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D-Index
69
Citations
36956
World Ranking
791
National Ranking
47

Ian Hacking publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ian Hacking sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 325 publications — 90th percentile

90% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Ian Hacking D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Ian Hacking sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 177 scientists 31 D-Index: 210 scientists 32 D-Index: 222 scientists 33 D-Index: 188 scientists 34 D-Index: 181 scientists 35 D-Index: 243 scientists 36 D-Index: 261 scientists 37 D-Index: 272 scientists 38 D-Index: 278 scientists 39 D-Index: 300 scientists 40 D-Index: 297 scientists 41 D-Index: 308 scientists 42 D-Index: 313 scientists 43 D-Index: 300 scientists 44 D-Index: 269 scientists 45 D-Index: 261 scientists 46 D-Index: 228 scientists 47 D-Index: 251 scientists 48 D-Index: 203 scientists 49 D-Index: 186 scientists 50 D-Index: 187 scientists 51 D-Index: 166 scientists 52 D-Index: 138 scientists 53 D-Index: 141 scientists 54 D-Index: 131 scientists 55 D-Index: 137 scientists 56 D-Index: 109 scientists 57 D-Index: 129 scientists 58 D-Index: 95 scientists 59 D-Index: 105 scientists 60 D-Index: 106 scientists 61 D-Index: 86 scientists 62 D-Index: 94 scientists 63 D-Index: 77 scientists 64 D-Index: 79 scientists 65 D-Index: 59 scientists 66 D-Index: 68 scientists 67 D-Index: 51 scientists 68 D-Index: 49 scientists 69 D-Index: 40 scientists 70 D-Index: 43 scientists 71 D-Index: 40 scientists 72 D-Index: 50 scientists 73 D-Index: 46 scientists 74 D-Index: 43 scientists 75 D-Index: 45 scientists 76 D-Index: 45 scientists 77 D-Index: 30 scientists 78 D-Index: 25 scientists 79 D-Index: 31 scientists 80 D-Index: 29 scientists 81 D-Index: 18 scientists 82 D-Index: 21 scientists 83 D-Index: 26 scientists 84 D-Index: 15 scientists 85 D-Index: 15 scientists 86 D-Index: 19 scientists 87 D-Index: 19 scientists 88 D-Index: 12 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 19 scientists 91 D-Index: 20 scientists 92 D-Index: 13 scientists 93 D-Index: 9 scientists 94 D-Index: 13 scientists 95 D-Index: 8 scientists 96 D-Index: 7 scientists 97 D-Index: 6 scientists 98 D-Index: 6 scientists 99 D-Index: 6 scientists 100+ D-Index: 97 scientists
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This scientist: 69 D-Index — 90th percentile

90% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - International Balzan Prize
  • 2009 - Holberg Prize, Government of Norway "for his combination of rigorous philosophical and historical analysis which has profoundly altered our understanding of the ways in which key concepts emerge through scientific practices and in specific social and institutional contexts"
  • 2002 - Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Prize, Canada Council
  • 1991 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1990 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1986 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of the Arts and Humanities

Overview

Ian Hacking was affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada. Their academic work primarily spanned the fields of Arts and Humanities and Psychology, with specific engagement in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Philosophy, and the History and Philosophy of Science.

Their main topics of study included:

  • Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
  • Philosophy and Historical Thought
  • Philosophy, Science, and History

Ian Hacking's research explored the intersections of philosophy and historical thought, emphasizing the ways scientific practices shape key concepts within social and institutional contexts.

Throughout their career, they received several awards recognizing their contributions to philosophy and the history of science. These honors included:

  • International Balzan Prize (2014)
  • Holberg Prize, Government of Norway (2009), awarded "for his combination of rigorous philosophical and historical analysis which has profoundly altered our understanding of the ways in which key concepts emerge through scientific practices and in specific social and institutional contexts"
  • Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Prize, Canada Council (2002)
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1991)
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1990)
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (1986), Academy of the Arts and Humanities

Their contributions to philosophy and history extended to a concise but focused number of publications concentrated in the overlapping areas of cognitive psychology and philosophy. Ian Hacking's work provided insights relevant to experimental and cognitive psychology alongside deep philosophical inquiry into historical processes and scientific development.

Best Publications

  • The Social Construction of What

    Ian Hacking

  • Representing and Intervening

    Ian Hacking

  • The Taming of Chance

    Ian Hacking

  • Representing and Intervening: Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science

    Ian Hacking

  • Rewriting the Soul: Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory

    Ian Hacking

  • The Emergence of Probability

    Terrence L. Fine;Ian Hacking

  • The Emergence of Probability. A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas about Probability, Induction and Statistical Inference

    Ian Hacking

  • Logic of Statistical Inference

    Ian Hacking

  • Kinds of People: Moving Targets

    Ian Hacking

  • Representing and Intervening

    Adam Morton;Ian Hacking

  • An Introduction to Probability and Inductive Logic

    Ian Hacking

  • Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics

    Ian Hacking;Hubert L. Dreyfus;Paul Rabinow;Michel Foucault

  • The looping effects of human kinds

    Ian Hacking

  • Between Michel Foucault and Erving Goffman: between discourse in the abstract and face-to-face interaction

    Ian Hacking

  • The Identity of Indiscernibles

    Ian Hacking

  • ‘Style’ for historians and philosophers☆

    Ian Hacking

  • Rewriting the Soul

    Ian Hacking

  • Mad Travelers: Reflections on the Reality of Transient Mental Illnesses

    Ian Hacking

  • The Social Construction of What

    John Dupre;Ian Hacking

  • Why Does Language Matter to Philosophy?: The heyday of ideas

    Unknown

  • The Emergence of Probability.

    Glenn R. Shafer;Ian Hacking

Frequent Co-Authors

Crispin Wright
Crispin Wright University of Stirling
Steven Shapin
Steven Shapin Harvard University
Lorraine Daston
Lorraine Daston Max Planck Society
John Dupré
John Dupré University of Exeter
Hubert L. Dreyfus
Hubert L. Dreyfus University of California, Berkeley
Paul Rabinow
Paul Rabinow University of California, Berkeley
Philip Kitcher
Philip Kitcher Columbia University
Stanley Cavell
Stanley Cavell Harvard University
Richard Rorty
Richard Rorty Stanford University

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