MOST CITED AUTHORS IN THE FIELD OF "HUMANITIES AND ARTS"

The National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan has prepared a list of authors with the largest number of citations of their articles in Web of Science with Kazakhstani affiliation over the past 5 years, calculated per 1 author in six major scientific areas of the first level of the classifier. For each area, a list of 50 most cited authors is provided.In the field of "Humanities and Arts", the list includes archaeologists from Karaganda University:…14 Varfolomeev, Viсtor…21 Usmanova, Emma Radikovna.Emma Radikovna Usmanova has been fruitfully working as a research fellow at the Saryarka Archaeological Institute since 1985. She is the author and co-author of 150 scientific articles and 6 monographs. Laureate of the Ch. Ch. Valikhanov Prize for the best scientific research in the field of humanities (2020). Winner of the International Scopus Awards as the best researcher (2023). Today, he is recognized in the global scientific community and has one of the highest h-index rates, which is 15 (Scopus database). Viktor Vasilyevich Varfolomeev is a candidate of historical sciences, professor of the Department of Archeology, Ethnology and Russian History. One of the authoritative researchers of the Bronze Age. He is actively developing problems related to the study of the phenomenon of the Begazy-Dandybaev culture. He has studied over 40 archaeological monuments, of which more than 10 were discovered for the first time. From 2015 to 2023, he headed the scientific topics of the Ministry of Higher Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan, participates in the implementation of international projects. He is the author of more than 180 articles and 6 monographs. He was awarded the badge "For Services in the Development of Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan" (2020). h-index is 9 (Scopus database).