2 works · 2.1% of their workEverything else: 21 works · 20.7% of their workTHEIR WORKYoel Rak100works
Physical Sciences27%Social Sciences53%

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 Sciences2625.6%
    2. Arts and Humanities1515.4%
    3. Psychology1211.6%
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences2221.8%
    2. Environmental Science32.8%
    3. Mathematics22.1%
  3. Everything else2120.7%
  1. 1Anthropology26% of their works
  2. 2Paleontology22% of their works
  3. 3Archeology15% of their works
  4. 4Social Psychology12% of their works
  5. 5Ecology3% of their works
  6. 6Geometry and Topology2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Yoel Rak's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Hominin Genetics, Paleolithic Archaeology, Mammal Evolution, Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis, Evolution, Primates, Social Behavior and Age Estimation.

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. Hominin Genetics731 topic
  2. Paleolithic Archaeology731 topic
  3. Mammal Evolution421 topic
  4. Phylogenetic Comparative Analysis421 topic
  5. Evolution402 topics
  6. Primates331 topic
  7. Social Behavior331 topic
  8. Age Estimation301 topic
  9. Sex Determination301 topic
  10. Phylogenetic Analysis132 topics
  11. Agricultural Origins111 topic
  12. Radiocarbon Dating111 topic
  13. Animal Movement81 topic
  14. Occupancy Rates81 topic
  15. Dinosaur71 topic
  16. Paleontology71 topic
  17. Geometric Morphometrics61 topic
  18. Morphological Integration61 topic

Where does Yoel Rak work?

Yoel Rak's main affiliation in the publication record is Tel Aviv University, Israel.

How many publications and citations does Yoel Rak have?

OpenAlex counts 100 works and 5,995 citations for Yoel Rak, an h-index of 40, ranking #105,360 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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