Topics Innovations in Medical Education (1 paper) Empathy and Medical Education (1 paper) Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education (1 paper) Overview Impact Peers Geography Research Space Co-Authors Works Peers R. K. Merton
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Sociology and Political Science 317 Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty 110 General Health Professions 107 Education 106 Strategy and Management 80 Teresa A. Sullivan United States
William Kornhauser United States
Lawrence C. Soley United States
Charles S. Madden United States
Arthur M. Diamond United States
Duncan Lindsey United States
Theodore Abel United States
Kimberlee A. Shauman United States
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All Works # Work Indexed citations 1 203 2 Manifest and Latent Functions
80 3 9 4 84 5 Age, aging, and age structure in science
182 6 68 7 Procedures for the sociological study of the values climate of medical schools.
53 8 236
About R. K. Merton R. K. Merton is a scholar working on History and Philosophy of Science , Philosophy and Psychiatry and Mental health , having authored 8 papers that have together received 915 indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Innovations in Medical Education (1 paper), Empathy and Medical Education (1 paper) and Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education (1 paper). The work is most often cited by research in Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty (110 citations), History and Philosophy of Science (42 citations) and General Psychology (10 citations). R. K. Merton has collaborated with scholars based in United States . Frequent co-authors include Donald F. Mulvihill , Dudley Shapere , Llewellyn Gross , Leonard Broom , Leonard S. Cottrell and Marvin K. Opler . Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Marketing , Physics Today and Social Forces .
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