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Researcher · Harvard University Press · United States

Hilary Putnam

Hilary Putnam publishes mostly in Philosophy, History and Philosophy of Science and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, on topics such as Philosophy and Theoretical Science, Philosophy and History of Science and Philosophy, Science, and History.

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World rank
#47,937
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#18,495
of 1,627,098
Works
558
Citations
39k
Citations per work
70.4
h-index
73
i10-index 224Top 0.1% in Philosophy
Hilary Putnam

What does Hilary Putnam research?

Hilary Putnam's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (37%), Psychology (11%), Computer Science (8%).

Social Sciences: 310 works · 55.5% of their workArts and Humanities: 206 works · 36.9% of their workPhilosophy: 137 works · 24.5% of their workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 69 works · 12.4% of their workPsychology: 61 works · 10.9% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 61 works · 10.9% of their workSocial Sciences: 43 works · 7.7% of their workSociology and Political Science: 43 works · 7.7% of their workEverything else: 202 works · 36.2% of their workPhysical Sciences: 46 works · 8.3% of their workComputer Science: 46 works · 8.3% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 25 works · 4.4% of their workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 22 works · 3.9% of their workTHEIR WORKHilary Putnam558works
Physical Sciences8%Social Sciences56%

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 Humanities20636.9%
    2. Psychology6110.9%
    3. Social Sciences437.7%
  2. Everything else20236.2%
    1. Computer Science468.3%
  1. 1Philosophy24% of their works
  2. 2History and Philosophy of Science12% of their works
  3. 3Experimental and Cognitive Psychology11% of their works
  4. 4Sociology and Political Science8% of their works
  5. 5Artificial Intelligence4% of their works
  6. 6Computational Theory and Mathematics4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Hilary Putnam's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Truth, Perception, Philosophy of Science, Metaphysics, Pragmatism, Consciousness, Phenomenal Experience and Education.

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 24 words, with their numbers
  1. Truth2023 topics
  2. Perception1432 topics
  3. Philosophy of Science1262 topics
  4. Metaphysics1182 topics
  5. Pragmatism1182 topics
  6. Consciousness1061 topic
  7. Phenomenal Experience1061 topic
  8. Education982 topics
  9. Philosophy982 topics
  10. Ethics702 topics
  11. Evolutionary Synthesis671 topic
  12. Mechanistic Explanation671 topic
  13. Aristotle591 topic
  14. Dewey591 topic
  15. Logical Empiricism591 topic
  16. Peirce591 topic
  17. Plato591 topic
  18. Vienna Circle591 topic
  19. Language-Games391 topic
  20. Wittgenstein391 topic
  21. Belief371 topic
  22. Knowledge371 topic
  23. Moral Realism311 topic
  24. Virtue Ethics311 topic

Where does Hilary Putnam work?

Hilary Putnam's main affiliation in the publication record is Harvard University Press, United States.

How many publications and citations does Hilary Putnam have?

OpenAlex counts 558 works and 39,291 citations for Hilary Putnam, an h-index of 73, ranking #47,937 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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