2026 Pamela Samuelson: Law Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Law	34	182	162	137	122	339	5685

Pamela Samuelson publication distribution in Law in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Law in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Pamela Samuelson sits on this spectrum.

37 publications 262+

This scientist: 339 publications — 90th percentile

90% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 262 publications or more.

Pamela Samuelson D-index placement in Law in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Law scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Pamela Samuelson sits on this spectrum.

20 D-Index 42+

This scientist: 34 D-Index — 65th percentile

65% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 42 D-Index or more.

Overview

Pamela Samuelson is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences, with a focus on subfields including Artificial Intelligence, Marketing, Law, Political Science and International Relations, and Information Systems.

Their work concentrates on topics related to Law, AI, and Intellectual Property, encompassing Copyright and Intellectual Property, Intellectual Property Law, Digital Rights Management and Security, Ethics and Social Impacts of AI, Artificial Intelligence in Law, and Intellectual Property and Patents.

Recent publications by Pamela Samuelson include:

Generative AI meets copyright, 2023, Science
Legal Challenges to Generative AI, Part I, 2023, Communications of the ACM
AI authorship?, 2020, Communications of the ACM
Epidemiology and genomics of a slow outbreak of methicillin-resistant Staphyloccus aureus (MRSA) in a neonatal intensive care unit: Successful chronic decolonization of MRSA-positive healthcare personnel, 2022, Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
Text and data mining of in-copyright works, 2021, Communications of the ACM

Publications have appeared most frequently in the following venues:

Communications of the ACM
SSRN Electronic Journal
Science
Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
Michigan Technology Law Review

Frequent coauthors of Pamela Samuelson include:

Mark A. Lemley
A. Feder Cooper
Katherine Lee
James Grimmelmann
Christopher A. Choquette-Choo

Best Publications

High Technology Entrepreneurs and the Patent System: Results of the 2008 Berkeley Patent Survey

Stuart J.H. Graham;Robert P. Merges;Pam Samuelson;Ted Sichelman

808
Citations
The Law and Economics of Reverse Engineering

Pamela Samuelson;Suzanne Scotchmer

248
Citations
Privacy as Intellectual Property

Pamela Samuelson

216
Citations
Software and Internet Law

Mark A. Lemley;Peter S. Menell;Robert P. Merges;Pamela Samuelson

203
Citations
The Copyright Principles Project: Directions for Reform

Pamela Samuelson

197
Citations
Generative AI meets copyright

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187
Citations
A Manifesto concerning the Legal Protection of Computer Programs

Pamela Samuelson;Randall Davis;Mitchell D. Kapor;J. H. Reichman

182
Citations
DRM {and, or, vs.} the law

Pamela Samuelson

176
Citations
Intellectual Property and the Digital Economy: Why the Anti-Circumvention Regulations Need to Be Revised

Pamela Samuelson

168
Citations
Self-plagiarism or fair use

Pamela Samuelson

124
Citations
Intellectual Property Rights in Data

Jerome H. Reichman;Pamela Samuelson

118
Citations
Intellectual property rights for digital library and hypertext publishing systems: an analysis of Xanadu

Pamela Samuelson;Robert J. Glushko

99
Citations
The Copyright Grab

Pamela Samuelson

94
Citations
The U.S. Digital Agenda at WIPO

Pamela Samuelson

72
Citations
Mapping the Digital Public Domain: Threats and Opportunities

Pamela Samuelson

65
Citations
IBM's pragmatic embrace of open source

Pamela Samuelson

64
Citations
Copyright and digital libraries

Pamela Samuelson

63
Citations
CONTU revisited: the case against copyright protection for computer programs in machine-readable form.

Pamela Samuelson

60
Citations
Benson Revisited: The Case Against Patent Protection For Algorithms and Other Computer Program-Related Inventions

Pamela Samuelson

58
Citations
Comparing the Views of Lawyers and User Interface Designers on the Software Copyright Look and Feel Lawsuits

Pamela Samuelson;Robert J. Glushko

55
Citations
Unsolicited communications as trespass

Pamela Samuelson

53
Citations
Allocating Ownership Rights in Computer-Generated Works

Pamela Samuelson

45
Citations
Digital Media and the Changing Face of Intellectual Property Law

Pamela Samuelson

31
Citations
A new view of intellectual property and software

Randall Davis;Pamela Samuelson;Mitchell Kapor;Jerome Reichman

30
Citations
Digital Rights Management {and, or, vs.} the Law

Pamela Samuelson

28
Citations
Anticircumvention rules: threat to science.

Pamela Samuelson

24
Citations
Michigan Telecommunications and Technology Law Review

Pamela Samuelson

8
Citations
Why the Anti-Circumvention Regulations Need to be Revised

Pamela Samuelson

2
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert P. Merges University of California, Berkeley

Jerome H. Reichman Duke University

Mark A. Lemley Stanford University

Randall Davis MIT

Gregory Shaffer Georgetown University

Laurence R. Helfer Duke University

Peter Drahos Australian National University

Suzanne Scotchmer University of California, Berkeley

Bruce Schneier Harvard University

Anna Lysyanskaya Brown University

External Links

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