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Researcher · Yale University · United States

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Ludwig Wittgenstein publishes mostly in Philosophy, Sociology and Political Science and Literature and Literary Theory, on topics such as Wittgensteinian philosophy and applications, Philosophy, Science, and History and Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hegel.

OpenAlex
World rank
#43,410
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#16,691
of 1,627,098
Works
469
Citations
36k
Citations per work
76.4
h-index
56
i10-index 116Top 0.2% in Philosophy
Ludwig Wittgenstein

What does Ludwig Wittgenstein research?

Ludwig Wittgenstein's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (48%), Social Sciences (8%), Psychology (4%).

Social Sciences: 281 works · 60.0% of their workArts and Humanities: 226 works · 48.1% of their workPhilosophy: 162 works · 34.6% of their workLiterature and Literary Theory: 26 works · 5.5% of their workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 22 works · 4.7% of their workLanguage and Linguistics: 15 works · 3.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 37 works · 7.8% of their workSociology and Political Science: 37 works · 7.8% of their workPsychology: 19 works · 4.1% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 19 works · 4.1% of their workEverything else: 188 works · 40.0% of their workTHEIR WORKLudwigWittgenstein469works
Social Sciences60%

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 Humanities22648.1%
    2. Social Sciences377.8%
    3. Psychology194.1%
  2. Everything else18840.0%
  1. 1Philosophy35% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science8% of their works
  3. 3Literature and Literary Theory6% of their works
  4. 4History and Philosophy of Science5% of their works
  5. 5Experimental and Cognitive Psychology4% of their works
  6. 6Language and Linguistics3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ludwig Wittgenstein's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Ethics, Philosophy, Education, Religion, Language-Games, Wittgenstein, History and Metaphysics.

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. Ethics1755 topics
  2. Philosophy1624 topics
  3. Education1342 topics
  4. Religion1322 topics
  5. Language-Games1221 topic
  6. Wittgenstein1221 topic
  7. History534 topics
  8. Metaphysics332 topics
  9. Psychology312 topics
  10. Bildung282 topics
  11. Sociology222 topics
  12. Logical Empiricism211 topic
  13. Vienna Circle211 topic
  14. Literature181 topic
  15. Nietzsche181 topic
  16. Autorschaft161 topic
  17. Literaturkritik161 topic
  18. Consciousness131 topic
  19. Epistemology131 topic
  20. Phenomenal Experience131 topic
  21. Science131 topic
  22. Human Dignity121 topic
  23. Psychosomatic Medicine121 topic
  24. Psychoanalysis101 topic
  25. Social Theory101 topic

Where does Ludwig Wittgenstein work?

Ludwig Wittgenstein's main affiliation in the publication record is Yale University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Ludwig Wittgenstein have?

OpenAlex counts 469 works and 35,846 citations for Ludwig Wittgenstein, an h-index of 56, ranking #43,410 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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