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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 Algorithms and Data Compression, semigroups and automata theory and Advanced Combinatorial Mathematics.

OpenAlex
World rank
#357
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#178
of 358,040
Works
107
Citations
4k
Citations per work
37.1

What does Donald E. Knuth research?

Computational Theory and Mathematics: 18.9%Artificial Intelligence: 15.6%Computer Networks and Communications: 7.4%Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics: 6.6%other fields: 51.5%19%top field
Computational Theory and Mathematics18.9%Artificial Intelligence15.6%Computer Networks and Communications7.4%Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics6.6%other fields51.5%

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

  1. 1Computational Theory and Mathematics19% of their works
  2. 2Artificial Intelligence16% of their works
  3. 3Computer Networks and Communications7% of their works
  4. 4Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics7% of their works
  5. 5Mathematical Physics5% of their works
  6. 6Statistical and Nonlinear Physics5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Donald E. Knuth's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Automata, Compression, Formal Languages, Model Checking, Suffix Arrays, Combinatorics, Permutations and Algorithmic Information Theory.

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. Automata61 topic
  2. Compression61 topic
  3. Formal Languages61 topic
  4. Model Checking62 topics
  5. Suffix Arrays61 topic
  6. Combinatorics51 topic
  7. Permutations51 topic
  8. Algorithmic Information Theory41 topic
  9. Computability41 topic
  10. Distributed Systems41 topic
  11. Grid Computing41 topic
  12. Answer Set Programming31 topic
  13. Formal Verification31 topic
  14. Math Search31 topic
  15. Mathematical Information Retrieval31 topic
  16. Modal Logic31 topic
  17. Static Analysis31 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?

Science Explorer counts 107 works and 3,967 citations for Donald E. Knuth, ranking #357 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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