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Researcher · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · United States

Ronald L. Rivest

Ronald L. Rivest publishes mostly in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Networks and Communications and Computational Theory and Mathematics, on topics such as Cryptography and Data Security, Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting and Algorithms and Data Compression.

ORCID 0000-0002-7105-3690 OpenAlex
World rank
#32,062
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#12,149
of 1,627,098
Works
440
Citations
80k
Citations per work
182.2
h-index
78
i10-index 204Top 0.2% in Artificial Intelligence
Ronald L. Rivest

What does Ronald L. Rivest research?

Ronald L. Rivest's work is mostly in Computer Science (58%), Social Sciences (4%).

Physical Sciences: 256 works · 58.1% of their workComputer Science: 256 works · 58.1% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 143 works · 32.6% of their workComputer Networks and Communications: 33 works · 7.6% of their workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 29 works · 6.7% of their workInformation Systems: 26 works · 5.8% of their workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 24 works · 5.4% of their workEverything else: 165 works · 37.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 19 works · 4.4% of their workSocial Sciences: 19 works · 4.4% of their workSociology and Political Science: 19 works · 4.4% of their workTHEIR WORKRonald L. Rivest440works
Physical Sciences58%Social Sciences4%

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 Science25658.1%
  2. Everything else16537.5%
    1. Social Sciences194.4%
  1. 1Artificial Intelligence33% of their works
  2. 2Computer Networks and Communications8% of their works
  3. 3Computational Theory and Mathematics7% of their works
  4. 4Information Systems6% of their works
  5. 5Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition5% of their works
  6. 6Sociology and Political Science4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ronald L. Rivest's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Cryptanalysis, Security Analysis, Homomorphic Encryption, Identity-Based Encryption, Classification and Internet Traffic.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Deep Learning912 topics
  2. Machine Learning912 topics
  3. Cryptanalysis762 topics
  4. Security Analysis762 topics
  5. Homomorphic Encryption711 topic
  6. Identity-Based Encryption711 topic
  7. Classification491 topic
  8. Internet Traffic491 topic
  9. Compression441 topic
  10. Suffix Arrays441 topic
  11. Active Learning421 topic
  12. Semi-Supervised Learning421 topic
  13. Chaos401 topic
  14. Image Encryption401 topic
  15. Block Ciphers361 topic
  16. Hash Functions361 topic
  17. Cryptography351 topic
  18. Error-Correcting Codes351 topic
  19. Fiber Bragg Grating211 topic
  20. Spectral Amplitude Coding211 topic

Where does Ronald L. Rivest work?

Ronald L. Rivest's main affiliation in the publication record is Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States.

How many publications and citations does Ronald L. Rivest have?

OpenAlex counts 440 works and 80,158 citations for Ronald L. Rivest, an h-index of 78, ranking #32,062 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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