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Researcher · Max Planck Institute for the History of Science · Germany

Lorraine Daston

Lorraine Daston publishes mostly in History and Philosophy of Science, Sociology and Political Science and Political Science and International Relations, on topics such as History of Science and Medicine, Philosophy and History of Science and History of Science and Natural History.

ORCID 0000-0002-0372-4747 OpenAlex
World rank
#107,688
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#5,704
of 364,343
Works
433
Citations
12k
Citations per work
28.3
h-index
48
i10-index 113Top 0.4% in History and Philosophy of Science
Lorraine Daston

What does Lorraine Daston research?

Lorraine Daston's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (38%), Social Sciences (15%).

Social Sciences: 227 works · 52.5% of their workArts and Humanities: 164 works · 37.9% of their workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 103 works · 23.9% of their workLiterature and Literary Theory: 21 works · 4.8% of their workPhilosophy: 21 works · 4.8% of their workHistory: 19 works · 4.4% of their workSocial Sciences: 63 works · 14.6% of their workSociology and Political Science: 39 works · 9.0% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 24 works · 5.6% of their workEverything else: 206 works · 47.5% of their workTHEIR WORKLorraine Daston433works
Social Sciences52%

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 Humanities16437.9%
    2. Social Sciences6314.6%
  2. Everything else20647.5%
  1. 1History and Philosophy of Science24% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science9% of their works
  3. 3Political Science and International Relations6% of their works
  4. 4Philosophy5% of their works
  5. 5Literature and Literary Theory5% of their works
  6. 6History4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Lorraine Daston's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Medicine, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, History, Science, Evolutionary Synthesis, Mechanistic Explanation and Global History.

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. Medicine792 topics
  2. Philosophy792 topics
  3. Philosophy of Science572 topics
  4. History471 topic
  5. Science471 topic
  6. Evolutionary Synthesis391 topic
  7. Mechanistic Explanation391 topic
  8. Global History341 topic
  9. Science Circulation341 topic
  10. Natural Philosophy321 topic
  11. Scientific Culture321 topic
  12. Roman Economy231 topic
  13. Urban Workshops231 topic
  14. Logical Empiricism181 topic
  15. Probability Theory181 topic
  16. Statistical Modeling181 topic
  17. Vienna Circle181 topic
  18. Historical Sources171 topic
  19. Mathematics Education171 topic

Where does Lorraine Daston work?

Lorraine Daston's main affiliation in the publication record is Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Germany.

How many publications and citations does Lorraine Daston have?

OpenAlex counts 433 works and 12,253 citations for Lorraine Daston, an h-index of 48, ranking #107,688 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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