Andrew Pickering

4.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
43 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Andrew Pickering is a scholar working on History and Philosophy of Science, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Andrew Pickering has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in History and Philosophy of Science, 8 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 7 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Andrew Pickering's work include Cybernetics and Technology in Society (11 papers), Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life (7 papers) and Information Systems Theories and Implementation (4 papers). Andrew Pickering is often cited by papers focused on Cybernetics and Technology in Society (11 papers), Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life (7 papers) and Information Systems Theories and Implementation (4 papers). Andrew Pickering collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and South Korea. Andrew Pickering's co-authors include Michael Lynch, Malcolm Ashmore, Virginia Foot, Brian Rotman, Howard Margolis, Michael J. Castle and Karen L. Baxter and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Andrew Pickering

37 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Andrew Pickering United Kingdom	14	765	415	236	189	172	43	2.3k
Andrew Pickering United Kingdom	17	973 1.3×	384 0.9×	275 1.2×	129 0.7×	164 1.0×	41	2.7k
Joseph Rouse United States	15	501 0.7×	387 0.9×	154 0.7×	105 0.6×	78 0.5×	61	1.4k
Steve Fuller United Kingdom	28	1.1k 1.5×	613 1.5×	317 1.3×	270 1.4×	82 0.5×	296	3.3k
Barry Barnes United Kingdom	23	905 1.2×	527 1.3×	204 0.9×	94 0.5×	64 0.4×	76	2.5k
Alfred North Whitehead	16	598 0.8×	262 0.6×	224 0.9×	237 1.3×	115 0.7×	49	2.8k
Langdon Winner United States	14	1.3k 1.7×	135 0.3×	205 0.9×	231 1.2×	119 0.7×	55	3.1k
Ludwik Fleck Austria	8	544 0.7×	281 0.7×	177 0.8×	101 0.5×	52 0.3×	10	2.0k
Andrew Feenberg Canada	29	1.4k 1.8×	158 0.4×	404 1.7×	316 1.7×	55 0.3×	136	3.4k
Mario Biagioli United States	21	460 0.6×	506 1.2×	109 0.5×	56 0.3×	89 0.5×	60	2.0k
Simon Schaffer United Kingdom	23	979 1.3×	1.5k 3.6×	136 0.6×	113 0.6×	263 1.5×	82	4.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Andrew Pickering

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All Works

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Pickering, Andrew. (2023). What Is Agency? A View from Science Studies and Cybernetics. Biological Theory. 19(1). 16–21. 6 indexed citations

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Pickering, Andrew. (2022). Acting with the World: Doing without Science. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2 indexed citations

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Pickering, Andrew. (2017). IN OUR PLACE. Common Knowledge. 23(3). 381–395. 4 indexed citations

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Pickering, Andrew. (2016). Art, Science and Experiment. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(1). 7 indexed citations

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Pickering, Andrew. (2015). Laing beyond words: antipsychiatry as performance. 71–80.

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Pickering, Andrew. (2015). The Next Macy Conference: A New Interdisciplinary Synthesis [Keynote]. IEEE Technology and Society Magazine. 34(3). 37–38.

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Pickering, Andrew. (2012). Material Culture and the Dance of Agency. Oxford University Press eBooks. 22 indexed citations

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Pickering, Andrew. (2011). Cyborg Spirituality. Medical History. 55(3). 349–353. 2 indexed citations

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Pickering, Andrew. (2011). Ontological Politics : Realism and Agency in Science, Technology and Art. 4. 7 indexed citations

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Pickering, Andrew. (2009). THE POLITICS OF THEORY. Journal of Cultural Economy. 2(1-2). 197–212. 30 indexed citations

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Pickering, Andrew. (2009). Psychiatry, synthetic brains and cybernetics in the work of W. Ross Ashby. International Journal of General Systems. 38(2). 213–230. 4 indexed citations

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Pickering, Andrew. (2008). Emergence and synthesis: science studies, cybernetics and antidisciplinarity. Technoetic Arts. 6(2). 127–133. 2 indexed citations

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Pickering, Andrew. (2008). Brains, Selves and Spirituality in the History of Cybernetics. Open Research Exeter (University of Exeter). 8 indexed citations

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Pickering, Andrew. (2007). Ontological Theatre Gordon Pask, Cybernetics, and the Arts.. Cybernetics & human knowing. 14. 43–57. 11 indexed citations

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Baxter, Karen L., et al.. (2007). UK small scale UVLIF lidar for standoff BW detection. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 6739. 67390Z–67390Z. 13 indexed citations

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Pickering, Andrew. (2006). Archigram: Architecture without Architecture (review). Technology and Culture. 47(3). 661–663. 2 indexed citations

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Pickering, Andrew. (2005). From Dyes to Iraq: A Reply to Jonathan Harwoood. Perspectives on Science. 13(3). 416–425. 6 indexed citations

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Pickering, Andrew. (2005). Asian Eels and Global Warming: A Posthumanist Perspective on Society and the Environment. Ethics & the Environment. 10(2). 29–43. 38 indexed citations

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Pickering, Andrew. (1999). Nuclear Rites: A Weapons Laboratory at the End of the Cold War. American Ethnologist. 26(4). 1003–1004. 1 indexed citations

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Pickering, Andrew. (1995). Explanation, Agency, and Metaphysics: A Reply to Owen Flanagan. South Atlantic Quarterly. 94(2). 475–480. 2 indexed citations

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