2026 Nancy Cartwright: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	51	2486	2266	428	386	244	28188

Research.com Recognitions

2018 - Member of Academia Europaea
2001 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1993 - Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation
Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Nancy Cartwright is affiliated with Durham University in the United Kingdom. Their research spans several topics within philosophy and the history of science, as well as related interdisciplinary areas. The main topics addressed in their work include:

Philosophy and History of Science
Advanced Causal Inference Techniques
Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics
Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies
Income, Poverty, and Inequality

Their published works appear frequently in notable venues, including:

Philosophy of Science
International Journal of Pharmacy Practice
THEORIA An International Journal for Theory History and Foundations of Science
Synthese
European Journal for Philosophy of Science

Key recent papers include:

"Middle-range theory: Without it what could anyone do?" (2020), THEORIA An International Journal for Theory History and Foundations of Science
"Rigour versus the need for evidential diversity" (2021), Synthese
"Mechanisms, laws and explanation" (2020), European Journal for Philosophy of Science
"X-Why Trust Science? Reliability, Particularity and the Tangle of Science" (2020), Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society
"Objectivity and Intellectual Humility in Scientific Research: They're Harder Than You Think" (2023), European Review

Nancy Cartwright has collaborated frequently with a number of scholars, including:

Andrea Woody
Kevin Elliott
Alan C. Love
Angela Potochnik
Katie Steele

Their academic contributions also extend to books published by Cambridge University Press, among which are:

"A Philosopher Looks at Science" (2022)
"The Case for Case Studies" (2022)

Subfields represented in their work cover a range of interdisciplinary areas:

General Health Professions
History and Philosophy of Science
Sociology and Political Science
Statistics and Probability
Philosophy

Nancy Cartwright has received multiple honors, including being named a Member of Academia Europaea in 2018, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001, a Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation in 1993, and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom.

Best Publications

How the laws of physics lie

Nancy Cartwright

5575
Citations
Nature's Capacities and Their Measurement

Nancy Cartwright

4176
Citations
The dappled world : a study of the boundaries of science

Nancy Cartwright

3628
Citations
Understanding and misunderstanding randomized controlled trials.

Angus Deaton;Angus Deaton;Angus Deaton;Nancy Cartwright

2037
Citations
Evidence-Based Policy: A Practical Guide to Doing It Better

Nancy Cartwright;Jeremy Hardie

1127
Citations
Hunting Causes and Using Them: Approaches in Philosophy and Economics

Nancy Cartwright

882
Citations
Causal laws and effective strategies

Nancy Cartwright

835
Citations
Are RCTs the Gold Standard

Nancy Cartwright

679
Citations
The dappled world

Nancy Cartwright

569
Citations
Otto Neurath: Philosophy Between Science and Politics

Nancy Cartwright;Jordi Cat;Lola Fleck;Thomas E. Uebel

483
Citations
Causation: One Word, Many Things

Nancy Cartwright

390
Citations
What are randomised controlled trials good for

Nancy Cartwright;Nancy Cartwright

288
Citations
A philosopher's view of the long road from RCTs to effectiveness

Nancy Cartwright;Nancy Cartwright

282
Citations
The tool box of science: Tools for the building of models with a superconductivity example

Nancy Cartwright;Towfic Shomar;Mauricio Suárez

246
Citations
The limitations of randomized controlled trials in predicting effectiveness.

Nancy Cartwright;Eileen Munro

224
Citations
Hunting Causes and Using Them: Against modularity, the causal Markov condition and any link between the two: comments on Hausman and Woodward

Unknown

219
Citations
Hunting Causes and Using Them

Nancy Cartwright

195
Citations
FUNDAMENTALISM vs THE PATCHWORK OF LAWS

Nancy Cartwright

188
Citations
Against Modularity, the Causal Markov Condition, and Any Link Between the Two: Comments on Hausman and Woodward

Nancy Cartwright

167
Citations
Philosophy of social science: a new introduction

Nancy Cartwright;Eleonora Montuschi

99
Citations
Otto Neurath: Frontmatter

Unknown

55
Citations
Hunting Causes and Using Them: Approaches in Philosophy and EconomicsBy Nancy Cartwright: Summary

Nancy Cartwright

1
Citations
How the Laws of Physics Lie.

M. L. G. Redhead;Nancy Cartwright

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

John Dupré University of Exeter

Anthony Chemero University of Cincinnati

Bas C. van Fraassen San Francisco State University

Stathis Psillos National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Erin O. Sills North Carolina State University

Frank Jackson Australian National University

Heather Tallis University of California, Santa Cruz

William J. Sutherland University of Cambridge

Patrick Bateson University of Cambridge

John Earman University of Pittsburgh

External Links

Wikipedia of Nancy Cartwright Personal website of Nancy Cartwright

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