David Johnston

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
3 papers, 634 citations indexed

About

David Johnston is a scholar working on Paleontology, Clinical Psychology and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, David Johnston has authored 3 papers receiving a total of 634 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 1 paper in Paleontology, 1 paper in Clinical Psychology and 1 paper in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in David Johnston's work include COVID-19 and Mental Health (1 paper), Archaeological Research and Protection (1 paper) and COVID-19 epidemiological studies (1 paper). David Johnston is often cited by papers focused on COVID-19 and Mental Health (1 paper), Archaeological Research and Protection (1 paper) and COVID-19 epidemiological studies (1 paper). David Johnston collaborates with scholars based in Australia, Germany and United Kingdom. David Johnston's co-authors include John Salvatier, Sören Mindermann, Alexander John Norman, Gavin Leech, Jan Brauner, Hong Ge, Yarin Gal, Anna B. Stephenson, Tomáš Gavenčiak and Tamay Besiroglu and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Australian Archaeology.

In The Last Decade

David Johnston

2 papers receiving 618 citations

Hit 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.

Inferring the effectiveness of government interventions against COVID-19

2020 630 citations Jan Brauner, Sören Mindermann et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
David Johnston Australia	2	443	204	168	128	103	3	634
Jan Kulveit United Kingdom	3	470 1.1×	211 1.0×	187 1.1×	133 1.0×	110 1.1×	5	674
Alexander John Norman United Kingdom	3	453 1.0×	210 1.0×	183 1.1×	130 1.0×	108 1.0×	3	658
Gavin Leech United Kingdom	4	499 1.1×	226 1.1×	196 1.2×	142 1.1×	114 1.1×	5	728
Joel Ruihan Koo Singapore	9	459 1.0×	204 1.0×	260 1.5×	141 1.1×	91 0.9×	20	852
Joshua Teperowski Monrad United States	9	508 1.1×	230 1.1×	229 1.4×	153 1.2×	120 1.2×	11	884
Sören Mindermann United Kingdom	7	541 1.2×	243 1.2×	221 1.3×	165 1.3×	123 1.2×	9	834
Mrinank Sharma United Kingdom	6	541 1.2×	241 1.2×	221 1.3×	165 1.3×	123 1.2×	6	816
George Altman United Kingdom	4	449 1.0×	207 1.0×	169 1.0×	131 1.0×	106 1.0×	7	660
Wongyeong Choi South Korea	7	410 0.9×	169 0.8×	272 1.6×	91 0.7×	85 0.8×	11	672
Yiseul Lee United States	5	553 1.2×	265 1.3×	331 2.0×	105 0.8×	102 1.0×	6	804

Countries citing papers authored by David Johnston

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of David Johnston's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by David Johnston with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites David Johnston more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by David Johnston

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by David Johnston. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by David Johnston. The network helps show where David Johnston may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Johnston

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

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

3 of 3 papers shown

1.

Johnston, David, Cheng Soon Ong, & Robert C. Williamson. (2025). Decision making, symmetry and structure: Justifying causal interventions. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 13(1).

2.

Brauner, Jan, Sören Mindermann, Mrinank Sharma, et al.. (2020). Inferring the effectiveness of government interventions against COVID-19. Science. 371(6531). 630 indexed citations breakdown →

3.

Williams, Elizabeth & David Johnston. (1991). The World Archaeological Congress (Wac) And The Wac First Code Of Ethics. Australian Archaeology. 32(1). 64–67. 4 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact