Table 3.
Items and citations by the academic discipline of the lead author
| Academic discipline | Count and citations | Percentages of total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Count of items | Citation count (outlier excluded)a | Count of items | Citation count (outlier excluded) | |
| Philosophy or ethics | 82 | 2101 | 28 | 35 |
| Law | 49 | 1002 | 17 | 17 |
| Computer engineering or computer science | 30 | 473 | 10 | 8 |
| Communication or media | 28 | 740 | 10 | 12 |
| Psychology | 20 | 495 | 7 | 8 |
| Other social sciences | 18 | 111 | 6 | 2 |
| Other engineering | 12 | 200 | 4 | 3 |
| Cognitive science | 10 | 300 | 3 | 5 |
| Other humanities | 8 | 14 | 3 | 0 |
| Medical or biology | 6 | 111 | 2 | 2 |
| Information technology | 5 | 86 | 2 | 1 |
| Design | 5 | 27 | 2 | 0 |
| Robotics | 4 | 23 | 1 | 0 |
| History | 3 | 83 | 1 | 1 |
| Business | 3 | 17 | 1 | 0 |
| Political science | 3 | 13 | 1 | 0 |
| English literature or language | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Future studies | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| Other or unidentifiable | 32 | 471 | 11 | 8 |
| Total | 294 | 5992 | 100 | 100 |
aThe outlier is Bostrom (2014). If this item is included, then the citation count for philosophy or ethics rises to 4614, which is 54% of the total