Owain Evans

3.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
12 papers, 712 citations indexed

About

Owain Evans is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Sociology and Political Science and Information Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Owain Evans has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 712 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 2 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 2 papers in Information Systems. Recurrent topics in Owain Evans's work include COVID-19 epidemiological studies (2 papers), Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference (2 papers) and Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) (2 papers). Owain Evans is often cited by papers focused on COVID-19 epidemiological studies (2 papers), Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference (2 papers) and Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) (2 papers). Owain Evans collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Portugal. Owain Evans's co-authors include Jacob Hilton, Stephanie Lin, Baobao Zhang, Allan Dafoe, Noah D. Goodman, Chris Baker, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Tomer Ullman, William S. Saunders and Andreas Stuhlmüller and has published in prestigious journals such as International Journal of Epidemiology, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research and Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology.

In The Last Decade

Owain Evans

10 papers receiving 660 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.

Viewpoint: When Will AI Exceed Human Performance? Evidence from AI Experts

2018 330 citations Allan Dafoe, Baobao Zhang et al. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research profile →
TruthfulQA: Measuring How Models Mimic Human Falsehoods

2022 223 citations Stephanie Lin, Jacob Hilton et al. Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Owain Evans United States	6	334	135	106	78	76	12	712
Kenneth Holstein United States	14	326 1.0×	260 1.9×	107 1.0×	41 0.5×	92 1.2×	54	848
Michael Madaio United States	14	266 0.8×	399 3.0×	104 1.0×	81 1.0×	87 1.1×	32	790
Alex Hanna United States	12	351 1.1×	283 2.1×	180 1.7×	72 0.9×	67 0.9×	26	969
Joon Sung Park United States	4	326 1.0×	59 0.4×	80 0.8×	26 0.3×	30 0.4×	6	642
Sarah Oeste-Reiß Germany	8	214 0.6×	113 0.8×	99 0.9×	23 0.3×	41 0.5×	29	591
Frances S. Grodzinsky United States	15	183 0.5×	208 1.5×	207 2.0×	91 1.2×	39 0.5×	63	643
Stephanie Houde United States	10	384 1.1×	313 2.3×	75 0.7×	71 0.9×	122 1.6×	24	829
Lefteris Moussiades Greece	7	489 1.5×	62 0.5×	81 0.8×	17 0.2×	107 1.4×	20	724
Lilian Edwards United Kingdom	14	346 1.0×	298 2.2×	295 2.8×	66 0.8×	58 0.8×	66	886

Countries citing papers authored by Owain Evans

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Fields of papers citing papers by Owain Evans

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Owain Evans. 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 Owain Evans. The network helps show where Owain Evans may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Owain Evans

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

All Works

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12 of 12 papers shown

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Minh, Le Huu Nhat, et al.. (2025). Subliminal Learning: Language models transmit behavioral traits via hidden signals in data. ArXiv.org. 3 indexed citations

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Anil, Cem, J. Nicholas Betley, Dami Choi, et al.. (2024). Connecting the Dots: LLMs can Infer and Verbalize Latent Structure from Disparate Training Data. 140667–140730.

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Lin, Stephanie, Jacob Hilton, & Owain Evans. (2022). TruthfulQA: Measuring How Models Mimic Human Falsehoods. Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers). 3214–3252. 223 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ilyas, Andrew, et al.. (2021). Constructing and adjusting estimates for household transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from prior studies, widespread-testing and contact-tracing data. International Journal of Epidemiology. 50(5). 1444–1457. 9 indexed citations

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Evans, Owain, et al.. (2020). Tourism Effects of Pandemics: New Insights from Novel Coronavirus. Munich Personal RePEc Archive (Munich University). 70. 56–65.

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Saunders, William S., Girish Sastry, Andreas Stuhlmüller, & Owain Evans. (2018). Trial without Error: Towards Safe Reinforcement Learning via Human Intervention. arXiv (Cornell University). 2067–2069. 17 indexed citations

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Dafoe, Allan, et al.. (2018). Viewpoint: When Will AI Exceed Human Performance? Evidence from AI Experts. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research. 62. 729–754. 330 indexed citations breakdown →

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Evans, Owain, et al.. (2016). Learning the Preferences of Ignorant, Inconsistent Agents. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 30(1). 33 indexed citations

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Bergen, Leon, et al.. (2010). Learning Structured Preferences. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 32(32). 5 indexed citations

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Ullman, Tomer, et al.. (2009). Help or Hinder: Bayesian Models of Social Goal Inference. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 22. 1874–1882. 88 indexed citations

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Amel‐Zadeh, Amir, Owain Evans, & Geoff Meeks. (2008). Forecasts of Earnings by Takeover Bidders. SSRN Electronic Journal. 3 indexed citations

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Pavlik, William B., et al.. (1972). Some effects of single alternation training of rats in a double runway.. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology. 79(3). 503–509. 1 indexed citations

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