Josh Cowls

10.0k total citations · 4 hit papers
54 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

Josh Cowls is a scholar working on Safety Research, Artificial Intelligence and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Josh Cowls has authored 54 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Safety Research, 20 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 17 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Josh Cowls's work include Ethics and Social Impacts of AI (23 papers), Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education (10 papers) and Privacy, Security, and Data Protection (8 papers). Josh Cowls is often cited by papers focused on Ethics and Social Impacts of AI (23 papers), Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education (10 papers) and Privacy, Security, and Data Protection (8 papers). Josh Cowls collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Italy. Josh Cowls's co-authors include Luciano Floridi, Mariarosaria Taddeo, Jessica Morley, Andreas Tsamados, Huw Roberts, Peggy Valcke, Raja Chatila, Virginia Dignum, Robert Madelin and Burkhard Schäfer and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Social Science & Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Josh Cowls

50 papers receiving 3.9k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

AI4People—An Ethical Framework for a Good AI Society: Opportunities, Risks, Principles, and Recommendations

2018 1.4k citations Luciano Floridi, Josh Cowls et al. Minds and Machines profile →
The ethics of AI in health care: A mapping review

2020 444 citations Jessica Morley, Caio C. Vieira Machado et al. Social Science & Medicine profile →
A Unified Framework of Five Principles for AI in Society

2019 416 citations Luciano Floridi, Josh Cowls profile →
The Chinese approach to artificial intelligence: an analysis of policy, ethics, and regulation

2020 236 citations Huw Roberts, Josh Cowls et al. AI & Society profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Josh Cowls United Kingdom	25	1.7k	1.1k	960	738	592	54	4.2k
Sandra Wachter United Kingdom	23	1.8k 1.1×	1.4k 1.3×	635 0.7×	837 1.1×	538 0.9×	47	3.8k
Brent Mittelstadt United Kingdom	28	2.4k 1.4×	1.6k 1.5×	951 1.0×	955 1.3×	615 1.0×	75	5.5k
Marcello Ienca Switzerland	27	1.9k 1.1×	1.2k 1.1×	1.0k 1.1×	744 1.0×	662 1.1×	82	5.2k
Bernd Carsten Stahl United Kingdom	40	1.2k 0.7×	760 0.7×	478 0.5×	1.5k 2.0×	669 1.1×	193	5.0k
Virginia Dignum Netherlands	25	1.6k 0.9×	1.9k 1.7×	640 0.7×	967 1.3×	748 1.3×	201	6.0k
Timnit Gebru United States	10	1.5k 0.9×	2.2k 2.0×	592 0.6×	685 0.9×	458 0.8×	17	5.1k
Anna Jobin Switzerland	5	1.7k 1.0×	945 0.9×	806 0.8×	382 0.5×	316 0.5×	17	2.8k
Ugo Pagallo Italy	17	1.1k 0.6×	741 0.7×	495 0.5×	352 0.5×	251 0.4×	74	2.3k
Solon Barocas United States	20	1.4k 0.8×	1.2k 1.1×	274 0.3×	919 1.2×	404 0.7×	48	3.1k
Effy Vayena Switzerland	37	2.8k 1.6×	2.3k 2.1×	2.2k 2.2×	1.2k 1.7×	1.1k 1.9×	127	8.9k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Josh Cowls

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Cowls, Josh, et al.. (2023). The Internet’s Town Square? A Critical Discourse Analysis of Parler’s “Past Imaginary”. Social Media + Society. 9(2). 1 indexed citations

Roberts, Huw, Josh Cowls, Emmie Hine, et al.. (2022). Governing artificial intelligence in China and the European Union: Comparing aims and promoting ethical outcomes. The Information Society. 39(2). 79–97. 56 indexed citations

Cowls, Josh, et al.. (2022). Constitutional metaphors: Facebook’s “supreme court” and the legitimation of platform governance. New Media & Society. 26(5). 2448–2472. 11 indexed citations

Cowls, Josh, Jessica Morley, & Luciano Floridi. (2022). App store governance: Implications, limitations, and regulatory responses. Telecommunications Policy. 47(1). 102460–102460. 7 indexed citations

Cowls, Josh, et al.. (2022). Constitutional Metaphors: Facebook’s ‘Supreme Court’ and the Legitimation of Platform Governance. SSRN Electronic Journal. 4 indexed citations

Tan, Zhi Ming, Nikita Aggarwal, Josh Cowls, et al.. (2021). The ethical debate about the gig economy: A review and critical analysis. Technology in Society. 65. 101594–101594. 83 indexed citations

Cowls, Josh, Andreas Tsamados, Mariarosaria Taddeo, & Luciano Floridi. (2021). A definition, benchmark and database of AI for social good initiatives. Nature Machine Intelligence. 3(2). 111–115. 90 indexed citations

Morley, Jessica, Caio C. Vieira Machado, Christopher Burr, et al.. (2021). The Ethics of AI in Health Care: A Mapping Review. 313–346. 13 indexed citations

Perez-Pozuelo, Ignacio, et al.. (2021). Digital phenotyping and sensitive health data: Implications for data governance. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 28(9). 2002–2008. 13 indexed citations

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Taddeo, Mariarosaria, Andreas Tsamados, Josh Cowls, & Luciano Floridi. (2021). Artificial intelligence and the climate emergency: Opportunities, challenges, and recommendations. One Earth. 4(6). 776–779. 41 indexed citations

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Cowls, Josh, Andreas Tsamados, Mariarosaria Taddeo, & Luciano Floridi. (2021). The AI gambit: leveraging artificial intelligence to combat climate change—opportunities, challenges, and recommendations. AI & Society. 38(1). 283–307. 191 indexed citations

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Morley, Jessica, Josh Cowls, Mariarosaria Taddeo, & Luciano Floridi. (2020). Public Health in the Information Age: Recognizing the Infosphere as a Social Determinant of Health. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 22(8). e19311–e19311. 30 indexed citations

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Roberts, Huw, et al.. (2020). The Chinese approach to artificial intelligence: an analysis of policy, ethics, and regulation. AI & Society. 36(1). 59–77. 236 indexed citations breakdown →

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Floridi, Luciano, Josh Cowls, Thomas C. King, & Mariarosaria Taddeo. (2020). How to Design AI for Social Good: Seven Essential Factors. Science and Engineering Ethics. 26(3). 1771–1796. 170 indexed citations

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Morley, Jessica, Caio C. Vieira Machado, Christopher Burr, et al.. (2020). The ethics of AI in health care: A mapping review. Social Science & Medicine. 260. 113172–113172. 444 indexed citations breakdown →

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Roberts, Huw, et al.. (2019). The Chinese Approach to Artificial Intelligence: An Analysis of Policy and Regulation. SSRN Electronic Journal. 11 indexed citations

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Roberts, Huw, et al.. (2019). The Chinese Approach to Artificial Intelligence: An Analysis of Policy and Regulation. SSRN Electronic Journal. 12 indexed citations

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Cowls, Josh, Thomas C. King, Mariarosaria Taddeo, & Luciano Floridi. (2019). Designing AI for Social Good: Seven Essential Factors. SSRN Electronic Journal. 32 indexed citations

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Floridi, Luciano, Josh Cowls, Raja Chatila, et al.. (2018). AI4People—An Ethical Framework for a Good AI Society: Opportunities, Risks, Principles, and Recommendations. Minds and Machines. 28(4). 689–707. 1352 indexed citations breakdown →

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Taylor, Linnet, Josh Cowls, Ralph Schroeder, & Eric T. Meyer. (2014). Big Data and Positive Change in the Developing World. Policy & Internet. 6(4). 418–444. 18 indexed citations

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