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Researcher · California Academy of Sciences · United States

Michael T. Ghiselin

Michael T. Ghiselin publishes mostly in History and Philosophy of Science, Sociology and Political Science and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, on topics such as Evolution and Science Education, Philosophy and History of Science and Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation.

ORCID 0000-0003-2634-8729 OpenAlex
World rank
#108,768
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#41,536
of 1,627,098
Works
265
Citations
13k
Citations per work
47.9
h-index
46
i10-index 96Top 0.5% in History and Philosophy of Science
Michael T. Ghiselin

What does Michael T. Ghiselin research?

Michael T. Ghiselin's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (25%), Social Sciences (9%), Agricultural and Biological Sciences (8%).

Everything else: 126 works · 47.6% of their workSocial Sciences: 98 works · 37.1% of their workArts and Humanities: 65 works · 24.6% of their workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 65 works · 24.6% of their workSocial Sciences: 23 works · 8.7% of their workSociology and Political Science: 23 works · 8.7% of their workPsychology: 10 works · 3.8% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 10 works · 3.8% of their workLife Sciences: 32 works · 12.0% of their workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 21 works · 7.8% of their workEcology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics: 21 works · 7.8% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 11 works · 4.2% of their workGenetics: 11 works · 4.2% of their workPhysical Sciences: 9 works · 3.3% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 9 works · 3.3% of their workOceanography: 9 works · 3.3% of their workTHEIR WORKMichael T.Ghiselin265works
Life Sciences12%Physical Sciences3%Social Sciences37%

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 else12647.6%
    1. Arts and Humanities6524.6%
    2. Social Sciences238.7%
    3. Psychology103.8%
    1. Agricultural and Biological Sciences217.8%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology114.2%
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences93.3%
  1. 1History and Philosophy of Science25% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science9% of their works
  3. 3Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics8% of their works
  4. 4Genetics4% of their works
  5. 5Experimental and Cognitive Psychology4% of their works
  6. 6Oceanography3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Michael T. Ghiselin's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Natural Selection, Acceptance, Evolutionary Theory, Evolutionary Synthesis, Mechanistic Explanation, Cultural Evolution, Altruism and Cooperation.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Natural Selection752 topics
  2. Acceptance601 topic
  3. Evolutionary Theory601 topic
  4. Evolutionary Synthesis541 topic
  5. Mechanistic Explanation541 topic
  6. Cultural Evolution502 topics
  7. Altruism371 topic
  8. Cooperation371 topic
  9. Adaptation302 topics
  10. Ecosystem Services211 topic
  11. Pollinator Decline211 topic
  12. Evolution151 topic
  13. Evolutionary Psychology151 topic
  14. Human Behavior151 topic
  15. Mutation151 topic
  16. Language131 topic
  17. Social Learning131 topic
  18. Economic Institutions101 topic
  19. Institutional Economics101 topic

Where does Michael T. Ghiselin work?

Michael T. Ghiselin's main affiliation in the publication record is California Academy of Sciences, United States.

How many publications and citations does Michael T. Ghiselin have?

OpenAlex counts 265 works and 12,702 citations for Michael T. Ghiselin, an h-index of 46, ranking #108,768 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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