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Ward Whitt

Ward Whitt publishes mostly in Management Information Systems, Management Science and Operations Research and Computer Networks and Communications, on topics such as Advanced Queuing Theory Analysis, Probability and Risk Models and Network Traffic and Congestion Control.

World rank
#3,734
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,738
of 358,040
Works
85
Citations
1.3k
Citations per work
15.7

What does Ward Whitt research?

Management Information Systems: 29.8%Management Science and Operations Research: 18.3%Computer Networks and Communications: 12.5%Statistics and Probability: 7.7%other fields: 31.7%30%top field
Management Information Systems29.8%Management Science and Operations Research18.3%Computer Networks and Communications12.5%Statistics and Probability7.7%other fields31.7%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Management Information Systems30% of their works
  2. 2Management Science and Operations Research18% of their works
  3. 3Computer Networks and Communications12% of their works
  4. 4Statistics and Probability8% of their works
  5. 5Electrical and Electronic Engineering5% of their works
  6. 6Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Ward Whitt's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Call Center, Queueing Systems, Insurance, Risk, Congestion Control, TCP, Simulation Optimization and Verification and Validation.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Call Center311 topic
  2. Queueing Systems311 topic
  3. Insurance121 topic
  4. Risk121 topic
  5. Congestion Control91 topic
  6. TCP91 topic
  7. Simulation Optimization71 topic
  8. Verification and Validation71 topic
  9. Eigenvalues51 topic
  10. Random Matrix Theory51 topic
  11. Maintenance Optimization41 topic
  12. Option Pricing41 topic
  13. Reliability Engineering41 topic
  14. Resource Allocation41 topic
  15. Stochastic Calculus41 topic
  16. Wireless Communication41 topic

Where does Ward Whitt work?

Ward Whitt's main affiliation in the publication record is AT&T (United States), United States.

How many publications and citations does Ward Whitt have?

Science Explorer counts 85 works and 1,334 citations for Ward Whitt, ranking #3,734 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite 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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