Haskell Fain

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
19 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Haskell Fain is a scholar working on History and Philosophy of Science, Anthropology and History. According to data from OpenAlex, Haskell Fain has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 3 papers in History and Philosophy of Science, 2 papers in Anthropology and 2 papers in History. Recurrent topics in Haskell Fain's work include Philosophy, History, and Historiography (2 papers), Philosophy and History of Science (2 papers) and Philippine History and Culture (1 paper). Haskell Fain is often cited by papers focused on Philosophy, History, and Historiography (2 papers), Philosophy and History of Science (2 papers) and Philippine History and Culture (1 paper). Haskell Fain collaborates with scholars based in United States and United Kingdom. Haskell Fain's co-authors include Carl G. Hempel, Geoffrey Hawthorn, Evan Simpson, Eugene F. Kaelin, Hanna Fenichel Pitkin and Burleigh Taylor Wilkins and has published in prestigious journals such as American Sociological Review, The American Historical Review and The Philosophical Review.

In The Last Decade

Haskell Fain

14 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

Aspects of Scientific Explanation and Other Essays in the... 1966 2026 1986 2006 1966 250 500 750 1000
What are hit papers?

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. Aspects of Scientific Explanation and Other Essays in the Philosophy of Science.
    1966 1.1k citations Haskell Fain, Carl G. Hempel American Sociological 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
Haskell Fain United States 6 448 299 241 159 127 19 1.3k
Peter Alexander United Kingdom 10 343 0.8× 353 1.2× 233 1.0× 189 1.2× 103 0.8× 44 1.9k
David Hawkins United States 12 539 1.2× 325 1.1× 185 0.8× 191 1.2× 120 0.9× 31 1.9k
Gavin Ardley New Zealand 10 434 1.0× 334 1.1× 206 0.9× 243 1.5× 137 1.1× 23 2.0k
Pierre Duhem United States 11 856 1.9× 235 0.8× 321 1.3× 165 1.0× 103 0.8× 38 1.7k
Harry Ruja United States 8 350 0.8× 500 1.7× 267 1.1× 195 1.2× 175 1.4× 23 2.4k
Ludwik Fleck Austria 8 281 0.6× 544 1.8× 213 0.9× 89 0.6× 75 0.6× 10 2.0k
Hugh Lehman Canada 9 490 1.1× 468 1.6× 193 0.8× 197 1.2× 87 0.7× 33 2.2k
Thaddeus J. Trenn Germany 7 271 0.6× 467 1.6× 177 0.7× 76 0.5× 60 0.5× 18 1.8k
Marjorie Grene United States 22 367 0.8× 539 1.8× 320 1.3× 210 1.3× 51 0.4× 77 2.0k
Peter Achinstein United States 20 830 1.9× 172 0.6× 362 1.5× 265 1.7× 172 1.4× 75 1.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Haskell Fain

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Fields of papers citing papers by Haskell Fain

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Haskell Fain

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Haskell Fain. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Haskell Fain 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 Haskell Fain. Haskell Fain is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

19 of 19 papers shown
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Fain, Haskell. (2015). Between Philosophy and History: The Resurrection of Speculative Philosophy of History within the Analytic Tradition. Princeton University Press eBooks. 1 indexed citations
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Fain, Haskell & Geoffrey Hawthorn. (1993). Plausible Worlds; Possibility and Understanding in History and the Social Sciences.. History and Theory. 32(1). 83–83. 80 indexed citations
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Simpson, Evan & Haskell Fain. (1991). Normative Politics and the Community of Nations.. Noûs. 25(3). 373–373. 5 indexed citations
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Fain, Haskell. (1990). Some Comments on Stern's "Narrative versus Description in Historiography". New Literary History. 21(3). 569–569. 1 indexed citations
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Fain, Haskell, et al.. (1981). Knowledge and Explanation in History. An Introduction to the Philosophy of History.. History and Theory. 20(1). 100–100. 3 indexed citations
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Fain, Haskell, et al.. (1980). The Writing of History: Literary Form and Historical Understanding. The American Historical Review. 85(5). 1167–1167. 25 indexed citations
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Fain, Haskell & Hanna Fenichel Pitkin. (1980). Hanna Pitkin's The Concept of Representation. Noûs. 14(1). 109–109. 3 indexed citations
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Fain, Haskell. (1972). The Idea of the State. Noûs. 6(1). 15–15. 1 indexed citations
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Fain, Haskell, et al.. (1972). Between Philosophy and History; The Resurrection of Speculative Philosophy of History Within the Analytic Tradition.. The Journal of Philosophy. 69(8). 227–227. 2 indexed citations
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Wilkins, Burleigh Taylor & Haskell Fain. (1971). Between Philosophy and History: The Resurrection of Speculative Philosophy of History Within the Analytic Tradition.. The Journal of Southern History. 37(2). 280–280. 1 indexed citations
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Fain, Haskell, et al.. (1971). Between Philosophy and History. The Resurrection of Speculative Philosophy of History within the Analytic Tradition.. The Philosophical Quarterly. 21(84). 278–278. 7 indexed citations
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Fain, Haskell. (1970). History as Science. History and Theory. 9(2). 154–154. 5 indexed citations
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Fain, Haskell. (1970). Between philosophy and history. 6 indexed citations
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Fain, Haskell. (1967). The Very Thought of Grue. The Philosophical Review. 76(1). 61–61. 2 indexed citations
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Fain, Haskell & Carl G. Hempel. (1966). Aspects of Scientific Explanation and Other Essays in the Philosophy of Science.. American Sociological Review. 31(1). 130–130. 1111 indexed citations breakdown →
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Fain, Haskell & Eugene F. Kaelin. (1960). Student philosophical opinions: A survey. Inquiry. 3(1-4). 137–152. 3 indexed citations
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Fain, Haskell. (1959). More on the Esse is Percipi Principle. Theoria. 25(2). 65–81.

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