Simon Best

10 papers and 194 indexed citations
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About

Simon Best is a scholar working on Geography, Planning and Development, Demography and Aquatic Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Simon Best has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 194 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Geography, Planning and Development, 4 papers in Demography and 2 papers in Aquatic Science. Recurrent topics in Simon Best’s work include Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (6 papers), Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (4 papers) and Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (2 papers). Simon Best is often cited by papers focused on Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (6 papers), Island Studies and Pacific Affairs (4 papers) and Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (2 papers). Simon Best collaborates with scholars based in United States, New Zealand and Australia. Simon Best's co-authors include R. J. Parker, Peter Sheppard, Mark Horrocks, Michael J. Rowland, Matthew Spriggs, Trevor H. Worthy, Stuart Hawkins, Geoffrey Clark, Patrick Vinton Kirch and Stuart Bedford and has published in prestigious journals such as Scientific Reports, Archaeology in Oceania/Archæology & physical anthropology in Oceania and International Journal of Historical Archaeology.

In The Last Decade

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Simon Best

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Simon Best. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Simon Best based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Simon Best. Simon Best is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

Simon Best

8 papers receiving 135 citations

Fields of papers citing papers by Simon Best

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Simon Best. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Simon Best. The network helps show where Simon Best may publish in the future.

Countries citing papers authored by Simon Best

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