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D-Index
45
Citations
9971
World Ranking
3833
National Ranking
1826

James Woodward publications per year

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1973 2025

230 publications in total across all disciplines

James Woodward publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where James Woodward sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 204 publications — 66th percentile

66% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

James Woodward D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where James Woodward sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 45 D-Index — 52nd percentile

52% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

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

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

    James Woodward

  • Independence, Invariance and the Causal Markov Condition

    Daniel M. Hausman;James Woodward

  • What Is a Mechanism? A Counterfactual Account

    Jim Woodward

  • Folk Psychology Is Here To Stay

    Terence E. Horgan;James F. Woodward

  • Explanation and invariance in the special sciences

    James Woodward

  • Explanatory Generalizations, Part I: A Counterfactual Account

    James Woodward;Christopher Hitchcock

  • The Non-Identity Problem

    James Woodward

  • Explanatory generalizations, part II: Plumbing explanatory depth

    Christopher Hitchcock;James Woodward

  • Data and phenomena

    James Woodward

  • Interventionism and Causal Exclusion

    James Woodward

  • Sensitive and Insensitive Causation

    James Woodward

  • Mental Causation and Neural Mechanisms

    James Woodward

  • Some varieties of robustness

    James Woodward

  • Moral intuition: its neural substrates and normative significance.

    James Woodward;John Allman

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

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

  • Explanation, Invariance, and Intervention

    James Woodward

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

    James Woodward

  • II—James Woodward: Mechanistic Explanation: Its Scope and Limits

    James Woodward

  • 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

  • A theory of singular causal explanation

    James Woodward

  • Review of S cientific Explanation and the Causal Structure of the World

    James Woodward;Wesley Salmon

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel M. Hausman
Daniel M. Hausman University of Wisconsin–Madison
Noah D. Goodman
Noah D. Goodman Stanford University
Christopher Hitchcock
Christopher Hitchcock California Institute of Technology
Ralph Adolphs
Ralph Adolphs California Institute of Technology
Alison Gopnik
Alison Gopnik University of California, Berkeley
Andrew N. Meltzoff
Andrew N. Meltzoff University of Washington
Marc Lange
Marc Lange Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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