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Researcher · Stanford University · United States

Donald E. Knuth

Donald E. Knuth publishes mostly in Computational Theory and Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence and Computer Networks and Communications, on topics such as Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms, Algorithms and Data Compression and semigroups and automata theory.

OpenAlex
World rank
#51,154
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#19,768
of 1,627,098
Works
447
Citations
69k
Citations per work
154.0
h-index
83
i10-index 213Top 0.1% in Computational Theory and Mathematics
Donald E. Knuth

What does Donald E. Knuth research?

Donald E. Knuth's work is mostly in Computer Science (41%), Mathematics (8%).

Everything else: 231 works · 51.7% of their workPhysical Sciences: 216 works · 48.3% of their workComputer Science: 182 works · 40.8% of their workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 86 works · 19.2% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 59 works · 13.1% of their workComputer Networks and Communications: 21 works · 4.7% of their workHardware and Architecture: 17 works · 3.8% of their workMathematics: 34 works · 7.5% of their workAlgebra and Number Theory: 17 works · 3.8% of their workGeometry and Topology: 17 works · 3.7% of their workTHEIR WORKDonald E. Knuth447works
Physical Sciences48%

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. Everything else23151.7%
    1. Computer Science18240.8%
    2. Mathematics347.5%
  1. 1Computational Theory and Mathematics19% of their works
  2. 2Artificial Intelligence13% of their works
  3. 3Computer Networks and Communications5% of their works
  4. 4Algebra and Number Theory4% of their works
  5. 5Hardware and Architecture4% of their works
  6. 6Geometry and Topology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Donald E. Knuth's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Algorithmic Information Theory, Computability, Compression, Suffix Arrays, Automata, Formal Languages, Geometry and Hyperbolic.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Algorithmic Information Theory511 topic
  2. Computability511 topic
  3. Compression471 topic
  4. Suffix Arrays471 topic
  5. Automata321 topic
  6. Formal Languages321 topic
  7. Geometry271 topic
  8. Hyperbolic271 topic
  9. Combinatorics221 topic
  10. Fiber Bragg Grating221 topic
  11. Formal Verification221 topic
  12. Parallel Computing221 topic
  13. Performance Optimization221 topic
  14. Permutations221 topic
  15. Spectral Amplitude Coding221 topic
  16. Static Analysis221 topic

Where does Donald E. Knuth work?

Donald E. Knuth's main affiliation in the publication record is Stanford University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Donald E. Knuth have?

OpenAlex counts 447 works and 68,858 citations for Donald E. Knuth, an h-index of 83, ranking #51,154 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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