David Gray Widder

581 total citations
21 papers, 256 citations indexed

About

David Gray Widder is a scholar working on Safety Research, Information Systems and Computer Science Applications. According to data from OpenAlex, David Gray Widder has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 256 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Safety Research, 8 papers in Information Systems and 7 papers in Computer Science Applications. Recurrent topics in David Gray Widder's work include Ethics and Social Impacts of AI (10 papers), Open Source Software Innovations (6 papers) and Software Engineering Research (5 papers). David Gray Widder is often cited by papers focused on Ethics and Social Impacts of AI (10 papers), Open Source Software Innovations (6 papers) and Software Engineering Research (5 papers). David Gray Widder collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Australia. David Gray Widder's co-authors include Dawn Nafus, Laura Dabbish, James D. Herbsleb, Meredith Whittaker, Christian Kästner, Bogdan Vasilescu, Michael Hilton, Israel Spiegler, Scott Davidoff and Claire Le Goues and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Communications of the ACM and Big Data & Society.

In The Last Decade

David Gray Widder

17 papers receiving 249 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
David Gray Widder United States 9 125 76 71 41 41 21 256
Rifat Ara Shams Australia 9 55 0.4× 61 0.8× 99 1.4× 36 0.9× 29 0.7× 16 229
A. Feder Cooper United States 6 80 0.6× 142 1.9× 76 1.1× 83 2.0× 32 0.8× 21 267
Samir Passi United States 6 128 1.0× 90 1.2× 52 0.7× 64 1.6× 45 1.1× 9 283
Ana Marasović United States 8 141 1.1× 318 4.2× 33 0.5× 27 0.7× 16 0.4× 16 456
Arif Nurwidyantoro Australia 10 25 0.2× 88 1.2× 106 1.5× 32 0.8× 17 0.4× 19 210
April Yi Wang United States 9 36 0.3× 98 1.3× 108 1.5× 15 0.4× 69 1.7× 21 280
Bogdana Rakova United States 6 159 1.3× 69 0.9× 29 0.4× 43 1.0× 21 0.5× 9 258
Vidya Rajaram United States 4 29 0.2× 149 2.0× 57 0.8× 26 0.6× 71 1.7× 6 295
Hussam M. Dahwa Abdulla Czechia 7 71 0.6× 152 2.0× 89 1.3× 33 0.8× 10 0.2× 13 254
Megha Srivastava United States 4 92 0.7× 118 1.6× 48 0.7× 14 0.3× 21 0.5× 9 214

Countries citing papers authored by David Gray Widder

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Fields of papers citing papers by David Gray Widder

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Gray Widder

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of David Gray Widder. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of David Gray Widder 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 Gray Widder. David Gray Widder 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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Kuo, Tzu-Sheng, Amy Winecoff, Emily Tseng, et al.. (2025). Sociotechnical AI Governance: Challenges and Opportunities for HCI. 1–6. 1 indexed citations
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Widder, David Gray & Tamara Kneese. (2025). Salvage Anthropology and Low-Resource NLP: What Computer Science Should Learn from the Social Sciences. interactions. 32(2). 46–49.
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Widder, David Gray, et al.. (2025). The ethics of AI value chains. Big Data & Society. 12(2). 2 indexed citations
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Widder, David Gray & Claire Le Goues. (2024). What Is a ‘Bug’?. Communications of the ACM. 67(11). 32–34.
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Widder, David Gray, et al.. (2024). The Emerging Artifacts of Centralized Open-Code. 1971–1983. 1 indexed citations
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Widder, David Gray, et al.. (2024). Why ‘open’ AI systems are actually closed, and why this matters. Nature. 635(8040). 827–833. 11 indexed citations
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Widder, David Gray. (2024). Ethical Tech Begins with Ethical Workplaces: Power Dynamics in Companies and Universities. XRDS Crossroads The ACM Magazine for Students. 30(4). 17–21. 1 indexed citations
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Widder, David Gray, Laura Dabbish, James D. Herbsleb, & Nikolas Martelaro. (2024). Power and Play: Investigating "License to Critique" in Teams' AI Ethics Discussions. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. 8(CSCW2). 1–23. 3 indexed citations
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Widder, David Gray, et al.. (2023). To Build Our Future, We Must Know Our Past: Contextualizing Paradigm Shifts in Natural Language Processing. 13310–13325. 3 indexed citations
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Widder, David Gray & Dawn Nafus. (2023). Dislocated accountabilities in the “AI supply chain”: Modularity and developers’ notions of responsibility. Big Data & Society. 10(1). 52 indexed citations
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Widder, David Gray, et al.. (2023). Open (For Business): Big Tech, Concentrated Power, and the Political Economy of Open AI. SSRN Electronic Journal. 27 indexed citations
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Dabbish, Laura, et al.. (2022). Gender and Participation in Open Source Software Development. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. 6(CSCW2). 1–31. 18 indexed citations
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Widder, David Gray, Dawn Nafus, Laura Dabbish, & James D. Herbsleb. (2022). Limits and Possibilities for “Ethical AI” in Open Source: A Study of Deepfakes. 2035–2046. 27 indexed citations
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Widder, David Gray, et al.. (2021). Trust in Collaborative Automation in High Stakes Software Engineering Work: A Case Study at NASA. 1–13. 11 indexed citations
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Widder, David Gray, Joshua Sunshine, & Stephen Fickas. (2019). Barriers to Reproducible Scientific Programming. 217–221.
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Widder, David Gray, et al.. (2019). A Qualitative Study on Framework Debugging. 568–579. 4 indexed citations
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Widder, David Gray, Michael Hilton, Christian Kästner, & Bogdan Vasilescu. (2018). I'm leaving you, Travis. 165–169. 10 indexed citations
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Spiegler, Israel & David Gray Widder. (1993). Physical database design. ACM SIGMIS Database the DATABASE for Advances in Information Systems. 24(3). 5–11. 7 indexed citations

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