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Researcher · University of Toronto · Canada

Ian Hacking

Ian Hacking publishes mostly in History and Philosophy of Science, Philosophy and Statistics and Probability, on topics such as Philosophy and History of Science, Probability and Statistical Research and Statistics Education and Methodologies.

OpenAlex
World rank
#45,612
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#1,250
of 183,316
Works
468
Citations
36k
Citations per work
77.4
h-index
69
i10-index 151Top 0.1% in History and Philosophy of Science
Ian Hacking

What does Ian Hacking research?

Ian Hacking's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (29%), Mathematics (10%), Social Sciences (7%).

Everything else: 213 works · 45.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 190 works · 40.5% of their workArts and Humanities: 134 works · 28.6% of their workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 81 works · 17.3% of their workPhilosophy: 53 works · 11.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 34 works · 7.3% of their workSociology and Political Science: 34 works · 7.3% of their workPsychology: 22 works · 4.6% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 22 works · 4.6% of their workPhysical Sciences: 66 works · 14.0% of their workMathematics: 48 works · 10.2% of their workStatistics and Probability: 48 works · 10.2% of their workComputer Science: 18 works · 3.8% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 18 works · 3.8% of their workTHEIR WORKIan Hacking468works
Physical Sciences14%Social Sciences41%

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 else21345.5%
    1. Arts and Humanities13428.6%
    2. Social Sciences347.3%
    3. Psychology224.6%
    1. Mathematics4810.2%
    2. Computer Science183.8%
  1. 1History and Philosophy of Science17% of their works
  2. 2Philosophy11% of their works
  3. 3Statistics and Probability10% of their works
  4. 4Sociology and Political Science7% of their works
  5. 5Experimental and Cognitive Psychology5% of their works
  6. 6Artificial Intelligence4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ian Hacking's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Philosophy of Science, Evolutionary Synthesis, Mechanistic Explanation, Teaching Methods, Perception, Truth, Probability Theory and Statistical Modeling.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Philosophy of Science1132 topics
  2. Evolutionary Synthesis971 topic
  3. Mechanistic Explanation971 topic
  4. Teaching Methods642 topics
  5. Perception472 topics
  6. Truth472 topics
  7. Probability Theory421 topic
  8. Statistical Modeling421 topic
  9. Data Science381 topic
  10. Statistics Anxiety381 topic
  11. Consciousness301 topic
  12. Phenomenal Experience301 topic
  13. Historical Sources261 topic
  14. Mathematics Education261 topic
  15. History191 topic
  16. Science191 topic
  17. Belief171 topic
  18. Knowledge171 topic
  19. Logical Empiricism161 topic
  20. Vienna Circle161 topic

Where does Ian Hacking work?

Ian Hacking's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Toronto, Canada.

How many publications and citations does Ian Hacking have?

OpenAlex counts 468 works and 36,214 citations for Ian Hacking, an h-index of 69, ranking #45,612 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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