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Researcher · University of Wisconsin–Madison · United States

Elliott R. Sober

Elliott R. Sober publishes mostly in History and Philosophy of Science, Philosophy and Sociology and Political Science, on topics such as Philosophy and History of Science, Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation and Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics.

ORCID 0000-0003-3130-1263 OpenAlex
World rank
#11,747
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#4,064
of 1,627,098
Works
434
Citations
18k
Citations per work
41.6
h-index
60
i10-index 185Top 0.1% in History and Philosophy of Science
Elliott R. Sober

What does Elliott R. Sober research?

Elliott R. Sober's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (36%), Social Sciences (12%), Psychology (7%).

Social Sciences: 237 works · 54.6% of their workArts and Humanities: 155 works · 35.8% of their workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 94 works · 21.7% of their workPhilosophy: 61 works · 14.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 53 works · 12.2% of their workSociology and Political Science: 53 works · 12.2% of their workPsychology: 29 works · 6.6% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 29 works · 6.6% of their workEverything else: 153 works · 35.3% of their workLife Sciences: 27 works · 6.3% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 27 works · 6.3% of their workGenetics: 27 works · 6.3% of their workPhysical Sciences: 16 works · 3.8% of their workComputer Science: 16 works · 3.8% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 16 works · 3.8% of their workTHEIR WORKElliott R. Sober434works
Life Sciences6%Physical Sciences4%Social Sciences55%

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 Humanities15535.8%
    2. Social Sciences5312.2%
    3. Psychology296.6%
  2. Everything else15335.3%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology276.3%
    1. Computer Science163.8%
  1. 1History and Philosophy of Science22% of their works
  2. 2Philosophy14% of their works
  3. 3Sociology and Political Science12% of their works
  4. 4Experimental and Cognitive Psychology7% of their works
  5. 5Genetics6% of their works
  6. 6Artificial Intelligence4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Elliott R. Sober's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Evolutionary Synthesis, Mechanistic Explanation, Altruism, Cooperation, Perception, Truth, Natural Selection and Belief.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Evolutionary Synthesis1341 topic
  2. Mechanistic Explanation1341 topic
  3. Altruism831 topic
  4. Cooperation831 topic
  5. Perception792 topics
  6. Truth792 topics
  7. Natural Selection772 topics
  8. Belief441 topic
  9. Knowledge441 topic
  10. Acceptance421 topic
  11. Evolutionary Theory421 topic
  12. Adaptation351 topic
  13. Consciousness351 topic
  14. Evolution351 topic
  15. Phenomenal Experience351 topic
  16. Ethics231 topic
  17. Moral Realism231 topic
  18. Bayesian Networks141 topic
  19. Causal Inference141 topic

Where does Elliott R. Sober work?

Elliott R. Sober's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Wisconsin–Madison, United States.

How many publications and citations does Elliott R. Sober have?

OpenAlex counts 434 works and 18,066 citations for Elliott R. Sober, an h-index of 60, ranking #11,747 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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