Bob Carpenter

11.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
28 papers, 5.7k citations indexed

About

Bob Carpenter is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Statistics and Probability and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Bob Carpenter has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 5.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 3 papers in Statistics and Probability and 2 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Bob Carpenter's work include Natural Language Processing Techniques (8 papers), Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge (6 papers) and Topic Modeling (4 papers). Bob Carpenter is often cited by papers focused on Natural Language Processing Techniques (8 papers), Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge (6 papers) and Topic Modeling (4 papers). Bob Carpenter collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Italy. Bob Carpenter's co-authors include Matthew D. Hoffman, Daniel C. Lee, Marcus A. Brubaker, Ben Goodrich, Allen Riddell, Jiqiang Guo, Peter Li, Michael Betancourt, Andrew Gelman and Andrew Gelman and has published in prestigious journals such as The Journal of Chemical Physics, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and The Journal of Physical Chemistry B.

In The Last Decade

Bob Carpenter

26 papers receiving 5.4k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Stan: A Probabilistic Programming Language

2017 4.3k citations Bob Carpenter, Andrew Gelman et al. Journal of Statistical Software profile →
Stan: A Probabilistic Programming Language

2017 496 citations Bob Carpenter, Andrew Gelman et al. Journal of Systems and Software profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Bob Carpenter United States	14	1.2k	694	632	519	475	28	5.7k
Jiqiang Guo United States	9	705 0.6×	787 1.1×	649 1.0×	551 1.1×	447 0.9×	13	5.2k
Ben Goodrich United States	12	814 0.7×	747 1.1×	662 1.0×	672 1.3×	469 1.0×	26	5.7k
Daniel C. Lee Canada	11	710 0.6×	684 1.0×	612 1.0×	517 1.0×	414 0.9×	58	5.3k
Michael Betancourt United States	11	855 0.7×	927 1.3×	723 1.1×	677 1.3×	503 1.1×	24	6.1k
Allen Riddell United States	9	728 0.6×	684 1.0×	618 1.0×	517 1.0×	418 0.9×	22	4.9k
Matthew D. Hoffman United States	17	2.6k 2.2×	873 1.3×	688 1.1×	527 1.0×	436 0.9×	54	7.9k
Peter Li United States	49	1.0k 0.9×	708 1.0×	657 1.0×	554 1.1×	419 0.9×	149	13.1k
David Strauss United States	46	583 0.5×	659 0.9×	350 0.6×	457 0.9×	277 0.6×	144	8.6k
Paul McCullagh United Kingdom	31	657 0.5×	723 1.0×	413 0.7×	697 1.3×	119 0.3×	181	6.4k
Carolin Strobl Germany	25	1.3k 1.1×	666 1.0×	276 0.4×	1.3k 2.5×	448 0.9×	70	9.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Bob Carpenter

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Fields of papers citing papers by Bob Carpenter

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bob Carpenter

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Bob Carpenter. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Bob Carpenter based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Bob Carpenter. Bob Carpenter is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Bou‐Rabee, Nawaf, et al.. (2025). Incorporating local step-size adaptivity into the no-U-turn sampler using Gibbs self-tuning. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 163(8).

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Banks, David, et al.. (2024). Large Language Models: Trust and Regulation. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 6(3).

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Ward, Thomas, Mitzi Morris, Andrew Gelman, et al.. (2023). Bayesian spatial modelling of localised SARS-CoV-2 transmission through mobility networks across England. PLoS Computational Biology. 19(11). e1011580–e1011580. 3 indexed citations

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Modi, Chirag, Alex H. Barnett, & Bob Carpenter. (2023). Delayed rejection Hamiltonian Monte Carlo for sampling multiscale distributions. Bayesian Analysis. 19(3). 2 indexed citations

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Carpenter, Bob, et al.. (2023). BridgeStan: Efficient in-memory access to the methodsof a Stan model. The Journal of Open Source Software. 8(87). 5236–5236. 1 indexed citations

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Ward, Thomas, et al.. (2022). Replacement dynamics and the pathogenesis of the Alpha, Delta and Omicron variants of SARS-CoV-2. Epidemiology and Infection. 151. e32–e32. 14 indexed citations

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Thiede, Erik H., et al.. (2021). A Bayesian approach to extracting free-energy profiles from cryo-electron microscopy experiments. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 13657–13657. 32 indexed citations

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Gelman, Andrew & Bob Carpenter. (2020). Bayesian Analysis of Tests with Unknown Specificity and Sensitivity. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C (Applied Statistics). 69(5). 1269–1283. 65 indexed citations

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Carpenter, Bob & Gerald Penn. (2018). ALE : the attribute logic engine user's guide, version 2.0.1. Research Showcase @ Carnegie Mellon University (Carnegie Mellon University). 1 indexed citations

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Paun, Silviu, Bob Carpenter, Jon Chamberlain, et al.. (2018). Comparing Bayesian Models of Annotation. Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics. 6. 571–585. 51 indexed citations

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Carpenter, Bob, Andrew Gelman, Matthew D. Hoffman, et al.. (2017). Stan: A Probabilistic Programming Language. Journal of Systems and Software. 76(1). 1–32. 496 indexed citations breakdown →

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Carpenter, Bob, Andrew Gelman, Matthew D. Hoffman, et al.. (2017). Stan: A Probabilistic Programming Language. Journal of Statistical Software. 76(1). 4257 indexed citations breakdown →

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Carpenter, Bob. (2011). A Hierarchical Bayesian Model of Crowdsourced Relevance Coding.. Text REtrieval Conference. 10 indexed citations

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Carpenter, Bob. (2005). Logic of Typed Feature Structures, The (Cambridge Tracts in Theoretical Computer Science). Cambridge University Press eBooks. 23 indexed citations

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Carpenter, Bob. (2004). Phrasal Queries with LingPipe and Lucene: Ad Hoc Genomics Text Retrieval.. Text REtrieval Conference. 28 indexed citations

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Collins, Christopher, Bob Carpenter, & Gerald Penn. (2004). Head-driven parsing for word lattices. 231–es. 10 indexed citations

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Froeliger, Eunice H. & Bob Carpenter. (1996). NUT1, a major nitrogen regulatory gene inMagnaporthe grisea, is dispensable for pathogenicity. Molecular and General Genetics MGG. 251(6). 647–656. 84 indexed citations

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Carpenter, Bob. (1992). The logic of typed feature structures. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 348 indexed citations

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Carpenter, Bob. (1991). Typed Feature Structures: A Generalization of First-Order Terms.. Genes and Immunity. 5(6). 187–201. 4 indexed citations

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Morrill, Glyn & Bob Carpenter. (1990). Compositionality, implicational logics, and theories of grammar. Linguistics and Philosophy. 13(4). 383–392. 3 indexed citations

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