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John Collier

John Collier publishes mostly in Computational Theory and Mathematics, History and Philosophy of Science and Cognitive Neuroscience, on topics such as Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms, Origins and Evolution of Life and Philosophy and History of Science.

World rank
#270,764
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#718
of 5,570
Works
37
Citations
104
Citations per work
2.8

What does John Collier research?

Computational Theory and Mathematics: 14.3%History and Philosophy of Science: 11.4%Cognitive Neuroscience: 8.6%Astronomy and Astrophysics: 8.6%other fields: 57.1%14%top field
Computational Theory and Mathematics14.3%History and Philosophy of Science11.4%Cognitive Neuroscience8.6%Astronomy and Astrophysics8.6%other fields57.1%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Computational Theory and Mathematics14% of their works
  2. 2History and Philosophy of Science11% of their works
  3. 3Cognitive Neuroscience9% of their works
  4. 4Astronomy and Astrophysics9% of their works
  5. 5Artificial Intelligence9% of their works
  6. 6Sociology and Political Science9% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe John Collier's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Algorithmic Information Theory, Computability, Evolutionary Synthesis, Machine Learning, Mechanistic Explanation, Prebiotic Chemistry, RNA World and Altruism.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Algorithmic Information Theory41 topic
  2. Computability41 topic
  3. Evolutionary Synthesis31 topic
  4. Machine Learning32 topics
  5. Mechanistic Explanation31 topic
  6. Prebiotic Chemistry31 topic
  7. RNA World31 topic
  8. Altruism21 topic
  9. Classification21 topic
  10. Cooperation21 topic
  11. Genetic Programming21 topic
  12. Soft Systems Methodology21 topic
  13. System Dynamics21 topic
  14. Adaptation11 topic
  15. DNA Sequences11 topic
  16. Evolution11 topic
  17. Genomic Signal Processing11 topic

Where does John Collier work?

John Collier's main affiliation in the publication record is University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does John Collier have?

Science Explorer counts 37 works and 104 citations for John Collier, ranking #270,764 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite 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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