Jon Williamson

4.8k total citations
98 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Jon Williamson is a scholar working on History and Philosophy of Science, Artificial Intelligence and Philosophy. According to data from OpenAlex, Jon Williamson has authored 98 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in History and Philosophy of Science, 34 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 22 papers in Philosophy. Recurrent topics in Jon Williamson's work include Philosophy and History of Science (40 papers), Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference (32 papers) and Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (19 papers). Jon Williamson is often cited by papers focused on Philosophy and History of Science (40 papers), Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference (32 papers) and Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (19 papers). Jon Williamson collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Netherlands. Jon Williamson's co-authors include Federica Russo, Phyllis Illari, Brendan Clarke, Donald Gillies, Jürgen Landes, Michael P. Kelly, Jan‐Willem Romeijn, Gregory Wheeler, Rolf Haenni and Ingmar Pörn and has published in prestigious journals such as Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Journal of Clinical Microbiology and British Journal of Cancer.

In The Last Decade

Jon Williamson

92 papers receiving 2.2k citations

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jon Williamson United Kingdom	25	886	458	393	325	273	98	2.4k
Federica Russo Netherlands	20	412 0.5×	196 0.4×	139 0.4×	147 0.5×	238 0.9×	86	1.8k
Deborah G. Mayo United States	18	591 0.7×	244 0.5×	120 0.3×	82 0.3×	163 0.6×	58	1.5k
Donald Gillies United Kingdom	19	461 0.5×	158 0.3×	197 0.5×	54 0.2×	174 0.6×	91	1.2k
Michaël Friedman United States	30	1.9k 2.1×	151 0.3×	879 2.2×	185 0.6×	90 0.3×	133	3.5k
Peter Urbach United Kingdom	15	407 0.5×	255 0.6×	217 0.6×	58 0.2×	112 0.4×	34	1.2k
Daniel Steel United States	19	371 0.4×	94 0.2×	198 0.5×	79 0.2×	120 0.4×	69	1.2k
Colin Howson United Kingdom	17	663 0.7×	380 0.8×	401 1.0×	49 0.2×	73 0.3×	67	1.3k
Eric Winsberg United States	19	651 0.7×	136 0.3×	161 0.4×	102 0.3×	87 0.3×	46	1.7k
Nancy Cartwright United States	12	525 0.6×	166 0.4×	162 0.4×	70 0.2×	165 0.6×	29	1.2k
Uri Nodelman United States	7	256 0.3×	385 0.8×	482 1.2×	59 0.2×	84 0.3×	10	2.1k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Votsis, Ioannis, et al.. (2025). The Interplay of Data, Models, and Theories in Machine Learning. Philosophy of Science. 1–11.

Williamson, Jon, et al.. (2025). Applying Evidential Pluralism to evidence-based law: EBL+. Jurisprudence. 16(4). 647–690.

Greenhalgh, Trisha, et al.. (2025). Protocol: a systematic review+ (SR+) to combine associative and mechanistic evidence on the efficacy of face masks in reducing transmission of respiratory diseases. Systematic Reviews. 14(1). 226–226.

Williamson, Jon. (2022). Bayesianism from a philosophical perspective and its application to medicine. The International Journal of Biostatistics. 19(2). 295–307.

Aronson, Jeffrey K, et al.. (2020). The use of mechanistic reasoning in assessing coronavirus interventions. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. 27(3). 684–693. 12 indexed citations

Williamson, Jon. (2020). The feasibility and malleability of EBM+. THEORIA An International Journal for Theory History and Foundations of Science. 36(2). 9 indexed citations

Tonelli, Mark R. & Jon Williamson. (2019). Mechanisms in clinical practice: use and justification. Medicine Health Care and Philosophy. 23(1). 115–124. 8 indexed citations

Williamson, Jon. (2019). Calibration for Epistemic Causality. Erkenntnis. 86(4). 941–960. 5 indexed citations

Aronson, Jeffrey K, et al.. (2018). The use of mechanistic evidence in drug approval. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. 24(5). 1166–1176. 29 indexed citations

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Williamson, Jon. (2013). From Bayesian epistemology to inductive logic. Journal of Applied Logic. 11(4). 468–486. 6 indexed citations

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Clarke, Brendan, Donald Gillies, Phyllis Illari, Federica Russo, & Jon Williamson. (2012). The evidence that evidence-based medicine omits. Preventive Medicine. 57(6). 745–747. 66 indexed citations

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Illari, Phyllis, et al.. (2011). Models for Prediction, Explanation and Control: Recursive Bayesian Networks. THEORIA An International Journal for Theory History and Foundations of Science. 26(1). 5–33. 31 indexed citations

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Williamson, Jon, et al.. (2011). Imaging Technology and the Philosophy of Causality. Philosophy & Technology. 24(2). 115–136. 8 indexed citations

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Cozman, Fábio Gagliardi, Rolf Haenni, Jan‐Willem Romeijn, et al.. (2008). Combining Probability and Logic. Journal of Applied Logic. 7(2). 131–135. 3 indexed citations

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Williamson, Jon. (2008). Objective Bayesianism with predicate languages. Synthese. 163(3). 341–356. 6 indexed citations

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Russo, Federica & Jon Williamson. (2007). Causality and Probability in the Sciences. Institutional Research Information System University of Ferrara (University of Ferrara). 38 indexed citations

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Williamson, Jon. (2003). Review of Lorenzo Magnani: 'Abduction, Reason and Science: Processes of Discovery and Explanation'. Kent Academic Repository (University of Kent). 1 indexed citations

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Williamson, Jon & Dov M. Gabbay. (2003). Special issue on Combining Probability and Logic. Journal of Applied Logic. 1(3-4). 135–138. 5 indexed citations

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Williamson, Jon. (2002). Maximising Entropy Efficiently. Kent Academic Repository (University of Kent). 2 indexed citations

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Williamson, Jon. (2000). Approximating Discrete Probability Distributions With Bayesian Networks. 6 indexed citations

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