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Paul E. Griffiths

Paul E. Griffiths

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
50
Citations
13468
World Ranking
2709
National Ranking
196

Paul E. Griffiths publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 153 publications — 43rd percentile

43% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Paul E. Griffiths 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 Paul E. Griffiths sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 50 D-Index — 66th percentile

66% 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

  • 2017 - Australian Laureate Fellow
  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Paul E. Griffiths is affiliated with the University of Sydney in Australia and specializes in medicine with a significant focus on genetics, history and philosophy of science, sociology and political science, psychiatry and mental health, and pediatrics, perinatology and child health.

Their recent research contributions span several interdisciplinary fields, including birth, development, and health, philosophy and history of science, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, BRCA gene mutations in cancer, clinical reasoning and diagnostic skills, empathy and medical education, and evolution and science education.

Notable recent papers authored by Griffiths include:

  • Integrating evolutionary, developmental and physiological mismatch (2023), published in Evolution Medicine and Public Health
  • Are Biological Traits Explained by Their 'Selected Effect' Functions? (2022), published in Australasian Philosophical Review
  • The Idea of Mismatch in Evolutionary Medicine (2021), published in The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
  • Diseases are Not Adaptations and Neither are Their Causes (2020), published in Biological Theory
  • Biology should not dispense with sexes (2025), published in Current Biology

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Griffiths include Pierrick Bourrat, Kate E. Lynch, Stefan A. Gawronski, Joshua R. Christie, and Carl Brusse.

Common publication venues for their work are the Australasian Philosophical Review, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Evolution Medicine and Public Health, Current Biology, and Biological Theory.

Throughout their career, Griffiths has been recognized with awards such as the Australian Laureate Fellow in 2017 and has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2012.

Best Publications

  • What emotions really are : the problem of psychological categories

    Paul E. Griffiths

  • Cycles of Contingency: Developmental Systems and Evolution

    Susan Oyama;Paul E. Griffiths;Russell D. Gray

  • Developmental Systems and Evolutionary Explanation

    P. E. Griffiths;Russell D. Gray

  • Sex and Death: An Introduction to Philosophy of Biology

    Kim Sterelny;Paul E. Griffiths

  • Genetic information: A metaphor in search of a theory

    Paul Edmund Griffiths

  • Functional analysis and proper functions

    Paul E. Griffiths

  • Genetics and Philosophy: An Introduction

    Paul E. Griffiths;Karola Stotz

  • Emotions in the wild: The situated perspective on emotion

    Paul Edmund Griffiths;Andrea Scarantino

  • What is Innateness

    Paul E. Griffiths

  • Darwinism and developmental systems

    Paul E. Griffiths;Russell D. Gray

  • Introduction: what Is developmental systems theory?

    Susan Oyama;Paul E. Griffiths;Russell D. Gray

  • The many faces of the gene

    Paul E. Griffiths;Eva M. Neumann-Held

  • Genes in the Postgenomic Era

    Paul E. Griffiths;Karola Stotz

  • How biologists conceptualize genes: an empirical study

    Karola Stotz;Paul E. Griffiths;Rob Knight

  • The Historical Turn in the Study of Adaptation

    Paul E. Griffiths

  • What Is the Developmentalist Challenge

    Paul E. Griffiths;Robin D. Knight

  • Don’t Give Up on Basic Emotions:

    Andrea Scarantino;Paul Griffiths

  • HOW THE MIND GROWS: A DEVELOPMENTAL PERSPECTIVE ON THE BIOLOGY OF COGNITION

    Paul E. Griffiths;Karola Stotz

  • Genes: Philosophical analyses put to the test

    Karola Stotz;Paul Griffiths

  • Developmental Systems Theory

    Paul E Griffiths;Adam Hochman

  • Genetics and Philosophy

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Frequent Co-Authors

Edouard Machery
Edouard Machery University of Pittsburgh
Rob Knight
Rob Knight University of California, San Diego
Kim Sterelny
Kim Sterelny Australian National University
Ben J. Marais
Ben J. Marais University of Sydney
Neocles B. Leontis
Neocles B. Leontis Bowling Green State University
Eric Westhof
Eric Westhof University of Strasbourg
Peter Godfrey-Smith
Peter Godfrey-Smith University of Sydney
Tania C. Sorrell
Tania C. Sorrell University of Sydney
Steven Pinker
Steven Pinker Harvard University
Michael P. Ward
Michael P. Ward University of Sydney

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