William Isaac

2.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
15 papers, 742 citations indexed

About

William Isaac is a scholar working on Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science and Information Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, William Isaac has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 742 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Safety Research, 4 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 2 papers in Information Systems. Recurrent topics in William Isaac's work include Ethics and Social Impacts of AI (5 papers), Crime Patterns and Interventions (2 papers) and Electoral Systems and Political Participation (1 paper). William Isaac is often cited by papers focused on Ethics and Social Impacts of AI (5 papers), Crime Patterns and Interventions (2 papers) and Electoral Systems and Political Participation (1 paper). William Isaac collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and India. William Isaac's co-authors include Kristian Lum, Shakir Mohamed, Ekram Khan, Matt Grossmann, Iason Gabriel, Richard C. Hula, Maureen Cropper, John Mellor, Cameron T. Whitley and Nahema Marchal and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Scientific Reports and The Journal of Politics.

In The Last Decade

William Isaac

14 papers receiving 679 citations

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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.

Decolonial AI: Decolonial Theory as Sociotechnical Foresight in Artificial Intelligence

2020 318 citations Shakir Mohamed, William Isaac et al. Philosophy & Technology profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
William Isaac United States	9	294	199	157	99	75	15	742
Jo Bates United Kingdom	14	98 0.3×	212 1.1×	142 0.9×	104 1.1×	19 0.3×	42	764
Jacob Metcalf United States	13	266 0.9×	189 0.9×	137 0.9×	86 0.9×	48 0.6×	24	644
Rowena Rodrigues United Kingdom	10	298 1.0×	148 0.7×	166 1.1×	80 0.8×	106 1.4×	29	666
Meg Young United States	11	233 0.8×	141 0.7×	129 0.8×	82 0.8×	42 0.6×	21	579
Alison Smith United States	17	113 0.4×	121 0.6×	482 3.1×	100 1.0×	24 0.3×	54	991
Emre Kazim United Kingdom	14	295 1.0×	77 0.4×	226 1.4×	127 1.3×	67 0.9×	47	673
Job Timmermans Netherlands	9	93 0.3×	145 0.7×	40 0.3×	51 0.5×	50 0.7×	16	505
Madeleine Clare Elish United States	11	373 1.3×	168 0.8×	212 1.4×	80 0.8×	96 1.3×	19	744
Lyria Bennett Moses Australia	14	190 0.6×	355 1.8×	126 0.8×	159 1.6×	30 0.4×	59	877
Daniel Greene United States	9	185 0.6×	161 0.8×	79 0.5×	65 0.7×	69 0.9×	16	467

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William Isaac

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15 of 15 papers shown

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Duéñez‐Guzmán, Edgar A., Ramona Comanescu, Kevin R. McKee, et al.. (2025). Perceptual interventions ameliorate statistical discrimination in learning agents. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(25). e2319933121–e2319933121. 2 indexed citations

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Weidinger, Laura, John W. Mellor, Nahema Marchal, et al.. (2024). STAR: SocioTechnical Approach to Red Teaming Language Models. 21516–21532.

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Marchal, Nahema, et al.. (2024). STELA: a community-centred approach to norm elicitation for AI alignment. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 6616–6616. 16 indexed citations

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Marchal, Nahema, Arianna Manzini, Lisa Anne Hendricks, et al.. (2024). Gaps in the Safety Evaluation of Generative AI. Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI Ethics and Society. 7. 1200–1217. 3 indexed citations

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Bergman, A. S., Lisa Anne Hendricks, Boxi Wú, et al.. (2023). Representation in AI Evaluations. 519–533. 10 indexed citations

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Grossmann, Matt, et al.. (2020). Political Parties, Interest Groups, and Unequal Class Influence in American Policy. The Journal of Politics. 83(4). 1706–1720. 15 indexed citations

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Mohamed, Shakir, et al.. (2020). Decolonial AI: Decolonial Theory as Sociotechnical Foresight in Artificial Intelligence. Philosophy & Technology. 33(4). 659–684. 318 indexed citations breakdown →

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Isaac, William. (2018). Hope, Hype, and Fear: The Promise and Potential Pitfalls of Artificial Intelligence in Criminal Justice. The Knowledge Bank (The Ohio State University). 8 indexed citations

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Hula, Richard C., et al.. (2017). Science, Politics and Policy: How Michiganders think about the Risks Facing the Great Lakes. Human Ecology. 45(6). 833–844. 10 indexed citations

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Isaac, William. (2017). Hope, Hype, and Fear: The Promise and Potential Pitfalls of the Big Data Era in Criminal Justice. SSRN Electronic Journal. 4 indexed citations

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Lum, Kristian & William Isaac. (2016). To Predict and Serve?. Significance. 13(5). 14–19. 250 indexed citations

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Isaac, William, et al.. (2016). Developing a human-centric agricultural model in the IoT environment. 292–297. 25 indexed citations

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Isaac, William, et al.. (2016). On-the-go soil nitrogen sensor based on near infrared spectroscopy. 312–315. 10 indexed citations

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Isaac, William, et al.. (2016). An IoT based system for remote monitoring of soil characteristics. 316–320. 66 indexed citations

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Cropper, Maureen & William Isaac. (2011). The Benefits of Achieving the Chesapeake Bay TMDLs (Total Maximum Daily Loads): A Scoping Study. SSRN Electronic Journal. 5 indexed citations

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