His main research interests relate to quantum foundations, quantum information, quantum computation, and quantum cryptography. In 1998, his book Interpreting the Quantum World won the Lakatos Award.[5] In 2005 he received the University of Maryland's Kirwan Faculty Research and Scholarship Prize for his work in the area of quantum foundations and quantum information.
Bub has published over 100 scientific articles; the first of these are three articles authored together with David Bohm and published in 1966 and 1968. In 2010, he published an argument that the famous work of John Stewart Bell (and, thus, Grete Hermann) had misconstrued John von Neumann's no hidden variables proof of the impossibility of hidden variables in quantum mechanics.[6] The validity of Bub's argument is, in turn, disputed.[7]
Interpreting the Quantum World, Cambridge University Press, 1997,[4]ISBN978-0-521-65386-2 (revised paperback edition, 1999) – Review by Kent A. Peacock
The Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics (The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science), Springer, 1974, ISBN978-90-277-0465-8
William Demopoulos and Itamar Pitowsky (eds.): Physical Theory and its Interpretation: Essays in Honor of Jeffrey Bub, Springer, 2006, ISBN1-4020-4875-0