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Researcher · Davidson College · United States

John Heil

John Heil publishes mostly in Philosophy, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and History and Philosophy of Science, on topics such as Philosophy and Theoretical Science, Classical Philosophy and Thought and Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics.

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World rank
#465,069
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#162,943
of 1,627,098
Works
269
Citations
5.1k
Citations per work
19.1
h-index
34
i10-index 66Top 1.1% in Philosophy
John Heil

What does John Heil research?

John Heil's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (38%), Psychology (21%), Neuroscience (5%).

Social Sciences: 169 works · 62.9% of their workArts and Humanities: 102 works · 37.8% of their workPhilosophy: 70 works · 26.1% of their workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 31 works · 11.7% of their workPsychology: 56 works · 20.9% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 50 works · 18.7% of their workSocial Psychology: 6 works · 2.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 11 works · 4.2% of their workSociology and Political Science: 11 works · 4.2% of their workEverything else: 85 works · 31.7% of their workLife Sciences: 15 works · 5.4% of their workNeuroscience: 15 works · 5.4% of their workCognitive Neuroscience: 15 works · 5.4% of their workTHEIR WORKJohn Heil269works
Life Sciences5%Social Sciences63%

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 Humanities10237.8%
    2. Psychology5620.9%
    3. Social Sciences114.2%
  2. Everything else8531.7%
    1. Neuroscience155.4%
  1. 1Philosophy26% of their works
  2. 2Experimental and Cognitive Psychology19% of their works
  3. 3History and Philosophy of Science12% of their works
  4. 4Cognitive Neuroscience5% of their works
  5. 5Sociology and Political Science4% of their works
  6. 6Social Psychology2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe John Heil's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Perception, Truth, Consciousness, Phenomenal Experience, Aristotle, Belief, Knowledge and Plato.

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. Perception1432 topics
  2. Truth1432 topics
  3. Consciousness951 topic
  4. Phenomenal Experience951 topic
  5. Aristotle642 topics
  6. Belief481 topic
  7. Knowledge481 topic
  8. Plato481 topic
  9. Stoicism481 topic
  10. Evolutionary Synthesis381 topic
  11. Mechanistic Explanation381 topic
  12. Ethics191 topic
  13. Moral Realism191 topic
  14. Natural Philosophy161 topic
  15. Scientific Culture161 topic
  16. Embodied Cognition111 topic
  17. Epidemiology111 topic
  18. Predictive Brain Theory111 topic
  19. Sports Injury111 topic

Where does John Heil work?

John Heil's main affiliation in the publication record is Davidson College, United States.

How many publications and citations does John Heil have?

OpenAlex counts 269 works and 5,136 citations for John Heil, an h-index of 34, ranking #465,069 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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