2026 Stephen J. Roberts: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	79	1156	1119	69	68	419	19636

Research.com Recognitions

2025 - Research.com Computer Science in United Kingdom Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Computer Science in United Kingdom Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Computer Science in United Kingdom Leader Award
2015 - Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK)

Overview

Stephen J. Roberts is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research spans across Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a strong focus on Atmospheric Science, Ecology, and Global and Planetary Change. Additional interests include Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine and Artificial Intelligence.

The key topics covered in their work encompass:

Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
Cryospheric studies and observations
Winter Sports Injuries and Performance
Polar Research and Ecology
Isotope Analysis in Ecology
Tree-ring climate responses
Climate variability and models

Among recent publications, notable works include:

"A global database of Holocene paleotemperature records" (2020), published in Scientific Data
"Southward migration of the Southern Hemisphere westerly winds corresponds with warming climate over centennial timescales" (2020), published in Communications Earth & Environment
"Inorganic geochemistry of lake sediments: A review of analytical techniques and guidelines for data interpretation" (2023), published in Earth-Science Reviews
"Unequal Anthropogenic Enrichment of Mercury in Earth's Northern and Southern Hemispheres" (2020), published in ACS Earth and Space Chemistry
"Deglaciation of Pope Glacier implies widespread early Holocene ice sheet thinning in the Amundsen Sea sector of Antarctica" (2020), published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Frequent co-authors in their research include Louise Foster, Emma J. Pearson, Dominic A. Hodgson, Steve Juggins, and Joanne S. Johnson.

Publication venues where Roberts has contributed multiple times are:

Scientific Data
Earth and Planetary Science Letters
Frontiers in Earth Science
Quaternary Science Reviews
Communications Earth & Environment

Stephen J. Roberts was recognized as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) in 2015.

Best Publications

Exploiting Nonlinear Recurrence and Fractal Scaling Properties for Voice Disorder Detection

Max A. Little;Patrick E. McSharry;Stephen J. Roberts;Declan A. E. Costello

1091
Citations
Gaussian processes for time-series modelling

S. Roberts;M. Osborne;M. Ebden;S. Reece

694
Citations
Overlapping community detection using Bayesian non-negative matrix factorization

Ioannis Psorakis;Stephen J Roberts;Mark Ebden;Ben Sheldon

503
Citations
Independent Component Analysis: Principles and Practice

Stephen Roberts;Richard Everson

433
Citations
Stochastic complexity measures for physiological signal analysis

I.A. Rezek;S.J. Roberts

430
Citations
Bayesian approaches to Gaussian mixture modeling

S.J. Roberts;D. Husmeier;I. Rezek;W. Penny

418
Citations
A review of parametric modelling techniques for EEG analysis

J. Pardey;S. Roberts;L. Tarassenko

410
Citations
A Gaussian process framework for modelling stellar activity signals in radial velocity data

Vinesh Rajpaul;Suzanne Aigrain;Michael A. Osborne;Steven Reece

397
Citations
A tutorial on variational Bayesian inference

Charles W. Fox;Stephen J. Roberts

388
Citations
EEG-based communication: a pattern recognition approach

W.D. Penny;S.J. Roberts;E.A. Curran;M.J. Stokes

334
Citations
Reality mining of animal social systems.

Jens Krause;Stefan Krause;Robert Arlinghaus;Robert Arlinghaus;Ioannis Psorakis

313
Citations
Migration and stopover in a small pelagic seabird, the Manx shearwater Puffinus puffinus: insights from machine learning.

T. Guilford;J. Meade;J. Willis;Richard A. Phillips

302
Citations
A probabilistic resource allocating network for novelty detection

Stephen Roberts;Lionel Tarassenko

294
Citations
A global database of Holocene paleotemperature records

Darrell Kaufman;Nicholas McKay;Cody Routson;Michael Erb

272
Citations
Anomaly Detection for Time Series Using VAE-LSTM Hybrid Model

Shuyu Lin;Ronald Clark;Robert Birke;Sandro Schonborn

250
Citations
DeepLOB: Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Limit Order Books

Zihao Zhang;Stefan Zohren;Stephen Roberts

249
Citations
Parametric and non-parametric unsupervised cluster analysis

Stephen J. Roberts

245
Citations
Towards Real-Time Information Processing of Sensor Network Data Using Computationally Efficient Multi-output Gaussian Processes

M. A. Osborne;S. J. Roberts;A. Rogers;S. D. Ramchurn

232
Citations
Novelty detection using extreme value statistics

S.J. Roberts

222
Citations
Deep Reinforcement Learning for Trading

Zihao Zhang;Stefan Zohren;Stephen Roberts

217
Citations
Artifact Processing in Computerized Analysis of Sleep EEG – A Review

Peter Anderer;Stephen Roberts;Alois Schlögl;Georg Gruber

216
Citations
Human-agent collectives

N. R. Jennings;L. Moreau;D. Nicholson;S. Ramchurn

210
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

William D. Penny University of East Anglia

Nicholas R. Jennings Loughborough University

Alex Rogers University of Oxford

Richard M. Everson University of Exeter

Suzanne Aigrain University of Oxford

Sarvapali D. Ramchurn University of Southampton

Luc Moreau King's College London

Lionel Tarassenko University of Oxford

Dirk Husmeier University of Glasgow

Patrick E. McSharry Carnegie Mellon University

External Links

Personal website of Stephen J. Roberts Google Scholar page

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