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Researcher · Max Planck Institute for the History of Science · Germany

Fernando Vidal

Fernando Vidal publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, History and Philosophy of Science and General Psychology, on topics such as Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology, Neuroscience, Education and Cognitive Function and History of Science and Natural History.

OpenAlex
World rank
#332,725
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#19,926
of 86,443
Works
35
Citations
11
Citations per work
0.3

What does Fernando Vidal research?

Sociology and Political Science: 22.7%History and Philosophy of Science: 18.2%General Psychology: 13.6%Cognitive Neuroscience: 9.1%other fields: 36.4%23%top field
Sociology and Political Science22.7%History and Philosophy of Science18.2%General Psychology13.6%Cognitive Neuroscience9.1%other fields36.4%

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 Science23% of their works
  2. 2History and Philosophy of Science18% of their works
  3. 3General Psychology14% of their works
  4. 4Cognitive Neuroscience9% of their works
  5. 5Anthropology9% of their works
  6. 6Literature and Literary Theory4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Fernando Vidal's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: History, Science, Ethics, Epistemology, Psychology, Education, Global History and Literature.

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 22 words, with their numbers
  1. History53 topics
  2. Science53 topics
  3. Ethics42 topics
  4. Epistemology31 topic
  5. Psychology31 topic
  6. Education21 topic
  7. Global History21 topic
  8. Literature22 topics
  9. Medicine22 topics
  10. Neuroscience21 topic
  11. Philosophy22 topics
  12. Science Circulation21 topic
  13. Aging11 topic
  14. Colonialism11 topic
  15. Elderly11 topic
  16. Existentialism11 topic
  17. Fictionality11 topic
  18. Innovation11 topic
  19. Kierkegaard11 topic
  20. Knowledge Production11 topic
  21. Narrative11 topic
  22. Technology11 topic

Where does Fernando Vidal work?

Fernando Vidal's main affiliation in the publication record is Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Germany.

How many publications and citations does Fernando Vidal have?

Science Explorer counts 35 works and 11 citations for Fernando Vidal, ranking #332,725 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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