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Researcher · Microsoft Research (India) · India

Andrew D. Birrell

Andrew D. Birrell publishes mostly in Computer Networks and Communications, Hardware and Architecture and Artificial Intelligence, on topics such as Distributed systems and fault tolerance, Advanced Data Storage Technologies and Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques.

OpenAlex
World rank
#262,138
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in India
#2,830
of 280,097
Works
77
Citations
8.3k
Citations per work
107.8
h-index
28
i10-index 42Top 6.1% in Computer Networks and Communications
Andrew D. Birrell

What does Andrew D. Birrell research?

Andrew D. Birrell's work is mostly in Computer Science (77%), Social Sciences (4%), Engineering (4%).

Physical Sciences: 62 works · 80.2% of their workComputer Science: 59 works · 76.6% of their workComputer Networks and Communications: 33 works · 43.1% of their workHardware and Architecture: 10 works · 13.2% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 8 works · 10.7% of their workInformation Systems: 7 works · 9.6% of their workEngineering: 3 works · 3.6% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 3 works · 3.6% of their workEverything else: 12 works · 15.7% of their workSocial Sciences: 3 works · 4.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 3 works · 4.1% of their workSociology and Political Science: 3 works · 4.1% of their workTHEIR WORKAndrew D. Birrell77works
Physical Sciences80%Social Sciences4%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Computer Science5976.6%
    2. Engineering33.6%
  2. Everything else1215.7%
    1. Social Sciences34.1%
  1. 1Computer Networks and Communications43% of their works
  2. 2Hardware and Architecture13% of their works
  3. 3Artificial Intelligence11% of their works
  4. 4Information Systems10% of their works
  5. 5Sociology and Political Science4% of their works
  6. 6Electrical and Electronic Engineering4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Andrew D. Birrell's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Distributed Systems, Parallel Computing, Consistency, Fault Tolerance, High-Performance Computing, Distributed Storage, Network Coding and Content Delivery.

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. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Distributed Systems443 topics
  2. Parallel Computing352 topics
  3. Consistency261 topic
  4. Fault Tolerance261 topic
  5. High-Performance Computing252 topics
  6. Distributed Storage211 topic
  7. Network Coding211 topic
  8. Content Delivery152 topics
  9. GPU Computing141 topic
  10. Performance Optimization141 topic
  11. Grid Computing111 topic
  12. Resource Management111 topic
  13. Caching81 topic
  14. Information-Centric Networking81 topic
  15. QoS-Aware Middleware81 topic
  16. Semantic Web Services81 topic
  17. Peer-to-Peer71 topic
  18. Reputation71 topic
  19. Scalable71 topic
  20. Trust71 topic

Where does Andrew D. Birrell work?

Andrew D. Birrell's main affiliation in the publication record is Microsoft Research (India), India.

How many publications and citations does Andrew D. Birrell have?

OpenAlex counts 77 works and 8,297 citations for Andrew D. Birrell, an h-index of 28, ranking #262,138 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation 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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