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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, Historical Philosophy and Science and Philosophy and History of Science.

World rank
#29,273
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#2,270
of 86,443
Works
113
Citations
243
Citations per work
2.2

What does Lorraine Daston research?

History and Philosophy of Science: 22.1%Sociology and Political Science: 13.3%Political Science and International Relations: 6.2%History: 6.2%other fields: 52.2%22%top field
History and Philosophy of Science22.1%Sociology and Political Science13.3%Political Science and International Relations6.2%History6.2%other fields52.2%

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 Science22% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science13% of their works
  3. 3Political Science and International Relations6% of their works
  4. 4History6% of their works
  5. 5Philosophy5% of their works
  6. 6Literature and Literary Theory4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Lorraine Daston's research?

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

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. Medicine122 topics
  2. Philosophy122 topics
  3. Evolutionary Synthesis61 topic
  4. History61 topic
  5. Mechanistic Explanation61 topic
  6. Natural Philosophy61 topic
  7. Science61 topic
  8. Scientific Culture61 topic
  9. Interdisciplinary Research41 topic
  10. Team Science41 topic
  11. Global History31 topic
  12. Historical Sources31 topic
  13. Mathematics Education31 topic
  14. Probability Theory31 topic
  15. Roman Economy31 topic
  16. Science Circulation31 topic
  17. Statistical Modeling31 topic
  18. Urban Workshops31 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?

Science Explorer counts 113 works and 243 citations for Lorraine Daston, ranking #29,273 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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