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David Bloor

David Bloor publishes mostly in Philosophy, Sociology and Political Science and History and Philosophy of Science, on topics such as Wittgensteinian philosophy and applications, Science and Climate Studies and Philosophy and History of Science.

World rank
#27,114
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#2,532
of 90,785
Works
35
Citations
878
Citations per work
25.1

What does David Bloor research?

Philosophy: 31.3%Sociology and Political Science: 15.6%History and Philosophy of Science: 12.5%Experimental and Cognitive Psychology: 6.3%other fields: 34.3%31%top field
Philosophy31.3%Sociology and Political Science15.6%History and Philosophy of Science12.5%Experimental and Cognitive Psychology6.3%other fields34.3%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Philosophy31% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science16% of their works
  3. 3History and Philosophy of Science12% of their works
  4. 4Experimental and Cognitive Psychology6% of their works
  5. 5Biomedical Engineering6% of their works
  6. 6Global and Planetary Change6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe David Bloor's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Education, Philosophy, Language-Games, Wittgenstein, Truth, Climate Change, Consciousness and Dewey.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Education72 topics
  2. Philosophy72 topics
  3. Language-Games51 topic
  4. Wittgenstein51 topic
  5. Truth42 topics
  6. Climate Change21 topic
  7. Consciousness21 topic
  8. Dewey21 topic
  9. Environmental Science21 topic
  10. Evolutionary Synthesis21 topic
  11. Mechanistic Explanation21 topic
  12. Phenomenal Experience21 topic
  13. Pragmatism21 topic
  14. Public Sociology21 topic
  15. Social Theory21 topic
  16. Neural Processing11 topic
  17. Visual Perception11 topic
  18. Yersinia pestis11 topic
  19. plague11 topic

Where does David Bloor work?

David Bloor's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does David Bloor have?

Science Explorer counts 35 works and 878 citations for David Bloor, ranking #27,114 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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