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Alan Musgrave

Alan Musgrave publishes mostly in History and Philosophy of Science, Philosophy and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, on topics such as Philosophy and History of Science, Philosophy, Science, and History and Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics.

World rank
#133,800
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in New Zealand
#376
of 4,714
Works
21
Citations
226
Citations per work
10.8

What does Alan Musgrave research?

History and Philosophy of Science: 42.1%Philosophy: 15.8%Experimental and Cognitive Psychology: 15.8%Education: 5.3%other fields: 21.0%42%top field
History and Philosophy of Science42.1%Philosophy15.8%Experimental and Cognitive Psychology15.8%Education5.3%other fields21.0%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1History and Philosophy of Science42% of their works
  2. 2Philosophy16% of their works
  3. 3Experimental and Cognitive Psychology16% of their works
  4. 4Education5% of their works
  5. 5Sociology and Political Science5% of their works
  6. 6Global and Planetary Change5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Alan Musgrave's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Philosophy of Science, Pragmatism, Truth, Evolutionary Synthesis, Logical Empiricism, Mechanistic Explanation, Perception and Vienna Circle.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Philosophy of Science82 topics
  2. Pragmatism52 topics
  3. Truth53 topics
  4. Evolutionary Synthesis41 topic
  5. Logical Empiricism41 topic
  6. Mechanistic Explanation41 topic
  7. Perception42 topics
  8. Vienna Circle41 topic
  9. Belief21 topic
  10. Consciousness21 topic
  11. Knowledge21 topic
  12. Phenomenal Experience21 topic
  13. Climate Change11 topic
  14. Dewey11 topic
  15. Economic Institutions11 topic
  16. Environmental Science11 topic
  17. Institutional Economics11 topic
  18. Peer Review Process11 topic
  19. Philosophy11 topic
  20. Research Methodology11 topic

Where does Alan Musgrave work?

Alan Musgrave's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Otago, New Zealand.

How many publications and citations does Alan Musgrave have?

Science Explorer counts 21 works and 226 citations for Alan Musgrave, ranking #133,800 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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