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Thomas Nickles

Thomas Nickles publishes mostly in History and Philosophy of Science, Management Science and Operations Research and Information Systems and Management, on topics such as Philosophy and History of Science, Complex Systems and Decision Making and Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies.

World rank
#193,173
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#78,542
of 358,040
Works
27
Citations
64
Citations per work
2.4

What does Thomas Nickles research?

History and Philosophy of Science: 50.0%Management Science and Operations Research: 12.5%Information Systems and Management: 6.3%Philosophy: 6.3%other fields: 24.9%50%top field
History and Philosophy of Science50.0%Management Science and Operations Research12.5%Information Systems and Management6.3%Philosophy6.3%other fields24.9%

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 Science50% of their works
  2. 2Management Science and Operations Research12% of their works
  3. 3Information Systems and Management6% of their works
  4. 4Philosophy6% of their works
  5. 5Molecular Biology6% of their works
  6. 6Anthropology6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Thomas Nickles's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Philosophy of Science, Evolutionary Synthesis, Mechanistic Explanation, Data Integration, Semantic Web, Soft Systems Methodology, System Dynamics and Belief.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Philosophy of Science62 topics
  2. Evolutionary Synthesis51 topic
  3. Mechanistic Explanation51 topic
  4. Data Integration22 topics
  5. Semantic Web22 topics
  6. Soft Systems Methodology21 topic
  7. System Dynamics21 topic
  8. Belief11 topic
  9. Biomedical Ontologies11 topic
  10. Global History11 topic
  11. Knowledge11 topic
  12. Linked Data11 topic
  13. Logical Empiricism11 topic
  14. Natural Philosophy11 topic
  15. Ontology11 topic
  16. Science Circulation11 topic
  17. Scientific Culture11 topic
  18. Text Mining11 topic
  19. Vienna Circle11 topic

Where does Thomas Nickles work?

Thomas Nickles's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Nevada, Reno, United States.

How many publications and citations does Thomas Nickles have?

Science Explorer counts 27 works and 64 citations for Thomas Nickles, ranking #193,173 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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