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Researcher · Brooklyn College · United States

Carl B. Boyer

Carl B. Boyer publishes mostly in History and Philosophy of Science, Theoretical Computer Science and Anthropology, on topics such as History and Theory of Mathematics, History of Science and Natural History and History of Science and Medicine.

OpenAlex
World rank
#854,367
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#283,247
of 1,627,098
Works
180
Citations
2.3k
Citations per work
12.5
h-index
18
i10-index 28Top 8.8% in History and Philosophy of Science
Carl B. Boyer

What does Carl B. Boyer research?

Carl B. Boyer's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (29%), Mathematics (20%), Social Sciences (6%).

Everything else: 72 works · 40.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 64 works · 35.3% of their workArts and Humanities: 53 works · 29.3% of their workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 37 works · 20.5% of their workHistory: 9 works · 4.8% of their workPhilosophy: 7 works · 4.0% of their workSocial Sciences: 11 works · 6.0% of their workAnthropology: 11 works · 6.0% of their workPhysical Sciences: 44 works · 24.5% of their workMathematics: 36 works · 20.2% of their workTheoretical Computer Science: 36 works · 20.2% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 8 works · 4.3% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 8 works · 4.3% of their workTHEIR WORKCarl B. Boyer180works
Physical Sciences24%Social Sciences35%

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. Everything else7240.2%
    1. Arts and Humanities5329.3%
    2. Social Sciences116.0%
    1. Mathematics3620.2%
    2. Physics and Astronomy84.3%
  1. 1History and Philosophy of Science20% of their works
  2. 2Theoretical Computer Science20% of their works
  3. 3Anthropology6% of their works
  4. 4History5% of their works
  5. 5Astronomy and Astrophysics4% of their works
  6. 6Philosophy4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Carl B. Boyer's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Historical Sources, Mathematics Education, Medicine, Philosophy, Global History, Science Circulation, History and Science.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Historical Sources711 topic
  2. Mathematics Education711 topic
  3. Medicine252 topics
  4. Philosophy252 topics
  5. Global History181 topic
  6. Science Circulation181 topic
  7. History171 topic
  8. Science171 topic
  9. Roman Economy131 topic
  10. Urban Workshops131 topic
  11. Climate Change111 topic
  12. Environmental Science111 topic
  13. Geometry101 topic
  14. Hyperbolic101 topic
  15. Evolutionary Synthesis91 topic
  16. Mechanistic Explanation91 topic
  17. Natural Philosophy81 topic
  18. Scientific Culture81 topic

Where does Carl B. Boyer work?

Carl B. Boyer's main affiliation in the publication record is Brooklyn College, United States.

How many publications and citations does Carl B. Boyer have?

OpenAlex counts 180 works and 2,258 citations for Carl B. Boyer, an h-index of 18, ranking #854,367 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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