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David Sloan Wilson

David Sloan Wilson publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and History and Philosophy of Science, on topics such as Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation, Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior and Philosophy and History of Science.

World rank
#80,792
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#35,975
of 358,040
Works
37
Citations
358
Citations per work
9.7

What does David Sloan Wilson research?

Sociology and Political Science: 31.3%Experimental and Cognitive Psychology: 12.5%History and Philosophy of Science: 10.4%Social Psychology: 8.3%other fields: 37.5%31%top field
Sociology and Political Science31.3%Experimental and Cognitive Psychology12.5%History and Philosophy of Science10.4%Social Psychology8.3%other fields37.5%

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 Science31% of their works
  2. 2Experimental and Cognitive Psychology12% of their works
  3. 3History and Philosophy of Science10% of their works
  4. 4Social Psychology8% of their works
  5. 5Safety Research6% of their works
  6. 6Economics and Econometrics6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe David Sloan Wilson's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Altruism, Cooperation, Evolutionary Games, Social Networks, Adaptation, Evolutionary Psychology, Human Behavior and Natural Selection.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Altruism152 topics
  2. Cooperation152 topics
  3. Evolutionary Games121 topic
  4. Social Networks121 topic
  5. Adaptation62 topics
  6. Evolutionary Psychology41 topic
  7. Human Behavior41 topic
  8. Natural Selection42 topics
  9. Economic Experiments31 topic
  10. Evolutionary Synthesis31 topic
  11. Mechanistic Explanation31 topic
  12. Social Preferences31 topic
  13. Acceptance21 topic
  14. Cultural Psychology21 topic
  15. Economic Institutions21 topic
  16. Evolution21 topic
  17. Evolutionary Theory21 topic
  18. Institutional Economics21 topic
  19. Mutation21 topic
  20. Values21 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 37 works and 358 citations for David Sloan Wilson, ranking #80,792 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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