William Whewell

4.0k total citations
40 papers, 365 citations indexed

About

William Whewell is a scholar working on History and Philosophy of Science, Philosophy and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, William Whewell has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 365 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in History and Philosophy of Science, 5 papers in Philosophy and 2 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in William Whewell's work include Philosophy and History of Science (4 papers), Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought (3 papers) and Experimental Learning in Engineering (2 papers). William Whewell is often cited by papers focused on Philosophy and History of Science (4 papers), Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought (3 papers) and Experimental Learning in Engineering (2 papers). William Whewell collaborates with scholars based in United States. William Whewell's co-authors include Robert E. Butts, Yehuda Elkana, John Stuart Mill, Isaac Todhunter, Hugo Grotius, Richard Yeo, John Frederick William Herschel, Laura R. Snyder, James Mackintosh and Charles Babbage and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Epistemology & Philosophy of Science and Cambridge University Press eBooks.

In The Last Decade

William Whewell

33 papers receiving 295 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
William Whewell United States 11 131 65 48 40 31 40 365
Joseph C. Pitt United States 11 165 1.3× 78 1.2× 63 1.3× 26 0.7× 25 0.8× 47 464
Arthur Donovan United States 9 235 1.8× 55 0.8× 33 0.7× 34 0.8× 24 0.8× 24 453
John Losee United States 8 105 0.8× 46 0.7× 34 0.7× 27 0.7× 23 0.7× 20 350
T. C. Holyoke United States 12 78 0.6× 112 1.7× 34 0.7× 23 0.6× 59 1.9× 21 462
Robert Northcott United Kingdom 10 126 1.0× 77 1.2× 64 1.3× 44 1.1× 47 1.5× 29 320
Erik Weber Belgium 12 248 1.9× 95 1.5× 104 2.2× 46 1.1× 49 1.6× 75 488
Jordi Cat United States 8 220 1.7× 66 1.0× 28 0.6× 21 0.5× 41 1.3× 24 328
Ian G. Stewart United Kingdom 6 86 0.7× 31 0.5× 43 0.9× 17 0.4× 14 0.5× 22 338
David J. Stump United States 9 191 1.5× 79 1.2× 54 1.1× 17 0.4× 24 0.8× 25 380
Otto Neurath 9 216 1.6× 113 1.7× 54 1.1× 47 1.2× 69 2.2× 22 460

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Whewell, William. (2018). Novum Organon Renovatum. Epistemology & Philosophy of Science. 55(2). 186–211. 16 indexed citations
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Whewell, William. (2017). Comte and positivism. Epistemology & Philosophy of Science. 54(4). 209–224. 1 indexed citations
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Whewell, William. (2016). The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, Founded upon their History. Epistemology & Philosophy of Science. 47(1). 205–225. 71 indexed citations
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Whewell, William. (2015). The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, Founded upon their History. Book II. Epistemology & Philosophy of Science. 45(3). 211–241. 1 indexed citations
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Whewell, William. (2014). Essay towards a First Approximation to a Map of Cotidal Lines. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 1 indexed citations
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Snyder, Laura R., Charles Babbage, John Frederick William Herschel, & William Whewell. (2011). Books in brief. Nature. 470(7335). 461–461. 1 indexed citations
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Whewell, William. (2011). Of the plurality of worlds: an essay. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 9 indexed citations
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Whewell, William. (2011). The mechanics of engineering. 17 indexed citations
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Whewell, William. (2011). Six Lectures on Political Economy: Delivered at Cambridge in Michaelmas Term, 1861. Medical Entomology and Zoology.
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Whewell, William. (2010). History of Scientific Ideas: Being the First Part of the Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. 4 indexed citations
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Whewell, William. (2010). History of the Inductive Sciences. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 10 indexed citations
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Todhunter, Isaac & William Whewell. (2010). William Whewell, D. D., Master of Trinity College, Cambridge: An Account of His Writings with Selections from His Literary and Scientific Correspondence. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 7 indexed citations
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Whewell, William. (2010). History of the Inductive Sciences. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 5(10). 317–342. 5 indexed citations
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Whewell, William. (2009). Astronomy and General Physics Considered with Reference to Natural Theology. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 16 indexed citations
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Whewell, William. (2009). Of the Plurality of Worlds. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 21 indexed citations
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Whewell, William. (2008). On the Motion of Points Constrained and Resisted, and on the Motion of a Rigid Body: The Second Part of a New Edition of a Treatise on Dynamics. Virtual Defense Library (Ministerio de Defensa).
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Whewell, William & Richard Yeo. (2001). Collected works of William Whewell. 6 indexed citations
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Whewell, William. (1998). Lectures on the history of moral philosophy in England ; Additional lectures on the history of moral philosophy. Routledge eBooks. 1 indexed citations
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Whewell, William, et al.. (1973). The mathematical works. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 3 indexed citations
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Whewell, William. (1968). Mathematical exposition of some doctrines of political economy. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 36 indexed citations

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