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Researcher · Williams College · United States

Donald deB. Beaver

Donald deB. Beaver publishes mostly in History and Philosophy of Science, Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty and Astronomy and Astrophysics, on topics such as scientometrics and bibliometrics research, History of Science and Natural History and History of Science and Medicine.

OpenAlex
World rank
#1,226,438
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#392,556
of 1,627,098
Works
47
Citations
3.1k
Citations per work
66.7
h-index
11
i10-index 12Top 21% in History and Philosophy of Science
Donald deB. Beaver

What does Donald deB. Beaver research?

Donald deB. Beaver's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (21%), Decision Sciences (17%), Physics and Astronomy (9%).

Social Sciences: 20 works · 43.4% of their workArts and Humanities: 10 works · 20.7% of their workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 10 works · 20.7% of their workDecision Sciences: 8 works · 17.3% of their workStatistics, Probability and Uncertainty: 6 works · 13.0% of their workInformation Systems and Management: 2 works · 4.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 3 works · 5.4% of their workSociology and Political Science: 3 works · 5.4% of their workEverything else: 19 works · 40.3% of their workPhysical Sciences: 8 works · 16.3% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 4 works · 8.7% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 4 works · 8.7% of their workComputer Science: 4 works · 7.6% of their workInformation Systems: 4 works · 7.6% of their workTHEIR WORKDonald deB.Beaver47works
Physical Sciences16%Social Sciences43%

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 Humanities1020.7%
    2. Decision Sciences817.3%
    3. Social Sciences35.4%
  2. Everything else1940.3%
    1. Physics and Astronomy48.7%
    2. Computer Science47.6%
  1. 1History and Philosophy of Science21% of their works
  2. 2Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty13% of their works
  3. 3Astronomy and Astrophysics9% of their works
  4. 4Information Systems8% of their works
  5. 5Sociology and Political Science5% of their works
  6. 6Information Systems and Management4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Donald deB. Beaver's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Bibliometric Analysis, Research Evaluation, Global History, Science Circulation, History, Science, Antikythera Mechanism and Astrobiology.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Bibliometric Analysis111 topic
  2. Research Evaluation111 topic
  3. Global History81 topic
  4. Science Circulation81 topic
  5. History51 topic
  6. Science51 topic
  7. Antikythera Mechanism31 topic
  8. Astrobiology31 topic
  9. Astronomical Calculator31 topic
  10. Data Sharing31 topic
  11. Extraterrestrial Life31 topic
  12. Scientific Data Management31 topic
  13. Education21 topic
  14. Hyperlink Analysis21 topic
  15. Robotics Programming21 topic
  16. Webometrics21 topic

Where does Donald deB. Beaver work?

Donald deB. Beaver's main affiliation in the publication record is Williams College, United States.

How many publications and citations does Donald deB. Beaver have?

OpenAlex counts 47 works and 3,136 citations for Donald deB. Beaver, an h-index of 11, ranking #1,226,438 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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