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Researcher · University of Manchester · United Kingdom

Nicholas John Higham

Nicholas John Higham publishes mostly in Computational Theory and Mathematics, Numerical Analysis and History, on topics such as Matrix Theory and Algorithms, Numerical Methods and Algorithms and Advanced Optimization Algorithms Research.

ORCID 0000-0001-5956-4976 OpenAlex
World rank
#18,739
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#1,316
of 367,258
Works
465
Citations
24k
Citations per work
51.3
h-index
76
i10-index 208Top 0.1% in Computational Theory and Mathematics
Nicholas John Higham

What does Nicholas John Higham research?

Nicholas John Higham's work is mostly in Computer Science (31%), Mathematics (16%), Arts and Humanities (9%).

Physical Sciences: 233 works · 50.2% of their workComputer Science: 142 works · 30.6% of their workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 142 works · 30.6% of their workMathematics: 73 works · 15.8% of their workNumerical Analysis: 60 works · 13.0% of their workApplied Mathematics: 13 works · 2.8% of their workEngineering: 18 works · 3.8% of their workComputational Mechanics: 18 works · 3.8% of their workEverything else: 188 works · 40.4% of their workSocial Sciences: 44 works · 9.4% of their workArts and Humanities: 44 works · 9.4% of their workHistory: 25 works · 5.4% of their workClassics: 19 works · 4.0% of their workTHEIR WORKNicholas JohnHigham465works
Physical Sciences50%Social Sciences9%

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 Science14230.6%
    2. Mathematics7315.8%
    3. Engineering183.8%
  2. Everything else18840.4%
    1. Arts and Humanities449.4%
  1. 1Computational Theory and Mathematics31% of their works
  2. 2Numerical Analysis13% of their works
  3. 3History5% of their works
  4. 4Classics4% of their works
  5. 5Computational Mechanics4% of their works
  6. 6Applied Mathematics3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Nicholas John Higham's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Parallel Computing, Matrix Computations, Numerical Linear Algebra, Floating-Point Arithmetic, Interval Analysis, Optimization Software, Semidefinite Programming and Differential Equations.

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. Parallel Computing2502 topics
  2. Matrix Computations2221 topic
  3. Numerical Linear Algebra2221 topic
  4. Floating-Point Arithmetic801 topic
  5. Interval Analysis801 topic
  6. Optimization Software771 topic
  7. Semidefinite Programming771 topic
  8. Differential Equations431 topic
  9. Numerical Integration431 topic
  10. Literature341 topic
  11. Medieval341 topic
  12. Electromagnetic Scattering291 topic
  13. Integral Equation Methods291 topic
  14. GPU Computing281 topic
  15. Gröbner Bases281 topic
  16. Performance Optimization281 topic
  17. Symbolic Computing281 topic

Where does Nicholas John Higham work?

Nicholas John Higham's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Manchester, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Nicholas John Higham have?

OpenAlex counts 465 works and 23,834 citations for Nicholas John Higham, an h-index of 76, ranking #18,739 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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