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John Preston

John Preston publishes mostly in History and Philosophy of Science, Sociology and Political Science and Philosophy, on topics such as History of Science and Medicine, Philosophy and History of Science and Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism.

World rank
#828,659
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#60,755
of 90,785
Works
39
Citations
22
Citations per work
0.6

What does John Preston research?

History and Philosophy of Science: 16.7%Sociology and Political Science: 11.1%Philosophy: 8.3%Literature and Literary Theory: 8.3%other fields: 55.6%17%top field
History and Philosophy of Science16.7%Sociology and Political Science11.1%Philosophy8.3%Literature and Literary Theory8.3%other fields55.6%

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

  1. 1History and Philosophy of Science17% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science11% of their works
  3. 3Philosophy8% of their works
  4. 4Literature and Literary Theory8% of their works
  5. 5Experimental and Cognitive Psychology6% of their works
  6. 6Visual Arts and Performing Arts6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe John Preston's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Culture, Philosophy, Adaptation, Evolutionary Synthesis, Film, History, Language-Games and Mechanistic Explanation.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Culture42 topics
  2. Philosophy42 topics
  3. Adaptation21 topic
  4. Evolutionary Synthesis21 topic
  5. Film21 topic
  6. History21 topic
  7. Language-Games21 topic
  8. Mechanistic Explanation21 topic
  9. Science21 topic
  10. Wittgenstein21 topic
  11. Climate Change11 topic
  12. Environmental Science11 topic
  13. Enzyme Regulation11 topic
  14. Fuzzy Logic11 topic
  15. Nucleotide Metabolism11 topic
  16. Residuated Lattices11 topic
  17. Space Syntax11 topic
  18. Street Networks11 topic

Where does John Preston work?

John Preston's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Reading, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does John Preston have?

Science Explorer counts 39 works and 22 citations for John Preston, ranking #828,659 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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