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Researcher · University of California, Irvine · United States

Penelope Maddy

Penelope Maddy publishes mostly in History and Philosophy of Science, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Philosophy, on topics such as Philosophy and Theoretical Science, Philosophy and History of Science and History and Theory of Mathematics.

ORCID 0000-0001-9360-0598 OpenAlex
World rank
#134,109
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#50,841
of 1,627,098
Works
191
Citations
5k
Citations per work
26.0
h-index
34
i10-index 53Top 1.4% in History and Philosophy of Science
Penelope Maddy

What does Penelope Maddy research?

Penelope Maddy's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (47%), Psychology (23%), Mathematics (12%).

Social Sciences: 134 works · 70.3% of their workArts and Humanities: 90 works · 47.1% of their workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 57 works · 29.8% of their workPhilosophy: 33 works · 17.3% of their workPsychology: 44 works · 23.2% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 44 works · 23.2% of their workPhysical Sciences: 31 works · 16.4% of their workMathematics: 23 works · 12.2% of their workTheoretical Computer Science: 16 works · 8.3% of their workGeometry and Topology: 7 works · 3.9% of their workComputer Science: 8 works · 4.2% of their workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 8 works · 4.2% of their workEverything else: 25 works · 13.3% of their workTHEIR WORKPenelope Maddy191works
Physical Sciences16%Social Sciences70%

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. Arts and Humanities9047.1%
    2. Psychology4423.2%
    1. Mathematics2312.2%
    2. Computer Science84.2%
  3. Everything else2513.3%
  1. 1History and Philosophy of Science30% of their works
  2. 2Experimental and Cognitive Psychology23% of their works
  3. 3Philosophy17% of their works
  4. 4Theoretical Computer Science8% of their works
  5. 5Computational Theory and Mathematics4% of their works
  6. 6Geometry and Topology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Penelope Maddy's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Perception, Truth, Philosophy of Science, Consciousness, Phenomenal Experience, Evolutionary Synthesis, Mechanistic Explanation and Metaphysics.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Perception1222 topics
  2. Truth1222 topics
  3. Philosophy of Science1172 topics
  4. Consciousness1011 topic
  5. Phenomenal Experience1011 topic
  6. Evolutionary Synthesis821 topic
  7. Mechanistic Explanation821 topic
  8. Metaphysics522 topics
  9. Historical Sources381 topic
  10. Mathematics Education381 topic
  11. Logical Empiricism351 topic
  12. Vienna Circle351 topic
  13. Belief211 topic
  14. Knowledge211 topic
  15. Philosophy211 topic
  16. Wittgenstein211 topic
  17. Aristotle171 topic
  18. Plato171 topic
  19. Algorithmic Information Theory151 topic
  20. Computability151 topic

Where does Penelope Maddy work?

Penelope Maddy's main affiliation in the publication record is University of California, Irvine, United States.

How many publications and citations does Penelope Maddy have?

OpenAlex counts 191 works and 4,975 citations for Penelope Maddy, an h-index of 34, ranking #134,109 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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