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Researcher · Argonne National Laboratory · United States

Ian Foster

Ian Foster publishes mostly in Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems and Management and Information Systems, on topics such as Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems, Scientific Computing and Data Management and Advanced Data Storage Technologies.

ORCID 0000-0003-2129-5269 OpenAlex
World rank
#28,071
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#10,564
of 1,627,098
Works
1,361
Citations
92k
Citations per work
67.6
h-index
127
i10-index 619Top 0.1% in Computer Networks and Communications
Ian Foster

What does Ian Foster research?

Ian Foster's work is mostly in Computer Science (56%), Decision Sciences (12%), Materials Science (3%).

Physical Sciences: 799 works · 58.7% of their workComputer Science: 755 works · 55.5% of their workComputer Networks and Communications: 452 works · 33.2% of their workInformation Systems: 122 works · 9.0% of their workHardware and Architecture: 95 works · 7.0% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 86 works · 6.3% of their workMaterials Science: 44 works · 3.2% of their workMaterials Chemistry: 44 works · 3.2% of their workEverything else: 399 works · 29.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 163 works · 12.0% of their workDecision Sciences: 163 works · 12.0% of their workInformation Systems and Management: 163 works · 12.0% of their workTHEIR WORKIan Foster1,361works
Physical Sciences59%Social Sciences12%

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 Science75555.5%
    2. Materials Science443.2%
  2. Everything else39929.3%
    1. Decision Sciences16312.0%
  1. 1Computer Networks and Communications33% of their works
  2. 2Information Systems and Management12% of their works
  3. 3Information Systems9% of their works
  4. 4Hardware and Architecture7% of their works
  5. 5Artificial Intelligence6% of their works
  6. 6Materials Chemistry3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ian Foster's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Workflow Management, Distributed Systems, High-Performance Computing, Resource Management, Grid Computing, Task Scheduling, Parallel Computing and Reproducibility.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Workflow Management1,0212 topics
  2. Distributed Systems8683 topics
  3. High-Performance Computing8302 topics
  4. Resource Management7792 topics
  5. Grid Computing5971 topic
  6. Task Scheduling5971 topic
  7. Parallel Computing5262 topics
  8. Reproducibility4241 topic
  9. Scientific Workflows4241 topic
  10. Distributed Storage2931 topic
  11. Network Coding2931 topic
  12. GPU Computing2331 topic
  13. Performance Optimization2331 topic
  14. Big Data1821 topic
  15. Cloud Computing1821 topic
  16. Peer-to-Peer891 topic
  17. Scalable891 topic
  18. Machine Learning771 topic
  19. Materials Informatics771 topic
  20. Data Sharing761 topic
  21. Scientific Data Management761 topic

Where does Ian Foster work?

Ian Foster's main affiliation in the publication record is Argonne National Laboratory, United States.

How many publications and citations does Ian Foster have?

OpenAlex counts 1,361 works and 91,970 citations for Ian Foster, an h-index of 127, ranking #28,071 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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