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Rainer Zimmermann

Rainer Zimmermann publishes mostly in History and Philosophy of Science, Sociology and Political Science and Cognitive Neuroscience, on topics such as Cognitive Science and Education Research, Philosophy and History of Science and Philosophy, Science, and History.

World rank
#685,878
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#40,495
of 86,443
Works
50
Citations
39
Citations per work
0.8

What does Rainer Zimmermann research?

History and Philosophy of Science: 8.7%Sociology and Political Science: 6.5%Cognitive Neuroscience: 6.5%Marketing: 6.5%other fields: 71.8%9%top field
History and Philosophy of Science8.7%Sociology and Political Science6.5%Cognitive Neuroscience6.5%Marketing6.5%other fields71.8%

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 Science9% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science6% of their works
  3. 3Cognitive Neuroscience6% of their works
  4. 4Marketing6% of their works
  5. 5Philosophy6% of their works
  6. 6Political Science and International Relations4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Rainer Zimmermann's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Philosophy of Science, Cognition, Evolutionary Synthesis, Logical Empiricism, Mechanistic Explanation, Physics of Mind, Vienna Circle and Algorithmic Information 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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Philosophy of Science42 topics
  2. Cognition21 topic
  3. Evolutionary Synthesis21 topic
  4. Logical Empiricism21 topic
  5. Mechanistic Explanation21 topic
  6. Physics of Mind21 topic
  7. Vienna Circle21 topic
  8. Algorithmic Information Theory11 topic
  9. Computability11 topic
  10. Cyclic Nucleotide Phosphodiesterases11 topic
  11. Embedded Cores11 topic
  12. Embodied Cognition11 topic
  13. Information Science11 topic
  14. Predictive Brain Theory11 topic
  15. Technology11 topic
  16. Test Data Compression11 topic
  17. cAMP Signaling11 topic

Where does Rainer Zimmermann work?

Rainer Zimmermann's main affiliation in the publication record is Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany.

How many publications and citations does Rainer Zimmermann have?

Science Explorer counts 50 works and 39 citations for Rainer Zimmermann, ranking #685,878 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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