Class information for:
Level 2: PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE//BRITISH JOURNAL FOR THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE//SYNTHESE

Basic class information
ID Publications Average number
of references		 Avg. shr. active
ref. in WoS
1658 6326 29.6 22%


Bar chart of Publication_year

Last years might be incomplete

Classes in level above (level 3)


ID, lev.
above		 Publications Label for level above
215 47386 PHILOSOPHY//PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES//ANALYSIS

Classes in level below (level 1)


ID, lev. below Publications Label for level below
6531 1405 PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE//EXPLANATION//SCIENTIFIC REPRESENTATION
13246 786 SCIENTIFIC REALISM//VAN FRAASSEN//CONSTRUCTIVE EMPIRICISM
13701 756 GRUE//BAYESIANISM//PROBABILISTIC SUPPORT
14258 715 STRUCTURAL REALISM//QUASI SETS//HOLE ARGUMENT
17377 539 NORMATIVE NATURALISM//THOMAS KUHN//PYRRHONIAN SCEPTICISM
19027 458 LPHS//STRONG PROGRAMME//ARCHIVES H POINCARE
22399 326 INDUCTIVE RISK//VALUES IN SCIENCE//SCIENCE AND VALUES
26879 200 SUPERTASK//SUPERTASKS//LOG FILOSOFIA CIENCIA
29149 157 INTERACTIONAL EXPERTISE//HARRY COLLINS//TRADING ZONES
29281 155 DISPLACED POLITICS//CAMPUS 212//DOWNTOWN OFF
29600 150 BIOL PHILOSOPHY//DAVID HULL//INTEGRATION OF DISCIPLINES
30648 135 CAMPANILE//CA MATLEY//ABDUCTIVE METHOD
30920 131 NUCLEIN//METATHEORETICAL STRUCTURALISM//SCIENTIFIC AREAS
30962 130 HERMENEUTIC FORE STRUCTURE//CULTUROL//CULTUROLOGY
31976 115 SELZ//AGASSI//CLOSED SOCIETY
32525 107 STATISTICAL ADEQUACY//NEAR MULTICOLLINEARITY//MIS SPECIFICATION TESTING
34825 61 SEMINAR MATH IHRE DIDAKTIK//STRUCTURALIST VIEW//INT NURSING ETH

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 336 38% 11% 704
2 BRITISH JOURNAL FOR THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Journal 140 35% 5% 331
3 SYNTHESE Journal 107 17% 9% 569
4 STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Journal 98 28% 5% 298
5 SCIENTIFIC REALISM Author keyword 53 56% 1% 65
6 STRUCTURAL REALISM Author keyword 48 65% 1% 45
7 EUROPEAN JOURNAL FOR PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Journal 47 56% 1% 58
8 ERKENNTNIS Journal 46 22% 3% 183
9 INTERNATIONAL STUDIES IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Journal 35 52% 1% 47
10 VAN FRAASSEN Author keyword 30 79% 0% 19

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 SCIENTIFIC REALISM 53 56% 1% 65 Search SCIENTIFIC+REALISM Search SCIENTIFIC+REALISM
2 STRUCTURAL REALISM 48 65% 1% 45 Search STRUCTURAL+REALISM Search STRUCTURAL+REALISM
3 VAN FRAASSEN 30 79% 0% 19 Search VAN+FRAASSEN Search VAN+FRAASSEN
4 UNDERDETERMINATION 26 50% 1% 38 Search UNDERDETERMINATION Search UNDERDETERMINATION
5 QUASI SETS 23 100% 0% 10 Search QUASI+SETS Search QUASI+SETS
6 EXPLANATION 19 15% 2% 119 Search EXPLANATION Search EXPLANATION
7 HOLE ARGUMENT 18 83% 0% 10 Search HOLE+ARGUMENT Search HOLE+ARGUMENT
8 INFERENCE TO THE BEST EXPLANATION 18 43% 1% 32 Search INFERENCE+TO+THE+BEST+EXPLANATION Search INFERENCE+TO+THE+BEST+EXPLANATION
9 ONTIC STRUCTURAL REALISM 18 89% 0% 8 Search ONTIC+STRUCTURAL+REALISM Search ONTIC+STRUCTURAL+REALISM
10 PESSIMISTIC INDUCTION 17 75% 0% 12 Search PESSIMISTIC+INDUCTION Search PESSIMISTIC+INDUCTION

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 CONVERGENT REALISM 72 100% 0% 23
2 EMPIRICAL EQUIVALENCE 47 88% 0% 22
3 SUBSTANTIVALISM 44 88% 0% 21
4 STRUCTURAL REALISM 39 63% 1% 40
5 NORMATIVE NATURALISM 38 84% 0% 21
6 CONSTRUCTIVE EMPIRICISM 38 86% 0% 19
7 SCIENTIFIC REPRESENTATION 34 93% 0% 13
8 PARTICLE LABELS 30 84% 0% 16
9 VERISIMILITUDE 29 63% 0% 29
10 VAN FRAASSEN 27 92% 0% 11

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 336 38% 11% 704
2 BRITISH JOURNAL FOR THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE 140 35% 5% 331
3 SYNTHESE 107 17% 9% 569
4 STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE 98 28% 5% 298
5 EUROPEAN JOURNAL FOR PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE 47 56% 1% 58
6 ERKENNTNIS 46 22% 3% 183
7 INTERNATIONAL STUDIES IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE 35 52% 1% 47
8 JOURNAL FOR GENERAL PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE 28 40% 1% 54
9 MINNESOTA STUDIES IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE 28 55% 1% 35
10 STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF MODERN PHYSICS 20 18% 2% 100

Reviews


Title Publ. year Cit. Active
references		 % act. ref.
to same field
Testing hypotheses: Prediction and prejudice 2005 38 3 100%
Discovering DNA: Friedrich Miescher and the early years of nucleic acid research 2008 23 1 100%
Wimsatt and the robustness family: Review of Wimsatt's Re-engineering Philosophy for Limited Beings 2011 10 3 67%
GENERAL COVARIANCE AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF GENERAL-RELATIVITY - 8 DECADES OF DISPUTE 1993 72 11 64%
Review of Woodward, 'Making Things Happen' ('Making Things Happen. A Theory of Causal Explanation' by James Woodward) 2007 13 4 100%
Severe testing as a basic concept in a Neyman-Pearson philosophy of induction 2006 32 9 56%
The scope of hermeneutics in natural science 1998 18 7 100%
How is spontaneous symmetry breaking possible? Understanding Wigner's theorem in light of unitary inequivalence 2013 1 3 100%
SEARLEWORLD 2012 1 1 100%
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions and its Significance: An Essay Review of the Fiftieth Anniversary Edition 2012 5 5 40%

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 HIST PHILOSOPHY SCI 14 13% 1.6% 100
2 LOG PHILOSOPHY SCI 11 16% 0.9% 59
3 PHILOSOPHY ETH SCI 9 83% 0.1% 5
4 LOG FILOSOFIA CIENCIA 9 38% 0.3% 18
5 VIENNA CIRCLE 8 100% 0.1% 5
6 PHILOSOPHY LOG SCI METHOD 6 19% 0.4% 28
7 INTERDISCIPLINARY SCI TECHNOL STUDIES IZWT 6 100% 0.1% 4
8 MUNICH MATH PHILOSOPHY 6 29% 0.3% 16
9 FAK HUMANITNYCH VIED 4 75% 0.0% 3
10 FILOSOF 4 75% 0.0% 3

Related classes at same level (level 2)


Rank Relatedness score Related classes
1 0.0000021750 PHILOSOPHY//PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES//ANALYSIS
2 0.0000017104 TRANSACTIONS OF THE CHARLES S PEIRCE SOCIETY//AXIOM OF CHOICE//BOOLEAN PRIME IDEAL THEOREM
3 0.0000017047 PHILOSOPHY//PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES//PHILOSOPHY AND PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESEARCH
4 0.0000012868 HISTORICAL STUDIES IN THE PHYSICAL AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES//BRITISH JOURNAL FOR THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE//ANNALS OF SCIENCE
5 0.0000011777 HISTORIA MATHEMATICA//ARCHIVE FOR HISTORY OF EXACT SCIENCES//PRINCIPIA
6 0.0000011261 STEREOISOGRAM//FULL NON RIGID GROUP//RAMAN MAGNETIC RESONANCE
7 0.0000009160 LUDWIK FLECK//DISSOI LOGOI//FERAL CAMELS
8 0.0000008153 NONMONOTONIC REASONING//ANSWER SET PROGRAMMING//DEFAULT LOGIC
9 0.0000007562 JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF BIOLOGY//HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF THE LIFE SCIENCES//EVOLUTIONARY SYNTHESIS
10 0.0000007140 BARAD//TRANSLATION OF CHINESE CLASSICS//EPISTEMIC JUSTICE