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Researcher · Sacramento City College · United States

Ruth Lewin Sime

Ruth Lewin Sime publishes mostly in History and Philosophy of Science, Political Science and International Relations and Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, on topics such as Twentieth Century Scientific Developments, International Science and Diplomacy and History and advancements in chemistry.

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World rank
#825,163
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#274,546
of 1,627,098
Works
67
Citations
638
Citations per work
9.5
h-index
15
i10-index 18Top 13% in History and Philosophy of Science
Ruth Lewin Sime

What does Ruth Lewin Sime research?

Ruth Lewin Sime's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (36%), Social Sciences (26%), Chemistry (12%).

Social Sciences: 41 works · 61.0% of their workArts and Humanities: 24 works · 35.5% of their workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 21 works · 31.5% of their workHistory: 3 works · 4.0% of their workSocial Sciences: 17 works · 25.5% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 13 works · 18.8% of their workSociology and Political Science: 4 works · 6.7% of their workEverything else: 18 works · 26.9% of their workPhysical Sciences: 8 works · 12.1% of their workChemistry: 8 works · 12.1% of their workPhysical and Theoretical Chemistry: 6 works · 8.7% of their workOrganic Chemistry: 2 works · 3.4% of their workTHEIR WORKRuth Lewin Sime67works
Physical Sciences12%Social Sciences61%

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 Humanities2435.5%
    2. Social Sciences1725.5%
  2. Everything else1826.9%
    1. Chemistry812.1%
  1. 1History and Philosophy of Science32% of their works
  2. 2Political Science and International Relations19% of their works
  3. 3Physical and Theoretical Chemistry9% of their works
  4. 4Sociology and Political Science7% of their works
  5. 5History4% of their works
  6. 6Organic Chemistry3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ruth Lewin Sime's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Cold War, Science, S&T Policies, Science Diplomacy, Partially Ordered Sets, Periodic Table, Philosophy of Science and Climate Consequences.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Cold War311 topic
  2. Science311 topic
  3. S&T Policies161 topic
  4. Science Diplomacy161 topic
  5. Partially Ordered Sets111 topic
  6. Periodic Table111 topic
  7. Philosophy of Science92 topics
  8. Climate Consequences51 topic
  9. Evolutionary Synthesis51 topic
  10. Mechanistic Explanation51 topic
  11. Nuclear War51 topic
  12. Global History41 topic
  13. Interdisciplinary Research41 topic
  14. Logical Empiricism41 topic
  15. Science Circulation41 topic
  16. Team Science41 topic
  17. Vienna Circle41 topic

Where does Ruth Lewin Sime work?

Ruth Lewin Sime's main affiliation in the publication record is Sacramento City College, United States.

How many publications and citations does Ruth Lewin Sime have?

OpenAlex counts 67 works and 638 citations for Ruth Lewin Sime, an h-index of 15, ranking #825,163 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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