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Steven Shapin

Steven Shapin publishes mostly in History and Philosophy of Science, Sociology and Political Science and Global and Planetary Change, on topics such as History of Science and Medicine, History of Science and Natural History and Philosophy and History of Science.

World rank
#7,887
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#3,806
of 358,040
Works
59
Citations
515
Citations per work
8.7

What does Steven Shapin research?

History and Philosophy of Science: 48.1%Sociology and Political Science: 9.3%Global and Planetary Change: 5.6%Molecular Biology: 3.7%other fields: 33.3%48%top field
History and Philosophy of Science48.1%Sociology and Political Science9.3%Global and Planetary Change5.6%Molecular Biology3.7%other fields33.3%

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

  1. 1History and Philosophy of Science48% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science9% of their works
  3. 3Global and Planetary Change6% of their works
  4. 4Molecular Biology4% of their works
  5. 5Economics and Econometrics4% of their works
  6. 6History4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Steven Shapin's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: History, Science, Innovation, Technology, Philosophy of Science, Health, Acceptance and Evolutionary Synthesis.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. History112 topics
  2. Science112 topics
  3. Innovation81 topic
  4. Technology81 topic
  5. Philosophy of Science72 topics
  6. Health62 topics
  7. Acceptance41 topic
  8. Evolutionary Synthesis41 topic
  9. Evolutionary Theory41 topic
  10. Global History41 topic
  11. Mechanistic Explanation41 topic
  12. Science Circulation41 topic
  13. Colonialism31 topic
  14. Knowledge Production31 topic
  15. Economic Growth21 topic
  16. Height21 topic
  17. Gene Set Enrichment Analysis11 topic
  18. Genetics11 topic
  19. Protein-Protein Interaction Networks11 topic
  20. Race11 topic

Where does Steven Shapin work?

Steven Shapin's main affiliation in the publication record is University of California San Diego, United States.

How many publications and citations does Steven Shapin have?

Science Explorer counts 59 works and 515 citations for Steven Shapin, ranking #7,887 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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