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Nancy Cartwright 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 Nancy Cartwright sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 244 publications — 77th percentile

77% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Nancy Cartwright 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 Nancy Cartwright 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
30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 51 D-Index — 68th percentile

68% 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

  • 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

  • Nature's Capacities and Their Measurement

    Nancy Cartwright

  • The dappled world : a study of the boundaries of science

    Nancy Cartwright

  • Understanding and misunderstanding randomized controlled trials.

    Angus Deaton;Angus Deaton;Angus Deaton;Nancy Cartwright

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

    Nancy Cartwright;Jeremy Hardie

  • Hunting Causes and Using Them: Approaches in Philosophy and Economics

    Nancy Cartwright

  • Causal laws and effective strategies

    Nancy Cartwright

  • Are RCTs the Gold Standard

    Nancy Cartwright

  • The dappled world

    Nancy Cartwright

  • Otto Neurath: Philosophy Between Science and Politics

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

  • Causation: One Word, Many Things

    Nancy Cartwright

  • What are randomised controlled trials good for

    Nancy Cartwright;Nancy Cartwright

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

    Nancy Cartwright;Nancy Cartwright

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

    Nancy Cartwright;Towfic Shomar;Mauricio Suárez

  • The limitations of randomized controlled trials in predicting effectiveness.

    Nancy Cartwright;Eileen Munro

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

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  • Hunting Causes and Using Them

    Nancy Cartwright

  • FUNDAMENTALISM vs THE PATCHWORK OF LAWS

    Nancy Cartwright

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

    Nancy Cartwright

  • Philosophy of social science: a new introduction

    Nancy Cartwright;Eleonora Montuschi

  • Otto Neurath: Frontmatter

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

    Nancy Cartwright

  • How the Laws of Physics Lie.

    M. L. G. Redhead;Nancy Cartwright

Frequent Co-Authors

John Dupré
John Dupré University of Exeter
Anthony Chemero
Anthony Chemero University of Cincinnati
Bas C. van Fraassen
Bas C. van Fraassen San Francisco State University
Stathis Psillos
Stathis Psillos National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Erin O. Sills
Erin O. Sills North Carolina State University
Frank Jackson
Frank Jackson Australian National University
Heather Tallis
Heather Tallis University of California, Santa Cruz
William J. Sutherland
William J. Sutherland University of Cambridge
Patrick Bateson
Patrick Bateson University of Cambridge
John Earman
John Earman University of Pittsburgh

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