Cathy O’Neil

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
8 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Cathy O’Neil is a scholar working on Management Information Systems, Surgery and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Cathy O’Neil has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 2 papers in Management Information Systems, 1 paper in Surgery and 1 paper in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Cathy O’Neil's work include Big Data and Business Intelligence (2 papers), Complex Network Analysis Techniques (1 paper) and Legal Issues in Education (1 paper). Cathy O’Neil is often cited by papers focused on Big Data and Business Intelligence (2 papers), Complex Network Analysis Techniques (1 paper) and Legal Issues in Education (1 paper). Cathy O’Neil collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom and United States. Cathy O’Neil's co-authors include Cliff Lampe, Lilli Japec, Frauke Kreuter, Julia Lane, Paul P. Biemer, Paul T. Decker, Gilles Zumbach, James Moore, Derek Fawcett and Janice Warner and has published in prestigious journals such as Public Opinion Quarterly, Quantitative Finance and Annals of The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

In The Last Decade

Cathy O’Neil

8 papers receiving 1.2k 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.

Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

2016 1.0k citations Cathy O’Neil Medical Entomology and Zoology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Cathy O’Neil United Kingdom	7	347	335	262	183	101	8	1.3k
Mari‐Klara Stein Denmark	12	460 1.3×	285 0.9×	176 0.7×	122 0.7×	85 0.8×	38	1.2k
Linnet Taylor Netherlands	19	629 1.8×	310 0.9×	199 0.8×	271 1.5×	51 0.5×	55	1.6k
Tony Doyle United States	10	553 1.6×	579 1.7×	327 1.2×	200 1.1×	317 3.1×	24	1.9k
Peggy Valcke Belgium	13	385 1.1×	729 2.2×	509 1.9×	211 1.2×	233 2.3×	94	1.8k
Mireille Hildebrandt Belgium	20	469 1.4×	412 1.2×	338 1.3×	203 1.1×	106 1.0×	94	1.3k
Henrik Skaug Sætra Norway	20	225 0.6×	426 1.3×	235 0.9×	101 0.6×	187 1.9×	62	1.1k
Patrick Allo Belgium	6	274 0.8×	689 2.1×	422 1.6×	213 1.2×	192 1.9×	28	1.4k
Nada Hashmi United States	3	364 1.0×	167 0.5×	164 0.6×	95 0.5×	63 0.6×	4	1.6k
Julie E. Cohen United States	21	659 1.9×	225 0.7×	275 1.0×	292 1.6×	36 0.4×	61	1.5k
Burkhard Schäfer United Kingdom	11	353 1.0×	804 2.4×	566 2.2×	268 1.5×	284 2.8×	87	1.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Cathy O’Neil

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Fields of papers citing papers by Cathy O’Neil

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Cathy O’Neil

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Cathy O’Neil. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Cathy O’Neil 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 Cathy O’Neil. Cathy O’Neil is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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8 of 8 papers shown

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O’Neil, Cathy, et al.. (2024). Explainable Fairness in Regulatory Algorithmic Auditing. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations

2.

O’Neil, Cathy. (2016). Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 1024 indexed citations breakdown →

3.

Japec, Lilli, Frauke Kreuter, Paul P. Biemer, et al.. (2015). Big Data in Survey Research. Public Opinion Quarterly. 79(4). 839–880. 85 indexed citations

4.

O’Neil, Cathy, et al.. (2013). Doing Data Science: Straight Talk from the Frontline. 160 indexed citations

5.

O’Neil, Cathy, et al.. (2013). Doing Data Science. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 22 indexed citations

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O’Neil, Cathy & Gilles Zumbach. (2012). Using relative returns to accommodate fat-tailed innovations in processes and option pricing. Quantitative Finance. 13(8). 1185–1197. 7 indexed citations

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Moore, James, Cathy O’Neil, & Derek Fawcett. (2008). A One-Stop Clinic for Men with Testicular Anxiety. Annals of The Royal College of Surgeons of England. 91(1). 23–24. 8 indexed citations

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O’Neil, Cathy, et al.. (1983). Hey, Do We Really Have to Take Data?. Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities. 8(3). 56–70. 10 indexed citations

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