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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities 51 2486 2266 429 387 244 28188

Nancy Cartwright publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Nancy Cartwright between 1972 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Nancy Cartwright published across 54 years, from 1972 to 2025, averaging 5.3 papers a year. Output peaked at 16 publications in 2007. 6 of the 287 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
5 10 15
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1972 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 16. Peak 16 publications in 2007. 1972: 2 publications 1973: 0 publications 1974: 5 publications 1975: 0 publications 1976: 1 publication 1977: 1 publication 1978: 2 publications 1979: 2 publications 1980: 3 publications 1981: 0 publications 1982: 1 publication 1983: 5 publications 1984: 5 publications 1985: 3 publications 1986: 1 publication 1987: 1 publication 1988: 5 publications 1989: 3 publications 1990: 1 publication 1991: 5 publications 1992: 0 publications 1993: 8 publications 1994: 9 publications 1995: 13 publications 1996: 15 publications 1997: 2 publications 1998: 2 publications 1999: 13 publications 2000: 5 publications 2001: 4 publications 2002: 11 publications 2003: 1 publication 2004: 4 publications 2005: 5 publications 2006: 5 publications 2007: 16 publications 2008: 5 publications 2009: 9 publications 2010: 13 publications 2011: 8 publications 2012: 12 publications 2013: 6 publications 2014: 5 publications 2015: 3 publications 2016: 11 publications 2017: 8 publications 2018: 15 publications 2019: 3 publications 2020: 5 publications 2021: 2 publications 2022: 15 publications 2023: 2 publications 2024: 5 publications 2025: 1 publication
1972 2025

287 publications in total across all disciplines

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Nancy Cartwright: publications per year, 1972 to 2025
Year Publications
1972 2
1973 0
1974 5
1975 0
1976 1
1977 1
1978 2
1979 2
1980 3
1981 0
1982 1
1983 5
1984 5
1985 3
1986 1
1987 1
1988 5
1989 3
1990 1
1991 5
1992 0
1993 8
1994 9
1995 13
1996 15
1997 2
1998 2
1999 13
2000 5
2001 4
2002 11
2003 1
2004 4
2005 5
2006 5
2007 16
2008 5
2009 9
2010 13
2011 8
2012 12
2013 6
2014 5
2015 3
2016 11
2017 8
2018 15
2019 3
2020 5
2021 2
2022 15
2023 2
2024 5
2025 1
Total 287
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Nancy Cartwright publications per year - data summary

  • Nancy Cartwright, a Social Sciences and Humanities scholar from Durham University, has 287 publications recorded across 54 years, from 1972 to 2025.
  • The oldest publication on record dates to 1972 and the most recent to 2025.
  • The most productive year is 2007, with 16 publications.
  • The least productive years with any output are 1976, 1977, 1982, 1986 and others, with 1 publication each.
  • 4 of the 54 years in the span carry no publications at all (1973, 1975, 1981 and 1992).
  • The rate of publication averages 5.3 papers per year over the whole span, or 5.7 per year counting only the 50 years with at least one publication.
  • The last 5 years on the chart (2021-2025) hold 25 publications, 9% of the career total.
  • Split into equal eras - 1972-1989: 40 publications (2.2 per year); 1990-2007: 119 publications (6.6 per year); 2008-2025: 128 publications (7.1 per year).
  • Comparing the opening and closing eras, the overall trend of publication is rising.

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.

No. of scientists
100 200 300 400
Bar chart with 54 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 44–53 to 570+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 474. Most scientists, 474, have 114–123 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 244–253 publications, is where this scientist sits. 44–53 publications: 28 scientists 54–63 publications: 61 scientists 64–73 publications: 161 scientists 74–83 publications: 225 scientists 84–93 publications: 301 scientists 94–103 publications: 390 scientists 104–113 publications: 406 scientists 114–123 publications: 474 scientists 124–133 publications: 453 scientists 134–143 publications: 434 scientists 144–153 publications: 407 scientists 154–163 publications: 411 scientists 164–173 publications: 391 scientists 174–183 publications: 313 scientists 184–193 publications: 319 scientists 194–203 publications: 304 scientists 204–213 publications: 285 scientists 214–223 publications: 246 scientists 224–233 publications: 213 scientists 234–243 publications: 170 scientists 244–253 publications: 167 scientists 254–263 publications: 162 scientists 264–273 publications: 138 scientists 274–283 publications: 138 scientists 284–293 publications: 113 scientists 294–303 publications: 106 scientists 304–313 publications: 95 scientists 314–323 publications: 101 scientists 324–333 publications: 81 scientists 334–343 publications: 69 scientists 344–353 publications: 56 scientists 354–363 publications: 36 scientists 364–373 publications: 42 scientists 374–383 publications: 41 scientists 384–393 publications: 44 scientists 394–403 publications: 27 scientists 404–413 publications: 30 scientists 414–423 publications: 20 scientists 424–433 publications: 29 scientists 434–443 publications: 29 scientists 444–453 publications: 25 scientists 454–463 publications: 19 scientists 464–473 publications: 21 scientists 474–483 publications: 11 scientists 484–493 publications: 17 scientists 494–503 publications: 7 scientists 504–513 publications: 6 scientists 514–523 publications: 12 scientists 524–533 publications: 10 scientists 534–543 publications: 7 scientists 544–553 publications: 6 scientists 554–563 publications: 12 scientists 564–569 publications: 8 scientists 570+ publications: 100 scientists
44–53 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.

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Number of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 7,777 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
44–53 28
54–63 61
64–73 161
74–83 225
84–93 301
94–103 390
104–113 406
114–123 474
124–133 453
134–143 434
144–153 407
154–163 411
164–173 391
174–183 313
184–193 319
194–203 304
204–213 285
214–223 246
224–233 213
234–243 170
244–253 167 244
254–263 162
264–273 138
274–283 138
284–293 113
294–303 106
304–313 95
314–323 101
324–333 81
334–343 69
344–353 56
354–363 36
364–373 42
374–383 41
384–393 44
394–403 27
404–413 30
414–423 20
424–433 29
434–443 29
444–453 25
454–463 19
464–473 21
474–483 11
484–493 17
494–503 7
504–513 6
514–523 12
524–533 10
534–543 7
544–553 6
554–563 12
564–569 8
570+ 100
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Nancy Cartwright publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026 - data summary

  • The chart plots the publication count of all 7,777 Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026, grouped into 54 ranges running from 44–53 to 570+ publications.
  • Nancy Cartwright, a Social Sciences and Humanities scholar from Durham University, records 244 publications - the 77th percentile of the discipline.
  • 77% of ranked Social Sciences and Humanities scientists score the same or lower than Nancy Cartwright, and about 23% score higher.
  • The median of the discipline falls in the 164–173 publications range, and Nancy Cartwright ranks above the median.
  • The most crowded range is 114–123 publications, holding 474 scientists (6% of the field).
  • 57% of the field sits in the lowest quarter of the value range (up to 174–183 publications), so the distribution is heavily right-skewed and high scores are rare.
  • The final bar has no upper bound: it groups every scientist with 570 publications or more, 100 scientists in all (1% of the field).

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.

No. of scientists
100 200 300
Bar chart with 71 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 100+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 313. Most scientists, 313, have 42 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 51 D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 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
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.

View D-Index distribution as a table
Number of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 7,777 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 177
31 210
32 222
33 188
34 181
35 243
36 261
37 272
38 278
39 300
40 297
41 308
42 313
43 300
44 269
45 260
46 228
47 251
48 203
49 186
50 187
51 166 51
52 138
53 141
54 131
55 137
56 109
57 129
58 95
59 105
60 106
61 86
62 94
63 77
64 79
65 59
66 68
67 51
68 49
69 40
70 43
71 40
72 50
73 46
74 43
75 45
76 45
77 30
78 25
79 31
80 29
81 18
82 21
83 26
84 15
85 15
86 19
87 19
88 12
89 7
90 19
91 20
92 13
93 9
94 13
95 8
96 7
97 6
98 6
99 6
100+ 97
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Nancy Cartwright D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026 - data summary

  • The chart plots the discipline H-index (D-index) of all 7,777 Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026, grouped into 71 ranges running from 30 to 100+ D-Index.
  • Nancy Cartwright, a Social Sciences and Humanities scholar from Durham University, records 51 D-Index - the 68th percentile of the discipline.
  • 68% of ranked Social Sciences and Humanities scientists score the same or lower than Nancy Cartwright, and about 32% score higher.
  • The median of the discipline falls in the 45 D-Index range, and Nancy Cartwright ranks above the median.
  • The most crowded range is 42 D-Index, holding 313 scientists (4% of the field).
  • 59% of the field sits in the lowest quarter of the value range (up to 47 D-Index), so the distribution is heavily right-skewed and high scores are rare.
  • The final bar has no upper bound: it groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more, 97 scientists in all (1% of the field).

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
  • 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

Angus Deaton
Angus Deaton Princeton University
John Dupré
John Dupré University of Exeter
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
Anthony Chemero
Anthony Chemero University of Cincinnati

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