Scholarly Index

Philosophy and History of Science

Lifetime World Top1000 Scholar ranking for Philosophy and History of Science.

World rank	Scholar	Impact score	Total citations	Total publications
1	Gerd Gigerenzer	99.73	49,650	543
2	Elliott Sober	99.58	13,575	229
3	Ian Hacking	99.44	19,239	268
4	P. N. Johnson‐Laird	99.38	20,417	296
5	Philip Kitcher	99.36	12,215	233
6	Olivier Rieppel	99.35	11,640	318
7	Paul E. Meehl	99.33	38,783	158
8	Paul Thagard	99.27	11,937	198
9	David L. Hull	99.13	11,584	227
10	Bas C. van Fraassen	99.09	6,569	143
11	Ernst Mayr	99.03	26,561	559
12	William Bechtel	99.00	6,837	178
13	Jonathan Schaffer	99.00	7,129	74
14	Peter Godfrey‐Smith	98.94	5,982	129
15	Michael Ruse	98.94	5,527	527
16	Timothy Williamson	98.92	14,181	288
17	Massimo Pigliucci	98.91	14,121	296
18	Stephen Jay Gould	98.90	57,074	652
19	Clark Glymour	98.89	12,696	265
20	Paul E. Griffiths	98.87	6,540	170
21	John Dupré	98.86	17,025	309
22	John D. Norton	98.85	11,842	279
23	Geoffrey M. Hodgson	98.83	16,041	340
24	Nancy Cartwright	98.67	7,460	137
25	Igor Douven	98.66	4,402	194
26	James Woodward	98.66	5,924	99
27	Mark Colyvan	98.61	4,713	118
28	John Earman	98.55	7,215	137
29	Steven French	98.39	4,495	164
30	Alexander Bird	98.33	3,716	129
31	Jaegwon Kim	98.31	9,042	101
32	Gualtiero Piccinini	98.29	3,978	80
33	Christopher Hitchcock	98.27	9,175	60
34	James Ladyman	98.22	5,455	105
35	Samir Okasha	98.16	2,801	134
36	Herbert A. Simon	98.14	135,292	558
37	Marc Lange	98.13	2,508	134
38	Carl F. Craver	98.12	8,481	68
39	Ronald N. Giere	98.08	6,182	121
40	Jerry A. Fodor	98.02	23,656	165
41	Kim Sterelny	98.01	9,612	174
42	John Worrall	98.00	5,831	161
43	Patrick Suppes	97.99	17,597	385
44	Wesley C. Salmon	97.98	3,160	109
45	Elisabeth A. Lloyd	97.97	4,904	91
46	Uskali Mäki	97.96	2,877	85
47	Henry E. Kyburg	97.95	7,574	185
48	Sabina Leonelli	97.93	4,520	140
49	Daniel C. Dennett	97.92	26,117	341
50	Alvin I. Goldman	97.92	16,384	133