Anthropology

574.5k papers and 5.0M indexed citations

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574.5k papers covering Anthropology have received a total of 5.0M indexed citations since 1950. Papers on subfields are most often about the specific topic of Classical Antiquity Studies, Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology and African history and culture studies and also cover the fields of Archeology, Sociology and Political Science and Political Science and International Relations. Papers citing papers on subfields are usually about Paleontology, Sociology and Political Science and Archeology. Some of the most active scholars covering Anthropology are Lewis R. Binford, George E. Marcus, Erik Trinkaus, Richard G. Klein, R. Lee Lyman, Stanley H. Ambrose, Christopher B. Ruff, Walter D. Mignolo, Jay B. Barney and Arturo Escobar.

In The Last Decade

Anthropology

31.8k papers receiving 147.7k citations

Countries where authors publish papers about Anthropology

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Fields of papers citing papers about Anthropology

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