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John McCarthy

John McCarthy publishes mostly in Computational Theory and Mathematics, Hardware and Architecture and Artificial Intelligence, on topics such as Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques, Logic, programming, and type systems and Evolutionary Algorithms and Applications.

World rank
#25,986
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#12,170
of 358,040
Works
40
Citations
514
Citations per work
12.9

What does John McCarthy research?

Computational Theory and Mathematics: 10.2%Hardware and Architecture: 10.2%Artificial Intelligence: 10.2%Computer Networks and Communications: 8.2%other fields: 61.2%10%top field
Computational Theory and Mathematics10.2%Hardware and Architecture10.2%Artificial Intelligence10.2%Computer Networks and Communications8.2%other fields61.2%

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 Mathematics10% of their works
  2. 2Hardware and Architecture10% of their works
  3. 3Artificial Intelligence10% of their works
  4. 4Computer Networks and Communications8% of their works
  5. 5Political Science and International Relations6% of their works
  6. 6Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe John McCarthy's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: High-Performance Computing, Parallel Computing, Performance Optimization, Aldosterone, Algorithmic Information Theory, Cellular Automata, Computability and Computation.

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. High-Performance Computing52 topics
  2. Parallel Computing31 topic
  3. Performance Optimization31 topic
  4. Aldosterone21 topic
  5. Algorithmic Information Theory21 topic
  6. Cellular Automata21 topic
  7. Computability21 topic
  8. Computation21 topic
  9. Distributed Systems21 topic
  10. Formal Verification21 topic
  11. Genetic Programming21 topic
  12. Grid Computing21 topic
  13. Machine Learning21 topic
  14. Primary Aldosteronism21 topic
  15. Static Analysis21 topic
  16. Fruit Fly11 topic
  17. Invasive Species11 topic

Where does John McCarthy work?

John McCarthy's main affiliation in the publication record is Southern Methodist University, United States.

How many publications and citations does John McCarthy have?

Science Explorer counts 40 works and 514 citations for John McCarthy, ranking #25,986 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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