Kostas Kampourakis

2.4k total citations
77 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Kostas Kampourakis is a scholar working on History and Philosophy of Science, Education and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Kostas Kampourakis has authored 77 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in History and Philosophy of Science, 15 papers in Education and 14 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Kostas Kampourakis's work include Evolution and Science Education (28 papers), Philosophy and History of Science (14 papers) and Science Education and Pedagogy (13 papers). Kostas Kampourakis is often cited by papers focused on Evolution and Science Education (28 papers), Philosophy and History of Science (14 papers) and Science Education and Pedagogy (13 papers). Kostas Kampourakis collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Greece and United States. Kostas Kampourakis's co-authors include Kevin McCain, William F. McComas, George P. Patrinos, Norman G. Lederman, Bruno J. Strasser, Thomas A. C. Reydon, Andréas Müller, Μαρία Παπαδοπούλου, Christina Mitropoulou and Tobias Uller and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Kostas Kampourakis

68 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kostas Kampourakis Switzerland 19 632 517 398 354 191 77 1.2k
Douglas Allchin United States 23 1.4k 2.3× 319 0.6× 932 2.3× 317 0.9× 426 2.2× 136 2.3k
Minsu Ha South Korea 18 773 1.2× 409 0.8× 367 0.9× 410 1.2× 145 0.8× 99 1.3k
Brian Alters United States 14 536 0.8× 522 1.0× 210 0.5× 409 1.2× 213 1.1× 29 943
Colin Wood‐Robinson United Kingdom 15 975 1.5× 192 0.4× 508 1.3× 413 1.2× 64 0.3× 28 1.4k
Eleanor Abrams United States 14 480 0.8× 76 0.1× 207 0.5× 263 0.7× 110 0.6× 28 897
Sarah K. Brem United States 14 482 0.8× 359 0.7× 367 0.9× 357 1.0× 197 1.0× 34 1.1k
Jeffrey S. Poland United States 5 208 0.3× 426 0.8× 154 0.4× 53 0.1× 88 0.5× 6 914
Fred N. Finley United States 13 664 1.1× 210 0.4× 331 0.8× 237 0.7× 54 0.3× 27 838
Sehoya Cotner United States 23 892 1.4× 171 0.3× 240 0.6× 337 1.0× 173 0.9× 76 1.5k
Stuart Glennan United States 12 150 0.2× 736 1.4× 110 0.3× 45 0.1× 177 0.9× 27 1.2k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kostas Kampourakis

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All Works

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Kampourakis, Kostas, et al.. (2025). Ancestry inferences from DNA testing results: The problem of sociogenetic essentialism. History & Philosophy of the Life Sciences. 47(2). 25–25.
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Kampourakis, Kostas. (2024). Teaching School Genetics in the 2020s: Why “Naive” Mendelian Genetics Has to Go. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology. 17(6). a041679–a041679.
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Brock, Richard, et al.. (2024). Using Text Mining to Identify Teleological Explanations in Physics and Biology Textbooks: An Exploratory Study. Science & Education. 34(4). 2167–2188.
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Kampourakis, Kostas. (2020). Students’ “teleological misconceptions” in evolution education: why the underlying design stance, not teleology per se, is the problem. Evolution Education and Outreach. 13(1). 1–1. 54 indexed citations
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Kampourakis, Kostas. (2020). Eugene Earshaw-Whyte,Modelling Evolution: A New Dynamic Account, New York: Routledge, 2018, 145 pp, £105.00 (hardback). History & Philosophy of the Life Sciences. 42(1).
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Delaval, Marine, et al.. (2020). Implicit associations of teleology and essentialism concepts with genetics concepts among secondary school students. PLoS ONE. 15(11). e0242189–e0242189. 4 indexed citations
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Kampourakis, Kostas. (2019). Empirical Philosophy of Science. Science & Education. 28(1-2). 1–3. 3 indexed citations
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Kampourakis, Kostas. (2018). On the Meaning of Concepts in Science Education. Science & Education. 27(7-8). 591–592. 11 indexed citations
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Kampourakis, Kostas. (2018). Darwinism, Democracy, and Race. Science & Education. 27(5-6). 589–590. 2 indexed citations
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Kampourakis, Kostas. (2017). Science teaching in university science departments. Science & Education. 26(3-4). 201–203. 10 indexed citations
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Kampourakis, Kostas. (2017). The Variety of HPST Scholarship. Science & Education. 26(7-9). 747–748.
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Kampourakis, Kostas, et al.. (2016). How Do Preservice Biology Teachers Explain the Origin of Biological Traits?: A Philosophical Analysis. Science Education. 100(6). 1124–1149. 5 indexed citations
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Kampourakis, Kostas. (2016). The Bad Use of Metaphors and the Use of Bad Metaphors. Science & Education. 25(9-10). 947–949. 11 indexed citations
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Kampourakis, Kostas. (2015). Succeeding Michael R. Matthews. Science & Education. 24(7-8). 807–811. 1 indexed citations
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Kampourakis, Kostas. (2013). The philosophy of biology : a companion for educators. Digital Access to Libraries (Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), l'Université de Namur (UNamur) and the Université Saint-Louis (USL-B)). 52 indexed citations
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Lederman, Norman G., et al.. (2013). Mendelian Genetics as a Platform for Teaching About Nature of Science and Scientific Inquiry: The Value of Textbooks. Science & Education. 24(1-2). 205–225. 30 indexed citations
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Reydon, Thomas A. C., Kostas Kampourakis, & George P. Patrinos. (2012). Genetics, Genomics and Society: The Responsibilities of Scientists for Science Communication and Education. Personalized Medicine. 9(6). 633–643. 18 indexed citations
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Kampourakis, Kostas. (2010). Eve-Marie Engels and Thomas F. Glick (eds): The Reception of Charles Darwin in Europe. Science & Education. 21(7). 1035–1038. 1 indexed citations

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