Micah Carroll

486 total citations · 1 hit paper
5 papers, 84 citations indexed

About

Micah Carroll is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Communication and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Micah Carroll has authored 5 papers receiving a total of 84 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 1 paper in Communication and 1 paper in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Micah Carroll's work include Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation (2 papers), Reinforcement Learning in Robotics (2 papers) and Social Media and Politics (1 paper). Micah Carroll is often cited by papers focused on Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation (2 papers), Reinforcement Learning in Robotics (2 papers) and Social Media and Politics (1 paper). Micah Carroll collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Micah Carroll's co-authors include Anca D. Dragan, David Krueger, Mark K. Ho, Thomas L. Griffiths, Pieter Abbeel, Sanjit A. Seshia, Stuart Russell, Dylan Hadfield-Menell, Smitha Milli and Tan Zhi‐Xuan and has published in prestigious journals such as Philosophical Studies, arXiv (Cornell University) and PNAS Nexus.

In The Last Decade

Micah Carroll

5 papers receiving 82 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.

Engagement, user satisfaction, and the amplification of divisive content on social media

2025 14 citations Smitha Milli, Micah Carroll et al. PNAS Nexus profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Micah Carroll United States	5	46	17	17	14	8	5	84
Smitha Milli United States	6	42 0.9×	26 1.5×	27 1.6×	5 0.4×	6 0.8×	10	121
Zichong Wang United States	7	68 1.5×	17 1.0×	42 2.5×	3 0.2×	17 2.1×	19	121
Isabel O. Gallegos United States	3	79 1.7×	17 1.0×	17 1.0×	5 0.4×	8 1.0×	6	156
Paul Scharre Russia	4	13 0.3×	10 0.6×	22 1.3×	10 0.7×	8 1.0×	5	80
Abhimanyu Dubey United States	6	57 1.2×	14 0.8×	13 0.8×	12 0.9×	6 0.8×	11	122
Markus Anderljung Canada	5	49 1.1×	12 0.7×	54 3.2×	4 0.3×	11 1.4×	10	120
Chandra Khatri China	5	88 1.9×	8 0.5×	7 0.4×	19 1.4×	7 0.9×	9	104
Saffron Huang United Kingdom	2	103 2.2×	9 0.5×	29 1.7×	5 0.4×	18 2.3×	2	145
Pradyumna Tambwekar United States	5	152 3.3×	9 0.5×	45 2.6×	13 0.9×	13 1.6×	10	190
Arjun Roy Germany	5	104 2.3×	16 0.9×	66 3.9×	4 0.3×	13 1.6×	10	151

Countries citing papers authored by Micah Carroll

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Fields of papers citing papers by Micah Carroll

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Micah Carroll

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

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5 of 5 papers shown

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Milli, Smitha, et al.. (2025). Engagement, user satisfaction, and the amplification of divisive content on social media. PNAS Nexus. 4(3). pgaf062–pgaf062. 14 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zhi‐Xuan, Tan, et al.. (2024). Beyond Preferences in AI Alignment. Philosophical Studies. 182(7). 1813–1863. 6 indexed citations

3.

Carroll, Micah, et al.. (2023). Characterizing Manipulation from AI Systems. 1–13. 18 indexed citations

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Carroll, Micah, Dylan Hadfield-Menell, Stuart Russell, & Anca D. Dragan. (2021). Estimating and Penalizing Preference Shift in Recommender Systems. 661–667. 11 indexed citations

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Carroll, Micah, Mark K. Ho, Thomas L. Griffiths, et al.. (2019). On the Utility of Learning about Humans for Human-AI Coordination. arXiv (Cornell University). 32. 5174–5185. 35 indexed citations

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