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Researcher · Cardiff University · United Kingdom

Harry M. Collins

Harry M. Collins publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology and History and Philosophy of Science, on topics such as Education, Healthcare and Sociology Research, Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration and Philosophy and History of Science.

ORCID 0000-0003-2909-9035 OpenAlex
World rank
#48,369
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#3,908
of 367,258
Works
330
Citations
14k
Citations per work
43.7
h-index
49
i10-index 120Top 0.4% in Sociology and Political Science
Harry M. Collins

What does Harry M. Collins research?

Harry M. Collins's work is mostly in Social Sciences (16%), Arts and Humanities (13%), Psychology (12%).

Social Sciences: 158 works · 47.8% of their workSocial Sciences: 54 works · 16.5% of their workSociology and Political Science: 54 works · 16.5% of their workArts and Humanities: 42 works · 12.7% of their workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 29 works · 8.9% of their workPhilosophy: 13 works · 3.8% of their workPsychology: 38 works · 11.5% of their workSocial Psychology: 38 works · 11.5% of their workDecision Sciences: 23 works · 7.1% of their workInformation Systems and Management: 23 works · 7.1% of their workEverything else: 153 works · 46.4% of their workPhysical Sciences: 19 works · 5.8% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 19 works · 5.8% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 19 works · 5.8% of their workTHEIR WORKHarry M. Collins330works
Physical Sciences6%Social Sciences48%

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. Social Sciences5416.5%
    2. Arts and Humanities4212.7%
    3. Psychology3811.5%
    4. Decision Sciences237.1%
  2. Everything else15346.4%
    1. Physics and Astronomy195.8%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science16% of their works
  2. 2Social Psychology12% of their works
  3. 3History and Philosophy of Science9% of their works
  4. 4Information Systems and Management7% of their works
  5. 5Astronomy and Astrophysics6% of their works
  6. 6Philosophy4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Harry M. Collins's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Social Science, Interactional Expertise, Tacit Knowledge, Interdisciplinary Research, Team Science, Evolutionary Synthesis, Mechanistic Explanation and Climate Change.

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. Social Science922 topics
  2. Interactional Expertise701 topic
  3. Tacit Knowledge701 topic
  4. Interdisciplinary Research441 topic
  5. Team Science441 topic
  6. Evolutionary Synthesis341 topic
  7. Mechanistic Explanation341 topic
  8. Climate Change221 topic
  9. Public Perception221 topic
  10. Qualitative Research221 topic
  11. Research Methodology221 topic
  12. Public Sociology151 topic
  13. Social Theory151 topic
  14. Critical Realism141 topic
  15. Social Structure141 topic
  16. Astrobiology121 topic
  17. Extraterrestrial Life121 topic

Where does Harry M. Collins work?

Harry M. Collins's main affiliation in the publication record is Cardiff University, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Harry M. Collins have?

OpenAlex counts 330 works and 14,416 citations for Harry M. Collins, an h-index of 49, ranking #48,369 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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