--- title: "Scott Johnston — author profile and papers" description: "Scott Johnston, Stanford University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2022–2023), h-index 10 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/scott-johnston/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/scott-johnston/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Scott Johnston # Scott Johnston Scott Johnston has 2 papers in our library, in 2022–2023, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Interpretability](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/interpretability/); often with [Zac Hatfield-Dodds](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zac-hatfield-dodds/), [Amanda Askell](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amanda-askell/), [Ben Mann](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ben-mann/). 2 papers in our library · 2022–2023 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5029136014) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8055-311X) · [**h-index 10**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5029136014) · [25 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5029136014) · [467 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5029136014&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/scott-johnston/#papers) · [🔗 400 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/scott-johnston/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Star rank #3182](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/32/#star-3182) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Scott+Johnston) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Scott+Johnston) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Scott+Johnston) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Scott+Johnston) ## Affiliations [🎓**Stanford University** Stanford · United States 2015–2022 · 9 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stanford-university/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution on single bylines are not listed. ## Topics [Language models & pretraining (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Interpretability (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/interpretability/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sharma-2023-towards-understanding-sycophancy-language-models/) · [**2022** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hernandez-2022-scaling-laws-interpretability-learning-repeated/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Towards Understanding Sycophancy in Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sharma-2023-towards-understanding-sycophancy-language-models/)** *(2023 · 354 citations)* The paper looks at sycophancy: AI assistants telling users what they seem to want to hear instead of what is accurate. 2. **[Scaling Laws and Interpretability of Learning from Repeated Data](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hernandez-2022-scaling-laws-interpretability-learning-repeated/)** *(2022 · 62 citations)* Large language models often see the same data several times. Sometimes this is done deliberately, to upweight high-quality sources, and sometimes it results from incomplete deduplication. The authors from Anthropic investigate why even a small fraction of repeated data harms models so severely. They train a family of… ## Co-authors here 10 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Zac Hatfield-Dodds](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zac-hatfield-dodds/) ×2 - [Amanda Askell](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amanda-askell/) - [Ben Mann](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ben-mann/) - [Danny Hernandez](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/danny-hernandez/) - [Dawn Drain](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dawn-drain/) - [Esin Durmus](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/esin-durmus/) - [Samuel R. Bowman](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/samuel-r-bowman/) - [Tom Brown](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tom-brown/) - [Tom Henighan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tom-henighan/) - [Tomasz Korbak](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tomasz-korbak/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 400 times (of the 140,884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [39 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/scott-johnston/cited-by/).