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Researcher · Australian National University · Australia

Kim Sterelny

Kim Sterelny publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, History and Philosophy of Science and Cultural Studies, on topics such as Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation, Language and cultural evolution and Philosophy and History of Science.

ORCID 0000-0003-3159-6698 OpenAlex
World rank
#43,062
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Australia
#1,299
of 140,210
Works
311
Citations
14k
Citations per work
43.9
h-index
53
i10-index 112Top 0.3% in Sociology and Political Science
Kim Sterelny

What does Kim Sterelny research?

Kim Sterelny's work is mostly in Social Sciences (26%), Psychology (12%), Arts and Humanities (10%).

Social Sciences: 151 works · 48.4% of their workSocial Sciences: 82 works · 26.4% of their workSociology and Political Science: 54 works · 17.4% of their workCultural Studies: 28 works · 9.0% of their workPsychology: 37 works · 11.9% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 19 works · 6.0% of their workSocial Psychology: 18 works · 5.9% of their workArts and Humanities: 31 works · 10.1% of their workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 31 works · 10.1% of their workEverything else: 143 works · 46.0% of their workLife Sciences: 17 works · 5.6% of their workNeuroscience: 17 works · 5.6% of their workCognitive Neuroscience: 17 works · 5.6% of their workTHEIR WORKKim Sterelny311works
Life Sciences6%Social Sciences48%

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. Social Sciences8226.4%
    2. Psychology3711.9%
    3. Arts and Humanities3110.1%
  2. Everything else14346.0%
    1. Neuroscience175.6%
  1. 1Sociology and Political Science17% of their works
  2. 2History and Philosophy of Science10% of their works
  3. 3Cultural Studies9% of their works
  4. 4Experimental and Cognitive Psychology6% of their works
  5. 5Social Psychology6% of their works
  6. 6Cognitive Neuroscience6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Kim Sterelny's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Cultural Evolution, Altruism, Cooperation, Evolutionary Games, Social Networks, Language, Social Learning and Evolutionary Synthesis.

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. Cultural Evolution1512 topics
  2. Altruism1072 topics
  3. Cooperation1072 topics
  4. Evolutionary Games881 topic
  5. Social Networks881 topic
  6. Language631 topic
  7. Social Learning631 topic
  8. Evolutionary Synthesis441 topic
  9. Mechanistic Explanation441 topic
  10. Natural Selection352 topics
  11. Evolution332 topics
  12. Adaptation292 topics
  13. Hominin Genetics221 topic
  14. Paleolithic Archaeology221 topic
  15. Acceptance211 topic
  16. Evolutionary Theory211 topic
  17. Primates191 topic
  18. Social Behavior191 topic
  19. Evolutionary Psychology151 topic
  20. Human Behavior151 topic
  21. Genetic Dynamics141 topic
  22. Mutation141 topic

Where does Kim Sterelny work?

Kim Sterelny's main affiliation in the publication record is Australian National University, Australia.

How many publications and citations does Kim Sterelny have?

OpenAlex counts 311 works and 13,653 citations for Kim Sterelny, an h-index of 53, ranking #43,062 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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