Some varieties of robustness

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Incredible Worlds, Credible Results (2009, background): “When our confidence about our inferences 5 See Woodward (2006) for an account of different types of robustness, and Wimsatt (1981) or Weisberg (2006) for an account of its epistemic importance.”
Buyer beware: robustness analyses in economics and biology (2011, background): “Robustness is here understood as ‘‘derivational robustness’’, to use James Woodward’s term, i.e., the independence of the consequences of a model from particular assumptions used to derive these consequences (Woodward 2006).”
Evidential Diversity and the Triangulation of Phenomena (2016, background): “…has recently been the focus of sustained philosophical attention, but different bodies of literature refer to rather different practices under the general category of robustness analysis ðe.g., Wimsatt 1981; Weisberg 2006; Woodward 2006; Stegenga 2009; Soler et al. 2012; Hey 2015Þ.1 According 1.”
How Accurate Is the Standard Second? (2011, background): “These two conditions loosely correspond to what Woodward (2006) calls “measurement robustness” and “derivational robustness.””