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Researcher · UNSW Sydney · Australia

Peter Alexander

Peter Alexander publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, Literature and Literary Theory and History and Philosophy of Science, on topics such as Irish and British Studies, Historical Philosophy and Science and Philosophy and History of Science.

OpenAlex
World rank
#444,422
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Australia
#12,539
of 35,497
Works
17
Citations
42
Citations per work
2.5

What does Peter Alexander research?

Sociology and Political Science: 31.6%Literature and Literary Theory: 26.3%History and Philosophy of Science: 26.3%Social Psychology: 5.3%other fields: 10.5%32%top field
Sociology and Political Science31.6%Literature and Literary Theory26.3%History and Philosophy of Science26.3%Social Psychology5.3%other fields10.5%

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

  1. 1Sociology and Political Science32% of their works
  2. 2Literature and Literary Theory26% of their works
  3. 3History and Philosophy of Science26% of their works
  4. 4Social Psychology5% of their works
  5. 5Law5% of their works
  6. 6Philosophy5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Peter Alexander's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Philosophy of Science, Conflict, Medicine, Northern Ireland, Acceptance, Adaptation, Evolutionary Synthesis and Evolutionary Theory.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Philosophy of Science33 topics
  2. Conflict21 topic
  3. Medicine22 topics
  4. Northern Ireland21 topic
  5. Acceptance11 topic
  6. Adaptation11 topic
  7. Evolutionary Synthesis11 topic
  8. Evolutionary Theory11 topic
  9. Film11 topic
  10. History11 topic
  11. Literary Criticism11 topic
  12. Logical Empiricism11 topic
  13. Mechanistic Explanation11 topic
  14. Modernist Poetry11 topic
  15. Natural Philosophy11 topic
  16. Science11 topic
  17. Scientific Culture11 topic
  18. Vienna Circle11 topic

Where does Peter Alexander work?

Peter Alexander's main affiliation in the publication record is UNSW Sydney, Australia.

How many publications and citations does Peter Alexander have?

Science Explorer counts 17 works and 42 citations for Peter Alexander, ranking #444,422 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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