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Steve Woolgar

Steve Woolgar publishes mostly in Sociology and Political Science, History and Philosophy of Science and Law, on topics such as Philosophy and History of Science, scientometrics and bibliometrics research and Information Systems Theories and Implementation.

World rank
#87,024
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#8,188
of 90,785
Works
34
Citations
169
Citations per work
5.0

What does Steve Woolgar research?

Sociology and Political Science: 15.2%History and Philosophy of Science: 15.2%Law: 9.1%Human-Computer Interaction: 6.1%other fields: 54.4%15%top field
Sociology and Political Science15.2%History and Philosophy of Science15.2%Law9.1%Human-Computer Interaction6.1%other fields54.4%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Sociology and Political Science15% of their works
  2. 2History and Philosophy of Science15% of their works
  3. 3Law9% of their works
  4. 4Human-Computer Interaction6% of their works
  5. 5Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management6% of their works
  6. 6Information Systems and Management6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Steve Woolgar's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Evolutionary Synthesis, Mechanistic Explanation, Bibliometric Analysis, Design Science, Research Evaluation, Sociomateriality, Design Research and Economic Development.

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.

All 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Evolutionary Synthesis31 topic
  2. Mechanistic Explanation31 topic
  3. Bibliometric Analysis21 topic
  4. Design Science21 topic
  5. Research Evaluation21 topic
  6. Sociomateriality21 topic
  7. Design Research11 topic
  8. Economic Development11 topic
  9. Human-Computer Interaction11 topic
  10. Information Retrieval11 topic
  11. Innovation11 topic
  12. Open Source Software11 topic
  13. Search Engines11 topic
  14. Telecommunications11 topic
  15. Usability11 topic
  16. User Experience11 topic

Where does Steve Woolgar work?

Steve Woolgar's main affiliation in the publication record is Brunel University of London, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Steve Woolgar have?

Science Explorer counts 34 works and 169 citations for Steve Woolgar, ranking #87,024 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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