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Archaeological and Geological Studies

Archaeological and Geological Studies is a research topic within Archeology. Science Explorer counts 10k research works in it since 1950. 11.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers a wide range of topics related to the Neolithic and Bronze Age archaeology in the Iberian Peninsula. It includes studies on Neolithic farming, cultural processes, megalithic sites, burial practices, settlement patterns, and technological analysis of artifacts.

  • Neolithic
  • Bronze Age
  • Iberian Peninsula
  • Archaeology
  • Artifacts
  • Cultural Processes
  • Megalithic Sites
  • Prehistoric Communities
  • Ritual Practices
  • Settlement Patterns
Research works
10k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
11.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+5%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Spain
38% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Archaeological and Geological Studies

Which countries lead Archaeological and Geological Studies research?

By volume, Spain and France publish the most (570 and 399 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Spain 570 works
  2. 2 France 399 works
  3. 3 Argentina 146 works
  4. 4 Portugal 72 works
  5. 5 United States 72 works
  6. 6 Brazil 70 works
  7. 7 Mexico 58 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 46 works
  9. 9 Peru 45 works
  10. 10 Italy 38 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

Spain: 37.6%France: 26.3%Argentina: 9.6%Portugal: 4.7%6 others listed: 21.7%38%largest
Spain570 · 37.6%France399 · 26.3%Argentina146 · 9.6%Portugal72 · 4.7%6 others listed328 · 21.7%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Archaeological and Geological Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Archaeological and Geological Studies research, followed by Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas and Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 263 works
  2. 2 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientíficasSpain 67 works
  3. 3 Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y TécnicasArgentina 58 works
  4. 4 Universidad Complutense de MadridSpain 36 works
  5. 5 Universidad de GranadaSpain 31 works
  6. 6 Universidad de ZaragozaSpain 27 works
  7. 7 Institut National de Recherches Archéologiques PréventivesFrance 24 works
  8. 8 Universitat de BarcelonaSpain 20 works
  9. 9 Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaSpain 20 works
  10. 10 Universitat de ValènciaSpain 19 works

Who are the leading researchers in Archaeological and Geological Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Archaeological and Geological Studies include David Emil Reich.

  1. 1 David Emil Reich United States 113k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Archaeological and Geological Studies?

The most cited paper in Archaeological and Geological Studies is "New fossils from Jebel Irhoud, Morocco and the pan-African origin of Homo sapiens" (Jean‐Jacques Hublin, Abdelouahed Ben-Ncer, Shara E. Bailey et al., 2017), with 1,361 citations. Next come "U-Th dating of carbonate crusts reveals Neandertal origin of Iberian cave art" (659) and "A Hominid from the Lower Pleistocene of Atapuerca, Spain: Possible Ancestor to Neandertals and Modern Humans" (638).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 New fossils from Jebel Irhoud, Morocco and the pan-African origin of Homo sapiens Jean‐Jacques Hublin, Abdelouahed Ben-Ncer, Shara E. Bailey et al. · Nature Open access 6 Jun 2017 1,361
2 U-Th dating of carbonate crusts reveals Neandertal origin of Iberian cave art Dirk L. Hoffmann, Christopher D. Standish, Marcos García-Diez et al. · Science Open access 22 Feb 2018 659
3 A Hominid from the Lower Pleistocene of Atapuerca, Spain: Possible Ancestor to Neandertals and Modern Humans José Marı́a Bermúdez de Castro, Juan Luís Arsuaga, Eudald Carbonell et al. · Science 30 May 1997 638
4 The Integrated Surface Database: Recent Developments and Partnerships Adam Smith, Neal Lott, Russ Vose · Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Jun 2011 635
5 Lower Pleistocene Hominids and Artifacts from Atapuerca-TD6 (Spain) Eudald Carbonell, José Marı́a Bermúdez de Castro, Juan Luís Arsuaga et al. · Science 11 Aug 1995 461
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Archaeological and Geological Studies research done?

The largest centres of Archaeological and Geological Studies research in 2022-now are Madrid (Spain), Pessac (France), Paris (France) and Buenos Aires (Argentina). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Pessac, Metz and Tarragona.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MadridSpain 142 works
  2. 2 PessacFrance 111 works
  3. 3 ParisFrance 66 works
  4. 4 Buenos AiresArgentina 66 works
  5. 5 ToulouseFrance 45 works
  6. 6 BarcelonaSpain 41 works
  7. 7 LisbonPortugal 37 works
  8. 8 GranadaSpain 34 works
  9. 9 ZaragozaSpain 29 works
  10. 10 Mexico CityMexico 26 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. PessacFR · 110.7 works438×
  2. MetzFR · 24.0 works223×
  3. TarragonaES · 21.0 works65×
  4. NanterreFR · 22.6 works48×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Archaeological and Geological Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Archaeological and Geological Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Universidad Complutense de Madrid and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%10%20%30%mean 16.61%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Universitat Autònoma…Universitat Rovira i…Universidad Complute…Universidad de Granada
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Universitat Rovira i VirgiliSpain 75.919.3%49.8×13 +68.0%
2Universidad Complutense de MadridSpain 75.717.6%27.5×36 +16.2%
3Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaSpain 74.524.1%20.7×20 +1.8%
4Universidad de GranadaSpain 72.414.4%36.5×31 +25.3%
5Universitat de BarcelonaSpain 62.818.2%17.8×20 -30.4%
6Universitat de ValènciaSpain 59.615.7%23.3×19 -8.8%
7Universidad de SalamancaSpain 56.616.9%33.0×17 -2.5%
8Universidad de ZaragozaSpain 55.17.8%41.7×27 +4.3%
9Universidad de OviedoSpain 54.215.1%39.2×14 +16.1%
10Universidad de AlcaláSpain 53.417.0%22.3×9 +27.2%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Archaeological and Geological Studies, country by country

Is Archaeological and Geological Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 5% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2022. The fastest-growing topics are Archaeological and Geological Studies.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Archaeological and Geological Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0084% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%Archaeological and Geological Studies0.0064% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Archaeological and Geological Studies over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Archaeological and Geological Studies10.5% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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