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David Pears

David Pears publishes mostly in Philosophy, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging and History and Philosophy of Science, on topics such as Philosophy, Science, and History, Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics and Wittgensteinian philosophy and applications.

World rank
#114,966
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#10,871
of 90,785
Works
26
Citations
107
Citations per work
4.1

What does David Pears research?

Philosophy: 43.8%Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging: 12.5%History and Philosophy of Science: 12.5%Clinical Psychology: 6.3%other fields: 24.9%44%top field
Philosophy43.8%Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging12.5%History and Philosophy of Science12.5%Clinical Psychology6.3%other fields24.9%

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

  1. 1Philosophy44% of their works
  2. 2Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging12% of their works
  3. 3History and Philosophy of Science12% of their works
  4. 4Clinical Psychology6% of their works
  5. 5General Social Sciences6% of their works
  6. 6Radiation6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe David Pears's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Ethics, Belief, Knowledge, Logical Empiricism, Philosophy, Vienna Circle, Wittgenstein and Avicenna.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Ethics32 topics
  2. Belief21 topic
  3. Knowledge21 topic
  4. Logical Empiricism21 topic
  5. Philosophy21 topic
  6. Vienna Circle21 topic
  7. Wittgenstein21 topic
  8. Avicenna11 topic
  9. Computed Tomography11 topic
  10. Dosimetry11 topic
  11. Hugo Grotius11 topic
  12. Maimonides11 topic
  13. Radiation Exposure11 topic
  14. Radiology Errors11 topic
  15. Radiotherapy Physics11 topic
  16. Structured Reporting11 topic
  17. Thomas Hobbes11 topic

Where does David Pears work?

David Pears's main affiliation in the publication record is Canterbury Christ Church University, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does David Pears have?

Science Explorer counts 26 works and 107 citations for David Pears, ranking #114,966 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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