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Bas C. van Fraassen

Bas C. van Fraassen publishes mostly in History and Philosophy of Science, Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence, on topics such as Philosophy and History of Science, Science and Climate Studies and Philosophy, Science, and History.

World rank
#12,616
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#6,101
of 358,040
Works
72
Citations
409
Citations per work
5.7

What does Bas C. van Fraassen research?

History and Philosophy of Science: 22.1%Philosophy: 11.8%Artificial Intelligence: 5.9%Astronomy and Astrophysics: 5.9%other fields: 54.3%22%top field
History and Philosophy of Science22.1%Philosophy11.8%Artificial Intelligence5.9%Astronomy and Astrophysics5.9%other fields54.3%

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 Science22% of their works
  2. 2Philosophy12% of their works
  3. 3Artificial Intelligence6% of their works
  4. 4Astronomy and Astrophysics6% of their works
  5. 5Global and Planetary Change4% of their works
  6. 6Experimental and Cognitive Psychology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Bas C. van Fraassen's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Philosophy of Science, Evolutionary Synthesis, Mechanistic Explanation, Probability Theory, Climate Change, Consciousness, Environmental Science and Logical Empiricism.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Philosophy of Science122 topics
  2. Evolutionary Synthesis91 topic
  3. Mechanistic Explanation91 topic
  4. Probability Theory42 topics
  5. Climate Change31 topic
  6. Consciousness31 topic
  7. Environmental Science31 topic
  8. Logical Empiricism31 topic
  9. Phenomenal Experience31 topic
  10. Vienna Circle31 topic
  11. Bayesian Networks21 topic
  12. Causal Inference21 topic
  13. Fuzzy Logic21 topic
  14. Historical Sources21 topic
  15. Mathematics Education21 topic
  16. Residuated Lattices21 topic
  17. Statistical Modeling21 topic
  18. Survival Models21 topic

Where does Bas C. van Fraassen work?

Bas C. van Fraassen's main affiliation in the publication record is Princeton University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Bas C. van Fraassen have?

Science Explorer counts 72 works and 409 citations for Bas C. van Fraassen, ranking #12,616 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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