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Researcher · Gordon College · United States

Stephen G. Alter

Stephen G. Alter publishes mostly in History and Philosophy of Science, Language and Linguistics and Sociology and Political Science, on topics such as Evolution and Science Education, Historical Linguistics and Language Studies and History of Science and Natural History.

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World rank
#1,594,438
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#496,362
of 1,627,098
Works
25
Citations
225
Citations per work
9.0
h-index
7
i10-index 5Top 40% in History and Philosophy of Science
Stephen G. Alter

What does Stephen G. Alter research?

Stephen G. Alter's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (60%), Social Sciences (14%), Psychology (5%).

Social Sciences: 20 works · 79.2% of their workArts and Humanities: 15 works · 60.5% of their workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 8 works · 30.2% of their workLanguage and Linguistics: 6 works · 23.3% of their workHistory: 2 works · 7.0% of their workSocial Sciences: 4 works · 14.0% of their workSociology and Political Science: 2 works · 9.3% of their workCultural Studies: 1 works · 4.7% of their workPsychology: 1 works · 4.7% of their workGeneral Psychology: 1 works · 4.7% of their workEverything else: 5 works · 20.8% of their workTHEIR WORKStephen G. Alter25works
Social Sciences79%

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 Humanities1560.5%
    2. Social Sciences414.0%
    3. Psychology14.7%
  2. Everything else520.8%
  1. 1History and Philosophy of Science30% of their works
  2. 2Language and Linguistics23% of their works
  3. 3Sociology and Political Science9% of their works
  4. 4History7% of their works
  5. 5Cultural Studies5% of their works
  6. 6General Psychology5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Stephen G. Alter's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Acceptance, Evolutionary Theory, Language Teaching, Linguistic Historiography, History, Cultural Evolution, Global History and Language.

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. Acceptance91 topic
  2. Evolutionary Theory91 topic
  3. Language Teaching81 topic
  4. Linguistic Historiography81 topic
  5. History32 topics
  6. Cultural Evolution21 topic
  7. Global History21 topic
  8. Language21 topic
  9. Psychology21 topic
  10. Public Sociology21 topic
  11. Science21 topic
  12. Science Circulation21 topic
  13. Social Theory21 topic
  14. Gender11 topic
  15. Prebiotic Chemistry11 topic
  16. RNA World11 topic
  17. Reproduction11 topic

Where does Stephen G. Alter work?

Stephen G. Alter's main affiliation in the publication record is Gordon College, United States.

How many publications and citations does Stephen G. Alter have?

OpenAlex counts 25 works and 225 citations for Stephen G. Alter, an h-index of 7, ranking #1,594,438 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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