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Researcher · Hamilton College · United States

Alexandra Plakias

Alexandra Plakias publishes mostly in Social Psychology, Philosophy and Cognitive Neuroscience, on topics such as Emotions and Moral Behavior, Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment and Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics.

ORCID 0000-0002-1003-9668 OpenAlex
World rank
#1,761,093
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#542,474
of 1,627,098
Works
33
Citations
335
Citations per work
10.2
h-index
9
i10-index 8Top 55% in Social Psychology
Alexandra Plakias

What does Alexandra Plakias research?

Alexandra Plakias's work is mostly in Psychology (32%), Arts and Humanities (23%), Neuroscience (15%).

Social Sciences: 21 works · 62.7% of their workPsychology: 11 works · 32.0% of their workSocial Psychology: 8 works · 25.3% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 2 works · 6.7% of their workArts and Humanities: 7 works · 22.7% of their workPhilosophy: 7 works · 22.7% of their workSocial Sciences: 3 works · 8.0% of their workSociology and Political Science: 3 works · 8.0% of their workEverything else: 7 works · 19.9% of their workLife Sciences: 6 works · 17.4% of their workNeuroscience: 5 works · 14.7% of their workCognitive Neuroscience: 5 works · 14.7% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 1 works · 2.7% of their workFood Science: 1 works · 2.7% of their workTHEIR WORKAlexandra Plakias33works
Life Sciences17%Social Sciences63%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Psychology1132.0%
    2. Arts and Humanities722.7%
    3. Social Sciences38.0%
  2. Everything else719.9%
    1. Neuroscience514.7%
    2. Agricultural and Biological Sciences12.7%
  1. 1Social Psychology25% of their works
  2. 2Philosophy23% of their works
  3. 3Cognitive Neuroscience15% of their works
  4. 4Sociology and Political Science8% of their works
  5. 5Experimental and Cognitive Psychology7% of their works
  6. 6Food Science3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Alexandra Plakias's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Empathy, Neuroscience, Ethics, Perception, Truth, Guilt, Shame and Disgust.

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. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Empathy152 topics
  2. Neuroscience152 topics
  3. Ethics132 topics
  4. Perception132 topics
  5. Truth132 topics
  6. Guilt121 topic
  7. Shame121 topic
  8. Disgust101 topic
  9. Moral Judgment101 topic
  10. Belief81 topic
  11. Knowledge81 topic
  12. Consciousness51 topic
  13. Phenomenal Experience51 topic
  14. Moral Realism31 topic
  15. Virtue Ethics31 topic
  16. COVID-1921 topic
  17. Ethical Climate21 topic
  18. Food Tourism21 topic
  19. Gastronomy21 topic
  20. Moral Distress21 topic
  21. Olfactory Dysfunction21 topic

Where does Alexandra Plakias work?

Alexandra Plakias's main affiliation in the publication record is Hamilton College, United States.

How many publications and citations does Alexandra Plakias have?

OpenAlex counts 33 works and 335 citations for Alexandra Plakias, an h-index of 9, ranking #1,761,093 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation 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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