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2026

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
66
Citations
15366
World Ranking
981
National Ranking
6

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Sweden Leader Award

Overview

Sven Ove Hansson is affiliated with the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. Their research primarily spans the field of Social Sciences, with a focus on various interdisciplinary subfields including Artificial Intelligence, Sociology and Political Science, Philosophy, Political Science and International Relations, and Social Psychology.

The scientist's main research topics cover a range of areas, notably:

  • Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge
  • Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference
  • Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics
  • Political Philosophy and Ethics
  • Genetically Modified Organisms Research
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
  • Intellectual Property and Patents

Among the more recent publications authored or co-authored by Sven Ove Hansson are:

  • "Self-Driving Vehicles-an Ethical Overview" (2021), published in Philosophy & Technology
  • "How Extreme Is the Precautionary Principle?" (2020), published in NanoEthics
  • "Social constructionism and climate science denial" (2020), published in European Journal for Philosophy of Science

Additional recent papers connected with related researchers include "Options to Reform the European Union Legislation on GMOs: Scope and Definitions" (2020) in Trends in Biotechnology, and "Tracking Science: An Alternative for Those Excluded by Citizen Science" (2021) published in Citizen Science Theory and Practice, indicating collaborative or thematic proximity.

The scientist has frequently published in established venues such as:

  • Theoria
  • Trends in Biotechnology
  • TATuP - Zeitschrift für Technikfolgenabschätzung in Theorie und Praxis
  • European Journal for Philosophy of Science
  • Journal of Philosophical Logic

Co-authorship relationships often include:

  • Dennis Eriksson
  • René Custers
  • Karin Edvardsson Björnberg
  • Kai Purnhagen
  • Matin Qaim

In the domain of academic publishing, Sven Ove Hansson has contributed to book publications as well, with a title released by Springer Nature (Netherlands): "Women's Contemporary Readings of Medieval (and Modern) Arabic Philosophy" (2022).

Best Publications

  • A Textbook of Belief Dynamics: Theory Change and Database Updating

    Sven Ove Hansson

  • The effect of the work environment on future sleep disturbances: a systematic review

    Steven J. Linton;Göran Kecklund;Karl A. Franklin;Lena C. Leissner

  • A textbook of belief dynamics

    Sven Ove Hansson

  • Kernel contraction

    Sven Ove Hansson

  • Science and Pseudo-Science

    Sven Ove Hansson

  • The case for ethical technology assessment (eTA)

    Elin Palm;Sven Ove Hansson

  • Risk: objective or subjective, facts or values

    Sven Ove Hansson

  • The Structure of Values and Norms

    Sven Ove Hansson

  • Learning from accidents : what more do we need to know?

    Anna-Karin Lindberg;Sven Ove Hansson;Carl Rollenhagen

  • Ethical criteria of risk acceptance

    Sven Ove Hansson

  • Decision Making Under Great Uncertainty

    Sven Ove Hansson

  • Five charges against the precautionary principle

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  • PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEMS IN COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS

    Sven Ove Hansson

  • Philosophical Perspectives on Risk

    Sven Ove Hansson

  • Climate and environmental science denial: A review of the scientific literature published in 1990–2015

    Karin Edvardsson Björnberg;Mikael Karlsson;Michael Gilek;Sven Ove Hansson

  • Belief contraction without recovery

    Sven Ove Hansson

  • Reversing the Levi identity

    Sven Ove Hansson

  • The Ethics of Risk: Ethical Analysis in an Uncertain World

    Sven Ove Hansson

  • Science denial as a form of pseudoscience.

    Sven Ove Hansson

  • A Survey of non-Prioritized Belief Revision

    Sven Ove Hansson

  • A survey of multiple contractions

    André Fuhrmann;Sven Ove Hansson

  • Dimensions of Risk

    Sven Ove Hansson

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard G. F. Visser
Richard G. F. Visser Wageningen University & Research
Jörg Romeis
Jörg Romeis University of Bern
Iseult Lynch
Iseult Lynch University of Birmingham
Per Larsson
Per Larsson Lund University
Børge Sivertsen
Børge Sivertsen Norwegian Institute of Public Health
Peter Carruthers
Peter Carruthers University of Maryland, College Park
Göran Kecklund
Göran Kecklund Stockholm University
Per Åman
Per Åman Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Kenneth A. Dawson
Kenneth A. Dawson University College Dublin
Sten Stymne
Sten Stymne Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

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