2026 James Woodward: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	45	3834	3534	1826	1652	204	9971

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Current National Ranking

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Social Sciences and Humanities

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3534

1826

1652

204

9971

Social Sciences and Humanities

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Citations

9971

World Ranking

3834

National Ranking

1826

Overview

James Woodward is a researcher affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh in the United States. Their work spans several areas within philosophy and related interdisciplinary fields, focusing especially on causation, causal inference, and the philosophy of science and medicine.

Woodward's recent publications include:

"Causal Responsibility and Robust Causation," 2020, Frontiers in Psychology
"Causal Complexity, Conditional Independence, and Downward Causation," 2020, Philosophy of Science
"Polygene Risk Scores," 2023, Philosophy of Medicine
"The Worldly Infrastructure of Causation," 2024, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
"Flagpoles anyone? Causal and explanatory asymmetries," 2020, THEORIA An International Journal for Theory History and Foundations of Science

The scientist has frequently published in several venues, primarily:

Philosophy of Science
European Journal for Philosophy of Science
Frontiers in Psychology
Philosophy of Medicine
The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science

Woodward collaborates often with a consistent set of coauthors including Kevin Elliott, Alan C. Love, Angela Potochnik, James Owen Weatherall, and Charlotte Werndl.

The main fields and subfields of Woodward's research include:

History and Philosophy of Science
Artificial Intelligence
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Cognitive Neuroscience
Philosophy

The topics covered throughout Woodward's body of work encompass:

Philosophy and History of Science
Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference
Mental Health Research Topics
Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics
Philosophy and Theoretical Science
Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics

Best Publications

Saving the phenomena

James Bogen;James Woodward

1088
Citations
Causation in biology: stability, specificity, and the choice of levels of explanation

James Woodward

571
Citations
Independence, Invariance and the Causal Markov Condition

Daniel M. Hausman;James Woodward

475
Citations
What Is a Mechanism? A Counterfactual Account

Jim Woodward

461
Citations
Folk Psychology Is Here To Stay

Terence E. Horgan;James F. Woodward

456
Citations
Explanation and invariance in the special sciences

James Woodward

452
Citations
Explanatory Generalizations, Part I: A Counterfactual Account

James Woodward;Christopher Hitchcock

404
Citations
The Non-Identity Problem

James Woodward

401
Citations
Explanatory generalizations, part II: Plumbing explanatory depth

Christopher Hitchcock;James Woodward

318
Citations
Data and phenomena

James Woodward

313
Citations
Interventionism and Causal Exclusion

James Woodward

240
Citations
Sensitive and Insensitive Causation

James Woodward

221
Citations
Mental Causation and Neural Mechanisms

James Woodward

218
Citations
Some varieties of robustness

James Woodward

205
Citations
Moral intuition: its neural substrates and normative significance.

James Woodward;John Allman

196
Citations
Just do it? Investigating the gap between prediction and action in toddlers' causal inferences.

Elizabeth Baraff Bonawitz;Darlene Ferranti;Rebecca Saxe;Alison Gopnik

195
Citations
Explanation, Invariance, and Intervention

James Woodward

193
Citations
Law and explanation in biology: Invariance is the kind of stability that matters

James Woodward

140
Citations
II—James Woodward: Mechanistic Explanation: Its Scope and Limits

James Woodward

139
Citations
Emotional and Utilitarian Appraisals of Moral Dilemmas Are Encoded in Separate Areas and Integrated in Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex.

Cendri A. Hutcherson;Leila Montaser-Kouhsari;James Woodward;Antonio Rangel

128
Citations
A theory of singular causal explanation

James Woodward

113
Citations
Review of S cientific Explanation and the Causal Structure of the World

James Woodward;Wesley Salmon

2
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Laura Schulz MIT

Christopher Hitchcock California Institute of Technology

Andrew N. Meltzoff University of Washington

Alison Gopnik University of California, Berkeley

Rebecca Saxe MIT

Ralph Adolphs California Institute of Technology

Antonio Rangel California Institute of Technology

Marius Usher Tel Aviv University

David A. Lagnado University College London

Wesley C. Salmon University of Pittsburgh

External Links

Personal website of James Woodward

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