2026 Richard A. Berk: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	67	888	774	422	358	287	23948

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

2992
Citations
The specific deterrent effects of arrest for domestic assault.

Lawrence W. Sherman;Richard A. Berk

2029
Citations
An introduction to sample selection bias in sociological data.

Richard A. Berk

1983
Citations
Fairness in Criminal Justice Risk Assessments: The State of the Art

Richard Berk;Hoda Heidari;Shahin Jabbari;Michael Kearns

1069
Citations
Applied Time Series Analysis for the Social Sciences

Unknown

994
Citations
Regression Analysis: A Constructive Critique

Richard A. Berk

802
Citations
Valid post-selection inference

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

692
Citations
Statistical Learning from a Regression Perspective

Richard A. Berk

660
Citations
Thinking about program evaluation

Richard A. Berk;Peter Henry Rossi

581
Citations
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

425
Citations
Overdispersion and Poisson Regression

Richard Berk;John M. MacDonald

393
Citations
Weighting Regressions by Propensity Scores

David A. Freedman;Richard A. Berk

308
Citations
Does arrest really deter wife battery? An effort to replicate the findings of the Minneapolis Spouse Abuse Experiment.

Richard A. Berk;Phyllis J. Newton

287
Citations
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

286
Citations
News media coverage and the epidemiology of homicide.

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

286
Citations
Forecasting murder within a population of probationers and parolees: a high stakes application of statistical learning

Richard Berk;Lawrence Sherman;Geoffrey Barnes;Ellen Kurtz

260
Citations
Crime and Poverty - Some Experimental-Evidence from Ex-Offenders

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

259
Citations
A Convex Framework for Fair Regression

Richard Berk;Hoda Heidari;Shahin Jabbari;Matthew Joseph

256
Citations
Money, work, and crime : experimental evidence

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

236
Citations
Public perceptions of global warming

Richard A. Berk;Daniel Schulman

230
Citations
Statistical Inference for Apparent Populations

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

216
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Lawrence D. Brown Cornell University

Peter H. Rossi University of Massachusetts Amherst

Susan B. Sorenson University of Pennsylvania

Lawrence W. Sherman University of Cambridge

Bruce Western Columbia University

Michael Ghil École Normale Supérieure

David Cesarini New York University

Thomas D. Cook University of Wisconsin–Madison

Robert J. DeRubeis University of Pennsylvania

Brian A. Nosek Center for Open Science

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