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Richard A. Berk 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 Richard A. Berk sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 287 publications — 85th percentile

85% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Richard A. Berk 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 Richard A. Berk sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 67 D-Index — 89th percentile

89% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2001 - Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA)
  • 1989 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Richard A. Berk is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research spans across multiple fields, primarily focusing on Computer Science and Mathematics. Within these broader disciplines, their work concentrates on several subfields including Statistics and Probability, Artificial Intelligence, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science, and Applied Mathematics.

The scientist's research topics include:

  • Advanced Statistical Methods and Models
  • Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
  • Statistical Methods and Inference
  • Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference
  • Crime Patterns and Interventions
  • Neural Networks and Applications
  • Machine Learning and Data Classification

Richard A. Berk has published notably in venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology)
  • Observational Studies
  • Annual Review of Criminology
  • PLoS ONE

Some of their recent papers include:

  • "Artificial Intelligence, Predictive Policing, and Risk Assessment for Law Enforcement" (2020, Annual Review of Criminology)
  • "Discrimination of SARS-CoV-2 infected patient samples by detection dogs: A proof of concept study" (2021, PLoS ONE)
  • "The Endemic Amid the Pandemic: Seeking Help for Violence Against Women in the Initial Phases of COVID-19" (2021, Journal of Interpersonal Violence)
  • "Semi-Supervised Linear Regression" (2021, Journal of the American Statistical Association)
  • "Machine Learning Algorithms in Suicide Prevention" (2020, The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry)

They have also contributed to the academic literature as an author of books, including a publication through Springer International Publishing: Statistical Learning from a Regression Perspective (2020).

Richard A. Berk has frequently collaborated with other researchers. Their most common coauthors are:

  • Arun Kumar Kuchibhotla
  • Andreas Buja
  • Linda Zhao
  • Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen
  • Cynthia M. Otto

Recognition of their work includes distinctions such as:

  • Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA), awarded in 2001
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), awarded in 1989

Best Publications

  • Redefine statistical significance

    Daniel J. Benjamin;James O. Berger;Magnus Johannesson;Magnus Johannesson;Brian A. Nosek;Brian A. Nosek

  • The specific deterrent effects of arrest for domestic assault.

    Lawrence W. Sherman;Richard A. Berk

  • An introduction to sample selection bias in sociological data.

    Richard A. Berk

  • Fairness in Criminal Justice Risk Assessments: The State of the Art

    Richard Berk;Hoda Heidari;Shahin Jabbari;Michael Kearns

  • Applied Time Series Analysis for the Social Sciences

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  • Regression Analysis: A Constructive Critique

    Richard A. Berk

  • Valid post-selection inference

    Richard A Berk;Lawrence D Brown;Andreas Buja;Kai Zhang

  • Statistical Learning from a Regression Perspective

    Richard A. Berk

  • Thinking about program evaluation

    Richard A. Berk;Peter Henry Rossi

  • The Deterrent Effect of Arrest in Incidents of Domestic Violence: A Bayesian Analysis of Four Field Experiments

    Richard A. Berk;Alec Campbell;Ruth Klap;Bruce Western

  • Overdispersion and Poisson Regression

    Richard Berk;John M. MacDonald

  • Weighting Regressions by Propensity Scores

    David A. Freedman;Richard A. Berk

  • Does arrest really deter wife battery? An effort to replicate the findings of the Minneapolis Spouse Abuse Experiment.

    Richard A. Berk;Phyllis J. Newton

  • What a Difference a Day Makes: An Empirical Study of the Impact of Shelters for Battered Women

    Richard A. Berk;Phyllis J. Newton;Sarah Fenstermaker Berk

  • News media coverage and the epidemiology of homicide.

    Susan B. Sorenson;J. G. Manz;Richard A. Berk

  • Forecasting murder within a population of probationers and parolees: a high stakes application of statistical learning

    Richard Berk;Lawrence Sherman;Geoffrey Barnes;Ellen Kurtz

  • Crime and Poverty - Some Experimental-Evidence from Ex-Offenders

    Richard A. Berk;Kenneth J. Lenihan;Peter H. Rossi

  • A Convex Framework for Fair Regression

    Richard Berk;Hoda Heidari;Shahin Jabbari;Matthew Joseph

  • Money, work, and crime : experimental evidence

    Peter Henry Rossi;Richard A. Berk;Kenneth J. Lenihan

  • Public perceptions of global warming

    Richard A. Berk;Daniel Schulman

  • Statistical Inference for Apparent Populations

    Richard A. Berk;Bruce Western;Robert E. Weiss

Frequent Co-Authors

Lawrence D. Brown
Lawrence D. Brown Cornell University
Andreas Buja
Andreas Buja University of Pennsylvania
Edward I. George
Edward I. George University of Pennsylvania
Peter H. Rossi
Peter H. Rossi University of Massachusetts Amherst
Susan B. Sorenson
Susan B. Sorenson University of Pennsylvania
Lawrence W. Sherman
Lawrence W. Sherman University of Cambridge
Bruce Western
Bruce Western Columbia University
Neil S. Wenger
Neil S. Wenger University of California, Los Angeles
Jan de Leeuw
Jan de Leeuw University of California, Los Angeles
Michael Ghil
Michael Ghil École Normale Supérieure

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