David Danks

4.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
91 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

David Danks is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Safety Research and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, David Danks has authored 91 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 20 papers in Safety Research and 19 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in David Danks's work include Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference (26 papers), Ethics and Social Impacts of AI (18 papers) and Child and Animal Learning Development (18 papers). David Danks is often cited by papers focused on Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference (26 papers), Ethics and Social Impacts of AI (18 papers) and Child and Animal Learning Development (18 papers). David Danks collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Switzerland. David Danks's co-authors include Clark Glymour, Alex John London, Alison Gopnik, Laura Schulz, Tamar Kushnir, David M. Sobel, Sina Fazelpour, Daniel Malinsky, Kevin Zollman and Frederick Eberhardt and has published in prestigious journals such as Psychological Review, Clinical Infectious Diseases and Communications of the ACM.

In The Last Decade

David Danks

86 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

A Theory of Causal Learni... 2004 2026 2011 2018 2004 2017 200 400 600

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
David Danks 825 638 471 444 233 91 2.2k
Ruth M. J. Byrne 1.9k 2.3× 1.2k 1.9× 1.3k 2.7× 417 0.9× 372 1.6× 122 4.6k
Noel Sharkey 932 1.1× 229 0.4× 839 1.8× 631 1.4× 258 1.1× 79 2.7k
Patrick Shafto 429 0.5× 1.2k 1.8× 265 0.6× 101 0.2× 289 1.2× 87 2.1k
Lael J. Schooler 744 0.9× 475 0.7× 1.1k 2.3× 217 0.5× 265 1.1× 53 2.8k
Henry Brighton 725 0.9× 152 0.2× 229 0.5× 147 0.3× 369 1.6× 27 2.2k
Emily M. Bender 3.0k 3.6× 99 0.2× 253 0.5× 781 1.8× 409 1.8× 94 4.7k
Robert van Rooij 1.2k 1.5× 104 0.2× 108 0.2× 223 0.5× 145 0.6× 62 2.5k
Lorenzo Magnani 441 0.5× 187 0.3× 375 0.8× 81 0.2× 284 1.2× 147 2.3k
Alistair Knott 905 1.1× 178 0.3× 244 0.5× 169 0.4× 92 0.4× 86 1.7k
Mitchell J. Nathan 721 0.9× 2.6k 4.1× 702 1.5× 134 0.3× 189 0.8× 127 5.5k

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Fields of papers citing papers by David Danks

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Danks

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Danks, David, et al.. (2025). Do It Yourself Content and the Wisdom of the Crowds. Erkenntnis. 91(2). 609–637. 1 indexed citations
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Danks, David, et al.. (2024). Environmental epistemology. Synthese. 203(3). 4 indexed citations
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Danks, David, et al.. (2024). Building Epistemically Healthier Platforms. Episteme. 22(4). 745–767. 1 indexed citations
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Danks, David, et al.. (2023). Causal inference in cognitive neuroscience. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Cognitive Science. 14(5). e1650–e1650. 6 indexed citations
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Falco, Gregory, Ben Shneiderman, Julia Badger, et al.. (2021). Governing AI safety through independent audits. Nature Machine Intelligence. 3(7). 566–571. 115 indexed citations
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Cusimano, Corey, et al.. (2021). Reason-Based Constraint in Theory of Mind. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 43(43). 1 indexed citations
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Danks, David, et al.. (2018). Building Theories Heuristics and Hypotheses in Sciences. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 8 indexed citations
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Zollman, Kevin, et al.. (2018). Wisdom of the Crowds vs. Groupthink: Learning in Groups and in Isolation. International Journal of Game Theory. 42(3).
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Danks, David & Joseph H. Danks. (2018). Beyond Machines: Humans in Cyber Operations, Espionage, and Conflict. Research Showcase @ Carnegie Mellon University (Carnegie Mellon University). 1 indexed citations
10.
Chu, Tianjiao, David Danks, & Clark Glymour. (2018). Data Driven Methods for Nonlinear Granger Causality: Climate Teleconnection Mechanisms. Figshare. 5 indexed citations
12.
Danks, David & Sergey Plis. (2018). Learning Causal Structure from Undersampled Time Series. Figshare. 2013. 7 indexed citations
13.
Malinsky, Daniel & David Danks. (2017). Causal discovery algorithms: A practical guide. Philosophy Compass. 13(1). 69 indexed citations
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Danks, David. (2013). Moving from Levels & Reduction to Dimensions & Constraints. Cognitive Science. 35(35). 2124. 3 indexed citations
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Danks, David, Clark Glymour, & Robert E. Tillman. (2008). Integrating Locally Learned Causal Structures with Overlapping Variables. Neural Information Processing Systems. 21. 1665–1672. 37 indexed citations
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Danks, David, et al.. (2007). Decision Making Using Learned Causal Structures. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 29(29). 3 indexed citations
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Danks, David, et al.. (2007). Task Influences on Category Learning. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 29(29). 1 indexed citations
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Danks, David & Samantha L. Schwartz. (2006). Effects of Causal Strength on Learning from Biased Sequences. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 28(28). 6 indexed citations
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Danks, David & Samantha L. Schwartz. (2005). Causal Learning from Biased Sequences. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 27(27). 5 indexed citations
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Kushnir, Tamar, Alison Gopnik, Laura Schulz, & David Danks. (2003). Inferring Hidden Causes. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 25(25). 25 indexed citations

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