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Researcher · The King's College · United States

William P. D. Wightman

William P. D. Wightman publishes mostly in History and Philosophy of Science, History and Medical Terminology, on topics such as Historical Philosophy and Science, History of Science and Medicine and Science and Climate Studies.

OpenAlex
World rank
#444,015
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#152,683
of 358,040
Works
22
Citations
10
Citations per work
0.5

What does William P. D. Wightman research?

History and Philosophy of Science: 60.0%History: 13.3%Medical Terminology: 6.7%Dermatology: 6.7%other fields: 13.3%60%top field
History and Philosophy of Science60.0%History13.3%Medical Terminology6.7%Dermatology6.7%other fields13.3%

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 Science60% of their works
  2. 2History13% of their works
  3. 3Medical Terminology7% of their works
  4. 4Dermatology7% of their works
  5. 5Philosophy7% of their works
  6. 6Global and Planetary Change7% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe William P. D. Wightman's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Medicine, Philosophy, Natural Philosophy, Scientific Culture, Epidemiology, History, Science and Surgery.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Medicine52 topics
  2. Philosophy52 topics
  3. Natural Philosophy31 topic
  4. Scientific Culture31 topic
  5. Epidemiology22 topics
  6. History21 topic
  7. Science21 topic
  8. Surgery22 topics
  9. Ancient Medicine11 topic
  10. Blood Transfusion11 topic
  11. Client11 topic
  12. Climate Change11 topic
  13. Environmental Science11 topic
  14. Global History11 topic
  15. Inflammatory Disease11 topic
  16. Islamic Medicine11 topic
  17. Obstetrics11 topic
  18. Patient11 topic
  19. Prurigo Pigmentosa11 topic
  20. Science Circulation11 topic

Where does William P. D. Wightman work?

William P. D. Wightman's main affiliation in the publication record is The King's College, United States.

How many publications and citations does William P. D. Wightman have?

Science Explorer counts 22 works and 10 citations for William P. D. Wightman, ranking #444,015 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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