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Werner Heisenberg

Werner Heisenberg publishes mostly in History and Philosophy of Science, Sociology and Political Science and Computational Mechanics, on topics such as Philosophy and History of Science, Philosophy, Science, and History and History and advancements in chemistry.

World rank
#10,860
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#1,071
of 86,443
Works
49
Citations
626
Citations per work
12.8

What does Werner Heisenberg research?

History and Philosophy of Science: 29.7%Sociology and Political Science: 13.5%Computational Mechanics: 8.1%Political Science and International Relations: 8.1%other fields: 40.6%30%top field
History and Philosophy of Science29.7%Sociology and Political Science13.5%Computational Mechanics8.1%Political Science and International Relations8.1%other fields40.6%

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 Science30% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science14% of their works
  3. 3Computational Mechanics8% of their works
  4. 4Political Science and International Relations8% of their works
  5. 5Statistical and Nonlinear Physics5% of their works
  6. 6Urban Studies5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Werner Heisenberg's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Philosophy of Science, Evolutionary Synthesis, Logical Empiricism, Mechanistic Explanation, Vienna Circle, Sustainability, Experimental Tools and Fluid Dynamics.

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. Philosophy of Science82 topics
  2. Evolutionary Synthesis41 topic
  3. Logical Empiricism41 topic
  4. Mechanistic Explanation41 topic
  5. Vienna Circle41 topic
  6. Sustainability32 topics
  7. Experimental Tools21 topic
  8. Fluid Dynamics21 topic
  9. Partially Ordered Sets21 topic
  10. Periodic Table21 topic
  11. Renewable Energy21 topic
  12. Smartphones21 topic
  13. Air Force11 topic
  14. Climate Change11 topic
  15. Environmental Science11 topic
  16. Modernization11 topic
  17. Turbulent Flows11 topic
  18. Vortex Dynamics11 topic

Where does Werner Heisenberg work?

Werner Heisenberg's main affiliation in the publication record is Max Planck Institute for Physics, Germany.

How many publications and citations does Werner Heisenberg have?

Science Explorer counts 49 works and 626 citations for Werner Heisenberg, ranking #10,860 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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