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Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies

Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies is a research topic within Archeology. Science Explorer counts 27k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers represents advances in forensic anthropological research, focusing on topics such as age estimation, sex determination, skeletal development, forensic practice, cranial morphology, dental age estimation, bioarchaeology, bone age assessment, human variation, and osteological analysis.

  • Age Estimation
  • Sex Determination
  • Skeletal Development
  • Forensic Practice
  • Cranial Morphology
  • Dental Age Estimation
  • Bioarchaeology
  • Bone Age Assessment
  • Human Variation
  • Osteological Analysis
Research works
27k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.7k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+5%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
21% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies

Which countries lead Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies research?

By volume, the United States and India publish the most (724 and 648 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 724 works
  2. 2 India 648 works
  3. 3 China 411 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 313 works
  5. 5 France 254 works
  6. 6 Türkiye 254 works
  7. 7 Italy 218 works
  8. 8 Spain 211 works
  9. 9 Brazil 197 works
  10. 10 Germany 175 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.

United States: 21.3%India: 19.0%China: 12.1%United Kingdom: 9.2%6 others listed: 38.4%21%largest
United States724 · 21.3%India648 · 19.0%China411 · 12.1%United Kingdom313 · 9.2%6 others listed1,308 · 38.4%

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

Which institutions lead Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies research, followed by Russian Academy of Sciences and Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 109 works
  2. 2 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 60 works
  3. 3 Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y TécnicasArgentina 35 works
  4. 4 University of CoimbraPortugal 31 works
  5. 5 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 27 works
  6. 6 All India Institute of Medical SciencesIndia 24 works
  7. 7 Saveetha UniversityIndia 23 works
  8. 8 University of TübingenGermany 23 works
  9. 9 Sichuan UniversityChina 23 works
  10. 10 Max Planck SocietyGermany 22 works

Who are the leading researchers in Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies include Rob Knight, George Davey Smith and Richard M. Durbin.

  1. 1 Rob Knight United States 468k citations
  2. 2 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  3. 3 Richard M. Durbin United Kingdom 410k citations
  4. 4 Cyrus Cooper United Kingdom 342k citations
  5. 5 Gonçalo R. Abecasis United States 300k citations
  6. 6 Farshad Farzadfar Iran 298k citations
  7. 7 Luigi Ferrucci United States 281k citations
  8. 8 Heng Li United States 270k citations
  9. 9 Martin McKee United Kingdom 270k 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 Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies?

The most cited paper in Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies is "A Draft Sequence of the Neandertal Genome" (Richard Edward Green et al., 2010), with 4,626 citations. Next come "Mitochondrial DNA and human evolution" (3,076) and "The complete genome sequence of a Neanderthal from the Altai Mountains" (2,458).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A Draft Sequence of the Neandertal Genome Richard Edward Green et al. · Science Open access 6 May 2010 4,626
2 Mitochondrial DNA and human evolution Rebecca L. Cann, Mark Stoneking, Allan C. Wilson · Nature 1987 3,076
3 The complete genome sequence of a Neanderthal from the Altai Mountains Kay Prüfer et al. · Nature Open access 18 Dec 2013 2,458
4 DENSITOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF BODY COMPOSITION: REVISION OF SOME QUANTITATIVE ASSUMPTIONS* Josef Brožek, Francisco Grande, Joseph T. Anderson et al. · Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences Sep 1963 2,287
5 Skeletal age determination based on the os pubis: A comparison of the Acsádi-Nemeskéri and Suchey-Brooks methods Sheilagh Thompson Brooks, J. M. Suchey · Human Evolution Jun 1990 2,115
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Where is Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies research done?

The largest centres of Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies research in 2022-now are Paris (France), Beijing (China), London (United Kingdom) and Moscow (Russia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Tarragona.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 ParisFrance 103 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 80 works
  3. 3 LondonUnited Kingdom 74 works
  4. 4 MoscowRussia 57 works
  5. 5 ChennaiIndia 52 works
  6. 6 MadridSpain 51 works
  7. 7 AnkaraTürkiye 48 works
  8. 8 ShanghaiChina 43 works
  9. 9 New DelhiIndia 43 works
  10. 10 IstanbulTürkiye 42 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. TarragonaES · 20.3 works18×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Tübingen, University of Milan and University of Cambridge score highest, combining citation 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%mean 16.38%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of MilanUniversity of TübingenUniversity of Cambri…University of Coimbra
above the meannear itbelow it

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.

Citation 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
1University of TübingenGermany 81.818.1%10.6×23 +27.4%
2University of MilanItaly 73.321.6%6.1×20 +13.9%
3University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom 70.011.2%3.3×20 +6.6%
4University of CoimbraPortugal 69.811.2%12.6×31 -3.3%
5Sichuan UniversityChina 68.821.1%2.0×23 +20.6%
6The University of Western AustraliaAustralia 64.315.7%6.0×13 +20.6%
7University College LondonUnited Kingdom 64.16.9%3.3×27 -17.5%
8University of Cape TownSouth Africa 63.417.2%7.3×13 +22.0%
9Harvard UniversityUnited States 62.621.1%0.8×13 -4.3%
10University of LjubljanaSlovenia 62.019.7%5.2×11 +86.7%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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 Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies, country by country

Is Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 5% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology 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 Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.023% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies0.024% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology 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%Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies10.2% 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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