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Researcher · Babson College · United States

Steve J. Heims

Steve J. Heims publishes mostly in History and Philosophy of Science, Computational Theory and Mathematics and Sociology and Political Science, on topics such as Philosophy, Science, and History, Philosophy and History of Science and Cybernetics and Technology in Society.

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World rank
#1,963,298
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#597,360
of 1,627,098
Works
23
Citations
854
Citations per work
37.1
h-index
9
i10-index 9Top 28% in History and Philosophy of Science
Steve J. Heims

What does Steve J. Heims research?

Steve J. Heims's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (38%), Computer Science (12%), Social Sciences (6%).

Social Sciences: 10 works · 44.0% of their workArts and Humanities: 9 works · 38.0% of their workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 9 works · 38.0% of their workSocial Sciences: 1 works · 6.0% of their workSociology and Political Science: 1 works · 6.0% of their workEverything else: 8 works · 36.0% of their workPhysical Sciences: 5 works · 20.0% of their workComputer Science: 3 works · 12.0% of their workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 2 works · 8.0% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 1 works · 4.0% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 works · 4.0% of their workAtmospheric Science: 1 works · 4.0% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 works · 4.0% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 1 works · 4.0% of their workTHEIR WORKSteve J. Heims23works
Physical Sciences20%Social Sciences44%

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 Humanities938.0%
    2. Social Sciences16.0%
  2. Everything else836.0%
    1. Computer Science312.0%
    2. Earth and Planetary Sciences14.0%
    3. Physics and Astronomy14.0%
  1. 1History and Philosophy of Science38% of their works
  2. 2Computational Theory and Mathematics8% of their works
  3. 3Sociology and Political Science6% of their works
  4. 4Artificial Intelligence4% of their works
  5. 5Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics4% of their works
  6. 6Atmospheric Science4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Steve J. Heims's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Philosophy of Science, Logical Empiricism, Vienna Circle, Cultural Techniques, Evolutionary Synthesis, Mechanistic Explanation, Media Theory and Complexity Theory.

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. Philosophy of Science122 topics
  2. Logical Empiricism71 topic
  3. Vienna Circle71 topic
  4. Cultural Techniques51 topic
  5. Evolutionary Synthesis51 topic
  6. Mechanistic Explanation51 topic
  7. Media Theory51 topic
  8. Complexity Theory31 topic
  9. Emergence31 topic
  10. History21 topic
  11. Psychology21 topic
  12. Soft Systems Methodology21 topic
  13. System Dynamics21 topic
  14. Partially Ordered Sets11 topic
  15. Periodic Table11 topic
  16. neurological history11 topic
  17. neuroscience pioneers11 topic

Where does Steve J. Heims work?

Steve J. Heims's main affiliation in the publication record is Babson College, United States.

How many publications and citations does Steve J. Heims have?

OpenAlex counts 23 works and 854 citations for Steve J. Heims, an h-index of 9, ranking #1,963,298 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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