Charles E. Caton

971 total citations · 1 hit paper
15 papers, 510 citations indexed

About

Charles E. Caton is a scholar working on Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, History and Philosophy of Science and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Charles E. Caton has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 510 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 2 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, 1 paper in History and Philosophy of Science and 1 paper in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Charles E. Caton's work include Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (2 papers), Philosophy, Science, and History (1 paper) and Natural Language Processing Techniques (1 paper). Charles E. Caton is often cited by papers focused on Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (2 papers), Philosophy, Science, and History (1 paper) and Natural Language Processing Techniques (1 paper). Charles E. Caton collaborates with scholars based in United States. Charles E. Caton's co-authors include Ernest Nagel, J. J. C. Smart, Max Black, Zeno Vendler and James W. Cornman and has published in prestigious journals such as Language, The Philosophical Review and Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.

In The Last Decade

Charles E. Caton

11 papers receiving 411 citations

Hit Papers

The Structure of Science: Problems in the Logic of Scient... 1964 2026 1984 2005 1964 50 100 150 200
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. The Structure of Science: Problems in the Logic of Scientific Explanation.
    1964 213 citations Charles E. Caton, Ernest Nagel The Philosophical Review profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Charles E. Caton United States 6 175 119 86 83 68 15 510
Sidney Morgenbesser United States 12 206 1.2× 119 1.0× 173 2.0× 146 1.8× 45 0.7× 28 731
Max H. Fisch United States 11 162 0.9× 72 0.6× 265 3.1× 89 1.1× 35 0.5× 36 555
Patrick K Bastable 11 73 0.4× 93 0.8× 116 1.3× 65 0.8× 47 0.7× 21 486
Edward C. Moore United States 8 134 0.8× 55 0.5× 222 2.6× 74 0.9× 31 0.5× 23 495
William Sacksteder United States 7 53 0.3× 175 1.5× 124 1.4× 107 1.3× 67 1.0× 26 522
R. Steven Turner Canada 12 94 0.5× 74 0.6× 41 0.5× 116 1.4× 123 1.8× 23 604
Morris Weitz United States 12 137 0.8× 198 1.7× 204 2.4× 78 0.9× 26 0.4× 44 799
Peter Heath United States 17 139 0.8× 145 1.2× 293 3.4× 132 1.6× 64 0.9× 74 848
Keith Campbell Australia 11 157 0.9× 223 1.9× 174 2.0× 44 0.5× 14 0.2× 52 482
Robert E. Butts Canada 11 206 1.2× 60 0.5× 141 1.6× 40 0.5× 13 0.2× 42 464

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Fields of papers citing papers by Charles E. Caton

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Charles E. Caton

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All Works

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Caton, Charles E.. (1971). Essentially Arising Questions and the Ontology of a Natural Language. Noûs. 5(1). 27–27. 1 indexed citations
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Caton, Charles E. & Max Black. (1970). The Labyrinth of Language.. The Philosophical Quarterly. 20(79). 186–186. 4 indexed citations
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Caton, Charles E. & Zeno Vendler. (1969). Linguistics in Philosophy.. The Philosophical Review. 78(4). 518–518. 3 indexed citations
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Caton, Charles E. & James W. Cornman. (1968). Metaphysics, Reference, and Language.. The Philosophical Review. 77(3). 380–380.
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Caton, Charles E.. (1966). On the General Structure of the Epistemic Qualification of Things Said in English. 2(1). 8 indexed citations
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Caton, Charles E., et al.. (1965). Philosophy and Ordinary Language.. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. 25(4). 593–593. 69 indexed citations
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Caton, Charles E. & J. J. C. Smart. (1965). Philosophy and Scientific Realism.. The Philosophical Review. 74(4). 537–537. 152 indexed citations
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Caton, Charles E. & Ernest Nagel. (1964). The Structure of Science: Problems in the Logic of Scientific Explanation.. The Philosophical Review. 73(1). 104–104. 213 indexed citations breakdown →
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Caton, Charles E.. (1963). In What Sense and Why `Ought'--Judgements are Universalizable. The Philosophical Quarterly. 13(50). 48–48. 2 indexed citations
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Caton, Charles E.. (1962). An Apparent Difficulty in Frege's Ontology. The Philosophical Review. 71(4). 462–462. 4 indexed citations
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Caton, Charles E.. (1959). STRAWSON ON REFERRING. Mind. LXVIII(272). 539–544. 20 indexed citations
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Caton, Charles E.. (1957). 'What-for' Questions and the Use of Sentences. Analysis. 17(4). 87–87. 1 indexed citations

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