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Researcher · Pomona College · United States

Richard McKirahan

Richard McKirahan publishes mostly in Philosophy, History and Philosophy of Science and Anthropology, on topics such as Classical Philosophy and Thought, Medieval and Classical Philosophy and History and Theory of Mathematics.

World rank
#471,162
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#159,424
of 358,040
Works
21
Citations
13
Citations per work
0.6

What does Richard McKirahan research?

Philosophy: 36.8%History and Philosophy of Science: 15.8%Anthropology: 10.5%Political Science and International Relations: 10.5%other fields: 26.4%37%top field
Philosophy36.8%History and Philosophy of Science15.8%Anthropology10.5%Political Science and International Relations10.5%other fields26.4%

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

  1. 1Philosophy37% of their works
  2. 2History and Philosophy of Science16% of their works
  3. 3Anthropology10% of their works
  4. 4Political Science and International Relations10% of their works
  5. 5Astronomy and Astrophysics5% of their works
  6. 6Archeology5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Richard McKirahan's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Aristotle, Plato, Stoicism, Alchemy, Avicenna, Cultural Transmission, Maimonides and Medicine.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Aristotle52 topics
  2. Plato41 topic
  3. Stoicism41 topic
  4. Alchemy22 topics
  5. Avicenna21 topic
  6. Cultural Transmission22 topics
  7. Maimonides21 topic
  8. Medicine22 topics
  9. Philosophy22 topics
  10. Ancient Magic11 topic
  11. Antikythera Mechanism11 topic
  12. Astronomical Calculator11 topic
  13. Evolutionary Synthesis11 topic
  14. Gnosticism11 topic
  15. Historical Sources11 topic
  16. History11 topic
  17. Mathematics Education11 topic
  18. Mechanistic Explanation11 topic
  19. Natural Philosophy11 topic
  20. Science11 topic
  21. Scientific Culture11 topic

Where does Richard McKirahan work?

Richard McKirahan's main affiliation in the publication record is Pomona College, United States.

How many publications and citations does Richard McKirahan have?

Science Explorer counts 21 works and 13 citations for Richard McKirahan, ranking #471,162 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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