Subfield · History and Philosophy of Science
Top History and Philosophy of Science Researchers
Charles Tilly ranks first, out of 4,427 ranked researchers.
Composite score: field-normalised excellence, output and total citations weighted 50 / 30 / 20, each as a percentile so no single heavy-tailed measure dominates. Floor: 15 works, and an institution the snapshot can resolve.
The ranking
- 1 Charles Tilly United States · #8 worldwide 3.7k citations · 238 works
- 2 Stanley Hoffmann United States · #21 worldwide 2.3k citations · 197 works
- 3 Bruno Latour France · #46 worldwide 2k citations · 198 works
- 4 Niklas Luhmann Germany · #53 worldwide 2.3k citations · 277 works
- 5 Herbert A. Simon United States · #65 worldwide 4.2k citations · 188 works
- 6 Steven Weinberg United States · #121 worldwide 5.1k citations · 151 works
- 7 Fritz Stern United States · #126 worldwide 1.2k citations · 183 works
- 8 Peter Burke United States · #136 worldwide 997 citations · 191 works
- 9 Jean Piaget Switzerland · #208 worldwide 1.6k citations · 144 works
- 10 E. P. Wigner United States · #214 worldwide 2.8k citations · 203 works
- 11 Martha C. Nussbaum United States · #279 worldwide 1.6k citations · 260 works
- 12 Hans A. Bethe United States · #371 worldwide 3.1k citations · 120 works
- 13 Richard Rorty United States · #462 worldwide 1.2k citations · 258 works
- 14 Ian Hacking Canada · #791 worldwide 1.3k citations · 118 works
- 15 Immanuel Kant United States · #896 worldwide 718 citations · 185 works
- 16 Andrew J. Pierre United States · #944 worldwide 951 citations · 155 works
- 17 Ronald Aylmer Fisher United Kingdom · #947 worldwide 2k citations · 229 works
- 18 Nigel Thrift United Kingdom · #963 worldwide 1.2k citations · 105 works
- 19 Hans Reichenbach Germany · #1,039 worldwide 1.6k citations · 111 works
- 20 N. David Mermin United States · #1,111 worldwide 2.1k citations · 120 works
- 21 Ken Hyland United Kingdom · #1,163 worldwide 1.7k citations · 101 works
- 22 W. V. Quine United States · #1,177 worldwide 1.1k citations · 105 works
- 23 William H. Sewell United States · #1,183 worldwide 1.6k citations · 90 works
- 24 Linus Pauling United States · #1,259 worldwide 2k citations · 150 works
- 25 Theodosius Dobzhansky United States · #1,282 worldwide 1.6k citations · 102 works
- 26 David Hume Australia · #1,397 worldwide 1.9k citations · 378 works
- 27 Andrew Gelman United States · #1,619 worldwide 2.2k citations · 133 works
- 28 Ernest Nagel United States · #1,645 worldwide 888 citations · 98 works
- 29 David A. Bell United Kingdom · #1,653 worldwide 1.1k citations · 94 works
- 30 Daniel C. Dennett United States · #1,701 worldwide 1.3k citations · 101 works
- 31 Karl R. Popper Mexico · #1,846 worldwide 1.5k citations · 79 works
- 32 Peter Gärdenfors Sweden · #1,920 worldwide 1.1k citations · 106 works
- 33 Charles Darwin Indonesia · #1,923 worldwide 1.3k citations · 188 works
- 34 John Sutton Australia · #1,956 worldwide 1.5k citations · 134 works
- 35 John R. Searle United States · #2,126 worldwide 1.1k citations · 131 works
- 36 David Hilbert Germany · #2,136 worldwide 666 citations · 113 works
- 37 Carl G. Hempel United States · #2,479 worldwide 1.7k citations · 71 works
- 38 John Locke United States · #2,559 worldwide 1.3k citations · 285 works
- 39 John Clare United Kingdom · #2,578 worldwide 2k citations · 201 works
- 40 Lord Rayleigh Italy · #2,594 worldwide 2.5k citations · 69 works
- 41 George W. Stocking United States · #2,703 worldwide 619 citations · 87 works
- 42 Richard H. Popkin United States · #2,754 worldwide 484 citations · 97 works
- 43 John Ziman United Kingdom · #2,825 worldwide 857 citations · 100 works
- 44 Henri Poincaré France · #2,870 worldwide 596 citations · 96 works
- 45 Donald Davidson United States · #2,897 worldwide 1.1k citations · 74 works
- 46 James F. Crow United States · #2,999 worldwide 1.2k citations · 76 works
- 47 Joan Wallach Scott United States · #3,074 worldwide 643 citations · 76 works
- 48 Ilya Prigogine United States · #3,076 worldwide 1.7k citations · 203 works
- 49 Patrick Suppes United States · #3,155 worldwide 1.7k citations · 154 works
- 50 Gilbert Harman United States · #3,257 worldwide 1.4k citations · 69 works
- 51 Rudolf Schmid United States · #3,287 worldwide 1.9k citations · 216 works
- 52 Richard Swinburne United Kingdom · #3,310 worldwide 505 citations · 96 works
- 53 A. L. Kroeber United States · #3,778 worldwide 689 citations · 116 works
- 54 Max Black United States · #3,988 worldwide 647 citations · 73 works
- 55 Andy Clark United Kingdom · #4,109 worldwide 1.3k citations · 104 works
- 56 Philip Kitcher United States · #4,131 worldwide 699 citations · 103 works
- 57 Isaiah Berlín United Kingdom · #4,634 worldwide 524 citations · 68 works
- 58 Pétros Ioannou United States · #4,772 worldwide 2.4k citations · 147 works
- 59 Keith S. Taber United Kingdom · #4,955 worldwide 1.8k citations · 112 works
- 60 Nelson Goodman United States · #5,115 worldwide 1.3k citations · 59 works
- 61 Joseph Needham United States · #5,147 worldwide 380 citations · 80 works
- 62 Michael Polanyi United Kingdom · #5,160 worldwide 1k citations · 82 works
- 63 Alfred Schütz United States · #5,166 worldwide 603 citations · 65 works
- 64 Niels Bohr Denmark · #5,301 worldwide 820 citations · 65 works
- 65 James Clerk Maxwell United Kingdom · #5,455 worldwide 669 citations · 108 works
- 66 Karl Sigmund Austria · #5,666 worldwide 1.1k citations · 78 works
- 67 Julian Huxley United Kingdom · #5,682 worldwide 821 citations · 70 works
- 68 William H. McNeill United States · #5,772 worldwide 404 citations · 114 works
- 69 Alvin I. Goldman United States · #6,217 worldwide 1.1k citations · 61 works
- 70 Rudolf Carnap United States · #6,425 worldwide 1.1k citations · 56 works
- 71 John Dupré United Kingdom · #6,600 worldwide 920 citations · 91 works
- 72 George Gabriel Stokes United States · #6,698 worldwide 591 citations · 62 works
- 73 Jacques Godechot France · #6,735 worldwide 243 citations · 172 works
- 74 Erwin Schrödinger Ireland · #6,830 worldwide 616 citations · 65 works
- 75 Georg G. Iggers United States · #7,026 worldwide 349 citations · 67 works
- 76 Konrad Zuse Germany · #7,166 worldwide 4.3k citations · 52 works
- 77 Theodor W. Adorno Colombia · #7,258 worldwide 341 citations · 170 works
- 78 Thomas P. Hughes United States · #7,396 worldwide 380 citations · 65 works
- 79 Arthur O. Lovejoy United States · #7,547 worldwide 404 citations · 63 works
- 80 Robert Brown United States · #7,743 worldwide 1.3k citations · 55 works
- 81 Donald R. Kelley United States · #7,748 worldwide 305 citations · 67 works
- 82 Paul K. Feyerabend United States · #7,818 worldwide 407 citations · 70 works
- 83 Ernst Cassirer Mexico · #7,828 worldwide 345 citations · 69 works
- 84 Steven Shapin United States · #7,887 worldwide 515 citations · 59 works
- 85 R. N. Swanson United Kingdom · #8,054 worldwide 314 citations · 73 works
- 86 James L. Powell United States · #8,097 worldwide 880 citations · 64 works
- 87 Hilary Putnam United States · #8,127 worldwide 688 citations · 123 works
- 88 Roderick M. Chisholm United States · #8,192 worldwide 489 citations · 80 works
- 89 Sandra Harding United States · #8,222 worldwide 516 citations · 78 works
- 90 Alvin M. Weinberg United States · #8,341 worldwide 563 citations · 86 works
- 91 Jerry A. Fodor Netherlands · #8,345 worldwide 1.5k citations · 51 works
- 92 S. C. Lind United States · #8,383 worldwide 612 citations · 58 works
- 93 Charles Webster United Kingdom · #8,394 worldwide 315 citations · 67 works
- 94 Bernhard Dotzler United States · #9,644 worldwide 247 citations · 172 works
- 95 Gary Hatfield United States · #9,729 worldwide 523 citations · 55 works
- 96 William C. Roberts United States · #9,733 worldwide 2.2k citations · 321 works
- 97 Paul Thagard Canada · #9,947 worldwide 711 citations · 70 works
- 98 Anthony Grafton United States · #9,960 worldwide 225 citations · 89 works
- 99 Isabelle Stengers Belgium · #9,985 worldwide 267 citations · 115 works
- 100 George C. Williams United States · #10,071 worldwide 716 citations · 66 works
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