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Researcher · Smith College · United States

Joseph O’Rourke

Joseph O’Rourke publishes mostly in Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Mechanical Engineering, on topics such as Computational Geometry and Mesh Generation, Advanced Materials and Mechanics and Mathematics and Applications.

ORCID 0000-0001-5844-506X OpenAlex
World rank
#761,175
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#255,279
of 1,627,098
Works
436
Citations
10k
Citations per work
23.9
h-index
39
i10-index 108Top 3.2% in Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
Joseph O’Rourke

What does Joseph O’Rourke research?

Joseph O’Rourke's work is mostly in Computer Science (39%), Engineering (14%), Mathematics (8%).

Physical Sciences: 268 works · 61.5% of their workComputer Science: 171 works · 39.3% of their workComputer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design: 104 works · 23.9% of their workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 37 works · 8.6% of their workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 30 works · 6.8% of their workEngineering: 63 works · 14.4% of their workMechanical Engineering: 36 works · 8.2% of their workComputational Mechanics: 27 works · 6.2% of their workMathematics: 34 works · 7.8% of their workGeometry and Topology: 34 works · 7.8% of their workEverything else: 168 works · 38.5% of their workTHEIR WORKJoseph O’Rourke436works
Physical Sciences62%

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 Science17139.3%
    2. Engineering6314.4%
    3. Mathematics347.8%
  2. Everything else16838.5%
  1. 1Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design24% of their works
  2. 2Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition9% of their works
  3. 3Mechanical Engineering8% of their works
  4. 4Geometry and Topology8% of their works
  5. 5Computational Theory and Mathematics7% of their works
  6. 6Computational Mechanics6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Joseph O’Rourke's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Approximation Algorithms, Delaunay Triangulations, Mesh Generation, Biomimetic, Polymer Films, Geometry, Hyperbolic and Finite Elements.

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. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Approximation Algorithms2902 topics
  2. Delaunay Triangulations2491 topic
  3. Mesh Generation2491 topic
  4. Biomimetic701 topic
  5. Polymer Films701 topic
  6. Geometry601 topic
  7. Hyperbolic601 topic
  8. Finite Elements471 topic
  9. NURBS471 topic
  10. Connected Components461 topic
  11. Labeling461 topic
  12. Graph Theory411 topic
  13. Parameterized Complexity411 topic
  14. BIM-GIS Integration311 topic
  15. CityGML311 topic
  16. Form-Finding281 topic
  17. Tensegrity281 topic

Where does Joseph O’Rourke work?

Joseph O’Rourke's main affiliation in the publication record is Smith College, United States.

How many publications and citations does Joseph O’Rourke have?

OpenAlex counts 436 works and 10,427 citations for Joseph O’Rourke, an h-index of 39, ranking #761,175 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation 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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