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Researcher · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · United States

Claude E. Shannon

Claude E. Shannon publishes mostly in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Computational Theory and Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, on topics such as Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms, Cellular Automata and Applications and Wireless Communication Security Techniques.

OpenAlex
World rank
#179,604
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#67,070
of 1,627,098
Works
100
Citations
138k
Citations per work
1381.9
h-index
39
i10-index 48Top 3.5% in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Claude E. Shannon

What does Claude E. Shannon research?

Claude E. Shannon's work is mostly in Computer Science (32%), Engineering (19%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (5%).

Physical Sciences: 51 works · 50.7% of their workComputer Science: 32 works · 31.9% of their workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 12 works · 12.2% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 12 works · 11.7% of their workComputer Networks and Communications: 8 works · 8.0% of their workEngineering: 19 works · 18.8% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 16 works · 16.0% of their workControl and Systems Engineering: 3 works · 2.8% of their workEverything else: 45 works · 44.6% of their workLife Sciences: 5 works · 4.7% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 5 works · 4.7% of their workMolecular Biology: 5 works · 4.7% of their workTHEIR WORKClaude E. Shannon100works
Life Sciences5%Physical Sciences51%

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 Science3231.9%
    2. Engineering1918.8%
  2. Everything else4544.6%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology54.7%
  1. 1Electrical and Electronic Engineering16% of their works
  2. 2Computational Theory and Mathematics12% of their works
  3. 3Artificial Intelligence12% of their works
  4. 4Computer Networks and Communications8% of their works
  5. 5Molecular Biology5% of their works
  6. 6Control and Systems Engineering3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Claude E. Shannon's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Algorithmic Information Theory, Computability, Cellular Automata, Computation, Neural Networks, Physical Layer Security, Wireless Communications and Cooperative Diversity.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Algorithmic Information Theory111 topic
  2. Computability111 topic
  3. Cellular Automata91 topic
  4. Computation91 topic
  5. Neural Networks92 topics
  6. Physical Layer Security81 topic
  7. Wireless Communications81 topic
  8. Cooperative Diversity61 topic
  9. DNA Computing61 topic
  10. Molecular Computation61 topic
  11. Wireless Networks61 topic
  12. Backpropagation Learning51 topic
  13. Computing51 topic
  14. History51 topic
  15. Self-Organizing Maps51 topic
  16. Cognition41 topic
  17. Physics of Mind41 topic

Where does Claude E. Shannon work?

Claude E. Shannon's main affiliation in the publication record is Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States.

How many publications and citations does Claude E. Shannon have?

OpenAlex counts 100 works and 138,185 citations for Claude E. Shannon, an h-index of 39, ranking #179,604 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality 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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