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Peter Barker

Peter Barker publishes mostly in History and Philosophy of Science, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, on topics such as Historical Astronomy and Related Studies, Philosophy and History of Science and Diverse Historical and Scientific Studies.

World rank
#89,221
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#39,408
of 358,040
Works
38
Citations
93
Citations per work
2.4

What does Peter Barker research?

History and Philosophy of Science: 31.3%Astronomy and Astrophysics: 18.8%Experimental and Cognitive Psychology: 9.4%Molecular Biology: 3.1%other fields: 37.4%31%top field
History and Philosophy of Science31.3%Astronomy and Astrophysics18.8%Experimental and Cognitive Psychology9.4%Molecular Biology3.1%other fields37.4%

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 Science31% of their works
  2. 2Astronomy and Astrophysics19% of their works
  3. 3Experimental and Cognitive Psychology9% of their works
  4. 4Molecular Biology3% of their works
  5. 5Global and Planetary Change3% of their works
  6. 6Literature and Literary Theory3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Peter Barker's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Philosophy of Science, Antikythera Mechanism, Astronomical Calculator, Evolutionary Synthesis, Mechanistic Explanation, History, Science and Radio Astronomy.

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. Philosophy of Science72 topics
  2. Antikythera Mechanism41 topic
  3. Astronomical Calculator41 topic
  4. Evolutionary Synthesis41 topic
  5. Mechanistic Explanation41 topic
  6. History31 topic
  7. Science31 topic
  8. Radio Astronomy21 topic
  9. Transits of Venus21 topic
  10. Ancient Magic11 topic
  11. Biomedical Ontologies11 topic
  12. Climate Change11 topic
  13. Environmental Science11 topic
  14. Gnosticism11 topic
  15. Probability Theory11 topic
  16. Statistical Modeling11 topic
  17. Text Mining11 topic

Where does Peter Barker work?

Peter Barker's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Oklahoma, United States.

How many publications and citations does Peter Barker have?

Science Explorer counts 38 works and 93 citations for Peter Barker, ranking #89,221 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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