Ian Hacking

35.8k citations

207 papers · 16.5k indexed · 9 hit papers · h-index 49

Impact in

History and Philosophy of Science top 0.01%
- Philosophy and History of Science
- Philosophy, Science, and History
General Psychology top 0.1%
- Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology

Papers in ⓘ

History and Philosophy of Science 34
- Philosophy and History of Science 25
- Philosophy, Science, and History 6
Theoretical Computer Science 3

Co-authors: John Dupré (1 shared paper)Davis Baird (1 shared paper)Terrence L. Fine (1 shared paper)Glenn Shafer (1 shared paper)A. P. Dempster (1 shared paper)Adam Morton (1 shared paper)Erika Bourguignon (2 shared papers)Thomas Kühn (2 shared papers)
Journals: The Journal of Philosophy (14 papers)The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (8 papers)The Philosophical Review (8 papers)Philosophy of Science (7 papers)Common Knowledge (6 papers)
Partner nations: Canada France United States

In The Last Decade

Ian Hacking

191 papers receiving 13.3k citations

Hit Papers

9 papers align trajectories log scale

The Social Construction of What? 2000 · 1.9k citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2000 The Journal of Philosophy
2000 Harvard University Press eBooks
1995 Princeton University Press eBooks
1990 Cambridge University Press eBooks
1988 Noûs
1983 Cambridge University Press eBooks
1978 The Philosophical Review
1976 Journal of the American Statistical Association
1966 Journal of the American Statistical Association

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Nicholas Rescher United States

Paul Thagard Canada

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×1.1 156/141

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1	Representing and Intervening Cambridge University Press eBooks ·Ian Hacking Hit paper breakdown →	1983	2271
2	The Social Construction of What? The Journal of Philosophy ·John Dupré, Ian Hacking Hit paper breakdown →	2000	1945
3	The Taming of Chance Cambridge University Press eBooks ·Ian Hacking Hit paper breakdown →	1990	1126
4	The Social Construction of What? Harvard University Press eBooks ·Ian Hacking Hit paper breakdown →	2000	1119
5	Representing and Intervening: Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science. Noûs ·Davis Baird, Ian Hacking Hit paper breakdown →	1988	927
6	Rewriting the Soul Princeton University Press eBooks ·Ian Hacking Hit paper breakdown →	1995	678
7	The Emergence of Probability. The Philosophical Review ·Terrence L. Fine, Ian Hacking Hit paper breakdown →	1978	603
8	The Emergence of Probability. Journal of the American Statistical Association ·Glenn Shafer, Ian Hacking Hit paper breakdown →	1976	442
9	Logic of Statistical Inference. Journal of the American Statistical Association ·A. P. Dempster, Ian Hacking Hit paper breakdown →	1966	383
10	The Emergence of Probability Cambridge University Press eBooks ·Ian Hacking	2006	371
11	Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics. The Journal of Philosophy ·Ian Hacking, Hubert L. Dreyfus, Paul Rabinow, Michel Foucault	1985	326
12	Representing and Intervening. The Philosophical Review ·Adam Morton, Ian Hacking	1986	314
13	Between Michel Foucault and Erving Goffman: between discourse in the abstract and face-to-face interaction Economy and Society ·Ian Hacking	2004	280
14	An Introduction to Probability and Inductive Logic Cambridge University Press eBooks ·Ian Hacking	2001	275
15	The looping effects of human kinds Oxford University Press eBooks ·Ian Hacking	1996	258
16	‘Style’ for historians and philosophers Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A ·Ian Hacking	1992	231
17	The Identity of Indiscernibles The Journal of Philosophy ·Ian Hacking	1975	200
18	Rewriting the Soul: Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) ·Ian Hacking	2003	183
19	A tradition of natural kinds Philosophical Studies ·Ian Hacking	1991	172
20	How should we do the history of statistics Medical Entomology and Zoology ·Ian Hacking	1991	170

About Ian Hacking

Ian Hacking is a scholar working on History and Philosophy of Science, Theoretical Computer Science, Philosophy, General Psychology and Statistics and Probability, having authored 207 papers that have together received 16.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Philosophy and History of Science (25 papers), Philosophy and Theoretical Science (13 papers), Philosophy, Science, and History (6 papers), Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (5 papers), Mental Health and Psychiatry (5 papers), Science and Climate Studies (5 papers), Wittgensteinian philosophy and applications (5 papers) and Statistics Education and Methodologies (4 papers). The work is most often cited by research in History and Philosophy of Science (3.9k citations), General Psychology (436 citations), Philosophy (2.5k citations), General Decision Sciences (372 citations) and Theoretical Computer Science (156 citations). Ian Hacking has collaborated with scholars based in Canada, France and United States. Frequent co-authors include John Dupré, Davis Baird, Terrence L. Fine, Glenn Shafer, A. P. Dempster, Adam Morton, Erika Bourguignon, Thomas Kühn, Michel Foucault and Hubert L. Dreyfus. Their work appears in journals such as The Journal of Philosophy, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, The Philosophical Review, Philosophy of Science and Common Knowledge.

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