Sam Blackwell

8.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
3 papers, 263 citations indexed

About

Sam Blackwell is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Computational Theory and Mathematics and Geometry and Topology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sam Blackwell has authored 3 papers receiving a total of 263 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 2 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 2 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics and 1 paper in Geometry and Topology. Recurrent topics in Sam Blackwell's work include Retinal and Optic Conditions (1 paper), Geometric and Algebraic Topology (1 paper) and Quantum Information and Cryptography (1 paper). Sam Blackwell is often cited by papers focused on Retinal and Optic Conditions (1 paper), Geometric and Algebraic Topology (1 paper) and Quantum Information and Cryptography (1 paper). Sam Blackwell collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and United States. Sam Blackwell's co-authors include Alex Davies, Demis Hassabis, Pushmeet Kohli, András Juhász, Petar Veličković, Lars Buesing, Marc Lackenby, Daniel Zheng, Peter Battaglia and Nenad Tomašev and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature and Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science.

In The Last Decade

Sam Blackwell

3 papers receiving 251 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.

Advancing mathematics by guiding human intuition with AI

2021 243 citations Alex Davies, Petar Veličković et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sam Blackwell United Kingdom	3	114	39	23	22	21	3	263
Alex Davies United Kingdom	4	117 1.0×	42 1.1×	27 1.2×	23 1.0×	21 1.0×	7	273
Daniel Zheng United States	6	124 1.1×	52 1.3×	41 1.8×	24 1.1×	21 1.0×	14	318
Guido Montúfar United States	11	142 1.2×	39 1.0×	13 0.6×	51 2.3×	17 0.8×	30	291
Isabel Beichl United States	8	55 0.5×	35 0.9×	38 1.7×	35 1.6×	37 1.8×	37	388
Alexander E. Holroyd United States	14	62 0.5×	101 2.6×	20 0.9×	91 4.1×	25 1.2×	57	628
David Schneider United States	9	121 1.1×	48 1.2×	33 1.4×	5 0.2×	13 0.6×	41	316
Abe Shenitzer Canada	7	69 0.6×	45 1.2×	11 0.5×	39 1.8×	13 0.6×	34	355
Hao Ji United States	9	68 0.6×	52 1.3×	34 1.5×	10 0.5×	8 0.4×	31	251
Zhou Yu China	13	68 0.6×	32 0.8×	11 0.5×	3 0.1×	24 1.1×	51	410
Geordie Williamson Australia	12	105 0.9×	59 1.5×	18 0.8×	47 2.1×	21 1.0×	33	658

Countries citing papers authored by Sam Blackwell

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sam Blackwell

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sam Blackwell

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

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3 of 3 papers shown

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Bausch, Johannes, Andrew Senior, Francisco J. H. Heras, et al.. (2024). Learning high-accuracy error decoding for quantum processors. Nature. 635(8040). 834–840. 18 indexed citations

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Davies, Alex, Petar Veličković, Lars Buesing, et al.. (2021). Advancing mathematics by guiding human intuition with AI. Nature. 600(7887). 70–74. 243 indexed citations breakdown →

3.

Wagner, Siegfried K., Reena Chopra, Joseph R. Ledsam, et al.. (2019). Diagnostic accuracy and interobserver variability of macular disease evaluation using optical coherence tomography. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 60(9). 1849–1849. 2 indexed citations

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