Michael Betancourt

12.8k total citations · 5 hit papers
24 papers, 6.1k citations indexed

About

Michael Betancourt is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Statistics and Probability and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Betancourt has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 6.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 5 papers in Statistics and Probability and 4 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in Michael Betancourt's work include High-Energy Particle Collisions Research (4 papers), Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference (3 papers) and Mosquito-borne diseases and control (3 papers). Michael Betancourt is often cited by papers focused on High-Energy Particle Collisions Research (4 papers), Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference (3 papers) and Mosquito-borne diseases and control (3 papers). Michael Betancourt collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Michael Betancourt's co-authors include Andrew Gelman, Allen Riddell, Ben Goodrich, Bob Carpenter, Matthew D. Hoffman, Daniel C. Lee, Marcus A. Brubaker, Jiqiang Guo, Peter Li and Daniel Simpson and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Michael Betancourt

22 papers receiving 6.0k citations

Hit Papers

5 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.

Stan: A Probabilistic Programming Language

2017 4.3k citations Bob Carpenter, Andrew Gelman et al. Journal of Statistical Software profile →
Visualization in Bayesian Workflow

2019 604 citations Jonah Gabry, Daniel Simpson et al. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society) profile →
Stan: A Probabilistic Programming Language

2017 496 citations Bob Carpenter, Andrew Gelman et al. Journal of Systems and Software profile →
The Prior Can Often Only Be Understood in the Context of the Likelihood

2017 302 citations Andrew Gelman, Daniel Simpson et al. Columbia Academic Commons (Columbia University) profile →
The geometric foundations of Hamiltonian Monte Carlo

2017 220 citations Michael Betancourt et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael Betancourt United States	11	927	855	723	677	519	24	6.1k
Ben Goodrich United States	12	747 0.8×	814 1.0×	662 0.9×	672 1.0×	525 1.0×	26	5.7k
Jiqiang Guo United States	9	787 0.8×	705 0.8×	649 0.9×	551 0.8×	441 0.8×	13	5.2k
Allen Riddell United States	9	684 0.7×	728 0.9×	618 0.9×	517 0.8×	410 0.8×	22	4.9k
Daniel C. Lee Canada	11	684 0.7×	710 0.8×	612 0.8×	517 0.8×	410 0.8×	58	5.3k
Bob Carpenter United States	14	694 0.7×	1.2k 1.4×	632 0.9×	519 0.8×	410 0.8×	28	5.7k
Matthew D. Hoffman United States	17	873 0.9×	2.6k 3.1×	688 1.0×	527 0.8×	413 0.8×	54	7.9k
Jonah Gabry United States	12	445 0.5×	423 0.5×	507 0.7×	867 1.3×	599 1.2×	16	4.7k
Aki Vehtari Finland	36	1.5k 1.6×	1.9k 2.2×	964 1.3×	1.2k 1.8×	881 1.7×	153	11.0k
Peter Li United States	49	708 0.8×	1.0k 1.2×	657 0.9×	554 0.8×	412 0.8×	149	13.1k
A. H. Welsh Australia	38	1.9k 2.1×	875 1.0×	989 1.4×	957 1.4×	636 1.2×	174	5.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Michael Betancourt

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Fields of papers citing papers by Michael Betancourt

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Betancourt

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Joly, Simon, et al.. (2024). Phenology varies with phylogeny but not by trophic level with climate change. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 8(10). 1889–1896. 4 indexed citations

Bravetti, Alessandro, et al.. (2023). Bregman dynamics, contact transformations and convex optimization. Unicam Scientific Publications (University of Camerino). 6(1). 355–377. 1 indexed citations

Green, Nathan, Fiacre Agossa, Boulais Yovogan, et al.. (2022). An evidence synthesis approach for combining different data sources illustrated using entomological efficacy of insecticides for indoor residual spraying. PLoS ONE. 17(3). e0263446–e0263446.

Schad, Daniel J., Bruno Nicenboim, Paul‐Christian Bürkner, Michael Betancourt, & Shravan Vasishth. (2022). Workflow techniques for the robust use of bayes factors.. Psychological Methods. 28(6). 1404–1426. 56 indexed citations

Betancourt, Michael, et al.. (2022). BetaBayes—A Bayesian Approach for Comparing Ecological Communities. Diversity. 14(10). 858–858. 1 indexed citations

Betancourt, Michael, et al.. (2021). Analysing the distance decay of community similarity in river networks using Bayesian methods. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 21660–21660. 8 indexed citations

Gabry, Jonah, Daniel Simpson, Aki Vehtari, Michael Betancourt, & Andrew Gelman. (2019). Visualization in Bayesian Workflow. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society). 182(2). 389–402. 604 indexed citations breakdown →

Sherrard-Smith, Ellie, Katarzyna Sala, Michael Betancourt, et al.. (2018). Synergy in anti-malarial pre-erythrocytic and transmission-blocking antibodies is achieved by reducing parasite density. eLife. 7. 46 indexed citations

Carpenter, Bob, Andrew Gelman, Matthew D. Hoffman, et al.. (2017). Stan: A Probabilistic Programming Language. Journal of Systems and Software. 76(1). 1–32. 496 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sherrard-Smith, Ellie, Thomas S. Churcher, Leanna M. Upton, et al.. (2017). A novel model fitted to multiple life stages of malaria for assessing efficacy of transmission-blocking interventions. Malaria Journal. 16(1). 137–137. 6 indexed citations

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Carpenter, Bob, Andrew Gelman, Matthew D. Hoffman, et al.. (2017). Stan: A Probabilistic Programming Language. Journal of Statistical Software. 76(1). 4257 indexed citations breakdown →

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Gelman, Andrew, Daniel Simpson, & Michael Betancourt. (2017). The Prior Can Often Only Be Understood in the Context of the Likelihood. Columbia Academic Commons (Columbia University). 302 indexed citations breakdown →

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Hurley, Peter D., Seb Oliver, Michael Betancourt, et al.. (2016). HELP: xid+, the probabilistic de-blender forHerschelSPIRE maps. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 464(1). 885–896. 70 indexed citations

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Betancourt, Michael. (2015). The Fundamental Incompatibility of Scalable Hamiltonian Monte Carlo and Naive Data Subsampling. International Conference on Machine Learning. 533–540. 11 indexed citations

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Betancourt, Michael. (2014). Thermodynamic Monte Carlo. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations

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Balewski, J., Michael Betancourt, R. Corliss, et al.. (2012). Longitudinal and transverse spin asymmetries for inclusive jet production at mid-rapidity in polarized p+p collisions at √s=200 GeV. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 1 indexed citations

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Balewski, J., Michael Betancourt, R. Corliss, et al.. (2012). Strangeness Enhancement in Cu-Cu and Au-Au Collisions at √sNN=200 GeV. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 3 indexed citations

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Balewski, J., Michael Betancourt, R. Corliss, et al.. (2012). Identified Hadron Compositions in p+p and Au+Au Collisions at High Transverse Momenta at √sNN=200 GeV. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 1 indexed citations

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Balewski, J., Michael Betancourt, R. Corliss, et al.. (2012). Directed Flow of Identified Particles in Au+Au Collisions at √SNN=200 GeV at RHIC. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

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Betancourt, Michael. (2012). Cruising the simplex: Hamiltonian Monte Carlo and the Dirichlet distribution. AIP conference proceedings. 157–164. 12 indexed citations

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