Gerald Holton

5.5k total citations
171 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Gerald Holton is a scholar working on History and Philosophy of Science, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Gerald Holton has authored 171 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in History and Philosophy of Science, 17 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 12 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Gerald Holton's work include Philosophy and History of Science (12 papers), Relativity and Gravitational Theory (11 papers) and Philosophy, Science, and History (9 papers). Gerald Holton is often cited by papers focused on Philosophy and History of Science (12 papers), Relativity and Gravitational Theory (11 papers) and Philosophy, Science, and History (9 papers). Gerald Holton collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Gerald Holton's co-authors include Thomas F. Gieryn, Gerhard Sonnert, Louis Weber, Daniel M. Siegel, David Topper, Yehuda Elkana, Henry H. Bauer, Clayton A. Gearhart, Erik H. Erikson and J. MacLachlan and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Gerald Holton

149 papers receiving 2.3k citations

Peers

Gerald Holton
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  • History and Philosophy of Science 632
  • Education 525
  • Sociology and Political Science 328
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology 305
  • Social Psychology 246
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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
# Work Indexed citations
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Robert K. Merton (4 July 1910 - 23 February 2003).
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2
Robert K. Merton
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3
A Vision of Jeffersonian Science.
27
4
The advancement of science, and its burdens : with a new introduction
4
5
The scientific imagination : with a new introduction
9
6
How a Scientific Discovery Is Made: A Case History
30
7
On the Art of Scientific Imagination
15
8
Career Patterns of Women and Men in the Sciences
124
9
Niels Bohr and the Integrity of Science
4
10
The awards of science and other essays
9
11
"A Nation at Risk" Revisited.
11
12
Project physics : text
5
13
Thematische Analyse der Wissenschaft : die Physik Einsteins und seiner Zeit
6
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Project physics : resource book
2
15
The Twentieth-century sciences : studies in the biography of ideas
25
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Improving College Science Teaching: Lessons From Contemporary Science and the History of Science.
1
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The Roots of Complementarity.
45
18
Science and culture : a study of cohesive and disjunctive forces
6
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Scientific Research and Scholarship Notes toward the Design of Proper Scales
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Johannes Kepler et les origines philosophiques de la physique moderne.
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