Stuart Glennan

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
27 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Stuart Glennan is a scholar working on History and Philosophy of Science, Molecular Biology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Stuart Glennan has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in History and Philosophy of Science, 6 papers in Molecular Biology and 6 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Stuart Glennan's work include Philosophy and History of Science (21 papers), Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies (6 papers) and Philosophy and Theoretical Science (5 papers). Stuart Glennan is often cited by papers focused on Philosophy and History of Science (21 papers), Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies (6 papers) and Philosophy and Theoretical Science (5 papers). Stuart Glennan collaborates with scholars based in United States, Belgium and Germany. Stuart Glennan's co-authors include George A. Reisch, Carl F. Craver, Mark Povich, Phyllis Illari, Erik Weber and Meinard Kuhlmann and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Research in Science Teaching, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research and Philosophy of Science.

In The Last Decade

Stuart Glennan

24 papers receiving 1.0k citations

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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 New Mechanical Philosophy

2017 213 citations Stuart Glennan Oxford University Press eBooks profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Stuart Glennan United States	12	736	287	177	150	139	27	1.2k
Mauricio Suárez Spain	17	1.1k 1.5×	239 0.8×	165 0.9×	76 0.5×	127 0.9×	56	1.7k
Adele Abrahamsen United States	11	613 0.8×	313 1.1×	100 0.6×	66 0.4×	367 2.6×	26	1.3k
Tarja Knuuttila Finland	17	374 0.5×	218 0.8×	109 0.6×	122 0.8×	91 0.7×	50	1.1k
Peter Machamer United States	13	1.2k 1.6×	405 1.4×	339 1.9×	175 1.2×	339 2.4×	51	2.2k
Sandra D. Mitchell United States	19	570 0.8×	206 0.7×	376 2.1×	33 0.2×	146 1.1×	37	1.5k
Jeffrey S. Poland United States	5	426 0.6×	101 0.4×	88 0.5×	208 1.4×	82 0.6×	6	914
William C. Wimsatt United States	15	584 0.8×	216 0.8×	378 2.1×	32 0.2×	192 1.4×	33	1.4k
Claus Emmeche Denmark	19	318 0.4×	178 0.6×	230 1.3×	38 0.3×	189 1.4×	50	1.1k
Henk W. de Regt Netherlands	16	587 0.8×	70 0.2×	94 0.5×	62 0.4×	123 0.9×	44	1.0k
Peter Achinstein United States	20	830 1.1×	105 0.4×	172 1.0×	89 0.6×	106 0.8×	75	1.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Stuart Glennan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Stuart Glennan

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stuart Glennan

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Stuart Glennan. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Stuart Glennan based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Stuart Glennan. Stuart Glennan is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Glennan, Stuart. (2024). Causation: The Basics.

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Glennan, Stuart. (2022). The Object-Activity Theory of Events. Erkenntnis. 89(2). 503–519. 1 indexed citations

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Craver, Carl F., Stuart Glennan, & Mark Povich. (2021). Constitutive relevance & mutual manipulability revisited. Synthese. 199(3-4). 8807–8828. 31 indexed citations

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Glennan, Stuart, Phyllis Illari, & Erik Weber. (2021). Six Theses on Mechanisms and Mechanistic Science. Journal for General Philosophy of Science. 53(2). 143–161. 16 indexed citations

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Glennan, Stuart. (2017). The New Mechanical Philosophy. Oxford University Press eBooks. 213 indexed citations breakdown →

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Glennan, Stuart. (2017). Mechanisms and Causation. Oxford University Press eBooks.

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Glennan, Stuart & Phyllis Illari. (2017). Varieties of mechanisms. 91–103. 2 indexed citations

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Glennan, Stuart & Phyllis Illari. (2017). Routledge Handbook of mechanisms. 3 indexed citations

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Glennan, Stuart. (2015). When is it Mental. 29(29). 141–166. 1 indexed citations

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Glennan, Stuart. (2015). Mechanisms and Mechanical Philosophy. Oxford University Press eBooks. 9 indexed citations

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Kuhlmann, Meinard & Stuart Glennan. (2014). On the relation between quantum mechanical and neo-mechanistic ontologies and explanatory strategies. European Journal for Philosophy of Science. 4(3). 337–359. 10 indexed citations

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Glennan, Stuart. (2009). Ephemeral Mechanisms and Historical Explanation. Erkenntnis. 72(2). 251–266. 43 indexed citations

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Glennan, Stuart. (2007). Whose Science and Whose Religion? Reflections on the Relations between Scientific and Religious Worldviews. Science & Education. 18(6-7). 797–812. 17 indexed citations

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Glennan, Stuart. (2005). Modeling mechanisms. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences. 36(2). 443–464. 103 indexed citations

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Glennan, Stuart. (2005). The modeler in the crib. Philosophical Explorations. 8(3). 217–228. 3 indexed citations

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Glennan, Stuart. (2002). Rethinking Mechanistic Explanation. Philosophy of Science. 69(S3). S342–S353. 435 indexed citations

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Glennan, Stuart. (2000). A Model of Models. 4 indexed citations

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Glennan, Stuart, et al.. (1999). The nature of science: A perspective from the philosophy of science. Journal of Research in Science Teaching. 36(1). 107–116. 130 indexed citations

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Glennan, Stuart. (1997). Probable Causes and the Distinction between Subjective and Objective Chance. Noûs. 31(4). 496–519. 10 indexed citations

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Glennan, Stuart. (1997). Capacities, Universality, and Singularity. Philosophy of Science. 64(4). 605–626. 27 indexed citations

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