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Researcher · University of Toronto · Canada

Bimal Krishna Matilal

Bimal Krishna Matilal publishes mostly in Philosophy, Religious studies and Sociology and Political Science, on topics such as Indian and Buddhist Studies, Indian History and Philosophy and Chinese history and philosophy.

OpenAlex
World rank
#433,803
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#15,126
of 183,316
Works
96
Citations
1.4k
Citations per work
14.8
h-index
16
i10-index 18Top 7.9% in Philosophy
Bimal Krishna Matilal

What does Bimal Krishna Matilal research?

Bimal Krishna Matilal's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (67%), Social Sciences (16%), Psychology (2%).

Social Sciences: 82 works · 85.8% of their workArts and Humanities: 65 works · 67.3% of their workPhilosophy: 30 works · 31.2% of their workReligious studies: 29 works · 30.7% of their workLanguage and Linguistics: 5 works · 5.4% of their workSocial Sciences: 15 works · 16.1% of their workSociology and Political Science: 12 works · 12.7% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 3 works · 3.4% of their workPsychology: 2 works · 2.4% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 2 works · 2.4% of their workEverything else: 14 works · 14.2% of their workTHEIR WORKBimal KrishnaMatilal96works
Social Sciences86%

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. Arts and Humanities6567.3%
    2. Social Sciences1516.1%
    3. Psychology22.4%
  2. Everything else1414.2%
  1. 1Philosophy31% of their works
  2. 2Religious studies31% of their works
  3. 3Sociology and Political Science13% of their works
  4. 4Language and Linguistics5% of their works
  5. 5Political Science and International Relations3% of their works
  6. 6Experimental and Cognitive Psychology2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Bimal Krishna Matilal's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Philosophy, History, Religion, Buddhism, South Asia, Gandhi, Nonviolence and China.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Philosophy1053 topics
  2. History712 topics
  3. Religion712 topics
  4. Buddhism621 topic
  5. South Asia621 topic
  6. Gandhi341 topic
  7. Nonviolence341 topic
  8. China91 topic
  9. Regulation91 topic
  10. Avicenna61 topic
  11. Maimonides61 topic
  12. Problem of Evil51 topic
  13. Theodicy51 topic
  14. Aristotle41 topic
  15. Consciousness41 topic
  16. Language Teaching41 topic
  17. Linguistic Historiography41 topic
  18. Phenomenal Experience41 topic
  19. Plato41 topic

Where does Bimal Krishna Matilal work?

Bimal Krishna Matilal's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Toronto, Canada.

How many publications and citations does Bimal Krishna Matilal have?

OpenAlex counts 96 works and 1,419 citations for Bimal Krishna Matilal, an h-index of 16, ranking #433,803 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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