Bernard Williams

353 total papers · 29.3k total citations
99 papers, 4.4k citations indexed

About

Bernard Williams is a scholar working on Philosophy, Political Science and International Relations and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Bernard Williams has authored 99 papers receiving a total of 4.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Philosophy, 11 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 4 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Bernard Williams’s work include Political Philosophy and Ethics (11 papers), Philosophical Ethics and Theory (8 papers) and Free Will and Agency (4 papers). Bernard Williams is often cited by papers focused on Political Philosophy and Ethics (11 papers), Philosophical Ethics and Theory (8 papers) and Free Will and Agency (4 papers). Bernard Williams collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Belgium. Bernard Williams's co-authors include J. J. C. Smart, Thomas Nagel, Maurice Meilleur, René Descartes, Isaiah Berlín, Michael Hooker, Amartya Sen, Ravi Kanbur, John Muellbauer and Geoffrey Hawthorn and has published in prestigious journals such as The Economic Journal, BioEssays and Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry.

In The Last Decade

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bernard Williams

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Bernard Williams. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Bernard Williams 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 Bernard Williams. Bernard Williams is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

Bernard Williams

83 papers receiving 3.6k citations

Fields of papers citing papers by Bernard Williams

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Bernard Williams. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Bernard Williams. The network helps show where Bernard Williams may publish in the future.

Countries citing papers authored by Bernard Williams

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