Thomas Nickles

2.3k total citations
42 papers, 865 citations indexed

About

Thomas Nickles is a scholar working on History and Philosophy of Science, Philosophy and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Nickles has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 865 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in History and Philosophy of Science, 6 papers in Philosophy and 5 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Thomas Nickles's work include Philosophy and History of Science (23 papers), Complex Systems and Decision Making (3 papers) and Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies (3 papers). Thomas Nickles is often cited by papers focused on Philosophy and History of Science (23 papers), Complex Systems and Decision Making (3 papers) and Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies (3 papers). Thomas Nickles collaborates with scholars based in United States, Belgium and Italy. Thomas Nickles's co-authors include Joke Meheus and has published in prestigious journals such as The Journal of Philosophy, Social Studies of Science and Creativity Research Journal.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Nickles

40 papers receiving 719 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Thomas Nickles United States 12 485 150 127 117 105 42 865
Paul Hoyningen‐Huene Germany 14 432 0.9× 136 0.9× 150 1.2× 89 0.8× 99 0.9× 64 822
Joseph D. Sneed United States 10 601 1.2× 82 0.5× 122 1.0× 155 1.3× 97 0.9× 23 1.3k
Nancy Cartwright United States 12 525 1.1× 162 1.1× 182 1.4× 151 1.3× 86 0.8× 29 1.2k
Jarrett Leplin United States 12 447 0.9× 184 1.2× 75 0.6× 105 0.9× 133 1.3× 34 669
Allan Franklin United States 19 622 1.3× 147 1.0× 74 0.6× 41 0.4× 120 1.1× 78 1.2k
Ernán McMullin United States 21 759 1.6× 337 2.2× 248 2.0× 101 0.9× 104 1.0× 89 1.4k
C. A. Hooker Australia 15 359 0.7× 141 0.9× 102 0.8× 138 1.2× 50 0.5× 30 795
Henk W. de Regt Netherlands 16 587 1.2× 274 1.8× 94 0.7× 121 1.0× 135 1.3× 44 1.0k
Pierre Duhem United States 11 856 1.8× 321 2.1× 235 1.9× 165 1.4× 146 1.4× 38 1.7k
Margaret Morrison Canada 15 843 1.7× 142 0.9× 187 1.5× 82 0.7× 235 2.2× 47 1.6k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Thomas Nickles

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas Nickles

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Nickles, Thomas. (2019). The crowbar model of method and its implications. THEORIA An International Journal for Theory History and Foundations of Science. 34(3). 357–357. 2 indexed citations
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Nickles, Thomas. (2018). Bounded rationality, scissors, crowbars, and pragmatism: reflections on Herbert Simon. Mind & Society. 17(1-2). 85–96. 1 indexed citations
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Nickles, Thomas. (2016). Perspectivism Versus a Completed Copernican Revolution. Axiomathes. 26(4). 367–382. 1 indexed citations
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Nickles, Thomas. (2009). Life at the Frontier: The Relevance of Heuristic Appraisal to Policy. Axiomathes. 19(4). 441–464. 9 indexed citations
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Meheus, Joke & Thomas Nickles. (2009). Models of Discovery and Creativity. Digital Access to Libraries (Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), l'Université de Namur (UNamur) and the Université Saint-Louis (USL-B)). 22 indexed citations
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Meheus, Joke & Thomas Nickles. (1999). The Methodological Study of Creativity and Discovery -- Some Background. Foundations of Science. 4(3). 231–235. 5 indexed citations
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Nickles, Thomas. (1997). Engaging Science: How to Understand Its Practices Philosophically. Joseph Rouse. Isis. 88(2). 379–381. 1 indexed citations
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Nickles, Thomas. (1996). Deflationary Methodology and Rationality of Science.. Philosophica. 58(2). 4 indexed citations
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Nickles, Thomas. (1996). Santa Fe forges ahead on the road to complexity. Physics World. 9(10). 43–44. 1 indexed citations
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Nickles, Thomas. (1994). Enlightenment versus romantic models of creativity in science—and beyond. Creativity Research Journal. 7(3-4). 277–314. 6 indexed citations
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Nickles, Thomas. (1990). How to Talk with Sociologists (or Philosophers). Social Studies of Science. 20(4). 633–638. 1 indexed citations
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Nickles, Thomas. (1989). Heuristic appraisal: A proposal. Social Epistemology. 3(3). 175–188. 18 indexed citations
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Nickles, Thomas. (1986). Remarks on the use of history as evidence. Synthese. 69(2). 253–266. 21 indexed citations
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Nickles, Thomas. (1984). Justification as Discoverability II. 21. 1 indexed citations
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Nickles, Thomas. (1980). Scientific Problems: Three Empiricist Models. PSA Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association. 1980(1). 2–19. 8 indexed citations
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Nickles, Thomas. (1978). Scientific Problems and Constraints. PSA Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association. 1978(1). 134–148. 11 indexed citations
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Nickles, Thomas. (1977). On the Independence of Singular Causal Explanation in Social Science: Archaeology. Philosophy of the Social Sciences. 7(2). 163–187. 5 indexed citations
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Nickles, Thomas. (1977). Davidson on explanation. Philosophical Studies. 31(2). 141–145. 4 indexed citations
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Nickles, Thomas. (1971). Covering Law Explanation. Philosophy of Science. 38(4). 542–561. 1 indexed citations

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