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Researcher · Munich School of Philosophy · Germany

Matthias Schirn

Matthias Schirn publishes mostly in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, History and Philosophy of Science and Philosophy, on topics such as Philosophy and Theoretical Science, Philosophy, Science, and History and History and Theory of Mathematics.

ORCID 0000-0002-6560-8856 OpenAlex
World rank
#1,500,102
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#73,951
of 364,343
Works
74
Citations
881
Citations per work
11.9
h-index
9
i10-index 9Top 58% in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Matthias Schirn

What does Matthias Schirn research?

Matthias Schirn's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (40%), Psychology (23%), Mathematics (9%).

Social Sciences: 47 works · 63.6% of their workArts and Humanities: 30 works · 40.2% of their workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 14 works · 19.2% of their workPhilosophy: 10 works · 13.8% of their workLanguage and Linguistics: 5 works · 7.2% of their workPsychology: 17 works · 23.4% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 17 works · 23.4% of their workEverything else: 17 works · 23.2% of their workPhysical Sciences: 10 works · 13.2% of their workMathematics: 7 works · 9.0% of their workTheoretical Computer Science: 7 works · 9.0% of their workComputer Science: 3 works · 4.2% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 3 works · 4.2% of their workTHEIR WORKMatthias Schirn74works
Physical Sciences13%Social Sciences64%

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 Humanities3040.2%
    2. Psychology1723.4%
  2. Everything else1723.2%
    1. Mathematics79.0%
    2. Computer Science34.2%
  1. 1Experimental and Cognitive Psychology23% of their works
  2. 2History and Philosophy of Science19% of their works
  3. 3Philosophy14% of their works
  4. 4Theoretical Computer Science9% of their works
  5. 5Language and Linguistics7% of their works
  6. 6Artificial Intelligence4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Matthias Schirn's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Modal Logic, Consciousness, Phenomenal Experience, Metaphysics, Logical Empiricism, Vienna Circle, Historical Sources and Mathematics Education.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Modal Logic412 topics
  2. Consciousness371 topic
  3. Phenomenal Experience371 topic
  4. Metaphysics352 topics
  5. Logical Empiricism291 topic
  6. Vienna Circle291 topic
  7. Historical Sources151 topic
  8. Mathematics Education151 topic
  9. Philosophy71 topic
  10. Wittgenstein71 topic
  11. Aristotle61 topic
  12. Plato61 topic
  13. Discourse Analysis51 topic
  14. Language Variation51 topic
  15. Answer Set Programming41 topic
  16. Knowledge Representation41 topic
  17. Fuzzy Logic31 topic
  18. Residuated Lattices31 topic

Where does Matthias Schirn work?

Matthias Schirn's main affiliation in the publication record is Munich School of Philosophy, Germany.

How many publications and citations does Matthias Schirn have?

OpenAlex counts 74 works and 881 citations for Matthias Schirn, an h-index of 9, ranking #1,500,102 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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