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Researcher · Perimeter Institute · Canada

Robert W. Spekkens

Robert W. Spekkens publishes mostly in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Artificial Intelligence and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, on topics such as Quantum Mechanics and Applications, Quantum Information and Cryptography and Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture.

ORCID 0000-0001-5235-4255 OpenAlex
World rank
#32,807
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#820
of 183,316
Works
155
Citations
11k
Citations per work
70.7
h-index
47
i10-index 82Top 2.8% in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Robert W. Spekkens

What does Robert W. Spekkens research?

Robert W. Spekkens's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (46%), Computer Science (34%), Arts and Humanities (6%).

Physical Sciences: 123 works · 79.3% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 71 works · 45.7% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 54 works · 34.8% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 15 works · 9.5% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 2 works · 1.4% of their workComputer Science: 52 works · 33.6% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 49 works · 31.5% of their workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 3 works · 2.1% of their workEverything else: 22 works · 14.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 10 works · 6.2% of their workArts and Humanities: 10 works · 6.2% of their workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 10 works · 6.2% of their workTHEIR WORKRobert W.Spekkens155works
Physical Sciences79%Social Sciences6%

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. Physics and Astronomy7145.7%
    2. Computer Science5233.6%
  2. Everything else2214.5%
    1. Arts and Humanities106.2%
  1. 1Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics35% of their works
  2. 2Artificial Intelligence32% of their works
  3. 3Statistical and Nonlinear Physics10% of their works
  4. 4History and Philosophy of Science6% of their works
  5. 5Computational Theory and Mathematics2% of their works
  6. 6Astronomy and Astrophysics1% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Robert W. Spekkens's research?

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

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. Entanglement2032 topics
  2. Quantum Information1552 topics
  3. Bell Inequality1171 topic
  4. Decoherence1171 topic
  5. Cryptography861 topic
  6. Quantum861 topic
  7. Quantum Algorithms381 topic
  8. Quantum Computation381 topic
  9. Evolutionary Synthesis261 topic
  10. Mechanistic Explanation261 topic
  11. Fluctuation Theorems211 topic
  12. Stochastic Thermodynamics211 topic
  13. Long-Range Interactions131 topic
  14. Nonextensive Statistical Mechanics131 topic
  15. Bayesian Networks61 topic
  16. Causal Inference61 topic
  17. Partially Ordered Sets51 topic
  18. Periodic Table51 topic

Where does Robert W. Spekkens work?

Robert W. Spekkens's main affiliation in the publication record is Perimeter Institute, Canada.

How many publications and citations does Robert W. Spekkens have?

OpenAlex counts 155 works and 10,961 citations for Robert W. Spekkens, an h-index of 47, ranking #32,807 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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