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Researcher · University of Rochester · United States

Lewis White Beck

Lewis White Beck publishes mostly in Philosophy, History and Philosophy of Science and Sociology and Political Science, on topics such as Philosophical Ethics and Theory, Kantian Philosophy and Modern Interpretations and Classical Philosophy and Thought.

OpenAlex
World rank
#56,321
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#21,762
of 1,627,098
Works
163
Citations
10k
Citations per work
61.9
h-index
32
i10-index 57Top 1.3% in Philosophy
Lewis White Beck

What does Lewis White Beck research?

Lewis White Beck's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (48%), Social Sciences (8%), Physics and Astronomy (3%).

Social Sciences: 96 works · 58.7% of their workArts and Humanities: 78 works · 47.9% of their workPhilosophy: 65 works · 39.6% of their workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 14 works · 8.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 13 works · 7.9% of their workSociology and Political Science: 7 works · 4.3% of their workEducation: 6 works · 3.6% of their workPsychology: 5 works · 2.9% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 5 works · 2.9% of their workEverything else: 62 works · 38.1% of their workPhysical Sciences: 5 works · 3.2% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 5 works · 3.2% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 5 works · 3.2% of their workTHEIR WORKLewis White Beck163works
Physical Sciences3%Social Sciences59%

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 Humanities7847.9%
    2. Social Sciences137.9%
    3. Psychology52.9%
  2. Everything else6238.1%
    1. Physics and Astronomy53.2%
  1. 1Philosophy40% of their works
  2. 2History and Philosophy of Science8% of their works
  3. 3Sociology and Political Science4% of their works
  4. 4Education4% of their works
  5. 5Astronomy and Astrophysics3% of their works
  6. 6Experimental and Cognitive Psychology3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Lewis White Beck's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Ethics, Human Dignity, Metaphysics, Moral Realism, Virtue Ethics, History, Philosophy and Bildung.

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 25 words, with their numbers
  1. Ethics774 topics
  2. Human Dignity602 topics
  3. Metaphysics524 topics
  4. Moral Realism421 topic
  5. Virtue Ethics421 topic
  6. History353 topics
  7. Philosophy353 topics
  8. Bildung272 topics
  9. Sociology272 topics
  10. Political Philosophy212 topics
  11. Education181 topic
  12. Psychosomatic Medicine181 topic
  13. Aesthetics172 topics
  14. Aristotle131 topic
  15. Plato131 topic
  16. Logical Empiricism121 topic
  17. Vienna Circle121 topic
  18. Cultural Formation91 topic
  19. Humanism91 topic
  20. Literature81 topic
  21. Nietzsche81 topic
  22. Astrobiology71 topic
  23. Extraterrestrial Life71 topic
  24. Consciousness61 topic
  25. Phenomenal Experience61 topic

Where does Lewis White Beck work?

Lewis White Beck's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Rochester, United States.

How many publications and citations does Lewis White Beck have?

OpenAlex counts 163 works and 10,094 citations for Lewis White Beck, an h-index of 32, ranking #56,321 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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