2026 Judea Pearl: 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	122	133	128	78	75	450	122669

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Computer Science in United States Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Computer Science in United States Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Computer Science in United States Leader Award
2019 - Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA)
2015 - ACM Fellow For contributions to artificial intelligence through the development of a calculus for probabilistic and causal reasoning.
2014 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
2012 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2011 - A. M. Turing Award For fundamental contributions to artificial intelligence through the development of a calculus for probabilistic and causal reasoning.
2003 - ACM AAAI Allen Newell Award For contributions to artificial intelligence and its applications, building a firm mathematical and theoretical foundation through ground-breaking work in heuristic search, reasoning under uncertainty, constraint processing, non-monotonic reasoning, and causal modeling.
1995 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For developing the foundations for reasoning under uncertainty.
1990 - Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)

Overview

Judea Pearl is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. The main fields of study associated with their work are Computer Science and Mathematics, with particular focus on subfields such as Artificial Intelligence, Statistics and Probability, Management Science and Operations Research, General Decision Sciences, and Economics and Econometrics.

The research topics covered by Judea Pearl include Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference, Advanced Causal Inference Techniques, Statistical Methods and Inference, Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference, Data Quality and Management, Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics, and Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge.

Among their recent publications are the following papers:

Direct and Indirect Effects, 2022, ACM eBooks
A Crash Course in Good and Bad Controls, 2022, Sociological Methods & Research
Probabilistic Evaluation of Counterfactual Queries, 2022, ACM eBooks
A Crash Course in Good and Bad Controls, 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal
Radical empiricism and machine learning research, 2021, Journal of Causal Inference

Judea Pearl has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including Scott N. Mueller, Ang Li, Carlos Cinelli, and Elias Bareinboim.

The venues in which Judea Pearl has published frequently include:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Journal of Causal Inference
ACM eBooks
Sociological Methods & Research

Judea Pearl has received several awards recognizing their contributions to their fields, including:

Fellow of the American Statistical Association (2019)
ACM Fellow (2015) for contributions to artificial intelligence through the development of a calculus for probabilistic and causal reasoning
Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2014)
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2012)
A. M. Turing Award (2011) for fundamental contributions to artificial intelligence through the development of a calculus for probabilistic and causal reasoning
ACM AAAI Allen Newell Award (2003) for contributions to artificial intelligence and its applications
Member of the National Academy of Engineering (1995) for developing the foundations for reasoning under uncertainty
Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (1990)

Best Publications

Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems: Networks of Plausible Inference

Judea Pearl

25337
Citations
Causality: models, reasoning, and inference

Judea Pearl

16910
Citations
Heuristics : intelligent search strategies for computer problem solving

Judea Pearl

6271
Citations
Causality: Models, Reasoning and Inference

Christopher Hitchcock;Judea Pearl

5018
Citations
Causal diagrams for epidemiologic research.

Sander Greenland;Judea Pearl;James M. Robins

3736
Citations
Fusion, propagation, and structuring in belief networks

J Pearl

3383
Citations
Causal diagrams for empirical research

Judea Pearl

3007
Citations
Temporal constraint networks

Rina Dechter;Itay Meiri;Judea Pearl

2802
Citations
Causal inference in statistics: An overview

Judea Pearl

2552
Citations
Network-based heuristics for constraint satisfaction problems

R. Dechter;J. Pearl

2314
Citations
A Theory of Inferred Causation

Judea Pearl;Thomas S. Verma

1874
Citations
The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect

Judea Pearl;Dana Mackenzie

1643
Citations
Causal inference in statistics : a primer

Judea Pearl;Madelyn Glymour;Nicholas P. Jewell

1593
Citations
Equivalence and synthesis of causal models

Thomas Verma;Judea Pearl

1589
Citations
Generalized best-first search strategies and the optimality of A*

Rina Dechter;Judea Pearl

1525
Citations
Reverend bayes on inference engines: a distributed hierarchical approach

Judea Pearl

1260
Citations
Chapter 2 – BAYESIAN INFERENCE

Judea Pearl

1250
Citations
Confounding and Collapsibility in Causal Inference

Sander Greenland;James M. Robins;Judea Pearl

1102
Citations
Causes and explanations: A structural-model approach. Part I: Causes

Joseph Y. Halpern;Judea Pearl

1101
Citations
Direct and Indirect Effects

Judea Pearl

931
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Rina Dechter University of California, Irvine

Dan Geiger Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Moises Goldszmidt Apple (United States)

Joseph Y. Halpern Cornell University

Hector Geffner RWTH Aachen University

Adnan Darwiche University of California, Los Angeles

David Maxwell Chickering Microsoft (United States)

Arthur L. Delcher University of Maryland, College Park

Simon Kasif Boston University

Kenneth A. Bollen University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

External Links

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