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Researcher · Stanford University · United States

Richard M. Rorty

Richard M. Rorty publishes mostly in Philosophy, Sociology and Political Science and Political Science and International Relations, on topics such as Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education, Critical Theory and Philosophy and Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism.

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World rank
#394,845
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#140,245
of 1,627,098
Works
1,038
Citations
45k
Citations per work
43.8
h-index
79
i10-index 261Top 0.1% in Philosophy
Richard M. Rorty

What does Richard M. Rorty research?

Richard M. Rorty's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (34%), Social Sciences (29%), Psychology (4%).

Social Sciences: 690 works · 66.5% of their workArts and Humanities: 352 works · 33.9% of their workPhilosophy: 307 works · 29.6% of their workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 45 works · 4.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 299 works · 28.8% of their workSociology and Political Science: 165 works · 15.9% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 91 works · 8.8% of their workEducation: 43 works · 4.1% of their workPsychology: 39 works · 3.8% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 39 works · 3.8% of their workEverything else: 348 works · 33.5% of their workTHEIR WORKRichard M. Rorty1,038works
Social Sciences66%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Arts and Humanities35233.9%
    2. Social Sciences29928.8%
    3. Psychology393.8%
  2. Everything else34833.5%
  1. 1Philosophy30% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science16% of their works
  3. 3Political Science and International Relations9% of their works
  4. 4History and Philosophy of Science4% of their works
  5. 5Education4% of their works
  6. 6Experimental and Cognitive Psychology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Richard M. Rorty's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Philosophy, Education, Pragmatism, Truth, Dewey, Peirce, Ethics and Religion.

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. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 23 words, with their numbers
  1. Philosophy2973 topics
  2. Education2452 topics
  3. Pragmatism2372 topics
  4. Truth2342 topics
  5. Dewey1951 topic
  6. Peirce1951 topic
  7. Ethics1022 topics
  8. Religion1022 topics
  9. Metaphysics912 topics
  10. Habermas681 topic
  11. Social Pathologies681 topic
  12. Derrida521 topic
  13. Levinas521 topic
  14. Language-Games501 topic
  15. Wittgenstein501 topic
  16. Aristotle491 topic
  17. Plato491 topic
  18. Logical Empiricism421 topic
  19. Vienna Circle421 topic
  20. Belief391 topic
  21. Knowledge391 topic
  22. Global Justice381 topic
  23. Human Rights381 topic

Where does Richard M. Rorty work?

Richard M. Rorty's main affiliation in the publication record is Stanford University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Richard M. Rorty have?

OpenAlex counts 1,038 works and 45,492 citations for Richard M. Rorty, an h-index of 79, ranking #394,845 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation 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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