Stuart Russell

1.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
7 papers, 845 citations indexed

About

Stuart Russell is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Computer Networks and Communications and Control and Systems Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Stuart Russell has authored 7 papers receiving a total of 845 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 1 paper in Computer Networks and Communications and 1 paper in Control and Systems Engineering. Recurrent topics in Stuart Russell's work include Reinforcement Learning in Robotics (2 papers), Law, AI, and Intellectual Property (1 paper) and Optimization and Search Problems (1 paper). Stuart Russell is often cited by papers focused on Reinforcement Learning in Robotics (2 papers), Law, AI, and Intellectual Property (1 paper) and Optimization and Search Problems (1 paper). Stuart Russell collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and China. Stuart Russell's co-authors include Daniel Dewey, Max Tegmark, Eugene Fang, Rohan Chitnis, Siddharth Srivastava, Lorenzo Riano, Pieter Abbeel, Yi Wu, Shihui Li and Fei Fang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, AI Magazine and Daedalus.

In The Last Decade

Stuart Russell

6 papers receiving 780 citations

Hit Papers

align trajectories

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.

Research Priorities for Robust and Beneficial Artificial Intelligence

2015 355 citations Stuart Russell, Daniel Dewey et al. AI Magazine profile →
Combined task and motion planning through an extensible planner-independent interface layer

2014 284 citations Siddharth Srivastava, Eugene Fang et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Stuart Russell United States	6	397	230	213	137	81	7	845
Iain Dunning United States	8	405 1.0×	63 0.3×	139 0.7×	49 0.4×	31 0.4×	14	927
Richard Dazeley Australia	16	636 1.6×	66 0.3×	141 0.7×	84 0.6×	35 0.4×	60	1.1k
Peter R. Lewis United Kingdom	19	411 1.0×	219 1.0×	58 0.3×	87 0.6×	49 0.6×	97	1.1k
Kathryn Merrick Australia	16	408 1.0×	92 0.4×	98 0.5×	18 0.1×	56 0.7×	60	810
Piotr J. Gmytrasiewicz United States	18	749 1.9×	87 0.4×	44 0.2×	71 0.5×	34 0.4×	67	1.1k
Maarten Sierhuis United States	19	474 1.2×	74 0.3×	143 0.7×	55 0.4×	15 0.2×	64	1.3k
Lukas Esterle Denmark	15	210 0.5×	154 0.7×	43 0.2×	45 0.3×	19 0.2×	63	677
Philip S. Thomas United States	14	406 1.0×	36 0.2×	93 0.4×	50 0.4×	61 0.8×	45	790
Viliam Lisý Czechia	11	415 1.0×	70 0.3×	51 0.2×	32 0.2×	21 0.3×	35	725
Gita Sukthankar United States	18	602 1.5×	264 1.1×	76 0.4×	14 0.1×	51 0.6×	113	1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Stuart Russell

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Stuart Russell's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Stuart Russell with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Stuart Russell more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Stuart Russell

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stuart Russell

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

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

7 of 7 papers shown

1.

Russell, Stuart & David J. T. Hill. (2025). Distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) a real-world perspective, requirements, applications, and techniques. 601–601.

2.

Russell, Stuart. (2023). AI weapons: Russia’s war in Ukraine shows why the world must enact a ban. Nature. 614(7949). 620–623. 22 indexed citations

3.

Russell, Stuart. (2022). If We Succeed. Daedalus. 151(2). 43–57. 5 indexed citations

4.

Li, Shihui, et al.. (2019). Robust Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning via Minimax Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 33(1). 4213–4220. 170 indexed citations

5.

Russell, Stuart, et al.. (2017). Efficient Reinforcement Learning with Hierarchies of Machines by Leveraging Internal Transitions. 1418–1424. 9 indexed citations

6.

Russell, Stuart, Daniel Dewey, & Max Tegmark. (2015). Research Priorities for Robust and Beneficial Artificial Intelligence. AI Magazine. 36(4). 105–114. 355 indexed citations breakdown →

7.

Srivastava, Siddharth, Eugene Fang, Lorenzo Riano, et al.. (2014). Combined task and motion planning through an extensible planner-independent interface layer. 639–646. 284 indexed citations breakdown →

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact