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Researcher · University of Bristol · United Kingdom

James Ladyman

James Ladyman publishes mostly in History and Philosophy of Science, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Philosophy, on topics such as Philosophy and History of Science, Quantum Mechanics and Applications and Philosophy and Theoretical Science.

OpenAlex
World rank
#154,708
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#13,960
of 367,258
Works
189
Citations
9.4k
Citations per work
49.6
h-index
37
i10-index 74Top 1.1% in History and Philosophy of Science
James Ladyman

What does James Ladyman research?

James Ladyman's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (34%), Physics and Astronomy (14%), Psychology (7%).

Social Sciences: 78 works · 41.1% of their workArts and Humanities: 64 works · 34.1% of their workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 50 works · 26.2% of their workPhilosophy: 15 works · 7.9% of their workPsychology: 13 works · 7.0% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 13 works · 7.0% of their workEverything else: 75 works · 39.6% of their workPhysical Sciences: 36 works · 19.3% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 27 works · 14.3% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 16 works · 8.4% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 11 works · 5.9% of their workComputer Science: 9 works · 5.0% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 9 works · 5.0% of their workTHEIR WORKJames Ladyman189works
Physical Sciences19%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. Arts and Humanities6434.1%
    2. Psychology137.0%
  2. Everything else7539.6%
    1. Physics and Astronomy2714.3%
    2. Computer Science95.0%
  1. 1History and Philosophy of Science26% of their works
  2. 2Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics8% of their works
  3. 3Philosophy8% of their works
  4. 4Experimental and Cognitive Psychology7% of their works
  5. 5Statistical and Nonlinear Physics6% of their works
  6. 6Artificial Intelligence5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe James Ladyman's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Philosophy of Science, Evolutionary Synthesis, Mechanistic Explanation, Perception, Truth, Bell Inequality, Decoherence and Consciousness.

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. Philosophy of Science932 topics
  2. Evolutionary Synthesis821 topic
  3. Mechanistic Explanation821 topic
  4. Perception442 topics
  5. Truth442 topics
  6. Bell Inequality361 topic
  7. Decoherence361 topic
  8. Consciousness291 topic
  9. Phenomenal Experience291 topic
  10. Belief151 topic
  11. Climate Change151 topic
  12. Environmental Science151 topic
  13. Knowledge151 topic
  14. History141 topic
  15. Science141 topic
  16. Logical Empiricism111 topic
  17. Vienna Circle111 topic
  18. Fluctuation Theorems101 topic
  19. Stochastic Thermodynamics101 topic

Where does James Ladyman work?

James Ladyman's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Bristol, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does James Ladyman have?

OpenAlex counts 189 works and 9,377 citations for James Ladyman, an h-index of 37, ranking #154,708 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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