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Researcher · University College Cork · Ireland

John McCarthy

John McCarthy publishes mostly in Artificial Intelligence, Human-Computer Interaction and Information Systems, on topics such as Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge, AI-based Problem Solving and Planning and Innovative Human-Technology Interaction.

ORCID 0000-0003-2878-1921 OpenAlex
World rank
#8,353
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Ireland
#11
of 4,477
Works
65
Citations
956
Citations per work
14.7

What does John McCarthy research?

Artificial Intelligence: 23.5%Human-Computer Interaction: 15.3%Information Systems: 5.9%Sociology and Political Science: 4.7%other fields: 50.6%24%top field
Artificial Intelligence23.5%Human-Computer Interaction15.3%Information Systems5.9%Sociology and Political Science4.7%other fields50.6%

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

  1. 1Artificial Intelligence24% of their works
  2. 2Human-Computer Interaction15% of their works
  3. 3Information Systems6% of their works
  4. 4Sociology and Political Science5% of their works
  5. 5Hardware and Architecture4% of their works
  6. 6Computational Theory and Mathematics4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe John McCarthy's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Description Logics, Knowledge Representation, Answer Set Programming, Design Research, Heuristic Search, Modal Logic, Planning Systems and User Experience.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Description Logics112 topics
  2. Knowledge Representation112 topics
  3. Answer Set Programming61 topic
  4. Design Research61 topic
  5. Heuristic Search61 topic
  6. Modal Logic61 topic
  7. Planning Systems61 topic
  8. User Experience61 topic
  9. User-Centered Design62 topics
  10. Ontology51 topic
  11. Semantic Web51 topic
  12. Human-Computer Interaction41 topic
  13. Usability41 topic
  14. Constraint Optimization21 topic
  15. Data-Driven21 topic
  16. Distributed Algorithms21 topic
  17. Granular Computing21 topic
  18. Personas21 topic
  19. Rough Sets21 topic

Where does John McCarthy work?

John McCarthy's main affiliation in the publication record is University College Cork, Ireland.

How many publications and citations does John McCarthy have?

Science Explorer counts 65 works and 956 citations for John McCarthy, ranking #8,353 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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