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Researcher · University of Waterloo · Canada

John Watrous

John Watrous publishes mostly in Artificial Intelligence, Computational Theory and Mathematics and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, on topics such as Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture, Quantum Information and Cryptography and Quantum Mechanics and Applications.

ORCID 0000-0002-4263-9393 OpenAlex
World rank
#58,654
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#1,671
of 183,316
Works
121
Citations
9.2k
Citations per work
75.9
h-index
43
i10-index 74Top 1.7% in Artificial Intelligence
John Watrous

What does John Watrous research?

John Watrous's work is mostly in Computer Science (75%), Physics and Astronomy (13%), Mathematics (4%).

Physical Sciences: 112 works · 92.6% of their workComputer Science: 91 works · 75.0% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 66 works · 54.5% of their workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 25 works · 20.5% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 16 works · 13.3% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 16 works · 13.3% of their workMathematics: 5 works · 4.3% of their workGeometry and Topology: 2 works · 1.7% of their workMathematical Physics: 2 works · 1.4% of their workAlgebra and Number Theory: 1 works · 1.2% of their workEverything else: 9 works · 7.4% of their workTHEIR WORKJohn Watrous121works
Physical Sciences93%

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 Science9175.0%
    2. Physics and Astronomy1613.3%
    3. Mathematics54.3%
  2. Everything else97.4%
  1. 1Artificial Intelligence55% of their works
  2. 2Computational Theory and Mathematics20% of their works
  3. 3Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics13% of their works
  4. 4Geometry and Topology2% of their works
  5. 5Mathematical Physics1% of their works
  6. 6Algebra and Number Theory1% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe John Watrous's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Quantum Information, Entanglement, Quantum Algorithms, Quantum Computation, Cryptography, Quantum, Bell Inequality and Decoherence.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Quantum Information1352 topics
  2. Entanglement1002 topics
  3. Quantum Algorithms961 topic
  4. Quantum Computation961 topic
  5. Cryptography611 topic
  6. Quantum611 topic
  7. Bell Inequality391 topic
  8. Decoherence391 topic
  9. Algorithmic Information Theory261 topic
  10. Computability261 topic
  11. Approximation Algorithms221 topic
  12. Combinatorial Optimization221 topic
  13. Homomorphic Encryption221 topic
  14. Identity-Based Encryption221 topic
  15. QCA121 topic
  16. Quantum-dot Cellular Automata121 topic
  17. Active Learning41 topic
  18. Machine Learning41 topic

Where does John Watrous work?

John Watrous's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Waterloo, Canada.

How many publications and citations does John Watrous have?

OpenAlex counts 121 works and 9,178 citations for John Watrous, an h-index of 43, ranking #58,654 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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