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Georg Henrik von Wright

Georg Henrik von Wright publishes mostly in Philosophy, History and Philosophy of Science and Sociology and Political Science, on topics such as Classical Philosophy and Thought, Philosophy and Theoretical Science and Philosophy and History of Science.

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World rank
#254,823
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Finland
#1,430
of 37,370
Works
160
Citations
5.8k
Citations per work
36.4
h-index
25
i10-index 44Top 2.6% in Philosophy
Georg Henrik von Wright

What does Georg Henrik von Wright research?

Georg Henrik von Wright's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (33%), Social Sciences (8%), Computer Science (6%).

Social Sciences: 74 works · 46.5% of their workArts and Humanities: 53 works · 32.9% of their workPhilosophy: 36 works · 22.5% of their workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 17 works · 10.4% of their workSocial Sciences: 13 works · 8.1% of their workSociology and Political Science: 13 works · 8.1% of their workPsychology: 9 works · 5.5% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 9 works · 5.5% of their workEverything else: 69 works · 43.4% of their workPhysical Sciences: 16 works · 10.1% of their workComputer Science: 10 works · 6.5% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 10 works · 6.5% of their workMathematics: 6 works · 3.6% of their workTheoretical Computer Science: 6 works · 3.6% of their workTHEIR WORKGeorg Henrik vonWright160works
Physical Sciences10%Social Sciences47%

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 Humanities5332.9%
    2. Social Sciences138.1%
    3. Psychology95.5%
  2. Everything else6943.4%
    1. Computer Science106.5%
    2. Mathematics63.6%
  1. 1Philosophy22% of their works
  2. 2History and Philosophy of Science10% of their works
  3. 3Sociology and Political Science8% of their works
  4. 4Artificial Intelligence6% of their works
  5. 5Experimental and Cognitive Psychology6% of their works
  6. 6Theoretical Computer Science4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Georg Henrik von Wright's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Metaphysics, Modal Logic, Ethics, Philosophy of Science, Aristotle, Plato, Consciousness and Phenomenal Experience.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Metaphysics342 topics
  2. Modal Logic292 topics
  3. Ethics262 topics
  4. Philosophy of Science262 topics
  5. Aristotle231 topic
  6. Plato231 topic
  7. Consciousness161 topic
  8. Phenomenal Experience161 topic
  9. Evolutionary Synthesis151 topic
  10. Mechanistic Explanation151 topic
  11. Moral Realism141 topic
  12. Virtue Ethics141 topic
  13. Answer Set Programming131 topic
  14. Knowledge Representation131 topic
  15. Philosophy121 topic
  16. Wittgenstein121 topic
  17. Historical Sources111 topic
  18. Logical Empiricism111 topic
  19. Mathematics Education111 topic
  20. Vienna Circle111 topic

Where does Georg Henrik von Wright work?

Georg Henrik von Wright's main affiliation in the publication record is Research Council of Finland, Finland.

How many publications and citations does Georg Henrik von Wright have?

OpenAlex counts 160 works and 5,830 citations for Georg Henrik von Wright, an h-index of 25, ranking #254,823 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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