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Kim Sterelny

Kim Sterelny publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Cognitive Neuroscience and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, on topics such as Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation, Language and cultural evolution and Embodied and Extended Cognition.

World rank
#19,076
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Australia
#447
of 35,497
Works
70
Citations
534
Citations per work
7.6

What does Kim Sterelny research?

Sociology and Political Science: 10.9%Cognitive Neuroscience: 9.4%Experimental and Cognitive Psychology: 9.4%History and Philosophy of Science: 6.3%other fields: 64.0%11%top field
Sociology and Political Science10.9%Cognitive Neuroscience9.4%Experimental and Cognitive Psychology9.4%History and Philosophy of Science6.3%other fields64.0%

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

  1. 1Sociology and Political Science11% of their works
  2. 2Cognitive Neuroscience9% of their works
  3. 3Experimental and Cognitive Psychology9% of their works
  4. 4History and Philosophy of Science6% of their works
  5. 5Genetics6% of their works
  6. 6Cultural Studies6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Kim Sterelny's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Cultural Evolution, Altruism, Cooperation, Social Cognition, Adaptation, Language, Social Learning and Embodied Cognition.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Cultural Evolution102 topics
  2. Altruism61 topic
  3. Cooperation61 topic
  4. Social Cognition62 topics
  5. Adaptation52 topics
  6. Language41 topic
  7. Social Learning41 topic
  8. Embodied Cognition31 topic
  9. Evolutionary Psychology31 topic
  10. Evolutionary Synthesis31 topic
  11. Human Behavior31 topic
  12. Mechanistic Explanation31 topic
  13. Predictive Brain Theory31 topic
  14. Evolution21 topic
  15. Globalization21 topic
  16. Mutation21 topic
  17. Neoliberalism21 topic
  18. Semantics21 topic
  19. Syntax21 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?

Science Explorer counts 70 works and 534 citations for Kim Sterelny, ranking #19,076 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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