2026 David J. Hand: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	72	1630	1581	88	87	384	51165

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

7500
Citations
Principles of Data Mining

David J. Hand;Padhraic Smyth;Heikki Mannila

6587
Citations
Principles of Data Mining

David J. Hand;Heikki Mannila;Padhraic Smyth

4989
Citations
A Simple Generalisation of the Area Under the ROC Curve for Multiple Class Classification Problems

David J. Hand;Robert J. Till

2756
Citations
Finite Mixture Distributions

Brian Everitt;D. J. Hand

2081
Citations
Discrimination and Classification

David J. Hand

1903
Citations
Statistical fraud detection: A review

Richard J Bolton;David J. Hand

1818
Citations
Statistical Classification Methods in Consumer Credit Scoring: a Review

D. J. Hand;W. E. Henley

1495
Citations
Measuring classifier performance: a coherent alternative to the area under the ROC curve

David J. Hand

1281
Citations
Idiot's Bayes—Not So Stupid After All?

David J. Hand;Keming Yu

1229
Citations
Construction and Assessment of Classification Rules

David J. Hand

1185
Citations
Classifier Technology and the Illusion of Progress

David J. Hand

1044
Citations
ROC Curves for Continuous Data

Wojtek J. Krzanowski;David J. Hand

877
Citations
Data Mining: Statistics and More?

David J. Hand

677
Citations
A Handbook of Small Data Sets

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

660
Citations
Data mining

David J. Hand

630
Citations
Unsupervised Profiling Methods for Fraud Detection

Richard J. Bolton;David J. Hand

543
Citations
Intelligent Data Analysis: An Introduction

Michael Berthold;David J. Hand

469
Citations
Exponentially weighted moving average charts for detecting concept drift

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

456
Citations
A k-nearest-neighbour classifier for assessing consumer credit risk

W. E. Henley;D. J. Hand

436
Citations
Clustering objects on subsets of attributes

DJ Hand;C Glasbey;D Husmeier;JC Gower

2
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Padhraic Smyth University of California, Irvine

Heikki Mannila Aalto University

Michael R. Berthold University of Konstanz

Pak C. Sham University of Hong Kong

Geoffrey J. McLachlan University of Queensland

Trevor Hastie Stanford University

Robert Tibshirani Stanford University

Alex Rogers University of Oxford

Neil G. Harris University of California, Los Angeles

Erol Gelenbe Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics

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