Paul E. Griffiths

10.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
107 papers, 4.6k citations indexed

About

Paul E. Griffiths is a scholar working on History and Philosophy of Science, Sociology and Political Science and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Paul E. Griffiths has authored 107 papers receiving a total of 4.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in History and Philosophy of Science, 21 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 15 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Paul E. Griffiths's work include Philosophy and History of Science (39 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (18 papers) and Evolution and Science Education (17 papers). Paul E. Griffiths is often cited by papers focused on Philosophy and History of Science (39 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (18 papers) and Evolution and Science Education (17 papers). Paul E. Griffiths collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and New Zealand. Paul E. Griffiths's co-authors include Russell D. Gray, Karola Stotz, Susan Oyama, Robert C. Solomon, Kim Sterelny, John Matthewson, Rob Knight, James Tabery, Andrea Scarantino and R. J. Parkinson and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, JAMA and Current Biology.

In The Last Decade

Paul E. Griffiths

100 papers receiving 4.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Cycles of Contingency: Developmental Systems and Evolution

2001 675 citations Susan Oyama, Paul E. Griffiths et al. MIT Press eBooks profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
Paul E. Griffiths	1.6k	1.1k	967	723	722	107	4.6k
Peter Godfrey‐Smith	1.6k 1.0×	1.6k 1.5×	921 1.0×	425 0.6×	488 0.7×	118	4.7k
Kim Sterelny	1.4k 0.9×	2.0k 1.9×	1.1k 1.2×	1.1k 1.5×	495 0.7×	144	6.2k
Michael Ruse	2.1k 1.4×	1.7k 1.6×	473 0.5×	374 0.5×	299 0.4×	282	4.6k
Michael T. Ghiselin	1.5k 1.0×	1.5k 1.4×	375 0.4×	639 0.9×	1000 1.4×	169	8.8k
Carl F. Craver	2.8k 1.8×	551 0.5×	1.8k 1.8×	422 0.6×	1.2k 1.6×	62	5.7k
David L. Hull	3.2k 2.0×	2.4k 2.2×	376 0.4×	521 0.7×	833 1.2×	137	8.7k
William Bechtel	2.0k 1.3×	408 0.4×	1.7k 1.7×	522 0.7×	1.0k 1.4×	151	4.9k
Eva Jablonka	806 0.5×	1.3k 1.2×	728 0.8×	739 1.0×	2.2k 3.0×	129	7.4k
James Woodward	2.0k 1.3×	397 0.4×	710 0.7×	211 0.3×	470 0.7×	80	3.7k
John Odling‐Smee	586 0.4×	1.5k 1.4×	369 0.4×	675 0.9×	380 0.5×	48	4.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Paul E. Griffiths

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Griffiths, Paul E. & Hamish G. Spencer. (2025). Biology should not dispense with sexes. Current Biology. 35(7). R244–R248. 2 indexed citations

Griffiths, Paul E. & Pierrick Bourrat. (2023). Integrating evolutionary, developmental and physiological mismatch. Evolution Medicine and Public Health. 11(1). 277–286. 6 indexed citations

Lane, Stuart, et al.. (2023). The undue influence of genetic information on senior medical students’ treatment decisions. BMC Medical Education. 23(1). 938–938. 1 indexed citations

Christie, Joshua R., et al.. (2022). Are Biological Traits Explained by Their ‘Selected Effect’ Functions?. Australasian Philosophical Review. 6(4). 335–359. 12 indexed citations

Ronai, Isobel & Paul E. Griffiths. (2019). The Case for Basic Biological Research. Trends in Molecular Medicine. 25(2). 65–69. 5 indexed citations

Griffiths, Paul E.. (2017). Communicating genomic complexity. Journal and proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales. 150(1). 93–103. 2 indexed citations

Griffiths, Paul E.. (2017). Genetic, epigenetic and exogenetic information in development and evolution. Interface Focus. 7(5). 20160152–20160152. 19 indexed citations

Matthewson, John & Paul E. Griffiths. (2017). Biological Criteria of Disease: Four Ways of Going Wrong. The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy A Forum for Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine. 42(4). 447–466. 58 indexed citations

Stotz, Karola & Paul E. Griffiths. (2016). Epigenetics: ambiguities and implications. History & Philosophy of the Life Sciences. 38(4). 22–22. 20 indexed citations

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Griffiths, Paul E. & Courtney West. (2015). A balanced intervention ladder: promoting autonomy through public health action. Public Health. 129(8). 1092–1098. 38 indexed citations

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Griffiths, Paul E. & James Tabery. (2013). Developmental Systems Theory. Advances in child development and behavior. 65–94. 35 indexed citations

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Griffiths, Paul E.. (2008). In What Sense Does ‘Nothing Make Sense Except in the Light of Evolution’?. Acta Biotheoretica. 57(1-2). 11–32. 43 indexed citations

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Stotz, Karola, et al.. (2006). Tracking the Shift to ‘Postgenomics’. Public Health Genomics. 9(3). 190–196. 33 indexed citations

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Griffiths, Paul E. & Karola Stotz. (2006). Genes in the Postgenomic Era. Metamedicine. 27(6). 499–521. 78 indexed citations

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Oyama, Susan, et al.. (2001). Cycles of Contingency: Developmental Systems and Evolution. MIT Press eBooks. 675 indexed citations breakdown →

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Parkinson, R. J., Paul E. Griffiths, & A. Louise Heathwaite. (2000). Transport of nitrogen in soil water following the application of animal manures to sloping grassland. Hydrological Sciences Journal. 45(1). 61–73. 6 indexed citations

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Heathwaite, A. Louise, Paul E. Griffiths, & R. J. Parkinson. (1998). Nitrogen and phosphorus in runoff from grassland with buffer strips following application of fertilizers and manures. Soil Use and Management. 14(3). 142–148. 75 indexed citations

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Griffiths, Paul E.. (1997). Axioms for biology. Nature. 389(6648). 250–250. 3 indexed citations

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Griffiths, Paul E. & Russell D. Gray. (1994). Developmental Systems and Evolutionary Explanation. The Journal of Philosophy. 91(6). 277–304. 398 indexed citations

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Hull, David L. & Paul E. Griffiths. (1992). Trees of Life: Essays in Philosophy of Biology. Kluwer Academic Publishers eBooks. 49 indexed citations

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