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Researcher · Carnegie Mellon University · United States

Herbert A. Simon

Herbert A. Simon publishes mostly in Artificial Intelligence, Economics and Econometrics and Sociology and Political Science, on topics such as Philosophy and History of Science, Complex Systems and Decision Making and Cognitive Science and Mapping.

OpenAlex
World rank
#6,028
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#2,075
of 1,627,098
Works
882
Citations
179k
Citations per work
202.4
h-index
163
i10-index 448Top 0.1% in Artificial Intelligence
Herbert A. Simon

What does Herbert A. Simon research?

Herbert A. Simon's work is mostly in Computer Science (15%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (7%), Social Sciences (6%).

Everything else: 510 works · 57.8% of their workSocial Sciences: 240 works · 27.2% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 66 works · 7.5% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 66 works · 7.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 52 works · 5.9% of their workSociology and Political Science: 52 works · 5.9% of their workPsychology: 45 works · 5.1% of their workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 45 works · 5.1% of their workDecision Sciences: 41 works · 4.6% of their workManagement Science and Operations Research: 41 works · 4.6% of their workArts and Humanities: 36 works · 4.1% of their workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 36 works · 4.1% of their workPhysical Sciences: 132 works · 15.0% of their workComputer Science: 132 works · 15.0% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 132 works · 15.0% of their workTHEIR WORKHerbert A. Simon882works
Physical Sciences15%Social Sciences27%

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 else51057.8%
    1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance667.5%
    2. Social Sciences525.9%
    3. Psychology455.1%
    4. Decision Sciences414.6%
    5. Arts and Humanities364.1%
    1. Computer Science13215.0%
  1. 1Artificial Intelligence15% of their works
  2. 2Economics and Econometrics8% of their works
  3. 3Sociology and Political Science6% of their works
  4. 4Developmental and Educational Psychology5% of their works
  5. 5Management Science and Operations Research5% of their works
  6. 6History and Philosophy of Science4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Herbert A. Simon's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Modeling, Cognitive Architecture, Evolutionary Synthesis, Mechanistic Explanation, Soft Systems Methodology, System Dynamics, Decision Support and Fuzzy Cognitive Maps.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Modeling1072 topics
  2. Cognitive Architecture812 topics
  3. Evolutionary Synthesis571 topic
  4. Mechanistic Explanation571 topic
  5. Soft Systems Methodology571 topic
  6. System Dynamics571 topic
  7. Decision Support501 topic
  8. Fuzzy Cognitive Maps501 topic
  9. Heuristic Search471 topic
  10. Planning Systems471 topic
  11. Economic Institutions411 topic
  12. Institutional Economics411 topic
  13. Algorithmic Information Theory361 topic
  14. Computability361 topic
  15. Asset Pricing341 topic
  16. Cognitive Load Theory341 topic
  17. Monetary Equilibrium341 topic
  18. Multimedia Learning341 topic

Where does Herbert A. Simon work?

Herbert A. Simon's main affiliation in the publication record is Carnegie Mellon University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Herbert A. Simon have?

OpenAlex counts 882 works and 178,547 citations for Herbert A. Simon, an h-index of 163, ranking #6,028 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality 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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