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Researcher · University of Waterloo · Canada

Paul Thagard

Paul Thagard publishes mostly in History and Philosophy of Science, Social Psychology and Artificial Intelligence, on topics such as Philosophy and History of Science, AI-based Problem Solving and Planning and Emotions and Moral Behavior.

ORCID 0000-0002-6594-4761 OpenAlex
World rank
#9,947
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#250
of 38,960
Works
70
Citations
711
Citations per work
10.2

What does Paul Thagard research?

History and Philosophy of Science: 18.2%Social Psychology: 10.6%Artificial Intelligence: 10.6%Cognitive Neuroscience: 7.6%other fields: 53.0%18%top field
History and Philosophy of Science18.2%Social Psychology10.6%Artificial Intelligence10.6%Cognitive Neuroscience7.6%other fields53.0%

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 Science18% of their works
  2. 2Social Psychology11% of their works
  3. 3Artificial Intelligence11% of their works
  4. 4Cognitive Neuroscience8% of their works
  5. 5Economics and Econometrics6% of their works
  6. 6Sociology and Political Science4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Paul Thagard's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Evolutionary Synthesis, Mechanistic Explanation, Emotion, Guilt, Heuristic Search, Planning Systems, Shame and Cognition.

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 Synthesis111 topic
  2. Mechanistic Explanation111 topic
  3. Emotion42 topics
  4. Guilt31 topic
  5. Heuristic Search31 topic
  6. Planning Systems31 topic
  7. Shame31 topic
  8. Cognition21 topic
  9. Cultural Psychology21 topic
  10. Disgust21 topic
  11. Moral Judgment21 topic
  12. Partially Ordered Sets21 topic
  13. Periodic Table21 topic
  14. Physics of Mind21 topic
  15. Soft Systems Methodology21 topic
  16. System Dynamics21 topic
  17. Values21 topic

Where does Paul Thagard work?

Paul Thagard's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Waterloo, Canada.

How many publications and citations does Paul Thagard have?

Science Explorer counts 70 works and 711 citations for Paul Thagard, ranking #9,947 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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