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Researcher · University of Toronto · Canada

Stillman Drake

Stillman Drake publishes mostly in History and Philosophy of Science, Astronomy and Astrophysics and History, on topics such as History of Science and Medicine, Historical Philosophy and Science and History and Developments in Astronomy.

World rank
#34,843
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#1,010
of 38,960
Works
52
Citations
116
Citations per work
2.2

What does Stillman Drake research?

History and Philosophy of Science: 54.1%Astronomy and Astrophysics: 21.6%History: 10.8%Genetics: 2.7%other fields: 10.8%54%top field
History and Philosophy of Science54.1%Astronomy and Astrophysics21.6%History10.8%Genetics2.7%other fields10.8%

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 Science54% of their works
  2. 2Astronomy and Astrophysics22% of their works
  3. 3History11% of their works
  4. 4Genetics3% of their works
  5. 5Literature and Literary Theory3% of their works
  6. 6Anthropology3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Stillman Drake's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Medicine, Philosophy, History, Science, Natural Philosophy, Scientific Culture, Radio Astronomy and Transits of Venus.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Medicine112 topics
  2. Philosophy112 topics
  3. History61 topic
  4. Science61 topic
  5. Natural Philosophy51 topic
  6. Scientific Culture51 topic
  7. Radio Astronomy41 topic
  8. Transits of Venus41 topic
  9. Antikythera Mechanism31 topic
  10. Astronomical Calculator31 topic
  11. Acceptance21 topic
  12. Evolutionary Synthesis21 topic
  13. Evolutionary Theory21 topic
  14. Global History21 topic
  15. Italian Renaissance21 topic
  16. Mechanistic Explanation21 topic
  17. Renaissance Florence21 topic
  18. Science Circulation21 topic

Where does Stillman Drake work?

Stillman Drake's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Toronto, Canada.

How many publications and citations does Stillman Drake have?

Science Explorer counts 52 works and 116 citations for Stillman Drake, ranking #34,843 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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