David Bloor

7.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
62 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

David Bloor is a scholar working on Philosophy, History and Philosophy of Science and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, David Bloor has authored 62 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Philosophy, 14 papers in History and Philosophy of Science and 7 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in David Bloor's work include Philosophy and History of Science (11 papers), Wittgensteinian philosophy and applications (6 papers) and Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (5 papers). David Bloor is often cited by papers focused on Philosophy and History of Science (11 papers), Wittgensteinian philosophy and applications (6 papers) and Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (5 papers). David Bloor collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Germany and United States. David Bloor's co-authors include James G. Carrier, Susan Hekman, Barry Barnes, R. A. Hann, Paul Whittle, David Stern, Hans Sluga, Naomi Scheman, Stanley Cavell and Donna M. Summerfield and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews and British Journal of Sociology.

In The Last Decade

David Bloor

59 papers receiving 2.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Knowledge and Social Imagery

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
David Bloor United Kingdom	19	1.2k	871	620	389	289	62	3.5k
J. E. McGuire United States	15	983 0.8×	777 0.9×	486 0.8×	489 1.3×	344 1.2×	40	5.2k
Paul K. Feyerabend United States	30	753 0.6×	1.1k 1.3×	530 0.9×	395 1.0×	328 1.1×	128	3.6k
Michael Mulkay United Kingdom	31	1.5k 1.2×	507 0.6×	318 0.5×	412 1.1×	333 1.2×	80	4.5k
Karl Popper United Kingdom	21	958 0.8×	584 0.7×	424 0.7×	250 0.6×	227 0.8×	67	3.7k
Charles S. Peirce United States	24	771 0.6×	602 0.7×	1.2k 1.9×	361 0.9×	525 1.8×	85	3.9k
Helen E. Longino United States	23	1.8k 1.5×	1.1k 1.2×	913 1.5×	533 1.4×	196 0.7×	67	4.3k
Imre Lakatos United Kingdom	22	751 0.6×	935 1.1×	418 0.7×	1000 2.6×	411 1.4×	36	4.4k
Michael Lynch United States	35	1.9k 1.6×	432 0.5×	369 0.6×	541 1.4×	510 1.8×	179	6.2k
Mary Hesse United Kingdom	19	934 0.8×	1.2k 1.3×	685 1.1×	567 1.5×	557 1.9×	73	5.1k
David B. Burrell United States	11	852 0.7×	293 0.3×	817 1.3×	354 0.9×	372 1.3×	90	2.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Bloor

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All Works

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Bloor, David. (2016). RELATIVISM VERSUS ABSOLUTISM. Common Knowledge. 22(3). 488–499.

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Bloor, David. (2008). Sichtbarmachung, common sense and construction in fluid mechanics: the cases of Hele-Shaw and Ludwig Prandtl. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A. 39(3). 349–358. 4 indexed citations

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Bloor, David. (2007). Epistemic Grace. Common Knowledge. 13(2-3). 250–280. 21 indexed citations

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Vincenti, Walter G. & David Bloor. (2003). Boundaries, Contingencies and Rigor. Social Studies of Science. 33(4). 469–507. 10 indexed citations

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Bloor, David. (1999). Anti-Latour. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A. 30(1). 81–112. 191 indexed citations

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Bloor, David & David Edge. (1998). Knowing reality through society. Physics World. 11(3). 23–23. 4 indexed citations

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Bloor, David & Donald MacKenzie. (1997). Science as a cultural construct. Nature. 387(6633). 544–544. 1 indexed citations

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Bloor, David. (1997). Acknowledgement. History of the Human Sciences. 10(1). 123–125. 4 indexed citations

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Sluga, Hans, Robert J. Fogelin, Thomas Ricketts, et al.. (1996). The Cambridge Companion to Wittgenstein. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 96 indexed citations

10.

Bloor, David. (1996). Idealism and the Sociology of Knowledge. Social Studies of Science. 26(4). 839–856. 33 indexed citations

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Hann, R. A. & David Bloor. (1989). Organic materials for non-linear optics : the proceedings of a conference organised by the Applied Solid State Chemistry Group of the Dalton Division of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Oxford, 29th-30th June 1988. 34 indexed citations

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Bloor, David. (1983). Coleridge's Moral Copula. Social Studies of Science. 13(4). 605–619. 1 indexed citations

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Bloor, David. (1982). A reply to Gerd Buchdahl. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A. 13(4). 305–311. 5 indexed citations

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Bloor, David. (1979). Knowledge and Social Imagery. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. 30(2). 4 indexed citations

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Bloor, David. (1978). Polyhedra and the Abominations of Leviticus. The British Journal for the History of Science. 11(3). 245–272. 67 indexed citations

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Bloor, David. (1975). A Philosophical Approach to Science. Social Studies of Science. 5(4). 507–517. 7 indexed citations

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Bloor, David. (1974). Essay Review: Popper's Mystification of Objective Knowledge. 4(1). 65–76. 38 indexed citations

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Bloor, David. (1974). Rearguard RationalismHuman Understanding. Volume I: The Collective Use and Evolution of Concepts. Stephen Toulmin. Isis. 65(2). 249–253. 1 indexed citations

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Bloor, David. (1971). The dialectics of metaphor. Inquiry. 14(1-4). 430–444. 6 indexed citations

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Bloor, David. (1970). Is the Official Theory of Mind Absurd?. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. 21(2). 167–183. 4 indexed citations

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