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Researcher · Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · France

Olivier Darrigol

Olivier Darrigol publishes mostly in History and Philosophy of Science, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, on topics such as Quantum Mechanics and Applications, Relativity and Gravitational Theory and Philosophy and History of Science.

ORCID 0000-0002-9603-7494 OpenAlex
World rank
#343,692
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in France
#19,308
of 324,115
Works
213
Citations
2.9k
Citations per work
13.6
h-index
28
i10-index 58Top 2.5% in History and Philosophy of Science
Olivier Darrigol

What does Olivier Darrigol research?

Olivier Darrigol's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (38%), Arts and Humanities (23%), Mathematics (8%).

Physical Sciences: 96 works · 45.0% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 80 works · 37.5% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 36 works · 16.7% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 30 works · 14.0% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 14 works · 6.8% of their workMathematics: 16 works · 7.5% of their workTheoretical Computer Science: 16 works · 7.5% of their workEverything else: 61 works · 28.7% of their workSocial Sciences: 56 works · 26.3% of their workArts and Humanities: 49 works · 23.1% of their workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 49 works · 23.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 7 works · 3.2% of their workAnthropology: 7 works · 3.2% of their workTHEIR WORKOlivier Darrigol213works
Physical Sciences45%Social Sciences26%

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. Physics and Astronomy8037.5%
    2. Mathematics167.5%
  2. Everything else6128.7%
    1. Arts and Humanities4923.1%
    2. Social Sciences73.2%
  1. 1History and Philosophy of Science23% of their works
  2. 2Astronomy and Astrophysics17% of their works
  3. 3Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics14% of their works
  4. 4Theoretical Computer Science8% of their works
  5. 5Statistical and Nonlinear Physics7% of their works
  6. 6Anthropology3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Olivier Darrigol's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Bell Inequality, Decoherence, Relativity, Unified Field Theories, Evolutionary Synthesis, Mechanistic Explanation, 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. Bell Inequality531 topic
  2. Decoherence531 topic
  3. Relativity371 topic
  4. Unified Field Theories371 topic
  5. Evolutionary Synthesis361 topic
  6. Mechanistic Explanation361 topic
  7. Historical Sources331 topic
  8. Mathematics Education331 topic
  9. Medicine312 topics
  10. Philosophy312 topics
  11. Radio Astronomy281 topic
  12. Transits of Venus281 topic
  13. Fluctuation Theorems221 topic
  14. Stochastic Thermodynamics221 topic
  15. History161 topic
  16. Science161 topic
  17. Natural Philosophy151 topic
  18. Scientific Culture151 topic

Where does Olivier Darrigol work?

Olivier Darrigol's main affiliation in the publication record is Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France.

How many publications and citations does Olivier Darrigol have?

OpenAlex counts 213 works and 2,904 citations for Olivier Darrigol, an h-index of 28, ranking #343,692 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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