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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, Origins and Evolution of Life and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics.

ORCID 0009-0008-1284-8240 OpenAlex
World rank
#743,046
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#249,756
of 1,627,098
Works
252
Citations
4.8k
Citations per work
19.2
h-index
33
i10-index 75Top 14% in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Mark A. Bedau

What does Mark A. Bedau research?

Mark A. Bedau's work is mostly in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (14%), Physics and Astronomy (14%), Computer Science (12%).

Everything else: 124 works · 49.4% of their workPhysical Sciences: 64 works · 25.2% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 34 works · 13.5% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 34 works · 13.5% of their workComputer Science: 29 works · 11.7% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 15 works · 6.1% of their workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 14 works · 5.6% of their workLife Sciences: 37 works · 14.5% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 37 works · 14.5% of their workMolecular Biology: 21 works · 8.2% of their workGenetics: 16 works · 6.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 27 works · 10.9% of their workSocial Sciences: 27 works · 10.9% of their workSociology and Political Science: 27 works · 10.9% of their workTHEIR WORKMark A. Bedau252works
Life Sciences14%Physical Sciences25%Social Sciences11%

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. Everything else12449.4%
    1. Physics and Astronomy3413.5%
    2. Computer Science2911.7%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology3714.5%
    1. Social Sciences2710.9%
  1. 1Astronomy and Astrophysics14% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science11% of their works
  3. 3Molecular Biology8% of their works
  4. 4Genetics6% of their works
  5. 5Artificial Intelligence6% of their works
  6. 6Computational Theory and Mathematics6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Mark A. Bedau's research?

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

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Astrobiology772 topics
  2. Altruism571 topic
  3. Cooperation571 topic
  4. Prebiotic Chemistry461 topic
  5. RNA World461 topic
  6. Adaptation361 topic
  7. Evolution361 topic
  8. Extraterrestrial Life311 topic
  9. SETI311 topic
  10. Modular Robots231 topic
  11. Self-Reconfiguration231 topic
  12. Genetic Programming201 topic
  13. Machine Learning201 topic
  14. Cellular Automata161 topic
  15. Computation161 topic
  16. Gene Regulatory Networks151 topic
  17. Stochastic Gene Expression151 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?

OpenAlex counts 252 works and 4,840 citations for Mark A. Bedau, an h-index of 33, ranking #743,046 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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