Sharad Goel publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Sharad Goel between 1997 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Sharad Goel published across 29 years, from 1997 to 2025, averaging 4.9 papers a year. Output peaked at 23 publications in 2023. 16 of the 143 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications

5 10 15 20

1997 2025

143 publications in total across all disciplines

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Sharad Goel: publications per year, 1997 to 2025
Year	Publications
1997	1
1998	0
1999	0
2000	0
2001	1
2002	1
2003	1
2004	2
2005	0
2006	2
2007	1
2008	6
2009	7
2010	5
2011	1
2012	7
2013	2
2014	4
2015	5
2016	11
2017	8
2018	8
2019	5
2020	11
2021	10
2022	5
2023	23
2024	7
2025	9
Total	143

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Sharad Goel 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 Sharad Goel sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists

100 200 300 400

44–53 publications 570+

This scientist: 91 publications — 9th percentile

9% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 7,777 ranked scientists.
Publications	Scientists	This scientist
44–53	28
54–63	61
64–73	161
74–83	225
84–93	301	91
94–103	390
104–113	406
114–123	474
124–133	453
134–143	434
144–153	407
154–163	411
164–173	391
174–183	313
184–193	319
194–203	304
204–213	285
214–223	246
224–233	213
234–243	170
244–253	167
254–263	162
264–273	138
274–283	138
284–293	113
294–303	106
304–313	95
314–323	101
324–333	81
334–343	69
344–353	56
354–363	36
364–373	42
374–383	41
384–393	44
394–403	27
404–413	30
414–423	20
424–433	29
434–443	29
444–453	25
454–463	19
464–473	21
474–483	11
484–493	17
494–503	7
504–513	6
514–523	12
524–533	10
534–543	7
544–553	6
554–563	12
564–569	8
570+	100

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Sharad Goel 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 Sharad Goel sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists

100 200 300

30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 41 D-Index — 38th percentile

38% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 7,777 ranked scientists.
D-Index	Scientists	This scientist
30	177
31	210
32	222
33	188
34	181
35	243
36	261
37	272
38	278
39	300
40	297
41	308	41
42	313
43	300
44	269
45	260
46	228
47	251
48	203
49	186
50	187
51	166
52	138
53	141
54	131
55	137
56	109
57	129
58	95
59	105
60	106
61	86
62	94
63	77
64	79
65	59
66	68
67	51
68	49
69	40
70	43
71	40
72	50
73	46
74	43
75	45
76	45
77	30
78	25
79	31
80	29
81	18
82	21
83	26
84	15
85	15
86	19
87	19
88	12
89	7
90	19
91	20
92	13
93	9
94	13
95	8
96	7
97	6
98	6
99	6
100+	97

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Overview

Sharad Goel is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and has a publication record primarily in the social sciences. Their research interests focus on political science and international relations, artificial intelligence, sociology and political science, economics and econometrics, as well as statistics and probability.

Their work covers a range of topics including electoral systems and political participation, internet traffic analysis and secure e-voting, game theory and voting systems, crime patterns and interventions, ethics and social impacts of AI, criminal justice and corrections analysis, and advanced causal inference techniques.

Sharad Goel has published extensively in several frequent venues such as Harvard Dataverse, arXiv (Cornell University), SSRN Electronic Journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media.

Frequent collaborators in Sharad Goel's research include Marc Meredith, David Rothschild, Michael Morse, Houshmand Shirani-Mehr, and Julian Nyarko.

Among recent papers, notable publications include:

"Racial disparities in automated speech recognition" (2020) published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
"Who Does What on the Web: A Large-Scale Study of Browsing Behavior" (2021) published in Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
"The limits of human predictions of recidivism" (2020) published in Science Advances
"Legalbench: A Collaboratively Built Benchmark for Measuring Legal Reasoning in Large Language Models" (2023) published in SSRN Electronic Journal
"A large-scale analysis of racial disparities in police stops across the United States" (2020) published in Nature Human Behaviour

Best Publications

Filter Bubbles, Echo Chambers, and Online News Consumption

Seth Flaxman;Sharad Goel;Justin M. Rao

2375
Citations
Algorithmic Decision Making and the Cost of Fairness

Sam Corbett-Davies;Emma Pierson;Avi Feller;Sharad Goel

1270
Citations
Predicting consumer behavior with Web search

Sharad Goel;Jake M. Hofman;Sébastien Lahaie;David M. Pennock

874
Citations
The Structural Virality of Online Diffusion

Sharad Goel;Ashton Anderson;Jake M. Hofman;Duncan J. Watts

717
Citations
The Measure and Mismeasure of Fairness: A Critical Review of Fair Machine Learning.

Sam Corbett-Davies;Sharad Goel

661
Citations
Racial Disparities in Automated Speech Recognition

Allison Koenecke;Andrew Nam;Emily Lake;Joe Nudell

616
Citations
A large-scale analysis of racial disparities in police stops across the United States.

Emma Pierson;Camelia Simoiu;Jan Overgoor;Sam Corbett-Davies

530
Citations
The structure of online diffusion networks

Sharad Goel;Duncan J. Watts;Daniel G. Goldstein

511
Citations
Forecasting elections with non-representative polls

Wei Wang;David Rothschild;Sharad Goel;Andrew Gelman

498
Citations
Assessing respondent-driven sampling

Sharad Goel;Matthew J. Salganik

439
Citations
Fair and Balanced? Quantifying Media Bias through Crowdsourced Content Analysis

Ceren Budak;Sharad Goel;Justin M. Rao

397
Citations
Precinct or prejudice? Understanding racial disparities in New York City’s stop-and-frisk policy

Sharad Goel;Justin M. Rao;Ravi Shroff

369
Citations
Real and Perceived Attitude Agreement in Social Networks

Sharad Goel;Winter Mason;Duncan J. Watts

315
Citations
Anatomy of the long tail: ordinary people with extraordinary tastes

Sharad Goel;Andrei Broder;Evgeniy Gabrilovich;Bo Pang

268
Citations
The Problem of Infra-marginality in Outcome Tests for Discrimination

Camelia Simoiu;Sam Corbett-Davies;Sharad Goel

207
Citations
Who Does What on the Web: A Large-Scale Study of Browsing Behavior

Sharad Goel;Jake M. Hofman;M. Irmak Sirer

193
Citations
Predicting Individual Behavior with Social Networks

Sharad Goel;Daniel G. Goldstein

137
Citations
De-anonymizing Web Browsing Data with Social Networks

Jessica Su;Ansh Shukla;Sharad Goel;Arvind Narayanan

137
Citations
Partisan selective exposure in online news consumption: evidence from the 2016 presidential campaign

Erik Peterson;Sharad Goel;Shanto Iyengar

134
Citations
The Mythical Swing Voter

Andrew Gelman;Sharad Goel;Douglas Rivers;David Rothschild

130
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Duncan J. Watts University of Pennsylvania

Daniel G. Goldstein Microsoft (United States)

David M. Pennock Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Andrew Gelman Columbia University

Yiling Chen Harvard University

John Langford Microsoft (United States)

Sergei Vassilvitskii Google (United States)

Georgios Zervas University College London

Susan Holmes Stanford University

Jennifer L. Skeem University of California, Berkeley

External Links

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