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Bruce G. Trigger

Bruce G. Trigger

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
51
Citations
12407
World Ranking
2548
National Ranking
140

Bruce G. Trigger publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Bruce G. Trigger sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 298 publications — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Bruce G. Trigger D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Bruce G. Trigger sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 177 scientists 31 D-Index: 210 scientists 32 D-Index: 222 scientists 33 D-Index: 188 scientists 34 D-Index: 181 scientists 35 D-Index: 243 scientists 36 D-Index: 261 scientists 37 D-Index: 272 scientists 38 D-Index: 278 scientists 39 D-Index: 300 scientists 40 D-Index: 297 scientists 41 D-Index: 308 scientists 42 D-Index: 313 scientists 43 D-Index: 300 scientists 44 D-Index: 269 scientists 45 D-Index: 260 scientists 46 D-Index: 228 scientists 47 D-Index: 251 scientists 48 D-Index: 203 scientists 49 D-Index: 186 scientists 50 D-Index: 187 scientists 51 D-Index: 166 scientists 52 D-Index: 138 scientists 53 D-Index: 141 scientists 54 D-Index: 131 scientists 55 D-Index: 137 scientists 56 D-Index: 109 scientists 57 D-Index: 129 scientists 58 D-Index: 95 scientists 59 D-Index: 105 scientists 60 D-Index: 106 scientists 61 D-Index: 86 scientists 62 D-Index: 94 scientists 63 D-Index: 77 scientists 64 D-Index: 79 scientists 65 D-Index: 59 scientists 66 D-Index: 68 scientists 67 D-Index: 51 scientists 68 D-Index: 49 scientists 69 D-Index: 40 scientists 70 D-Index: 43 scientists 71 D-Index: 40 scientists 72 D-Index: 50 scientists 73 D-Index: 46 scientists 74 D-Index: 43 scientists 75 D-Index: 45 scientists 76 D-Index: 45 scientists 77 D-Index: 30 scientists 78 D-Index: 25 scientists 79 D-Index: 31 scientists 80 D-Index: 29 scientists 81 D-Index: 18 scientists 82 D-Index: 21 scientists 83 D-Index: 26 scientists 84 D-Index: 15 scientists 85 D-Index: 15 scientists 86 D-Index: 19 scientists 87 D-Index: 19 scientists 88 D-Index: 12 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 19 scientists 91 D-Index: 20 scientists 92 D-Index: 13 scientists 93 D-Index: 9 scientists 94 D-Index: 13 scientists 95 D-Index: 8 scientists 96 D-Index: 7 scientists 97 D-Index: 6 scientists 98 D-Index: 6 scientists 99 D-Index: 6 scientists 100+ D-Index: 97 scientists
30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 51 D-Index — 68th percentile

68% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1976 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Social Sciences

Overview

Bruce G. Trigger was affiliated with McGill University in Canada. Their research contributions spanned several fields within the social sciences and humanities.

The primary fields of study included:

  • Social Sciences
  • Arts and Humanities

Their work covered a range of subfields such as:

  • Archeology
  • Anthropology
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Museology
  • Paleontology

The main topics addressed in their publications were:

  • Museums and Cultural Heritage
  • Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation
  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Archaeology and Rock Art Studies
  • Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture
  • Canadian Identity and History

Bruce G. Trigger's recent papers included:

  • A Present of their Past? Anthropologists, Native People, and their Heritage (2021, Culture)
  • Archaeological Analysis and Concepts of Causality (2021, Culture)
  • Loaves and Fishes: Sustaining Anthropology at McGill (2021, Culture)
  • Evolutionism, Relativism and Putting Native People into Historical Context (2021, Culture)
  • Reply to Michael Ames (2021, Culture)

Their frequent publication venue was the journal Culture, with a total of seven publications.

Among their recognitions, Bruce G. Trigger was awarded the title of Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1976, associated with the Academy of Social Sciences.

Best Publications

  • A History of Archaeological Thought

    Bruce G. Trigger

  • Understanding early civilizations : a comparative study

    Bruce G. Trigger

  • Monumental architecture: A thermodynamic explanation of symbolic behaviour

    Bruce G. Trigger

  • Alternative Archaeologies: Nationalist, Colonialist, Imperialist

    Bruce G. Trigger

  • Foragers, Genuine or Spurious?: Situating the Kalahari San in History [and Comments and Reply]

    Jacqueline S. Solway;Richard B. Lee;Alan Barnard;M. G. Bicchieri

  • The Children of Aataentsic: A History of the Huron People to 1660

    Bruce G. Trigger

  • ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE IMAGE OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN

    Bruce G. Trigger

  • World Prehistory: A New Outline.

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  • Processual Archaeology and the Radical Critique [and Comments and Reply]

    Timothy K. Earle;Robert W. Preucel;Elizabeth M. Brumfiel;Christopher Carr

  • Ancient Egypt: A Social History

    B. G. Trigger;B. J. Kemp;D. O'Connor;A. B. Lloyd

  • Natives and Newcomers: Canada's "Heroic Age" Reconsidered

    Bruce G Trigger

  • Understanding Early Civilizations

    Bruce G. Trigger

  • Ancient Egypt: List of figures

    B. G. Trigger;B. J. Kemp;D. O'Connor;A. B. Lloyd

  • Monumentality and the Rise of Religious Authority in Precontact Hawai'i [and Comments and Reply]

    Michael J. Kolb;Ross Cordy;Timothy Earle;Gary Feinman

  • The Huron: Farmers of the North

    Bruce G. Trigger

  • The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas

    Bruce G. Trigger;Wilcomb E. Washburn

  • Anthropological Perspectives on Ancient Trade [and Comments and Replies]

    Robert McC. Adams;J. M. Adovasio;Burchard Brentjes;H. Neville Chittick

  • Nubia under the Pharaohs

    Bruce G. Trigger

  • Beyond History: The Methods of Prehistory

    Bruce G. Trigger

  • Cognition and material culture : the archaeology of symbolic storage

    Bruce G. Trigger;Colin Renfrew;Chris Scarre

  • A History of Archaeological Thought

    Brian Fagan;Bruce G. Trigger

  • A History of Archaeological Thought

    Stuart Piggott;Bruce G. Trigger

  • The Collapse of Complex Societies

    Bruce G. Trigger;Joseph A. Tainter

  • Handbook of North American Indians

    Yasuhide Kawashima;Bruce G. Trigger

Frequent Co-Authors

Colin Renfrew
Colin Renfrew University of Cambridge
Robert Gordon
Robert Gordon Wilfrid Laurier University
Tim Ingold
Tim Ingold University of Aberdeen
Stephen Shennan
Stephen Shennan University College London
Robin Dennell
Robin Dennell University of Exeter
Ian Hodder
Ian Hodder Stanford University
Gary M. Feinman
Gary M. Feinman Field Museum of Natural History
Timothy Earle
Timothy Earle Northwestern University
Nicholas J. Conard
Nicholas J. Conard University of Tübingen
Stuart B. Schwartz
Stuart B. Schwartz Yale University

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