Rate My Professor Dan Hicks

Hicks specializes in philosophy of science, philosophy and data science, and science policy, with research focused on public scientific controversies particularly in environmental public health, trust in science, the role of science in democracy, ethical and political values in science, bibliometrics, statistics in scientific practice, data ethics, and computational social science methods. Key publications include 'A new direction for science and values' (2014, 152 citations), 'The Virtues of Scientific Practice: MacIntyre, Virtue Ethics, and the Historiography of Science' co-authored with T.A. Stapleford (2016, 73 citations), 'Open science, the replication crisis, and environmental public health' (2023, 67 citations), 'Legitimizing Values in Regulatory Science' co-authored with M. Fernández Pinto (2019, 55 citations), and 'Scientific Controversies as Proxy Politics' (2017, 36 citations). Hicks's work has been cited over 769 times according to Google Scholar. Service contributions include membership on the University of California Academic Senate Merced Division Committee on Academic Planning and Resource Allocation since 2024, chair of the UC Merced School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts Curriculum Committee in Fall 2022, and program committee roles for the Philosophy of Science Association.