Solon Barocas

7.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
48 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Solon Barocas is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Safety Research and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Solon Barocas has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 22 papers in Safety Research and 14 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Solon Barocas's work include Ethics and Social Impacts of AI (20 papers), Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) (10 papers) and Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning (5 papers). Solon Barocas is often cited by papers focused on Ethics and Social Impacts of AI (20 papers), Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) (10 papers) and Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning (5 papers). Solon Barocas collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Finland. Solon Barocas's co-authors include Andrew D. Selbst, Helen Nissenbaum, Karen Levy, Shira Mitchell, Kristian Lum, Eric Potash, Alexander D’Amour, Arvind Narayanan, Manish Raghavan and Alex Rosenblat and has published in prestigious journals such as Communications of the ACM, Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction and California Law Review.

In The Last Decade

Solon Barocas

45 papers receiving 2.9k 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.

Big Data's Disparate Impact

2016 1.1k citations Solon Barocas, Andrew D. Selbst SSRN Electronic Journal profile →
Big Data�s Disparate Impact

2016 542 citations Solon Barocas profile →
Algorithmic Fairness: Choices, Assumptions, and Definitions

2020 286 citations Shira Mitchell, Eric Potash et al. Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Solon Barocas United States	20	1.4k	1.2k	919	404	274	48	3.1k
Frank Pasquale United States	18	1.2k 0.9×	671 0.6×	1.3k 1.4×	528 1.3×	168 0.6×	87	3.4k
Sandra Wachter United Kingdom	23	1.8k 1.3×	1.4k 1.2×	837 0.9×	538 1.3×	635 2.3×	47	3.8k
Andrew D. Selbst United States	9	1.2k 0.9×	905 0.7×	489 0.5×	271 0.7×	263 1.0×	14	2.2k
Berkeley J. Dietvorst United States	10	1.1k 0.7×	848 0.7×	551 0.6×	231 0.6×	259 0.9×	21	2.5k
Cade Massey United States	14	1.1k 0.7×	783 0.6×	666 0.7×	205 0.5×	230 0.8×	21	2.9k
Natali Helberger Netherlands	32	825 0.6×	970 0.8×	2.1k 2.3×	513 1.3×	171 0.6×	150	4.2k
Nicholas Diakopoulos United States	34	913 0.6×	1.5k 1.3×	2.1k 2.3×	693 1.7×	159 0.6×	103	5.0k
Hanna Wallach United States	26	633 0.4×	3.0k 2.5×	578 0.6×	748 1.9×	186 0.7×	67	4.9k
Peggy Valcke Belgium	13	729 0.5×	509 0.4×	385 0.4×	211 0.5×	329 1.2×	94	1.8k
Ryan Calo United States	19	498 0.3×	421 0.3×	622 0.7×	282 0.7×	107 0.4×	54	1.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Solon Barocas

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Fields of papers citing papers by Solon Barocas

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Solon Barocas

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

All Works

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Barocas, Solon, et al.. (2025). Supporting Industry Computing Researchers in Assessing, Articulating, and Addressing the Potential Negative Societal Impact of Their Work. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction. 9(2). 1–37. 1 indexed citations

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Raghavan, Manish, et al.. (2025). What Constitutes a Less Discriminatory Algorithm?. 136–151.

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Schroeder, Hope, et al.. (2025). Understanding the LLM-ification of CHI: Unpacking the Impact of LLMs at CHI through a Systematic Literature Review. 1–20. 3 indexed citations

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Schroeder, Hope, et al.. (2025). Disclosure without Engagement: An Empirical Review of Positionality Statements at FAccT. 1195–1210.

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Barocas, Solon, et al.. (2024). On the Actionability of Outcome Prediction. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 38(20). 22240–22249. 1 indexed citations

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Heidari, Hoda, Solon Barocas, Jon Kleinberg, & Karen Levy. (2023). Informational Diversity and Affinity Bias in Team Growth Dynamics. 1–10. 1 indexed citations

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Wang, Angelina, Sayash Kapoor, Solon Barocas, & Arvind Narayanan. (2023). Against Predictive Optimization. 626–626. 8 indexed citations

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Barocas, Solon, et al.. (2023). Multi-Target Multiplicity: Flexibility and Fairness in Target Specification under Resource Constraints. arXiv (Cornell University). 297–311. 6 indexed citations

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Wang, Angelina, Sayash Kapoor, Solon Barocas, & Arvind Narayanan. (2023). Against Predictive Optimization: On the Legitimacy of Decision-making Algorithms That Optimize Predictive Accuracy. 1(1). 1–45. 24 indexed citations

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Barocas, Solon & Karen Levy. (2020). Privacy Dependencies. Washington law review. 95(2). 4 indexed citations

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Mitchell, Shira, Eric Potash, Solon Barocas, Alexander D’Amour, & Kristian Lum. (2020). Algorithmic Fairness: Choices, Assumptions, and Definitions. Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application. 8(1). 141–163. 286 indexed citations breakdown →

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Selbst, Andrew D. & Solon Barocas. (2018). The Intuitive Appeal of Explainable Machines. Fordham law review. 87(3). 1085. 49 indexed citations

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Levy, Karen & Solon Barocas. (2018). Privacy at the Margins| Refractive Surveillance: Monitoring Customers to Manage Workers. International journal of communication. 12. 23. 17 indexed citations

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Barocas, Solon, et al.. (2018). Debiasing Desire: Addressing Bias and Discrimination on Intimate Platforms. SSRN Electronic Journal. 3 indexed citations

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Bird, Sarah, Solon Barocas, Kate Crawford, Fernando Díaz, & Hanna Wallach. (2016). Exploring or Exploiting? Social and Ethical Implications of Autonomous Experimentation in AI. SSRN Electronic Journal. 4. 13 indexed citations

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Barocas, Solon & Andrew D. Selbst. (2016). Big Data's Disparate Impact. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1086 indexed citations breakdown →

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Rosenblat, Alex, Karen Levy, Solon Barocas, & Tim Hwang. (2016). Discriminating Tastes: Customer Ratings as Vehicles for Bias. SSRN Electronic Journal. 19 indexed citations

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Lane, Julia, Katherine J. Strandburg, Solon Barocas, et al.. (2014). Privacy, Big Data, and the Public Good. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 80 indexed citations

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Toubiana, Vincent, Arvind Narayanan, Dan Boneh, Helen Nissenbaum, & Solon Barocas. (2010). Adnostic: Privacy Preserving Targeted Advertising. SSRN Electronic Journal. 125 indexed citations

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Barocas, Solon & Helen Nissenbaum. (2009). On Notice: The Trouble with Notice and Consent. SSRN Electronic Journal. 33 indexed citations

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