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Mechanistic Explanation

Mechanistic Explanation is a type of causal explanation that identifies the underlying entities, activities, and organizational relations responsible for producing a phenomenon, distinguished by its focus on the stepwise, interacting components of a system that generate an outcome.

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Causal analysis approaches in Ingenuity Pathway Analysis

A. Krämer, Jeff Green, Jack Pollard et al. · Bioinformatics · 2013 · 6.1K citations · Full text

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Sleep Drives Metabolite Clearance from the Adult Brain

Lulu Xie, Hongyi Kang, Qiwu Xu et al. · Science · 2013 · 5.3K citations · Full text

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Causal Mechanisms in the Social Sciences

Peter Hedström, Petri Ylikoski · Annual Review of Sociology · 2010 · 1.6K citations

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Discovering complexity: decomposition and localization as strategies in scientific research

Choice Reviews Online · 1993 · 1.3K citations

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Explanation: a mechanist alternative

William Bechtel, Adele Abrahamsen · Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences · 2005 · 1.1K citations

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  1. RV
    Rudi van Eldik

    Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

    29 publications · 873 citations

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  2. WB
    William Bechtel

    University of California San Diego, United States

    12 publications · 2.2K citations

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  3. TJ
    Timothy J. Wallington

    Ford Motor Company (United States), United States

    6 publications · 214 citations

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  4. MM
    Marcin Miłkowski

    Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

    5 publications · 126 citations

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  5. MD
    M. D. Hurley

    Ford Motor Company (United States), United States

    5 publications · 168 citations

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  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    26 h-index

    113 publications

    5.1K citations

  2. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    21 h-index

    80 publications

    6.3K citations

  3. Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

    19 h-index

    69 publications

    3.6K citations

  4. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    18 h-index

    61 publications

    5.8K citations

  5. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    18 h-index

    46 publications

    4.6K citations

  6. University of California San Diego

    San Diego, United States

    15 h-index

    25 publications

    3.7K citations

  7. University of Michigan

    Ann Arbor, United States

    14 h-index

    38 publications

    3.5K citations

  8. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    14 h-index

    37 publications

    1.6K citations

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  1. Journal of the American Chemical Society

    JACS · 125 publications · 8.6K citations

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  2. The Journal of Organic Chemistry

    JOC · 72 publications · 2.9K citations

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  3. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    PNAS · 28 publications · 3.8K citations

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  4. Organometallics

    41 publications · 1.5K citations

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  5. Philosophy of Science

    26 publications · 2.7K citations

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