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Researcher · McMaster University · Canada

Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell publishes mostly in Philosophy, Sociology and Political Science and Political Science and International Relations, on topics such as Philosophy, Science, and History, Philosophy and Theoretical Science and History and Theory of Mathematics.

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World rank
#935,307
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#32,052
of 183,316
Works
2,012
Citations
38k
Citations per work
18.6
h-index
80
i10-index 219Top 0.1% in Philosophy
Bertrand Russell

What does Bertrand Russell research?

Bertrand Russell's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (28%), Social Sciences (23%), Psychology (5%).

Social Sciences: 1,129 works · 56.1% of their workArts and Humanities: 563 works · 28.0% of their workPhilosophy: 288 works · 14.3% of their workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 175 works · 8.7% of their workHistory: 101 works · 5.0% of their workSocial Sciences: 465 works · 23.1% of their workSociology and Political Science: 260 works · 12.9% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 205 works · 10.2% of their workPsychology: 101 works · 5.0% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 101 works · 5.0% of their workEverything else: 883 works · 43.9% of their workTHEIR WORKBertrand Russell2,012works
Social Sciences56%

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. Social Sciences1,12956.1%
    1. Arts and Humanities56328.0%
    2. Social Sciences46523.1%
    3. Psychology1015.0%
  2. Everything else88343.9%
  1. 1Philosophy14% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science13% of their works
  3. 3Political Science and International Relations10% of their works
  4. 4History and Philosophy of Science9% of their works
  5. 5Experimental and Cognitive Psychology5% of their works
  6. 6History5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Bertrand Russell's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Metaphysics, Philosophy of Science, Political Philosophy, Logical Empiricism, Vienna Circle, Ethics, Consciousness and Phenomenal Experience.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Metaphysics2512 topics
  2. Philosophy of Science2492 topics
  3. Political Philosophy2242 topics
  4. Logical Empiricism1721 topic
  5. Vienna Circle1721 topic
  6. Ethics1472 topics
  7. Consciousness1331 topic
  8. Phenomenal Experience1331 topic
  9. Historical Sources1131 topic
  10. Mathematics Education1131 topic
  11. Philosophy861 topic
  12. Wittgenstein861 topic
  13. Aristotle791 topic
  14. Plato791 topic
  15. Evolutionary Synthesis771 topic
  16. Mechanistic Explanation771 topic
  17. Moral Realism611 topic
  18. Virtue Ethics611 topic
  19. American founding521 topic
  20. Constitutional government521 topic

Where does Bertrand Russell work?

Bertrand Russell's main affiliation in the publication record is McMaster University, Canada.

How many publications and citations does Bertrand Russell have?

OpenAlex counts 2,012 works and 37,505 citations for Bertrand Russell, an h-index of 80, ranking #935,307 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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