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D-Index
40
Citations
5371
World Ranking
5433
National Ranking
59

Igor Douven 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 Igor Douven sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 191 publications — 61st percentile

61% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Igor Douven 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 Igor Douven 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: 260 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: 40 D-Index — 34th percentile

34% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Igor Douven is affiliated with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France. Their research spans multiple intersecting fields including Psychology, Arts and Humanities, and Computer Science, with a significant focus on subfields such as Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, and History and Philosophy of Science.

Their recent scholarly work includes publications in well-regarded journals, reflecting diverse topics within philosophy and cognitive science. Notable papers include:

  • Explaining the Success of Induction (2021, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science)
  • Mis- and disinformation in a bounded confidence model (2020, Artificial Intelligence)
  • Abductive conditionals as a test case for inferentialism (2020, Cognition)
  • Conceptual spaces and the strength of similarity-based arguments (2021, Cognition)
  • Network effects in a bounded confidence model (2022, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A)

Igor Douven's research addresses a range of topics related to epistemology, ethics, and metaphysics; philosophy and history of science; decision-making and behavioral economics; Bayesian modeling and causal inference; child and animal learning development; philosophy and theoretical science; and the psychology of moral and emotional judgment.

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Shira Elqayam
  • Karolina Krzyżanowska
  • Patricia Mirabile
  • Peter Gärdenfors
  • Steven Verheyen

Igor Douven's publications regularly appear in established venues such as:

  • Minds and Machines
  • Philosophy of Science
  • Cognition
  • Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A
  • Frontiers in Psychology

They have also authored book work, including a publication with The MIT Press titled The Art of Abduction (2022), which has accumulated citations, indicating engagement with the academic community.

The breadth of Igor Douven's research integrates philosophical inquiry with empirical and computational methods, particularly evident in their contributions to artificial intelligence, cognitive psychology, and the philosophy of science.

Best Publications

  • Assertion, Knowledge, and Rational Credibility

    Igor Douven

  • Rationality: a social-epistemology perspective

    Sylvia Wenmackers;Danny Eric Paul Vanpoucke;Igor Douven

  • Measuring coherence

    Igor Douven;Wouter Meijs

  • A Defence of van Fraassen’s Critique of Abductive Inference: Reply to Psillos

    James Ladyman;Igor Douven;Leon Horsten;Bas van Fraassen

  • Inference to the Best Explanation Made Coherent

    Igor Douven

  • Generalizing the lottery paradox

    Igor Douven;Timothy Williamson

  • A Bayesian perspective on Likert scales and central tendency.

    Igor Douven

  • Inference to the Best Explanation versus Bayes’s Rule in a Social Setting

    Igor Douven;Sylvia Wenmackers

  • Vagueness: A Conceptual Spaces Approach

    Igor Douven;Lieven Decock;Richard Dietz;Paul Égré

  • Inference to the Best Explanation, Dutch Books, and Inaccuracy Minimisation

    Igor Douven

  • Extending the Hegselmann-Krause Model I

    I.E.J. Douven;Alexander Riegler

  • Simulating peer disagreements

    I.E.J. Douven

  • Similarity After Goodman

    Lieven Decock;Igor Douven

  • A new solution to the paradoxes of rational acceptability

    Igor Douven

  • A new resolution of the Judy Benjamin problem

    Igor Douven;Jan-Willem Romeijn

  • Extending the Hegselmann–Krause Model III: From Single Beliefs to Complex Belief States

    Alexander Riegler;Igor Douven

  • The Art of Abduction

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  • Inferential Conditionals and Evidentiality

    K. Krzyżanowska;S. Wenmackers;I. Douven

  • The evidential support theory of conditionals

    Igor Douven

  • A Puzzle About Stalnaker’s Hypothesis

    Igor Douven;Richard Dietz

  • The Probabilities of Conditionals Revisited

    Igor Douven;Sara Verbrugge

  • Assertion, Moore, and Bayes

    Igor Douven

Frequent Co-Authors

Christoph Kelp
Christoph Kelp University of Glasgow
Peter Gärdenfors
Peter Gärdenfors Lund University
David E. Over
David E. Over Durham University
Henri Prade
Henri Prade Paul Sabatier University
Bas C. van Fraassen
Bas C. van Fraassen San Francisco State University
Mike Oaksford
Mike Oaksford Birkbeck, University of London
James Ladyman
James Ladyman University of Bristol
Timothy Williamson
Timothy Williamson Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Jonathan St. B. T. Evans
Jonathan St. B. T. Evans Plymouth University
Otávio Bueno
Otávio Bueno University of Miami

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