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Researcher · University of Helsinki · Finland

Ilkka Niiniluoto

Ilkka Niiniluoto publishes mostly in History and Philosophy of Science, Philosophy and Education, on topics such as Philosophy and History of Science, Research in Social Sciences and Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics.

ORCID 0000-0003-3162-5970 OpenAlex
World rank
#900,139
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Finland
#5,413
of 37,370
Works
371
Citations
4.8k
Citations per work
13.0
h-index
31
i10-index 78Top 1.8% in History and Philosophy of Science
Ilkka Niiniluoto

What does Ilkka Niiniluoto research?

Ilkka Niiniluoto's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (37%), Social Sciences (15%), Computer Science (8%).

Social Sciences: 213 works · 57.5% of their workArts and Humanities: 139 works · 37.4% of their workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 85 works · 22.9% of their workPhilosophy: 54 works · 14.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 57 works · 15.3% of their workEducation: 43 works · 11.5% of their workSociology and Political Science: 14 works · 3.8% of their workPsychology: 18 works · 4.8% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 18 works · 4.8% of their workEverything else: 129 works · 34.9% of their workPhysical Sciences: 28 works · 7.6% of their workComputer Science: 28 works · 7.6% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 28 works · 7.6% of their workTHEIR WORKIlkka Niiniluoto371works
Physical Sciences8%Social Sciences58%

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 Humanities13937.4%
    2. Social Sciences5715.3%
    3. Psychology184.8%
  2. Everything else12934.9%
    1. Computer Science287.6%
  1. 1History and Philosophy of Science23% of their works
  2. 2Philosophy14% of their works
  3. 3Education12% of their works
  4. 4Artificial Intelligence8% of their works
  5. 5Experimental and Cognitive Psychology5% of their works
  6. 6Sociology and Political Science4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ilkka Niiniluoto's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Philosophy of Science, Evolutionary Synthesis, Mechanistic Explanation, Education, Truth, Qualitative Research, Social Sciences and Perception.

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 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Philosophy of Science1542 topics
  2. Evolutionary Synthesis1221 topic
  3. Mechanistic Explanation1221 topic
  4. Education932 topics
  5. Truth923 topics
  6. Qualitative Research701 topic
  7. Social Sciences701 topic
  8. Perception692 topics
  9. Pragmatism552 topics
  10. Modal Logic502 topics
  11. Belief411 topic
  12. Knowledge411 topic
  13. Logical Empiricism321 topic
  14. Vienna Circle321 topic
  15. Consciousness281 topic
  16. Phenomenal Experience281 topic
  17. Dewey231 topic
  18. Philosophy231 topic
  19. Answer Set Programming221 topic
  20. Knowledge Representation221 topic
  21. Bayesian Networks141 topic
  22. Causal Inference141 topic

Where does Ilkka Niiniluoto work?

Ilkka Niiniluoto's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Helsinki, Finland.

How many publications and citations does Ilkka Niiniluoto have?

OpenAlex counts 371 works and 4,837 citations for Ilkka Niiniluoto, an h-index of 31, ranking #900,139 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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