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Richard Olson

Richard Olson publishes mostly in History and Philosophy of Science, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry and Global and Planetary Change, on topics such as History of Science and Medicine, History and advancements in chemistry and Science and Climate Studies.

World rank
#372,110
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#133,866
of 358,040
Works
22
Citations
44
Citations per work
2.0

What does Richard Olson research?

History and Philosophy of Science: 40.9%Physical and Theoretical Chemistry: 9.1%Global and Planetary Change: 9.1%Ecology: 9.1%other fields: 31.8%41%top field
History and Philosophy of Science40.9%Physical and Theoretical Chemistry9.1%Global and Planetary Change9.1%Ecology9.1%other fields31.8%

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 Science41% of their works
  2. 2Physical and Theoretical Chemistry9% of their works
  3. 3Global and Planetary Change9% of their works
  4. 4Ecology9% of their works
  5. 5Sociology and Political Science9% of their works
  6. 6Genetics4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Richard Olson's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Medicine, Philosophy, Biodiversity, Climate Change, History, Science, Environmental Science and GIS.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Medicine52 topics
  2. Philosophy52 topics
  3. Biodiversity43 topics
  4. Climate Change43 topics
  5. History31 topic
  6. Science31 topic
  7. Environmental Science21 topic
  8. GIS21 topic
  9. Global History21 topic
  10. Natural Philosophy21 topic
  11. Partially Ordered Sets21 topic
  12. Periodic Table21 topic
  13. Science Circulation21 topic
  14. Scientific Culture21 topic
  15. DNA Barcoding11 topic
  16. Ecological Niche11 topic
  17. Lepidoptera11 topic
  18. Metabolic Rate11 topic
  19. Species Distribution Modeling11 topic
  20. Temperature11 topic

Where does Richard Olson work?

Richard Olson's main affiliation in the publication record is Harvey Mudd College, United States.

How many publications and citations does Richard Olson have?

Science Explorer counts 22 works and 44 citations for Richard Olson, ranking #372,110 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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