Michael Shaffer

80 papers and 1.7k indexed citations
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About

Michael Shaffer is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Philosophy and History and Philosophy of Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Shaffer has authored 80 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Molecular Biology, 22 papers in Philosophy and 14 papers in History and Philosophy of Science. Recurrent topics in Michael Shaffer’s work include Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (20 papers), Gut microbiota and health (15 papers) and Philosophy and History of Science (13 papers). Michael Shaffer is often cited by papers focused on Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (20 papers), Gut microbiota and health (15 papers) and Philosophy and History of Science (13 papers). Michael Shaffer collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Canada. Michael Shaffer's co-authors include Catherine Lozupone, Carl W. Norden, Samuel R. Gross, Kelly Wrighton, Rebecca A. Daly, Abigail Armstrong, Mikayla Borton, Josué Rodríguez-Ramos, Garrett J. Smith and Bridget B. McGivern and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, Bioinformatics and The Journal of Infectious Diseases.

In The Last Decade

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Shaffer

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

Michael Shaffer

68 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Fields of papers citing papers by Michael Shaffer

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Countries citing papers authored by Michael Shaffer

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