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Researcher · University of Cambridge · United Kingdom

M. J. D. Powell

M. J. D. Powell publishes mostly in Numerical Analysis, Computational Theory and Mathematics and Computational Mechanics, on topics such as Advanced Optimization Algorithms Research, Matrix Theory and Algorithms and Iterative Methods for Nonlinear Equations.

OpenAlex
World rank
#85,545
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#7,372
of 367,258
Works
170
Citations
32k
Citations per work
190.6
h-index
58
i10-index 106Top 0.3% in Numerical Analysis
M. J. D. Powell

What does M. J. D. Powell research?

M. J. D. Powell's work is mostly in Mathematics (35%), Computer Science (26%), Engineering (14%).

Physical Sciences: 127 works · 74.5% of their workMathematics: 60 works · 35.0% of their workNumerical Analysis: 53 works · 31.3% of their workApplied Mathematics: 6 works · 3.7% of their workComputer Science: 44 works · 25.7% of their workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 37 works · 22.0% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 6 works · 3.7% of their workEngineering: 23 works · 13.8% of their workComputational Mechanics: 19 works · 11.0% of their workMechanics of Materials: 5 works · 2.8% of their workEverything else: 43 works · 25.5% of their workTHEIR WORKM. J. D. Powell170works
Physical Sciences74%

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. Mathematics6035.0%
    2. Computer Science4425.7%
    3. Engineering2313.8%
  2. Everything else4325.5%
  1. 1Numerical Analysis31% of their works
  2. 2Computational Theory and Mathematics22% of their works
  3. 3Computational Mechanics11% of their works
  4. 4Artificial Intelligence4% of their works
  5. 5Applied Mathematics4% of their works
  6. 6Mechanics of Materials3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe M. J. D. Powell's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Iterative Methods, Convex Optimization, Optimization Software, Semidefinite Programming, Matrix Computations, Numerical Linear Algebra, Convergence Analysis and Newton's Method.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Iterative Methods942 topics
  2. Convex Optimization912 topics
  3. Optimization Software801 topic
  4. Semidefinite Programming801 topic
  5. Matrix Computations491 topic
  6. Numerical Linear Algebra491 topic
  7. Convergence Analysis451 topic
  8. Newton's Method451 topic
  9. Fluid-Structure Interaction312 topics
  10. Floating-Point Arithmetic211 topic
  11. Interval Analysis211 topic
  12. Finite Elements171 topic
  13. NURBS171 topic
  14. Iterative Algorithms151 topic
  15. Nonlinear Operators151 topic
  16. Discontinuous Galerkin Methods141 topic
  17. Finite Element Methods141 topic
  18. Compressed Sensing111 topic
  19. Sparse Representation111 topic

Where does M. J. D. Powell work?

M. J. D. Powell's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does M. J. D. Powell have?

OpenAlex counts 170 works and 32,408 citations for M. J. D. Powell, an h-index of 58, ranking #85,545 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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