Joseph Needham

142 papers and 3.0k indexed citations
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About

Joseph Needham is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, History and Philosophy of Science and Astronomy and Astrophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Joseph Needham has authored 142 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 16 papers in History and Philosophy of Science and 10 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Recurrent topics in Joseph Needham’s work include Chinese history and philosophy (21 papers), History of Science and Medicine (14 papers) and Historical Astronomy and Related Studies (8 papers). Joseph Needham is often cited by papers focused on Chinese history and philosophy (21 papers), History of Science and Medicine (14 papers) and Historical Astronomy and Related Studies (8 papers). Joseph Needham collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Singapore. Joseph Needham's co-authors include L. Carrington Goodrich, Ling Wang, Wendy Dobson, Lu Gwei‐Djen, Richard M. Robinson, Lingyu Yang, Arthur W. Hummel, Ralph Croizier, Ling Wang and D. W. Y. Kwok and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physics Today and The American Historical Review.

In The Last Decade

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Joseph Needham

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

Fields of papers citing papers by Joseph Needham

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Countries citing papers authored by Joseph Needham

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