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Researcher · University of Oxford · United Kingdom

David F. Pears

David F. Pears publishes mostly in Philosophy, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and General Social Sciences, on topics such as Wittgensteinian philosophy and applications, Philosophy and Theoretical Science and Philosophical Ethics and Theory.

OpenAlex
World rank
#389,650
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#34,384
of 367,258
Works
152
Citations
2.1k
Citations per work
13.6
h-index
21
i10-index 39Top 4.1% in Philosophy
David F. Pears

What does David F. Pears research?

David F. Pears's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (54%), Psychology (16%), Social Sciences (7%).

Social Sciences: 116 works · 76.4% of their workArts and Humanities: 82 works · 54.0% of their workPhilosophy: 72 works · 47.1% of their workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 10 works · 6.9% of their workPsychology: 24 works · 15.5% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 20 works · 13.0% of their workSocial Psychology: 4 works · 2.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 10 works · 6.9% of their workGeneral Social Sciences: 10 works · 6.9% of their workEverything else: 33 works · 21.4% of their workLife Sciences: 3 works · 2.2% of their workNeuroscience: 3 works · 2.2% of their workCognitive Neuroscience: 3 works · 2.2% of their workTHEIR WORKDavid F. Pears152works
Life Sciences2%Social Sciences76%

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 Humanities8254.0%
    2. Psychology2415.5%
    3. Social Sciences106.9%
  2. Everything else3321.4%
    1. Neuroscience32.2%
  1. 1Philosophy47% of their works
  2. 2Experimental and Cognitive Psychology13% of their works
  3. 3General Social Sciences7% of their works
  4. 4History and Philosophy of Science7% of their works
  5. 5Social Psychology2% of their works
  6. 6Cognitive Neuroscience2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe David F. Pears's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Education, Philosophy, Ethics, Language-Games, Wittgenstein, Truth, Perception and Consciousness.

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 23 words, with their numbers
  1. Education873 topics
  2. Philosophy873 topics
  3. Ethics792 topics
  4. Language-Games601 topic
  5. Wittgenstein601 topic
  6. Truth573 topics
  7. Perception462 topics
  8. Consciousness301 topic
  9. Phenomenal Experience301 topic
  10. Moral Realism191 topic
  11. Pragmatism192 topics
  12. Virtue Ethics191 topic
  13. Belief161 topic
  14. Knowledge161 topic
  15. Law161 topic
  16. Linguistics161 topic
  17. Metaphysics162 topics
  18. Dewey111 topic
  19. Peirce111 topic
  20. Aristotle81 topic
  21. Logical Empiricism81 topic
  22. Plato81 topic
  23. Vienna Circle81 topic

Where does David F. Pears work?

David F. Pears's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Oxford, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does David F. Pears have?

OpenAlex counts 152 works and 2,062 citations for David F. Pears, an h-index of 21, ranking #389,650 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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