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Charles Singer

Charles Singer publishes mostly in History and Philosophy of Science, History and Astronomy and Astrophysics, on topics such as History of Medicine Studies, History of Science and Medicine and History of Science and Natural History.

OpenAlex
World rank
#966,146
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#78,688
of 367,258
Works
160
Citations
1.2k
Citations per work
7.2
h-index
17
i10-index 26Top 10% in History and Philosophy of Science
Charles Singer

What does Charles Singer research?

Charles Singer's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (42%), Physics and Astronomy (7%), Social Sciences (4%).

Everything else: 75 works · 46.8% of their workSocial Sciences: 74 works · 46.1% of their workArts and Humanities: 68 works · 42.2% of their workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 30 works · 18.7% of their workHistory: 21 works · 13.2% of their workArcheology: 10 works · 6.1% of their workPhilosophy: 7 works · 4.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 6 works · 3.9% of their workSociology and Political Science: 6 works · 3.9% of their workPhysical Sciences: 11 works · 7.1% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 11 works · 7.1% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 11 works · 7.1% of their workTHEIR WORKCharles Singer160works
Physical Sciences7%Social Sciences46%

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 else7546.8%
    1. Arts and Humanities6842.2%
    2. Social Sciences63.9%
    1. Physics and Astronomy117.1%
  1. 1History and Philosophy of Science19% of their works
  2. 2History13% of their works
  3. 3Astronomy and Astrophysics7% of their works
  4. 4Archeology6% of their works
  5. 5Philosophy4% of their works
  6. 6Sociology and Political Science4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Charles Singer's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Surgery, Ancient Medicine, History, Islamic Medicine, Science, Historical Figures, Historical Astronomy and Global History.

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. Surgery332 topics
  2. Ancient Medicine221 topic
  3. History221 topic
  4. Islamic Medicine221 topic
  5. Science221 topic
  6. Historical Figures202 topics
  7. Historical Astronomy172 topics
  8. Global History121 topic
  9. Science Circulation121 topic
  10. Antikythera Mechanism111 topic
  11. Astronomical Calculator111 topic
  12. Blood Transfusion111 topic
  13. Obstetrics111 topic
  14. Radio Astronomy91 topic
  15. Transits of Venus91 topic
  16. Acceptance71 topic
  17. Evolutionary Theory71 topic
  18. Archaeoastronomy61 topic
  19. Cultural Landscapes61 topic

Where does Charles Singer work?

Charles Singer's main affiliation in the publication record is Science Oxford, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Charles Singer have?

OpenAlex counts 160 works and 1,158 citations for Charles Singer, an h-index of 17, ranking #966,146 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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