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Richard Sorabji

Richard Sorabji publishes mostly in Philosophy, Anthropology and Sociology and Political Science, on topics such as Classical Philosophy and Thought, Classical Antiquity Studies and Medieval and Classical Philosophy.

World rank
#14,590
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#1,331
of 90,785
Works
56
Citations
247
Citations per work
4.4

What does Richard Sorabji research?

Philosophy: 54.0%Anthropology: 14.0%Sociology and Political Science: 6.0%Classics: 4.0%other fields: 22.0%54%top field
Philosophy54.0%Anthropology14.0%Sociology and Political Science6.0%Classics4.0%other fields22.0%

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

  1. 1Philosophy54% of their works
  2. 2Anthropology14% of their works
  3. 3Sociology and Political Science6% of their works
  4. 4Classics4% of their works
  5. 5Archeology4% of their works
  6. 6Social Psychology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Richard Sorabji's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Metaphysics, Aristotle, Plato, Ancient Rome, Greek Literature, Avicenna, Maimonides and Ancient Magic.

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. Metaphysics152 topics
  2. Aristotle131 topic
  3. Plato131 topic
  4. Ancient Rome71 topic
  5. Greek Literature71 topic
  6. Avicenna41 topic
  7. Maimonides41 topic
  8. Ancient Magic21 topic
  9. Aquinas21 topic
  10. Boethius21 topic
  11. Ethics21 topic
  12. Gnosticism21 topic
  13. Just War Theory21 topic
  14. Literature21 topic
  15. Medieval21 topic
  16. Ethical Climate11 topic
  17. Moral Distress11 topic

Where does Richard Sorabji work?

Richard Sorabji's main affiliation in the publication record is King's College London, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Richard Sorabji have?

Science Explorer counts 56 works and 247 citations for Richard Sorabji, ranking #14,590 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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