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sotonDH small grants: ‘A Connected Island?’: measuring academic influence

This second blog post about the Connect Island project, funded by a sotonDH small award, discusses the relative influence of Central European Palaeolithic researchers using the H-index measure. Figure 1: H-index scores of Central European Palaeolithic researchers (left) versus Iron Age (right) researchers. It has been claimed that Central European archaeologists specializing in Stone Age studies are quite well-known in the West compared to their colleagues leading research in later epochs. Continue reading →