Donald Davidson

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
6 papers, 934 citations indexed

About

Donald Davidson is a scholar working on History and Philosophy of Science, Artificial Intelligence and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Donald Davidson has authored 6 papers receiving a total of 934 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 1 paper in History and Philosophy of Science, 1 paper in Artificial Intelligence and 1 paper in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Donald Davidson's work include Philosophy and Theoretical Science (1 paper), Economic Theory and Institutions (1 paper) and Philosophy and History of Science (1 paper). Donald Davidson is often cited by papers focused on Philosophy and Theoretical Science (1 paper), Economic Theory and Institutions (1 paper) and Philosophy and History of Science (1 paper). Donald Davidson collaborates with scholars based in United States. Donald Davidson's co-authors include Gilbert Harman, Patrick Suppes, J. Kiefer, J. C. C. McKinsey, Richard L. Deininger, R. Duncan Luce and Sidney Siegel and has published in prestigious journals such as Econometrica, The American Journal of Psychology and The Journal of Philosophy.

In The Last Decade

Donald Davidson

6 papers receiving 707 citations

Hit Papers

Semantics of natural language 1970 2026 1988 2007 1970 100 200 300 400
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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. Semantics of natural language
    1970 450 citations Donald Davidson, Gilbert Harman Synthese profile →

Peers

Donald Davidson
Martha Kneale
William Kneale United States
Wolfgang Stegmüller Germany
Russell Revlin United States
Jonathan E. Adler United States
G. P. Henderson United Kingdom
Maurice A. Finocchiaro United States
Bernard Berofsky United States
Yaakov Kareev Israel
Risto Hilpinen Finland
Martha Kneale
Donald Davidson
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Countries citing papers authored by Donald Davidson

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Fields of papers citing papers by Donald Davidson

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Donald Davidson

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Donald Davidson. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Donald Davidson based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Donald Davidson. Donald Davidson is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

6 of 6 papers shown
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Davidson, Donald & Gilbert Harman. (1970). Semantics of natural language. Synthese. 21(3-4). 249–250. 450 indexed citations breakdown →
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Deininger, Richard L., Donald Davidson, & Patrick Suppes. (1959). Decision Making: An Experimental Approach. The American Journal of Psychology. 72(2). 322–322. 80 indexed citations
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Luce, R. Duncan, Donald Davidson, Patrick Suppes, & Sidney Siegel. (1959). Decision Making; an Experimental Approach.. The Journal of Philosophy. 56(4). 173–173. 81 indexed citations
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Kiefer, J., Donald Davidson, & Patrick Suppes. (1959). Decision Making: An Experimental Approach. Econometrica. 27(3). 522–522. 157 indexed citations
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Davidson, Donald & Patrick Suppes. (1956). A Finitistic Axiomatization of Subjective Probability and Utility. Econometrica. 24(3). 264–264. 52 indexed citations
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Davidson, Donald, J. C. C. McKinsey, & Patrick Suppes. (1955). Outlines of a Formal Theory of Value, I. Philosophy of Science. 22(2). 140–160. 114 indexed citations

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