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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.

World rank
#952
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#406
of 358,040
Works
347
Citations
4.9k
Citations per work
14.0

What does Ian Foster research?

Computer Networks and Communications: 36.3%Information Systems and Management: 13.4%Information Systems: 11.8%Artificial Intelligence: 5.1%other fields: 33.4%36%top field
Computer Networks and Communications36.3%Information Systems and Management13.4%Information Systems11.8%Artificial Intelligence5.1%other fields33.4%

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

  1. 1Computer Networks and Communications36% of their works
  2. 2Information Systems and Management13% of their works
  3. 3Information Systems12% of their works
  4. 4Artificial Intelligence5% of their works
  5. 5Hardware and Architecture5% 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, Resource Management, High-Performance Computing, 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 Management1312 topics
  2. Distributed Systems1153 topics
  3. Resource Management1012 topics
  4. High-Performance Computing932 topics
  5. Grid Computing731 topic
  6. Task Scheduling731 topic
  7. Parallel Computing692 topics
  8. Reproducibility581 topic
  9. Scientific Workflows581 topic
  10. Distributed Storage491 topic
  11. Network Coding491 topic
  12. Big Data281 topic
  13. Cloud Computing281 topic
  14. GPU Computing201 topic
  15. Performance Optimization201 topic
  16. Data Sharing151 topic
  17. Scientific Data Management151 topic
  18. Peer-to-Peer141 topic
  19. Scalable141 topic
  20. Machine Learning81 topic
  21. Materials Informatics81 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?

Science Explorer counts 347 works and 4,865 citations for Ian Foster, ranking #952 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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