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Robert Kirk

Robert Kirk publishes mostly in Philosophy, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and History and Philosophy of Science, on topics such as Philosophy and Theoretical Science, Philosophy and History of Science and Reinforcement Learning in Robotics.

World rank
#40,995
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#3,843
of 90,785
Works
34
Citations
349
Citations per work
10.3

What does Robert Kirk research?

Philosophy: 18.4%Experimental and Cognitive Psychology: 15.8%History and Philosophy of Science: 10.5%Language and Linguistics: 10.5%other fields: 44.8%18%top field
Philosophy18.4%Experimental and Cognitive Psychology15.8%History and Philosophy of Science10.5%Language and Linguistics10.5%other fields44.8%

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

  1. 1Philosophy18% of their works
  2. 2Experimental and Cognitive Psychology16% of their works
  3. 3History and Philosophy of Science10% of their works
  4. 4Language and Linguistics10% of their works
  5. 5Artificial Intelligence8% of their works
  6. 6Political Science and International Relations8% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Robert Kirk's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Perception, Truth, Consciousness, Phenomenal Experience, Evolutionary Synthesis, Mechanistic Explanation, Belief and Code Clone Detection.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Perception72 topics
  2. Truth72 topics
  3. Consciousness51 topic
  4. Phenomenal Experience51 topic
  5. Evolutionary Synthesis31 topic
  6. Mechanistic Explanation31 topic
  7. Belief21 topic
  8. Code Clone Detection21 topic
  9. Corpus Linguistics21 topic
  10. Deep Learning21 topic
  11. Knowledge21 topic
  12. Language Teaching21 topic
  13. Linguistic Historiography21 topic
  14. Refactoring21 topic
  15. Reinforcement Learning21 topic
  16. Translation21 topic
  17. Electrical Signals11 topic
  18. Glutamate Receptor-Like Genes11 topic

Where does Robert Kirk work?

Robert Kirk's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Nottingham, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Robert Kirk have?

Science Explorer counts 34 works and 349 citations for Robert Kirk, ranking #40,995 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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