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D-Index
40
Citations
10399
World Ranking
5226
National Ranking
2466

William P. Alston 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 William P. Alston sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 163 publications — 48th percentile

48% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

William P. Alston 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 William P. Alston 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: 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: 40 D-Index — 34th percentile

34% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

William P. Alston was affiliated with Syracuse University in the United States. Their academic and research career contributed to the field of philosophy, focusing on issues related to epistemology and the philosophy of religion.

Throughout their career, they did not have recent papers listed in the dataset. Information on specific research topics, co-authors, and publication venues collected does not show entries for this individual based on the data provided.

Similarly, no details regarding specific fields, subfields, or main topics of study were recorded in the source information for William P. Alston.

There are no book publications listed, nor awards reported with years or citations in the available data.

William P. Alston is deceased. The profile reflects a neutral overview of the academic presence of the individual according to the available records.

Best Publications

  • Philosophy of Language

    William P. Alston

  • Beyond "Justification": Dimensions of Epistemic Evaluation

    William P. Alston

  • A realist conception of truth

    William P. Alston

  • The deontological conception of epistemic justification

    William P. Alston

  • Perceiving God: The Epistemology of Religious Experience

    William P. Alston

  • Internalism and Externalism in Epistemology

    William P. Alston

  • Concepts of Epistemic Justification

    William P. Alston

  • Knowledge and the Flow of Information

    J. Christopher Maloney;Fred I. Dretske

  • An internalist externalism

    William P. Alston

  • Illocutionary acts and sentence meaning

    William P. Alston

  • The Reliability of Sense Perception

    William P. Alston

  • The Inductive Argument From Evil and the Human Cognitive Condition

    William P. Alston

  • How to Think about Reliability

    William P. Alston

  • Two Types of Foundationalism

    William P. Alston

  • Level-Confusions in Epistemology

    William P. Alston

  • Traits, consistency and conceptual alternatives for personality theory.

    William P. Alston

  • What's wrong with immediate knowledge?

    William P. Alston

  • Virtue and Knowledge

    William P. Alston

  • Does God have Beliefs

    William P. Alston

  • Locke on people and substances

    William P. Alston;Jonathan Bennett

  • Divine nature and human language

    William Alston

  • The Reliability of Sense Perception.

    A. E. Pitson;William Alston

  • Epistemic Justification: Essays in the Theory of Knowledge.Divine Nature and Human Language: Essays in Philosophical Theology

    James E. Taylor;William P. Alston

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