Ron Amundson

2.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
30 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Ron Amundson is a scholar working on History and Philosophy of Science, Social Psychology and General Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ron Amundson has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in History and Philosophy of Science, 6 papers in Social Psychology and 5 papers in General Psychology. Recurrent topics in Ron Amundson's work include Philosophy and History of Science (17 papers), Evolution and Science Education (8 papers) and Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (5 papers). Ron Amundson is often cited by papers focused on Philosophy and History of Science (17 papers), Evolution and Science Education (8 papers) and Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (5 papers). Ron Amundson collaborates with scholars based in United States. Ron Amundson's co-authors include George Lauder, Ilan Eshel, David Baum, Joel S. Brown, H. Kern Reeve, George W. Gilchrist, Steven Hecht Orzack, Peter Godfrey‐Smith, Egbert Giles Leigh and Peter A. Abrams and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cognition and Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Ron Amundson

26 papers receiving 1.0k 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.

The Changing Role of the Embryo in Evolutionary Thought

2005 309 citations Ron Amundson Cambridge University Press eBooks profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ron Amundson United States	12	455	288	226	164	132	30	1.2k
Sandra D. Mitchell United States	19	570 1.3×	376 1.3×	283 1.3×	206 1.3×	146 1.1×	37	1.5k
Tim Lewens United Kingdom	15	448 1.0×	434 1.5×	262 1.2×	88 0.5×	147 1.1×	61	932
Denis M. Walsh Canada	16	544 1.2×	399 1.4×	339 1.5×	106 0.6×	123 0.9×	34	1.2k
Marc Ereshefsky Canada	24	669 1.5×	267 0.9×	273 1.2×	479 2.9×	143 1.1×	41	1.7k
C. Kenneth Waters United States	15	548 1.2×	253 0.9×	185 0.8×	209 1.3×	77 0.6×	28	898
Robert J. Richards United States	17	813 1.8×	436 1.5×	138 0.6×	82 0.5×	154 1.2×	56	1.9k
André Ariew United States	13	666 1.5×	531 1.8×	439 1.9×	108 0.7×	92 0.7×	22	1.0k
Adrian Currie United Kingdom	18	419 0.9×	212 0.7×	135 0.6×	67 0.4×	103 0.8×	64	1.0k
Philippe Huneman France	17	378 0.8×	206 0.7×	140 0.6×	169 1.0×	85 0.6×	84	876
Alan C. Love United States	24	546 1.2×	218 0.8×	348 1.5×	457 2.8×	91 0.7×	81	1.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ron Amundson

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Amundson, Ron. (2019). Richard Owen and Animal Form. 1 indexed citations

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Amundson, Ron. (2017). The Minority Body by Elizabeth Barnes. Kennedy Institute of Ethics journal. 27(2). E–5. 1 indexed citations

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Amundson, Ron. (2014). Charles Darwin's reputation: how it changed during the twentieth-century and how it may change again. Endeavour. 38(3-4). 257–267. 4 indexed citations

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Amundson, Ron, et al.. (2010). A Wholesome Horror: The Stigmas of Leprosy in 19th Century Hawaii. Disability Studies Quarterly. 30(3/4). 6 indexed citations

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Amundson, Ron. (2007). An Alternative Synthesis. Science. 318(5850). 571–572. 1 indexed citations

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Wasserman, David, Robert Wachbroit, Anita Silvers, et al.. (2005). Quality of Life and Human Difference. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 63 indexed citations

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Amundson, Ron, et al.. (2005). Our Lives and Ideologies. Journal of Disability Policy Studies. 16(1). 53–57. 13 indexed citations

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Amundson, Ron. (2005). The Changing Role of the Embryo in Evolutionary Thought. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 309 indexed citations breakdown →

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Amundson, Ron. (2005). Darwins for everyone. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences. 36(1). 209–220.

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Amundson, Ron. (2002). Phylogenic Reconstruction Then and Now. Biology & Philosophy. 17(5). 679–694. 4 indexed citations

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Orzack, Steven Hecht, David Baum, H. Kern Reeve, et al.. (2001). Adaptationism and Optimality. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 178 indexed citations

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Amundson, Ron. (2000). Against normal function. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences. 31(1). 33–53. 137 indexed citations

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Amundson, Ron. (1998). Michael Ruse, Monad to Man: The Concept of Progress in Evolutionary Biology, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1996, cloth £33.50. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. 49(3). 515–521.

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Amundson, Ron. (1994). Two Concepts of Constraint: Adaptationism and the Challenge from Developmental Biology. Philosophy of Science. 61(4). 556–578. 112 indexed citations

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Amundson, Ron, et al.. (1992). On the Threats That Do Not Face Educational Research. Educational Researcher. 21(9). 19–24. 7 indexed citations

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Amundson, Ron. (1990). Doctor Dennett and Doctor Pangloss: Perfection and selection in biology and psychology. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 13(3). 577–581. 5 indexed citations

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Amundson, Ron. (1988). Logical adaptationism. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 11(3). 505–506. 5 indexed citations

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Amundson, Ron. (1986). The unknown epistemology of E. C. Tolman. British Journal of Psychology. 77(4). 525–531. 6 indexed citations

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Amundson, Ron. (1983). E. C. Tolman and the Intervening Variable: A Study in the Epistemological History of Psychology. Philosophy of Science. 50(2). 268–282. 19 indexed citations

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Amundson, Ron. (1982). Science, Ethnoscience, and Ethnocentrism. Philosophy of Science. 49(2). 236–250. 7 indexed citations

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