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Researcher · École Polytechnique · France

Francisco J. Varela

Francisco J. Varela publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Philosophy and Education, on topics such as Linguistics and Discourse Analysis, Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy and French Urban and Social Studies.

ORCID 0000-0003-1395-974X OpenAlex
World rank
#371,210
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in France
#20,510
of 324,115
Works
130
Citations
28k
Citations per work
215.2
h-index
39
i10-index 55Top 1% in Sociology and Political Science
Francisco J. Varela

What does Francisco J. Varela research?

Francisco J. Varela's work is mostly in Social Sciences (16%), Arts and Humanities (10%), Neuroscience (5%).

Everything else: 77 works · 59.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 40 works · 30.7% of their workSocial Sciences: 21 works · 15.9% of their workSociology and Political Science: 13 works · 10.2% of their workEducation: 7 works · 5.7% of their workArts and Humanities: 12 works · 9.5% of their workPhilosophy: 12 works · 9.5% of their workPsychology: 7 works · 5.3% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 7 works · 5.3% of their workLife Sciences: 7 works · 5.3% of their workNeuroscience: 7 works · 5.3% of their workCognitive Neuroscience: 7 works · 5.3% of their workPhysical Sciences: 6 works · 4.5% of their workComputer Science: 6 works · 4.5% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 6 works · 4.5% of their workTHEIR WORKFrancisco J.Varela130works
Life Sciences5%Physical Sciences4%Social Sciences31%

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. Everything else7759.5%
    1. Social Sciences2115.9%
    2. Arts and Humanities129.5%
    3. Psychology75.3%
    1. Neuroscience75.3%
    1. Computer Science64.5%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science10% of their works
  2. 2Philosophy10% of their works
  3. 3Education6% of their works
  4. 4Cognitive Neuroscience5% of their works
  5. 5Experimental and Cognitive Psychology5% of their works
  6. 6Artificial Intelligence4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Francisco J. Varela's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Competitiveness, Argumentation, Discourse Analysis, Environmental Participation, Phenomenology, Psychology, Territorial Governance and Developmental Trauma.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Competitiveness102 topics
  2. Argumentation81 topic
  3. Discourse Analysis81 topic
  4. Environmental Participation81 topic
  5. Phenomenology81 topic
  6. Psychology81 topic
  7. Territorial Governance81 topic
  8. Developmental Trauma51 topic
  9. Embodied Cognition51 topic
  10. Financial Analysis51 topic
  11. Fuzzy Cognitive Maps51 topic
  12. International Financial Reporting Standards51 topic
  13. Modeling51 topic
  14. Predictive Brain Theory51 topic
  15. Productivity Indicators51 topic
  16. Psychodynamic Psychotherapy51 topic
  17. Sustainability Accounting51 topic

Where does Francisco J. Varela work?

Francisco J. Varela's main affiliation in the publication record is École Polytechnique, France.

How many publications and citations does Francisco J. Varela have?

OpenAlex counts 130 works and 27,974 citations for Francisco J. Varela, an h-index of 39, ranking #371,210 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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