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Researcher · Illinois Wesleyan University · United States

Thomas Blanchard

Thomas Blanchard publishes mostly in History and Philosophy of Science, Artificial Intelligence and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, on topics such as Philosophy and History of Science, Philosophy and Theoretical Science and Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference.

ORCID 0000-0001-5002-7517 OpenAlex
World rank
#1,267,629
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#404,216
of 1,627,098
Works
21
Citations
439
Citations per work
20.9
h-index
11
i10-index 11Top 21% in History and Philosophy of Science
Thomas Blanchard

What does Thomas Blanchard research?

Thomas Blanchard's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (28%), Computer Science (17%), Psychology (8%).

Social Sciences: 8 works · 36.7% of their workArts and Humanities: 6 works · 28.4% of their workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 5 works · 21.7% of their workPhilosophy: 1 works · 6.7% of their workPsychology: 2 works · 8.3% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 2 works · 8.3% of their workEverything else: 8 works · 36.6% of their workPhysical Sciences: 5 works · 21.7% of their workComputer Science: 4 works · 16.7% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 4 works · 16.7% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 works · 5.0% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 1 works · 5.0% of their workLife Sciences: 1 works · 5.0% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 works · 5.0% of their workMolecular Biology: 1 works · 5.0% of their workTHEIR WORKThomas Blanchard21works
Life Sciences5%Physical Sciences22%Social Sciences37%

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 Humanities628.4%
    2. Psychology28.3%
  2. Everything else836.6%
    1. Computer Science416.7%
    2. Physics and Astronomy15.0%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology15.0%
  1. 1History and Philosophy of Science22% of their works
  2. 2Artificial Intelligence17% of their works
  3. 3Experimental and Cognitive Psychology8% of their works
  4. 4Philosophy7% of their works
  5. 5Molecular Biology5% of their works
  6. 6Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Thomas Blanchard's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Evolutionary Synthesis, Mechanistic Explanation, Perception, Truth, Neuroscience, Consciousness, Emotion and Phenomenal Experience.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Evolutionary Synthesis121 topic
  2. Mechanistic Explanation121 topic
  3. Perception92 topics
  4. Truth92 topics
  5. Neuroscience72 topics
  6. Consciousness51 topic
  7. Emotion52 topics
  8. Phenomenal Experience51 topic
  9. Bayesian Networks41 topic
  10. Belief41 topic
  11. Causal Inference41 topic
  12. Knowledge41 topic
  13. Bell Inequality31 topic
  14. Decision Making31 topic
  15. Decoherence31 topic
  16. Risk Aversion31 topic
  17. Biomedical Ontologies21 topic
  18. Disgust21 topic
  19. Moral Judgment21 topic
  20. Text Mining21 topic

Where does Thomas Blanchard work?

Thomas Blanchard's main affiliation in the publication record is Illinois Wesleyan University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Thomas Blanchard have?

OpenAlex counts 21 works and 439 citations for Thomas Blanchard, an h-index of 11, ranking #1,267,629 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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