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Researcher · University of Virginia · United States

Paul Humphreys

Paul Humphreys publishes mostly in History and Philosophy of Science, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Artificial Intelligence, on topics such as Philosophy and History of Science, Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference and Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life.

OpenAlex
World rank
#190,579
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#77,584
of 358,040
Works
26
Citations
115
Citations per work
4.4

What does Paul Humphreys research?

History and Philosophy of Science: 22.2%Astronomy and Astrophysics: 14.8%Artificial Intelligence: 11.1%Economics and Econometrics: 7.4%other fields: 44.5%22%top field
History and Philosophy of Science22.2%Astronomy and Astrophysics14.8%Artificial Intelligence11.1%Economics and Econometrics7.4%other fields44.5%

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 Science22% of their works
  2. 2Astronomy and Astrophysics15% of their works
  3. 3Artificial Intelligence11% of their works
  4. 4Economics and Econometrics7% of their works
  5. 5Statistics and Probability7% of their works
  6. 6Philosophy7% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Paul Humphreys's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Evolutionary Synthesis, Mechanistic Explanation, Astrobiology, Bayesian Networks, Causal Inference, Extraterrestrial Life, Prebiotic Chemistry and RNA World.

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 Synthesis51 topic
  2. Mechanistic Explanation51 topic
  3. Astrobiology42 topics
  4. Bayesian Networks31 topic
  5. Causal Inference31 topic
  6. Extraterrestrial Life21 topic
  7. Prebiotic Chemistry21 topic
  8. RNA World21 topic
  9. SETI21 topic
  10. Complexity Theory11 topic
  11. Earth Systems Science11 topic
  12. Electrical Signals11 topic
  13. Emergence11 topic
  14. Gaia Hypothesis11 topic
  15. Glutamate Receptor-Like Genes11 topic
  16. Probability Theory11 topic
  17. Statistical Modeling11 topic

Where does Paul Humphreys work?

Paul Humphreys's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Virginia, United States.

How many publications and citations does Paul Humphreys have?

Science Explorer counts 26 works and 115 citations for Paul Humphreys, ranking #190,579 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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