Stephen Pfohl

6.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
38 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Stephen Pfohl is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Sociology and Political Science and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephen Pfohl has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 5 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 4 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Stephen Pfohl's work include Machine Learning in Healthcare (9 papers), Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (4 papers) and Electronic Health Records Systems (4 papers). Stephen Pfohl is often cited by papers focused on Machine Learning in Healthcare (9 papers), Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life (4 papers) and Electronic Health Records Systems (4 papers). Stephen Pfohl collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Colombia. Stephen Pfohl's co-authors include Paul Patton, Jean Baudrillard, Nigam H. Shah, Richard Warner, Cassie S. Mitchell, Robert F. Meier, Martin Halicek, Jason Fries, Ethan Steinberg and Lillian Sung and has published in prestigious journals such as Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, Scientific Reports and Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

In The Last Decade

Stephen Pfohl

33 papers receiving 1.0k citations

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Stephen Pfohl United States	16	410	214	115	108	95	38	1.2k
Graeme Laurie United Kingdom	21	224 0.5×	160 0.7×	86 0.7×	20 0.2×	12 0.1×	101	1.6k
Paula Boddington United Kingdom	14	97 0.2×	93 0.4×	36 0.3×	6 0.1×	91 1.0×	48	931
Eric T. Juengst United States	27	152 0.4×	41 0.2×	29 0.3×	16 0.1×	53 0.6×	97	2.2k
Karen Jones United Kingdom	12	380 0.9×	74 0.3×	31 0.3×	4 0.0×	358 3.8×	34	1.4k
Thomas Powell United States	15	515 1.3×	176 0.8×	14 0.1×	8 0.1×	24 0.3×	41	1.1k
John Gardner Australia	16	225 0.5×	21 0.1×	13 0.1×	137 1.3×	42 0.4×	43	1.0k
Tiago Moreira United Kingdom	18	238 0.6×	22 0.1×	8 0.1×	17 0.2×	87 0.9×	68	1.2k
Silke Schicktanz Germany	23	154 0.4×	26 0.1×	20 0.2×	10 0.1×	50 0.5×	122	1.4k
Robin Pierce United Kingdom	11	136 0.3×	56 0.3×	76 0.7×	11 0.1×	5 0.1×	40	677
Sandra Soo‐Jin Lee United States	24	109 0.3×	54 0.3×	45 0.4×	58 0.5×	6 0.1×	82	1.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stephen Pfohl

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

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Asiedu, Mercy, et al.. (2025). Nteasee: Understanding Needs in AI for Health in Africa - A Mixed-Methods Study of Expert and General Population Perspectives. 2363–2436.

Asiedu, Mercy, et al.. (2024). The Case for Globalizing Fairness: A Mixed Methods Study on Colonialism, AI, and Health in Africa. 1–24. 6 indexed citations

Weng, Wei‐Hung, Atilla P. Kiraly, Alexander D’Amour, et al.. (2024). An intentional approach to managing bias in general purpose embedding models. The Lancet Digital Health. 6(2). e126–e130. 6 indexed citations

Guo, Lin, Ethan Steinberg, Scott L. Fleming, et al.. (2023). EHR foundation models improve robustness in the presence of temporal distribution shift. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 3767–3767. 28 indexed citations

Pfohl, Stephen, et al.. (2022). Evaluating algorithmic fairness in the presence of clinical guidelines: the case of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease risk estimation. BMJ Health & Care Informatics. 29(1). e100460–e100460. 20 indexed citations

Guo, Lin, Stephen Pfohl, Jason Fries, et al.. (2022). Evaluation of domain generalization and adaptation on improving model robustness to temporal dataset shift in clinical medicine. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 2726–2726. 45 indexed citations

Patel, Birju, Ethan Steinberg, Stephen Pfohl, & Nigam H. Shah. (2021). Learning decision thresholds for risk stratification models from aggregate clinician behavior. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 28(10). 2258–2264. 4 indexed citations

Nestsiarovich, Anastasiya, Jenna Reps, Michael E. Matheny, et al.. (2021). Predictors of diagnostic transition from major depressive disorder to bipolar disorder: a retrospective observational network study. Translational Psychiatry. 11(1). 642–642. 22 indexed citations

Steinberg, Ethan, et al.. (2020). Language models are an effective representation learning technique for electronic health record data. Journal of Biomedical Informatics. 113. 103637–103637. 66 indexed citations

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Pfohl, Stephen, et al.. (2020). An empirical characterization of fair machine learning for clinical risk prediction. Journal of Biomedical Informatics. 113. 103621–103621. 73 indexed citations

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Pfohl, Stephen, et al.. (2018). Unraveling the Complexity of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Survival Prediction. Frontiers in Neuroinformatics. 12. 36–36. 31 indexed citations

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Ding, Daisy Yi, et al.. (2018). The Effectiveness of Multitask Learning for Phenotyping with Electronic Health Records Data. PubMed. 24. 18–29. 13 indexed citations

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Pfohl, Stephen, Martin Halicek, & Cassie S. Mitchell. (2015). Characterization of the Contribution of Genetic Background and Gender to Disease Progression in the SOD1 G93A Mouse Model of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: A Meta-Analysis. Journal of Neuromuscular Diseases. 2(2). 137–150. 88 indexed citations

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Pfohl, Stephen. (2010). Digital Magic, Cybernetic Sorcery: On the Politics of Fascination and Fear. Ctheory.

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Pfohl, Stephen. (1997). The Cybernetic Delirium of Norbert Wiener. Ctheory. 4 indexed citations

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Pfohl, Stephen. (1993). Twilight of the Parasites: Ultramodern Capital and the New World Order. Social Problems. 40(2). 125–151. 8 indexed citations

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Pfohl, Stephen. (1990). Welcome to the PARASITE CAFE: Postmodernity as a Social Problem. Social Problems. 37(4). 421–442. 9 indexed citations

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Pfohl, Stephen & Robert F. Meier. (1987). Theoretical Methods in Criminology.. Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews. 16(4). 527–527. 60 indexed citations

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Pfohl, Stephen & Richard Warner. (1987). Recovery from Schizophrenia: Psychiatry and Political Economy. Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews. 16(6). 880–880. 96 indexed citations

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Pfohl, Stephen & Avery F. Gordon. (1986). Criminological Displacements: A Sociological Deconstruction. Social Problems. 33(6). S94–S113. 15 indexed citations

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