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Researcher · SUNY Fredonia · United States

Stephen Kershnar

Stephen Kershnar publishes mostly in Philosophy, Political Science and International Relations and Sociology and Political Science, on topics such as Free Will and Agency, Philosophical Ethics and Theory and Political Philosophy and Ethics.

ORCID 0000-0003-2928-1347 OpenAlex
World rank
#557,411
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#192,410
of 1,627,098
Works
181
Citations
566
Citations per work
3.1
h-index
14
i10-index 22Top 10% in Philosophy
Stephen Kershnar

What does Stephen Kershnar research?

Stephen Kershnar's work is mostly in Social Sciences (35%), Arts and Humanities (24%), Neuroscience (13%).

Social Sciences: 113 works · 62.6% of their workSocial Sciences: 64 works · 35.4% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 31 works · 17.1% of their workSociology and Political Science: 25 works · 13.6% of their workLaw: 9 works · 4.7% of their workArts and Humanities: 43 works · 23.7% of their workPhilosophy: 43 works · 23.7% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 6 works · 3.5% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 6 works · 3.5% of their workEverything else: 45 works · 24.7% of their workLife Sciences: 23 works · 12.7% of their workNeuroscience: 23 works · 12.7% of their workCognitive Neuroscience: 23 works · 12.7% of their workTHEIR WORKStephen Kershnar181works
Life Sciences13%Social Sciences63%

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. Social Sciences6435.4%
    2. Arts and Humanities4323.7%
    3. Economics, Econometrics and Finance63.5%
  2. Everything else4524.7%
    1. Neuroscience2312.7%
  1. 1Philosophy24% of their works
  2. 2Political Science and International Relations17% of their works
  3. 3Sociology and Political Science14% of their works
  4. 4Cognitive Neuroscience13% of their works
  5. 5Law5% of their works
  6. 6Economics and Econometrics4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Stephen Kershnar's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Ethics, Responsibility, Sense of Agency, Voluntary Action, Human Rights, Moral Realism, Virtue Ethics and Cosmopolitanism.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Ethics833 topics
  2. Responsibility752 topics
  3. Sense of Agency461 topic
  4. Voluntary Action461 topic
  5. Human Rights432 topics
  6. Moral Realism421 topic
  7. Virtue Ethics421 topic
  8. Cosmopolitanism311 topic
  9. Global Justice311 topic
  10. Just War Theory291 topic
  11. Self-Defense291 topic
  12. American founding131 topic
  13. Constitutional government131 topic
  14. Problem of Evil131 topic
  15. Theodicy131 topic
  16. Guantanamo121 topic
  17. Torture121 topic
  18. Belief91 topic
  19. Knowledge91 topic

Where does Stephen Kershnar work?

Stephen Kershnar's main affiliation in the publication record is SUNY Fredonia, United States.

How many publications and citations does Stephen Kershnar have?

OpenAlex counts 181 works and 566 citations for Stephen Kershnar, an h-index of 14, ranking #557,411 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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