2026 Samuel R. Gross: Law Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Law	26	338	306	238	213	67	7880

Samuel R. Gross 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 Samuel R. Gross sits on this spectrum.

37 publications 262+

This scientist: 67 publications — 3rd percentile

3% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Samuel R. Gross 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 Samuel R. Gross sits on this spectrum.

20 D-Index 42+

This scientist: 26 D-Index — 28th percentile

28% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Samuel R. Gross is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on topics within social sciences, particularly in the areas of law and sociology and political science.

The main fields of study for Samuel R. Gross include:

Social Sciences

They have contributed notably to subfields such as:

Law
Sociology and Political Science

The primary topics covered in their work are:

Criminal Law and Evidence
Legal Rights and Human Rights
Law, Rights, and Freedoms

Samuel R. Gross has published several papers, with a focus on criminal justice and legal processes. Noteworthy recent publications include:

Race and Wrongful Convictions in the United States, 2022, published in SSRN Electronic Journal
Government Misconduct and Convicting the Innocent, The Role of Prosecutors, Police and Other Law Enforcement, 2020, published in SSRN Electronic Journal

The SSRN Electronic Journal serves as a frequent venue for their work, where they have at least two publications.

Collaborations are an active part of Samuel R. Gross's research process. Frequent co-authors include:

Maurice Possley
K Stephens
Ken Otterbourg
Jessica Paredes
Barbara O'Brien

Best Publications

Evolution of genes and genomes on the Drosophila phylogeny.

Andrew G. Clark;Michael B. Eisen;Michael B. Eisen;Douglas R. Smith;Casey M. Bergman

2336
Citations
Exonerations in the United States 1989 through 2003

Samuel R. Gross;Kristen Jacoby;Daniel J. Matheson;Nicholas Montgomery

1157
Citations
Hardening of the Attitudes: Americans' Views on the Death Penalty

Phoebe C. Ellsworth;Samuel R. Gross

537
Citations
Getting to no: a study of settlement negotiations and the selection of cases for trial.

Samuel R. Gross;Kent D. Syverud

516
Citations
Patterns of Death: An Analysis of Racial Disparities in Capital Sentencing and Homicide Victimization

Samuel R. Gross;Robert Mauro

413
Citations
Racial Profiling under Attack

Samuel R. Gross;Debra Livingston

369
Citations
Road Work: Racial Profiling and Drug Interdiction on the Highway

Samuel R. Gross;Katherine Y. Barnes

254
Citations
Death and Discrimination: Racial Disparities in Capital Sentencing

Samuel R. Gross;Robert Mauro

252
Citations
Frequency and Predictors of False Conviction: Why We Know So Little, and New Data on Capital Cases

Samuel R. Gross;Barbara O'Brien

227
Citations
Rate of false conviction of criminal defendants who are sentenced to death

Samuel R. Gross;Barbara O’Brien;Chen Hu;Edward H. Kennedy

187
Citations
Update: American Public Opinion on the Death Penalty-It’s Getting Personal

Samuel R. Gross

164
Citations
Exonerations in the United States, 1989-2012

S.R. Gross;M. Schaffer

159
Citations
The American Advantage: The Value of Inefficient Litigation

Samuel R. Gross

155
Citations
Loss of Innocence: Eyewitness Identification and Proof of Guilt

Samuel R. Gross

148
Citations
Lost Lives: Miscarriages of Justice in Capital Cases

Samuel R. Gross

137
Citations
Deterministic matrices matching the compressed sensing phase transitions of Gaussian random matrices

Hatef Monajemi;Sina Jafarpour;Matan Gavish;Stat

126
Citations
Convicting the Innocent

Samuel R. Gross

116
Citations
Race and Wrongful Convictions in the United States

Samuel R. Gross;Maurice Possley;Klara Stephens

94
Citations
Expert Information and Expert Evidence: A Preliminary Taxonomy

Samuel R. Gross;Jennifer L. Mnookin

78
Citations
Don't Try: Civil Jury Verdicts in a System Geared to Settlement

Samuel R. Gross;Kent D. Syverud

70
Citations
Determining the Neutrality of Death-Qualified Juries Judicial Appraisal of Empirical Data*

Samuel R. Gross

58
Citations
Exonerations in the United States, 1989-2012: Report by the National Registry of Exonerations

Samuel R. Gross;Michael Shaffer

36
Citations
Beyond Repair?: America's Death Penalty

Stephen P. Garvey;Neal Devins;Mark A. Graber;Samuel R. Gross

23
Citations
Second Thoughts: Americans’ Views on the Death Penalty at the Turn of the Century

Samuel R. Gross;Phoebe C. Ellsworth

20
Citations
The Romance of Revenge: Capital Punishment in America

Samuel R. Gross

11
Citations
What We Think, What We Know and What We Think We Know About False Convictions

Samuel R. Gross

9
Citations
How Many False Convictions are There? How Many Exonerations are There?

Samuel Gross

5
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Phoebe C. Ellsworth University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Benjamin S. Wilfond University of Washington

Jakob Skou Pedersen Aarhus University

Gary H. Karpen University of California, Berkeley

Sam Griffiths-Jones University of Manchester

Alexander Stark Research Institute of Molecular Pathology

Ruiqiang Li Novogene (China)

Gane Ka-Shu Wong University of Alberta

Michael B. Eisen University of California, Berkeley

Manolis Kellis MIT

External Links

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