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Alex Pentland

Alex Pentland publishes mostly in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Artificial Intelligence, on topics such as Complex Network Analysis Techniques, Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis and Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence.

World rank
#100
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#52
of 358,040
Works
219
Citations
6k
Citations per work
27.6

What does Alex Pentland research?

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 15.9%Statistical and Nonlinear Physics: 10.6%Artificial Intelligence: 7.6%Transportation: 6.8%other fields: 59.1%16%top field
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition15.9%Statistical and Nonlinear Physics10.6%Artificial Intelligence7.6%Transportation6.8%other fields59.1%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition16% of their works
  2. 2Statistical and Nonlinear Physics11% of their works
  3. 3Artificial Intelligence8% of their works
  4. 4Transportation7% of their works
  5. 5Sociology and Political Science4% of their works
  6. 6Computer Networks and Communications4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Alex Pentland's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Network Dynamics, Social Influence, Community Structure, GPS Data, Human Mobility, Scale-Free Networks, Bounded Confidence and Opinion Dynamics.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Network Dynamics282 topics
  2. Social Influence282 topics
  3. Community Structure161 topic
  4. GPS Data161 topic
  5. Human Mobility161 topic
  6. Scale-Free Networks161 topic
  7. Bounded Confidence121 topic
  8. Opinion Dynamics121 topic
  9. Feature Matching81 topic
  10. Local Descriptors81 topic
  11. Content-Based Image Retrieval71 topic
  12. Shape Matching71 topic
  13. Content-Based Retrieval61 topic
  14. Video Summarization61 topic
  15. Blockchain51 topic
  16. Internet of Things51 topic
  17. Depth Estimation41 topic
  18. Stereo Vision41 topic

Where does Alex Pentland work?

Alex Pentland's main affiliation in the publication record is Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States.

How many publications and citations does Alex Pentland have?

Science Explorer counts 219 works and 6,035 citations for Alex Pentland, ranking #100 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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