2026 Patrick V. Kirch: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	60	1439	1283	687	603	277	17283

Research.com Recognitions

1996 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
1992 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1990 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

Patrick V. Kirch is affiliated with the University of Hawaii at Manoa in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines within the social sciences and earth and planetary sciences, with a significant focus on Pacific and Southeast Asian studies as well as archaeology and ancient environmental studies.

Their main fields of study include:

Social Sciences
Earth and Planetary Sciences

The scientist's subfields of expertise cover:

Geography, Planning and Development
Paleontology
Ecology
Demography
Atmospheric Science

Key topics in their work are:

Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
Isotope Analysis in Ecology
Island Studies and Pacific Affairs
Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
Indigenous Studies and Ecology
Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology

Patrick V. Kirch has published papers in several prominent journals and venues, including:

Archaeology in Oceania/Archæology & physical anthropology in Oceania
Geoarchaeology
SSRN Electronic Journal
The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology
Pacific Science

Recent publications include:

"Why are sustainable practices often elusive? The role of information flow in the management of networked human-environment interactions," 2022, Global Environmental Change
"Obsidian and volcanic glass artifact evidence for long-distance voyaging to the Polynesian Outlier island of Tikopia," 2020, Quaternary Research
"The premise and potential of model-based approaches to island archaeology: A response to Terrell," 2021, The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology
"Stable Isotopic Evidence for Nutrient Rejuvenation and Long-Term Resilience on Tikopia Island (Southeast Solomon Islands)," 2021, Sustainability
"Origins of Polynesian Pigs Revealed by Mitochondrial Whole Genome Ancient DNA," 2022, Animals

Frequent co-authors include:

Jennifer G. Kahn
Jillian Swift
Mark D. McCoy
Stefani A. Crabtree
Jennifer A. Dunne

Patrick V. Kirch has authored books published by the University of Hawaii Press, including "Feathered Gods and Fishhooks" (2023).

The scientist has received multiple honors, such as:

Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 1996
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1992
Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 1990

Best Publications

On the Road of the Winds

Patrick Vinton Kirch

1483
Citations
On the road of the winds : an archaeological history of the Pacific Islands before European contact

Patrick Vinton Kirch

1403
Citations
The evolution of the Polynesian chiefdoms

Patrick Vinton Kirch

1236
Citations
Hawaiki, Ancestral Polynesia: An Essay in Historical Anthropology

Patrick Vinton Kirch;Roger Curtis Green

690
Citations
Feathered Gods and Fishhooks: An Introduction to Hawaiian Archaeology and Prehistory

Patrick Vinton Kirch

575
Citations
The Lapita Peoples: Ancestors of the Oceanic World

Patrick Vinton Kirch

503
Citations
The wet and the dry: irrigation and agricultural intensification in Polynesia.

Patrick Vinton Kirch

426
Citations
Tikopia, the Prehistory and Ecology of a Polynesian Outlier

Patrick Vinton Kirch;D. E. Yen

409
Citations
Phylogeny and ancient DNA of Sus provides insights into neolithic expansion in Island Southeast Asia and Oceania.

Greger Larson;Greger Larson;Thomas Cucchi;Masakatsu Fujita;Elizabeth Matisoo-Smith

376
Citations
How Chiefs Became Kings

Patrick Vinton Kirch

323
Citations
The Impact of the Prehistoric Polynesians on the Hawaiian Ecosystem

Patrick V. Kirch

303
Citations
ARCHAEOLOGY AND GLOBAL CHANGE: The Holocene Record

Patrick V. Kirch

291
Citations
The Evolution of Polynesian Chiefdoms.

P. Bion Griffin;Patrick Vinton Kirch

269
Citations
How Chiefs Became Kings: Divine Kingship and the Rise of Archaic States in Ancient Hawai'i

Patrick Vinton Kirch

258
Citations
History, Phylogeny, and Evolution in Polynesia [and Comments and Reply]

Patrick V. Kirch;Roger C. Green;Peter S. Bellwood;R. C. Dunnell

241
Citations
Climate Change and the Integrity of Science

Jennifer Sills;P. H. Gleick;R. M. Adams;R. M. Amasino

236
Citations
Microcosmic histories : Island perspectives on global change

Patrick V. Kirch

230
Citations
Historical ecology in the Pacific Islands : prehistoric environmental and landscape change

Patrick Vinton Kirch;Terry L. Hunt

219
Citations
Soils, agriculture, and society in precontact Hawai'i.

P. M. Vitousek;T. N. Ladefoged;P. V. Kirch;A. S. Hartshorn

217
Citations
History, Phylogeny, and Evolution in Polynesia

Patrick V. Kirch;Roger C. Green

202
Citations
Palaeoenvironmental evidence for human colonization of remote Oceanic islands

Patrick V. Kirch;Joanna Ellison

198
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Oliver A. Chadwick University of California, Santa Barbara

Warren D. Sharp Berkeley Geochronology Center

Matthew Spriggs Australian National University

David W. Steadman Florida Museum of Natural History

Marshall Sahlins University of Chicago

Jon M. Erlandson University of Oregon

Torben C. Rick National Museum of Natural History

Peter Bellwood Australian National University

Greger Larson University of Oxford

Joyce Marcus University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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