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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 Cryptography and Data Security.

World rank
#92,333
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#3,017
of 38,960
Works
30
Citations
426
Citations per work
14.2

What does John Watrous research?

Artificial Intelligence: 55.6%Computational Theory and Mathematics: 26.7%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 11.1%Numerical Analysis: 4.4%other fields: 2.2%56%top field
Artificial Intelligence55.6%Computational Theory and Mathematics26.7%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics11.1%Numerical Analysis4.4%other fields2.2%

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

  1. 1Artificial Intelligence56% of their works
  2. 2Computational Theory and Mathematics27% of their works
  3. 3Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics11% of their works
  4. 4Numerical Analysis4% of their works
  5. 5Information Systems2% 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, Algorithmic Information Theory and Approximation Algorithms.

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 Information152 topics
  2. Entanglement122 topics
  3. Quantum Algorithms121 topic
  4. Quantum Computation121 topic
  5. Cryptography91 topic
  6. Quantum91 topic
  7. Algorithmic Information Theory41 topic
  8. Approximation Algorithms41 topic
  9. Combinatorial Optimization41 topic
  10. Computability41 topic
  11. Homomorphic Encryption41 topic
  12. Identity-Based Encryption41 topic
  13. Bell Inequality31 topic
  14. Decoherence31 topic
  15. Optimization Software21 topic
  16. Semiconductor Quantum Dots21 topic
  17. Semidefinite Programming21 topic
  18. Spintronics21 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?

Science Explorer counts 30 works and 426 citations for John Watrous, ranking #92,333 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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