Daniel Simpson

8.5k total citations · 6 hit papers
57 papers, 4.3k citations indexed

About

Daniel Simpson is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Environmental Engineering and Statistics and Probability. According to data from OpenAlex, Daniel Simpson has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 4.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 18 papers in Environmental Engineering and 17 papers in Statistics and Probability. Recurrent topics in Daniel Simpson's work include Soil Geostatistics and Mapping (15 papers), Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference (13 papers) and Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models (10 papers). Daniel Simpson is often cited by papers focused on Soil Geostatistics and Mapping (15 papers), Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference (13 papers) and Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models (10 papers). Daniel Simpson collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Norway. Daniel Simpson's co-authors include Håvard Rue, Finn Lindgren, Andrea Riebler, Sigrunn H. Sørbye, Andrew Gelman, Thiago G. Martins, Michael Betancourt, Aki Vehtari, Janine Illian and Jonah Gabry and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Statistical Association, Environmental Science & Technology and Chemistry - A European Journal.

In The Last Decade

Daniel Simpson

53 papers receiving 4.2k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Penalising Model Component Complexity: A Principled, Practical Approach to Constructing Priors

2017 622 citations Daniel Simpson, Håvard Rue et al. Statistical Science profile →
Visualization in Bayesian Workflow

2019 604 citations Daniel Simpson, Aki Vehtari et al. profile →
Bayesian Computing with INLA: A Review

2017 457 citations Håvard Rue, Andrea Riebler et al. profile →
Bayesian computing with INLA: New features

2013 402 citations Thiago G. Martins, Daniel Simpson et al. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis profile →
The Prior Can Often Only Be Understood in the Context of the Likelihood

2017 302 citations Andrew Gelman, Daniel Simpson et al. profile →
Global and regional causes of maternal deaths 2009–20: a WHO systematic analysis

2025 39 citations Jenny A. Cresswell, Monica Alexander et al. The Lancet Global Health profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Daniel Simpson United Kingdom	20	680	671	643	619	617	57	4.3k
Sara Martino Norway	13	811 1.2×	567 0.8×	545 0.8×	494 0.8×	681 1.1×	28	3.9k
Nicolás Chopin France	32	1.2k 1.8×	518 0.8×	465 0.7×	459 0.7×	671 1.1×	104	6.9k
Brian J. Reich United States	39	1.3k 1.9×	867 1.3×	681 1.1×	768 1.2×	844 1.4×	214	5.3k
Jennifer A. Hoeting United States	22	1.1k 1.6×	706 1.1×	692 1.1×	534 0.9×	698 1.1×	54	5.2k
Finn Lindgren United Kingdom	23	797 1.2×	1.2k 1.8×	1.0k 1.6×	1.6k 2.6×	1.0k 1.6×	67	5.6k
Thomas Kneib Germany	40	1.8k 2.6×	744 1.1×	875 1.4×	704 1.1×	928 1.5×	211	7.3k
Carolin Strobl Germany	25	666 1.0×	1.1k 1.6×	1.3k 2.0×	846 1.4×	282 0.5×	70	9.0k
Rana Moyeed United Kingdom	20	885 1.3×	449 0.7×	470 0.7×	857 1.4×	676 1.1×	32	4.0k
Virgilio Gómez‐Rubio Spain	22	215 0.3×	988 1.5×	1.1k 1.7×	602 1.0×	666 1.1×	54	5.0k
Stephen L. Rathbun United States	26	308 0.5×	773 1.2×	1.1k 1.8×	766 1.2×	310 0.5×	84	4.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Daniel Simpson

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Fields of papers citing papers by Daniel Simpson

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Daniel Simpson

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All Works

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Cresswell, Jenny A., Monica Alexander, Doris Chou, et al.. (2025). Global and regional causes of maternal deaths 2009–20: a WHO systematic analysis. The Lancet Global Health. 13(4). e626–e634. 39 indexed citations breakdown →

Simpson, Daniel, et al.. (2024). Thermodynamic linear algebra. 1(1). 9 indexed citations

Simpson, Daniel, et al.. (2024). Explainable Deep Learning Models for Dynamic and Online Malware Classification. 182–189. 1 indexed citations

Simpson, Daniel. (2023). Navigating the Customs House, Then and Now: A Synthesis of British Colonial Collecting in Australia, 1788–1823. Australian Historical Studies. 55(1). 134–157.

Simpson, Daniel, et al.. (2023). Will my boomerang come back? New insights into Aboriginal material culture of early Sydney and affiliated coastal zone from British collections. Australian Archaeology. 89(2). 149–171.

Simpson, Daniel, Kathryn Hoffman, Diane E. Merry, et al.. (2023). Increased SIRT3 combined with PARP inhibition rescues motor function of SBMA mice. iScience. 26(8). 107375–107375. 4 indexed citations

Martínez‐Minaya, Joaquín, Finn Lindgren, Antonio López‐Quílez, Daniel Simpson, & David Conesa. (2022). The Integrated Nested Laplace Approximation for Fitting Dirichlet Regression Models. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics. 32(3). 805–823. 3 indexed citations

Mengersen, Kerrie, et al.. (2020). Combining Opinions for Use in Bayesian Networks: A Measurement Error Approach. QUT ePrints (Queensland University of Technology). 2 indexed citations

Simpson, Daniel, et al.. (2020). Asynchronous Gibbs Sampling.. International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics. 144–154. 3 indexed citations

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Murray, Nicholas, David A. Keith, Daniel Simpson, John H. Wilshire, & Richard Lucas. (2018). Remap : An online remote sensing application for land cover classification and monitoring. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 9(9). 2019–2027. 37 indexed citations

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Yao, Yuling, Aki Vehtari, Daniel Simpson, & Andrew Gelman. (2018). Yes, but did it work?: Evaluating variational inference. Aaltodoc (Aalto University). 5581–5590. 2 indexed citations

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Simpson, Daniel, Håvard Rue, Andrea Riebler, Thiago G. Martins, & Sigrunn H. Sørbye. (2017). You Just Keep on Pushing My Love over the Borderline: A Rejoinder. Statistical Science. 32(1). 1 indexed citations

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Fuglstad, Geir‐Arne, Daniel Simpson, Finn Lindgren, & Håvard Rue. (2015). Interpretable Priors for Hyperparameters for Gaussian Random Fields. arXiv (Cornell University). 9 indexed citations

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SUTTON, K., et al.. (2014). STI-GMaS: An open-source environment for simulation of sexually-transmitted infections. BIBSYS Brage (BIBSYS (Norway)). 5 indexed citations

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SUTTON, K., et al.. (2014). STI-GMaS: an open-source environment for simulation of sexually-transmitted infections. BMC Systems Biology. 8(1). 66–66. 1 indexed citations

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Girolami, Mark, Anne-Marie Lyne, Heiko Strathmann, Daniel Simpson, & Yves F. Atchadé. (2013). Playing Russian Roulette with Intractable Likelihoods. arXiv (Cornell University). 9 indexed citations

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Martins, Thiago G., Daniel Simpson, Finn Lindgren, & Håvard Rue. (2013). Bayesian computing with INLA: New features. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis. 67. 68–83. 402 indexed citations breakdown →

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Cameletti, Michela, Finn Lindgren, Daniel Simpson, & Håvard Rue. (2011). Using the SPDE approach for air qualitymapping in Piemonte region. 2 indexed citations

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Simpson, Daniel, Ian Turner, & A. N. Pettitt. (2008). Sampling from a Gaussian Markov random field conditioned on linear constraints. The ANZIAM Journal. 48. 1 indexed citations

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Hunter, T.M., I.W. McNae, Daniel Simpson, et al.. (2006). Configurations of Nickel–Cyclam Antiviral Complexes and Protein Recognition. Chemistry - A European Journal. 13(1). 40–50. 44 indexed citations

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