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72
Citations
51165
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1630
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David J. Hand publication distribution in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Computer Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where David J. Hand sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 384 publications — 85th percentile

85% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 991 publications or more.

David J. Hand D-index placement in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Computer Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where David J. Hand sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 72 D-Index — 89th percentile

89% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

David J. Hand is affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the field of Computer Science, with a focus on subfields such as Artificial Intelligence, Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, Statistics and Probability, History and Philosophy of Science, and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including:

  • Imbalanced Data Classification Techniques
  • Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
  • Philosophy and History of Science
  • Face and Expression Recognition
  • Machine Learning and Data Classification
  • Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications
  • Time Series Analysis and Forecasting

David J. Hand has contributed to multiple publications, including a range of recent papers such as:

  • Validating and Verifying AI Systems, 2020, Patterns
  • Notes on the H-measure of classifier performance, 2022, Advances in Data Analysis and Classification
  • F*: an interpretable transformation of the F-measure, 2021, Machine Learning

Additional relevant publications related to the field include works by other authors that appear within the scope of recent discourse in computational statistics and machine learning:

  • A Review of the F-Measure: Its History, Properties, Criticism, and Alternatives, 2023, ACM Computing Surveys
  • Statistical significance and its critics: practicing damaging science, or damaging scientific practice?, 2022, Synthese

The scientist has published books, including the title Dark Data in 2020 through Princeton University Press. This work adds to their contributions in data science and related disciplines.

Frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society)
  • Statistical Analysis and Data Mining The ASA Data Science Journal
  • Significance
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • ACM Computing Surveys

David J. Hand has collaborated regularly with several coauthors, notably:

  • Peter Christen
  • Jia Li
  • Guang Cheng
  • Ranjan Maitra
  • Bertrand Clarke

Best Publications

  • Top 10 algorithms in data mining

    Xindong Wu;Vipin Kumar;J. Ross Quinlan;Joydeep Ghosh

  • Principles of Data Mining

    David J. Hand;Padhraic Smyth;Heikki Mannila

  • Principles of Data Mining

    David J. Hand;Heikki Mannila;Padhraic Smyth

  • A Simple Generalisation of the Area Under the ROC Curve for Multiple Class Classification Problems

    David J. Hand;Robert J. Till

  • Finite Mixture Distributions

    Brian Everitt;D. J. Hand

  • Discrimination and Classification

    David J. Hand

  • Statistical fraud detection: A review

    Richard J Bolton;David J. Hand

  • Statistical Classification Methods in Consumer Credit Scoring: a Review

    D. J. Hand;W. E. Henley

  • Measuring classifier performance: a coherent alternative to the area under the ROC curve

    David J. Hand

  • Idiot's Bayes—Not So Stupid After All?

    David J. Hand;Keming Yu

  • Construction and Assessment of Classification Rules

    David J. Hand

  • Classifier Technology and the Illusion of Progress

    David J. Hand

  • ROC Curves for Continuous Data

    Wojtek J. Krzanowski;David J. Hand

  • Data Mining: Statistics and More?

    David J. Hand

  • A Handbook of Small Data Sets

    David J. Hand;Fergus Daly;K. McConway;D. Lunn

  • Data mining

    David J. Hand

  • Unsupervised Profiling Methods for Fraud Detection

    Richard J. Bolton;David J. Hand

  • Intelligent Data Analysis: An Introduction

    Michael Berthold;David J. Hand

  • Exponentially weighted moving average charts for detecting concept drift

    Gordon J. Ross;Niall M. Adams;Dimitris K. Tasoulis;David J. Hand

  • A k-nearest-neighbour classifier for assessing consumer credit risk

    W. E. Henley;D. J. Hand

  • Clustering objects on subsets of attributes

    DJ Hand;C Glasbey;D Husmeier;JC Gower

Frequent Co-Authors

Wojtek J. Krzanowski
Wojtek J. Krzanowski University of Exeter
Heikki Mannila
Heikki Mannila Aalto University
Padhraic Smyth
Padhraic Smyth University of California, Irvine
Michael R. Berthold
Michael R. Berthold University of Konstanz
Peter Fayers
Peter Fayers University of Aberdeen
M. C. Jones
M. C. Jones The Open University
Keming Yu
Keming Yu Brunel University London
Geoffrey J. McLachlan
Geoffrey J. McLachlan University of Queensland
Pak C. Sham
Pak C. Sham University of Hong Kong
Erol Gelenbe
Erol Gelenbe Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics

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