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Researcher · Griffith University · Australia

William MacAskill

William MacAskill publishes mostly in Philosophy, Cognitive Neuroscience and General Health Professions, on topics such as Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics, Philosophical Ethics and Theory and Free Will and Agency.

ORCID 0000-0003-3979-5368 OpenAlex
World rank
#992,066
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Australia
#32,348
of 140,210
Works
63
Citations
1k
Citations per work
15.9
h-index
16
i10-index 18Top 7.9% in Philosophy
William MacAskill

What does William MacAskill research?

William MacAskill's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (21%), Neuroscience (7%), Health Professions (6%).

Everything else: 33 works · 52.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 19 works · 30.7% of their workArts and Humanities: 13 works · 20.9% of their workPhilosophy: 13 works · 20.9% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 3 works · 5.5% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 3 works · 5.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 3 works · 4.3% of their workSociology and Political Science: 3 works · 4.3% of their workHealth Sciences: 7 works · 10.4% of their workHealth Professions: 4 works · 6.1% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 4 works · 6.1% of their workMedicine: 3 works · 4.3% of their workPulmonary and Respiratory Medicine: 3 works · 4.3% of their workLife Sciences: 4 works · 6.7% of their workNeuroscience: 4 works · 6.7% of their workCognitive Neuroscience: 4 works · 6.7% of their workTHEIR WORKWilliam MacAskill63works
Life Sciences7%Health Sciences10%Social Sciences31%

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. Everything else3352.2%
    1. Arts and Humanities1320.9%
    2. Economics, Econometrics and Finance35.5%
    3. Social Sciences34.3%
    1. Health Professions46.1%
    2. Medicine34.3%
    1. Neuroscience46.7%
  1. 1Philosophy21% of their works
  2. 2Cognitive Neuroscience7% of their works
  3. 3General Health Professions6% of their works
  4. 4Economics and Econometrics6% of their works
  5. 5Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine4% of their works
  6. 6Sociology and Political Science4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe William MacAskill's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Perception, Truth, Ethics, Belief, Knowledge, Moral Realism, Virtue Ethics and Neuroscience.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Perception222 topics
  2. Truth222 topics
  3. Ethics182 topics
  4. Belief161 topic
  5. Knowledge161 topic
  6. Moral Realism141 topic
  7. Virtue Ethics141 topic
  8. Neuroscience102 topics
  9. Emotion82 topics
  10. Consciousness61 topic
  11. Phenomenal Experience61 topic
  12. Sense of Agency61 topic
  13. Voluntary Action61 topic
  14. Health Workforce51 topic
  15. Rural Health51 topic
  16. Competency-Based Education41 topic
  17. Decision Making41 topic
  18. Disgust41 topic
  19. Moral Judgment41 topic
  20. Professional Identity Formation41 topic
  21. Risk Aversion41 topic

Where does William MacAskill work?

William MacAskill's main affiliation in the publication record is Griffith University, Australia.

How many publications and citations does William MacAskill have?

OpenAlex counts 63 works and 1,004 citations for William MacAskill, an h-index of 16, ranking #992,066 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality 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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