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W. S. Playfair

W. S. Playfair publishes mostly in Statistics and Probability, Ophthalmology and Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, on topics such as Humic Substances and Bio-Organic Studies, History and advancements in chemistry and Probability and Statistical Research.

World rank
#849,715
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#237,912
of 358,040
Works
20
Citations
1
Citations per work
0.1

What does W. S. Playfair research?

Statistics and Probability: 12.5%Ophthalmology: 12.5%Physical and Theoretical Chemistry: 6.3%Political Science and International Relations: 6.3%other fields: 62.4%12%top field
Statistics and Probability12.5%Ophthalmology12.5%Physical and Theoretical Chemistry6.3%Political Science and International Relations6.3%other fields62.4%

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

  1. 1Statistics and Probability12% of their works
  2. 2Ophthalmology12% of their works
  3. 3Physical and Theoretical Chemistry6% of their works
  4. 4Political Science and International Relations6% of their works
  5. 5History6% of their works
  6. 6Issues, ethics and legal aspects6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe W. S. Playfair's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Anatomical Nomenclature, Capture-Recapture, Choosing Wisely, Defensive Medicine, Eponyms, Fever, Humic Substances and Hypothermia.

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. Anatomical Nomenclature11 topic
  2. Capture-Recapture11 topic
  3. Choosing Wisely11 topic
  4. Defensive Medicine11 topic
  5. Eponyms11 topic
  6. Fever11 topic
  7. Humic Substances11 topic
  8. Hypothermia11 topic
  9. Low-Value Care11 topic
  10. Malpractice Risk11 topic
  11. Partially Ordered Sets11 topic
  12. Periodic Table11 topic
  13. Population Size Estimation11 topic
  14. Probability Theory11 topic
  15. Shilajit11 topic
  16. Statistical Modeling11 topic

Where does W. S. Playfair work?

W. S. Playfair's main affiliation in the publication record is King County Medical Examiner's Office, United States.

How many publications and citations does W. S. Playfair have?

Science Explorer counts 20 works and 1 citations for W. S. Playfair, ranking #849,715 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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