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Researcher · Reed College · United States

Mark A. Bedau

Mark A. Bedau publishes mostly in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Sociology and Political Science and Molecular Biology, on topics such as Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation, Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life and Origins and Evolution of Life.

World rank
#828,141
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#234,057
of 358,040
Works
52
Citations
88
Citations per work
1.7

What does Mark A. Bedau research?

Astronomy and Astrophysics: 12.7%Sociology and Political Science: 11.1%Molecular Biology: 11.1%History and Philosophy of Science: 6.3%other fields: 58.8%13%top field
Astronomy and Astrophysics12.7%Sociology and Political Science11.1%Molecular Biology11.1%History and Philosophy of Science6.3%other fields58.8%

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

  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics13% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science11% of their works
  3. 3Molecular Biology11% of their works
  4. 4History and Philosophy of Science6% of their works
  5. 5Genetics5% of their works
  6. 6Mechanical Engineering5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Mark A. Bedau's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Astrobiology, Altruism, Cooperation, Natural Selection, Extraterrestrial Life, Prebiotic Chemistry, RNA World and SETI.

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. Astrobiology82 topics
  2. Altruism61 topic
  3. Cooperation61 topic
  4. Natural Selection52 topics
  5. Extraterrestrial Life41 topic
  6. Prebiotic Chemistry41 topic
  7. RNA World41 topic
  8. SETI41 topic
  9. Adaptation31 topic
  10. Evolution31 topic
  11. Modular Robots31 topic
  12. Self-Reconfiguration31 topic
  13. Acceptance21 topic
  14. Evolutionary Synthesis21 topic
  15. Evolutionary Theory21 topic
  16. Gene Regulatory Networks21 topic
  17. Mechanistic Explanation21 topic
  18. Stochastic Gene Expression21 topic

Where does Mark A. Bedau work?

Mark A. Bedau's main affiliation in the publication record is Reed College, United States.

How many publications and citations does Mark A. Bedau have?

Science Explorer counts 52 works and 88 citations for Mark A. Bedau, ranking #828,141 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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