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Researcher · Carleton College · United States

Ian G. Barbour

Ian G. Barbour publishes mostly in History and Philosophy of Science, Philosophy and Sociology and Political Science, on topics such as Evolution and Science Education, Religion, Ecology, and Ethics and Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices.

OpenAlex
World rank
#401,105
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#142,268
of 1,627,098
Works
72
Citations
2k
Citations per work
27.9
h-index
18
i10-index 22Top 8.8% in History and Philosophy of Science
Ian G. Barbour

What does Ian G. Barbour research?

Ian G. Barbour's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (35%), Physics and Astronomy (12%), Social Sciences (12%).

Social Sciences: 33 works · 46.5% of their workArts and Humanities: 25 works · 34.7% of their workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 11 works · 15.7% of their workPhilosophy: 10 works · 14.4% of their workReligious studies: 3 works · 4.6% of their workSocial Sciences: 8 works · 11.8% of their workSociology and Political Science: 8 works · 11.8% of their workEverything else: 30 works · 41.1% of their workPhysical Sciences: 9 works · 12.4% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 9 works · 12.4% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 5 works · 6.5% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 4 works · 5.9% of their workTHEIR WORKIan G. Barbour72works
Physical Sciences12%Social Sciences46%

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 Humanities2534.7%
    2. Social Sciences811.8%
  2. Everything else3041.1%
    1. Physics and Astronomy912.4%
  1. 1History and Philosophy of Science16% of their works
  2. 2Philosophy14% of their works
  3. 3Sociology and Political Science12% of their works
  4. 4Astronomy and Astrophysics6% of their works
  5. 5Nuclear and High Energy Physics6% of their works
  6. 6Religious studies5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ian G. Barbour's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Religion, Acceptance, Evolutionary Theory, Climate Change, Environment, Occultism, Spiritualism and Cosmic Rays.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Religion322 topics
  2. Acceptance211 topic
  3. Evolutionary Theory211 topic
  4. Climate Change111 topic
  5. Environment111 topic
  6. Occultism101 topic
  7. Spiritualism101 topic
  8. Cosmic Rays92 topics
  9. Neutrinos92 topics
  10. Axions51 topic
  11. Dark Matter51 topic
  12. Problem of Evil51 topic
  13. Theodicy51 topic
  14. Digital Religion41 topic
  15. High-Energy Astrophysics41 topic
  16. Internet41 topic
  17. Particle Acceleration41 topic
  18. Evolutionary Synthesis31 topic
  19. Mechanistic Explanation31 topic

Where does Ian G. Barbour work?

Ian G. Barbour's main affiliation in the publication record is Carleton College, United States.

How many publications and citations does Ian G. Barbour have?

OpenAlex counts 72 works and 2,006 citations for Ian G. Barbour, an h-index of 18, ranking #401,105 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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