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David Sloan Wilson

David Sloan Wilson publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, History and Philosophy of Science and Genetics, on topics such as Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation, Philosophy and History of Science and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation.

World rank
#30,897
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#14,408
of 358,040
Works
43
Citations
547
Citations per work
12.7

What does David Sloan Wilson research?

Sociology and Political Science: 27.7%History and Philosophy of Science: 6.4%Genetics: 4.3%Nature and Landscape Conservation: 4.3%other fields: 57.3%28%top field
Sociology and Political Science27.7%History and Philosophy of Science6.4%Genetics4.3%Nature and Landscape Conservation4.3%other fields57.3%

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

  1. 1Sociology and Political Science28% of their works
  2. 2History and Philosophy of Science6% of their works
  3. 3Genetics4% of their works
  4. 4Nature and Landscape Conservation4% of their works
  5. 5Global and Planetary Change4% of their works
  6. 6Ecology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe David Sloan Wilson's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Altruism, Cooperation, Population Dynamics, Evolutionary Synthesis, Mechanistic Explanation, Animal Movement, Conservation Challenges and Disease Transmission.

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. Altruism101 topic
  2. Cooperation101 topic
  3. Population Dynamics42 topics
  4. Evolutionary Synthesis31 topic
  5. Mechanistic Explanation31 topic
  6. Animal Movement21 topic
  7. Conservation Challenges21 topic
  8. Disease Transmission21 topic
  9. Economic Institutions21 topic
  10. Epidemic Models21 topic
  11. Evolutionary Psychology21 topic
  12. Freshwater Biodiversity21 topic
  13. Human Behavior21 topic
  14. Institutional Economics21 topic
  15. Occupancy Rates21 topic
  16. Opinion Dynamics21 topic
  17. Social Influence21 topic

Where does David Sloan Wilson work?

David Sloan Wilson's main affiliation in the publication record is Binghamton University, United States.

How many publications and citations does David Sloan Wilson have?

Science Explorer counts 43 works and 547 citations for David Sloan Wilson, ranking #30,897 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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