Sharad Goel

10.1k total citations · 6 hit papers
85 papers, 5.6k citations indexed

About

Sharad Goel is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Artificial Intelligence and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Sharad Goel has authored 85 papers receiving a total of 5.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 19 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 12 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Sharad Goel's work include Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (12 papers), Crime Patterns and Interventions (9 papers) and Media Influence and Politics (8 papers). Sharad Goel is often cited by papers focused on Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (12 papers), Crime Patterns and Interventions (9 papers) and Media Influence and Politics (8 papers). Sharad Goel collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and India. Sharad Goel's co-authors include Justin M. Rao, Seth Flaxman, Duncan J. Watts, Matthew Salganik, Jake M. Hofman, Daniel G. Goldstein, Sam Corbett‐Davies, Avi Feller, Aziz Z. Huq and Emma Pierson and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Sharad Goel

79 papers receiving 5.3k 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.

  1. Filter Bubbles, Echo Chambers, and Online News Consumption
    2016 1.0k citations Seth Flaxman, Sharad Goel et al. Public Opinion Quarterly profile →
  2. Algorithmic Decision Making and the Cost of Fairness
    2017 584 citations Sharad Goel, Aziz Z. Huq et al. profile →
  3. Predicting consumer behavior with Web search
    2010 453 citations Sharad Goel, Duncan J. Watts et al. profile →
  4. The Structural Virality of Online Diffusion
    2015 360 citations Sharad Goel, Duncan J. Watts et al. Management Science profile →
  5. Racial disparities in automated speech recognition
    2020 353 citations Sharad Goel et al. profile →
  6. Forecasting elections with non-representative polls
    2014 235 citations David Rothschild, Sharad Goel et al. profile →

Peers

Sharad Goel
Noshir Contractor United States
James M. Cook United States
Miller McPherson United States
Carter T. Butts United States
David Stillwell United Kingdom
Adam Kramer United States
David Lazer United States
David Rothschild United States
Michael W. Macy United States
Cameron Marlow United States
Noshir Contractor United States
Sharad Goel
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Countries citing papers authored by Sharad Goel

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sharad Goel

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sharad Goel

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Page, Lindsay C., et al.. (2024). The disparate impacts of college admissions policies on Asian American applicants. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 4449–4449. 2 indexed citations
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Linn, Kristin A., et al.. (2024). Racial Bias in Clinical and Population Health Algorithms: A Critical Review of Current Debates. Annual Review of Public Health. 46(1). 507–523. 6 indexed citations
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Saghafian, Soroush, et al.. (2024). A Framework for Considering the Value of Race and Ethnicity in Estimating Disease Risk. Annals of Internal Medicine. 178(1). 98–107. 6 indexed citations
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Ladin, Keren, John K. Cuddeback, O. Kenrik Duru, et al.. (2024). Guidance for unbiased predictive information for healthcare decision-making and equity (GUIDE): considerations when race may be a prognostic factor. npj Digital Medicine. 7(1). 290–290. 8 indexed citations
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Goel, Sharad, et al.. (2024). Auditing large language models for race & gender disparities: Implications for artificial intelligence-based hiring. Behavioral Science & Policy. 10(2). 46–55.
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Nyarko, Julian, et al.. (2024). Risk scores, label bias, and everything but the kitchen sink. Science Advances. 10(13). eadi8411–eadi8411. 10 indexed citations
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Brunskill, Emma, et al.. (2024). Learning to Be Fair: A Consequentialist Approach to Equitable Decision Making. Management Science. 72(1). 456–473. 6 indexed citations
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Goel, Sharad, et al.. (2023). Designing equitable algorithms. Nature Computational Science. 3(7). 601–610. 15 indexed citations
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Nyarko, Julian, et al.. (2023). Racial bias as a multi‐stage, multi‐actor problem: An analysis of pretrial detention. Journal of Empirical Legal Studies. 20(1). 86–133. 5 indexed citations
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Goel, Sharad, et al.. (2023). Forgotten but not gone: A multi-state analysis of modern-day debt imprisonment. PLoS ONE. 18(9). e0290397–e0290397. 1 indexed citations
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Lin, Zhiyuan, et al.. (2020). The limits of human predictions of recidivism. Science Advances. 6(7). eaaz0652–eaaz0652. 70 indexed citations
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Bonneau, Joseph, et al.. (2019). "I was told to buy a software or lose my computer. I ignored it": A study of ransomware. Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security. 155–174. 12 indexed citations
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Peterson, Erik, Sharad Goel, & Shanto Iyengar. (2019). Partisan selective exposure in online news consumption: evidence from the 2016 presidential campaign. Political Science Research and Methods. 9(2). 242–258. 80 indexed citations
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Lasky‐Su, Jessica, et al.. (2017). De-anonymizing Web Browsing Data with Social Networks. 1261–1269. 60 indexed citations
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Gelman, Andrew, Sharad Goel, Douglas Rivers, & David Rothschild. (2016). The Mythical Swing Voter. Quarterly Journal of Political Science. 11(1). 103–130. 70 indexed citations
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Flaxman, Seth, Sharad Goel, & Justin M. Rao. (2016). Filter Bubbles, Echo Chambers, and Online News Consumption. Public Opinion Quarterly. 80(S1). 298–320. 1041 indexed citations breakdown →
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Goel, Sharad & Daniel G. Goldstein. (2014). Predicting Individual Behavior with Social Networks. SSRN Electronic Journal. 3 indexed citations
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Goel, Sharad, Winter Mason, & Duncan J. Watts. (2010). Real and perceived attitude agreement in social networks.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 99(4). 611–621. 153 indexed citations
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Goel, Sharad & Matthew Salganik. (2009). Respondent‐driven sampling as Markov chain Monte Carlo. Statistics in Medicine. 28(17). 2202–2229. 144 indexed citations
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Goel, Sharad. (2004). Modified logarithmic Sobolev inequalities for some models of random walk. Stochastic Processes and their Applications. 114(1). 51–79. 21 indexed citations

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