Class information for:
Level 1: PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE//EXPLANATION//SCIENTIFIC REPRESENTATION

Basic class information
ID Publications Average number
of references		 Avg. shr. active
ref. in WoS
6531 1405 28.9 28%


Bar chart of Publication_year

Last years might be incomplete

Classes in level above (level 2)


ID, lev.
above		 Publications Label for level above
1658 6326 PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE//BRITISH JOURNAL FOR THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE//SYNTHESE

Terms with highest relevance score


Rank Term Type of term Relevance score
(tfidf)		 Class's shr.
of term's tot.
occurrences		 Shr. of publ.
in class containing
term		 Num. of
publ. in
class
1 PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Journal 28 12% 16% 221
2 EXPLANATION Author keyword 13 13% 7% 100
3 SCIENTIFIC REPRESENTATION Author keyword 8 60% 1% 9
4 INTERNATIONAL STUDIES IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Journal 7 27% 2% 24
5 CAUSATION Author keyword 7 10% 5% 69
6 EUROPEAN JOURNAL FOR PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Journal 5 21% 2% 22
7 MECHANISTIC EXPLANATION Author keyword 5 33% 1% 12
8 DIFFERENCE MAKING Author keyword 4 67% 0% 4
9 RICHARD LEVINS Author keyword 4 67% 0% 4
10 SPECIAL SCIENCES Author keyword 4 67% 0% 4

Web of Science journal categories

Author Key Words


Rank Web of Science journal category Relevance score
(tfidf)		 Class's shr.
of term's tot.
occurrences		 Shr. of publ.
in class containing
term		 Num. of
publ. in
class		 LCSH search Wikipedia search
1 EXPLANATION 13 13% 7% 100 Search EXPLANATION Search EXPLANATION
2 SCIENTIFIC REPRESENTATION 8 60% 1% 9 Search SCIENTIFIC+REPRESENTATION Search SCIENTIFIC+REPRESENTATION
3 CAUSATION 7 10% 5% 69 Search CAUSATION Search CAUSATION
4 MECHANISTIC EXPLANATION 5 33% 1% 12 Search MECHANISTIC+EXPLANATION Search MECHANISTIC+EXPLANATION
5 DIFFERENCE MAKING 4 67% 0% 4 Search DIFFERENCE+MAKING Search DIFFERENCE+MAKING
6 RICHARD LEVINS 4 67% 0% 4 Search RICHARD+LEVINS Search RICHARD+LEVINS
7 SPECIAL SCIENCES 4 67% 0% 4 Search SPECIAL+SCIENCES Search SPECIAL+SCIENCES
8 DYNAMICAL COGNITIVE SCIENCE 4 75% 0% 3 Search DYNAMICAL+COGNITIVE+SCIENCE Search DYNAMICAL+COGNITIVE+SCIENCE
9 FAITHFULNESS CONDITION 4 75% 0% 3 Search FAITHFULNESS+CONDITION Search FAITHFULNESS+CONDITION
10 CONTRASTIVE EXPLANATION 3 57% 0% 4 Search CONTRASTIVE+EXPLANATION Search CONTRASTIVE+EXPLANATION

Key Words Plus


Rank Web of Science journal category Relevance score
(tfidf)		 Class's shr.
of term's tot.
occurrences		 Shr. of publ.
in class containing
term		 Num. of
publ. in
class
1 SCIENTIFIC REPRESENTATION 34 93% 1% 13
2 PROBABILISTIC CAUSATION 24 91% 1% 10
3 MAKING THINGS HAPPEN 15 77% 1% 10
4 CETERIS PARIBUS LAWS 14 55% 1% 18
5 MARKOV CONDITION 14 65% 1% 13
6 LEVINS 9 83% 0% 5
7 COUNTERFACTUAL ACCOUNT 8 100% 0% 5
8 COUNTERFACTUAL ANALYSIS 8 100% 0% 5
9 WOODWARD 6 35% 1% 13
10 IDEALIZATION 6 25% 1% 19

Journals


Rank Web of Science journal category Relevance score
(tfidf)		 Class's shr.
of term's tot.
occurrences		 Shr. of publ.
in class containing
term		 Num. of
publ. in
class
1 PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE 28 12% 16% 221
2 INTERNATIONAL STUDIES IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE 7 27% 2% 24
3 EUROPEAN JOURNAL FOR PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE 5 21% 2% 22
4 THEORIA-REVISTA DE TEORIA HISTORIA Y FUNDAMENTOS DE LA CIENCIA 3 11% 2% 26

Reviews


Title Publ. year Cit. Active
references		 % act. ref.
to same field
Wimsatt and the robustness family: Review of Wimsatt's Re-engineering Philosophy for Limited Beings 2011 10 3 67%
Review of Woodward, 'Making Things Happen' ('Making Things Happen. A Theory of Causal Explanation' by James Woodward) 2007 13 4 100%
Reports from the high table 2012 1 6 67%
Assembling an aesthetic 2012 0 5 80%
Between holism and reductionism: a philosophical primer on emergence 2014 1 9 22%
Causality and explanation 2000 2 2 100%
A review of causal inference for biomedical informatics 2011 16 46 11%
4 DECADES OF SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION 1989 58 75 47%
The making of a memory mechanism 2003 9 9 11%

Address terms


Rank Address term Relevance score
(tfidf)		 Class's shr.
of term's tot.
occurrences		 Shr. of publ.
in class containing
term		 Num. of
publ.
in class
1 PHILOSOPHY SECL 3 100% 0.2% 3
2 PROGRAM PHILOSOPHY SCI 3 60% 0.2% 3
3 COGNITIVE COMPUTING SCI 2 67% 0.1% 2
4 DCLPS 2 67% 0.1% 2
5 FILOSOF 1 50% 0.1% 2
6 INTERDISCIPLINARY PROGRAM SCI STUDIES 1 50% 0.1% 2
7 PHILOSOPHY 0119 1 33% 0.2% 3
8 LOGOS GRP 1 30% 0.2% 3
9 SECL 1 22% 0.3% 4
10 ABT PHILOSOPHIE 1 19% 0.3% 4

Related classes at same level (level 1)


Rank Relatedness score Related classes
1 0.0000223467 MENTAL CAUSATION//MULTIPLE REALIZATION//CAUSAL EXCLUSION
2 0.0000203480 SEMINAR MATH IHRE DIDAKTIK//STRUCTURALIST VIEW//INT NURSING ETH
3 0.0000121825 SCIENTIFIC REALISM//VAN FRAASSEN//CONSTRUCTIVE EMPIRICISM
4 0.0000105802 INDICATIVE CONDITIONALS//CONDITIONALS//CONDITIONAL ELEMENTS
5 0.0000104345 FINKS//MODAL REALISM//DISPOSITIONS
6 0.0000093120 FORMAL DARWINISM//GROUP SELECTION//INTERDEMIC SELECTION
7 0.0000091123 TECHNICAL ARTEFACT//TELEOSEMANTICS//MILLIKAN
8 0.0000084069 QUALITATIVE COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS//CONFIGURATIONAL COMPARATIVE METHODS//QUALITATIVE COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS QCA
9 0.0000079292 STRUCTURAL REALISM//QUASI SETS//HOLE ARGUMENT
10 0.0000076721 OBJECTIVE BAYESIANISM//SLEEPING BEAUTY PROBLEM//CONDITIONALIZATION