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Nancy Cartwright

Nancy Cartwright publishes mostly in History and Philosophy of Science, Sociology and Political Science and Statistics and Probability, on topics such as Philosophy and History of Science, Quantum Mechanics and Applications and Advanced Causal Inference Techniques.

World rank
#58,452
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#5,511
of 90,785
Works
45
Citations
228
Citations per work
5.1

What does Nancy Cartwright research?

History and Philosophy of Science: 27.5%Sociology and Political Science: 10.0%Statistics and Probability: 7.5%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 7.5%other fields: 47.5%28%top field
History and Philosophy of Science27.5%Sociology and Political Science10.0%Statistics and Probability7.5%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics7.5%other fields47.5%

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

  1. 1History and Philosophy of Science28% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science10% of their works
  3. 3Statistics and Probability8% of their works
  4. 4Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics8% of their works
  5. 5Economics and Econometrics8% of their works
  6. 6Artificial Intelligence5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Nancy Cartwright's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Evolutionary Synthesis, Mechanistic Explanation, Bell Inequality, Decoherence, Causal Inference, Machine Learning, Propensity Score and Anomaly Detection.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Evolutionary Synthesis91 topic
  2. Mechanistic Explanation91 topic
  3. Bell Inequality31 topic
  4. Decoherence31 topic
  5. Causal Inference21 topic
  6. Machine Learning22 topics
  7. Propensity Score21 topic
  8. Anomaly Detection11 topic
  9. Information Science11 topic
  10. Molecular Docking11 topic
  11. Partially Ordered Sets11 topic
  12. Periodic Table11 topic
  13. Python11 topic
  14. Scientific Computing11 topic
  15. Technology11 topic
  16. Unsupervised11 topic
  17. Virtual Screening11 topic

Where does Nancy Cartwright work?

Nancy Cartwright's main affiliation in the publication record is London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Nancy Cartwright have?

Science Explorer counts 45 works and 228 citations for Nancy Cartwright, ranking #58,452 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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