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William P. Alston

William P. Alston publishes mostly in Philosophy, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and History and Philosophy of Science, on topics such as Philosophy and Theoretical Science, Reformation and Early Modern Christianity and Philosophy, Science, and History.

World rank
#54,380
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#24,852
of 358,040
Works
45
Citations
170
Citations per work
3.8

What does William P. Alston research?

Philosophy: 28.9%Experimental and Cognitive Psychology: 13.2%History and Philosophy of Science: 10.5%History: 7.9%other fields: 39.5%29%top field
Philosophy28.9%Experimental and Cognitive Psychology13.2%History and Philosophy of Science10.5%History7.9%other fields39.5%

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

  1. 1Philosophy29% of their works
  2. 2Experimental and Cognitive Psychology13% of their works
  3. 3History and Philosophy of Science10% of their works
  4. 4History8% of their works
  5. 5General Psychology5% of their works
  6. 6Sociology and Political Science5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe William P. Alston's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Perception, Truth, Metaphysics, Consciousness, Phenomenal Experience, Aristotle, Belief and Calvinism.

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. Perception52 topics
  2. Truth52 topics
  3. Metaphysics42 topics
  4. Consciousness31 topic
  5. Phenomenal Experience31 topic
  6. Aristotle21 topic
  7. Belief21 topic
  8. Calvinism21 topic
  9. Deification21 topic
  10. History21 topic
  11. Knowledge21 topic
  12. Logical Empiricism21 topic
  13. Plato21 topic
  14. Psychology21 topic
  15. Reformation21 topic
  16. Trinity21 topic
  17. Vienna Circle21 topic
  18. Aesthetic Perception11 topic
  19. Neuroaesthetics11 topic

Where does William P. Alston work?

William P. Alston's main affiliation in the publication record is Syracuse University, United States.

How many publications and citations does William P. Alston have?

Science Explorer counts 45 works and 170 citations for William P. Alston, ranking #54,380 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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