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Researcher · Williams College · United States

Samuel Y. Edgerton

Samuel Y. Edgerton publishes mostly in Visual Arts and Performing Arts, Sociology and Political Science and History, on topics such as Architecture and Art History Studies, Renaissance and Early Modern Studies and History of Science and Medicine.

OpenAlex
World rank
#377,659
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#134,581
of 1,627,098
Works
81
Citations
1.4k
Citations per work
17.1
h-index
19
i10-index 23Top 1.5% in Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Samuel Y. Edgerton

What does Samuel Y. Edgerton research?

Samuel Y. Edgerton's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (39%), Social Sciences (11%), Physics and Astronomy (6%).

Social Sciences: 40 works · 49.8% of their workArts and Humanities: 32 works · 39.2% of their workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 16 works · 19.3% of their workHistory: 9 works · 10.6% of their workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 8 works · 9.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 9 works · 10.6% of their workSociology and Political Science: 9 works · 10.6% of their workEverything else: 32 works · 39.0% of their workPhysical Sciences: 5 works · 6.2% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 5 works · 6.2% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 5 works · 6.2% of their workLife Sciences: 4 works · 5.0% of their workNeuroscience: 4 works · 5.0% of their workCognitive Neuroscience: 4 works · 5.0% of their workTHEIR WORKSamuel Y.Edgerton81works
Life Sciences5%Physical Sciences6%Social Sciences50%

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 Humanities3239.2%
    2. Social Sciences910.6%
  2. Everything else3239.0%
    1. Physics and Astronomy56.2%
    1. Neuroscience45.0%
  1. 1Visual Arts and Performing Arts19% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science11% of their works
  3. 3History11% of their works
  4. 4History and Philosophy of Science9% of their works
  5. 5Astronomy and Astrophysics6% of their works
  6. 6Cognitive Neuroscience5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Samuel Y. Edgerton's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Architectural Geometry, Artistic Representation, Italian Renaissance, Renaissance Florence, History, Science, Antikythera Mechanism and Astronomical Calculator.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Architectural Geometry181 topic
  2. Artistic Representation181 topic
  3. Italian Renaissance81 topic
  4. Renaissance Florence81 topic
  5. History71 topic
  6. Science71 topic
  7. Antikythera Mechanism61 topic
  8. Astronomical Calculator61 topic
  9. Aesthetic Perception51 topic
  10. Colonial Spanish America51 topic
  11. Legal Semiotics51 topic
  12. Neuroaesthetics51 topic
  13. Visual Culture51 topic
  14. Visual Jurisprudence51 topic
  15. Radio Astronomy41 topic
  16. Transits of Venus41 topic

Where does Samuel Y. Edgerton work?

Samuel Y. Edgerton's main affiliation in the publication record is Williams College, United States.

How many publications and citations does Samuel Y. Edgerton have?

OpenAlex counts 81 works and 1,383 citations for Samuel Y. Edgerton, an h-index of 19, ranking #377,659 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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