Alan Cobham

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 761 citations indexed

About

Alan Cobham is a scholar working on Computational Theory and Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence and Management Information Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Alan Cobham has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 761 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics, 6 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 1 paper in Management Information Systems. Recurrent topics in Alan Cobham's work include semigroups and automata theory (6 papers), Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms (5 papers) and Logic, programming, and type systems (3 papers). Alan Cobham is often cited by papers focused on semigroups and automata theory (6 papers), Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms (5 papers) and Logic, programming, and type systems (3 papers). Alan Cobham collaborates with scholars based in United States. Alan Cobham's co-authors include Joanna North and has published in prestigious journals such as Linear Algebra and its Applications, Journal of Symbolic Logic and Theory of Computing Systems.

In The Last Decade

Alan Cobham

9 papers receiving 668 citations

Hit Papers

Priority Assignment in Waiting Line Problems 1954 2026 1978 2002 1954 50 100 150 200 250
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Priority Assignment in Waiting Line Problems
    1954 294 citations Alan Cobham RePEc: Research Papers in Economics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alan Cobham United States 6 425 223 183 120 116 11 761
M. Viot France 8 519 1.2× 56 0.3× 116 0.6× 92 0.8× 137 1.2× 18 836
П. Д. Финч Australia 15 152 0.4× 109 0.5× 241 1.3× 39 0.3× 437 3.8× 62 945
Jean Mairesse France 14 337 0.8× 74 0.3× 99 0.5× 161 1.3× 116 1.0× 48 579
S. G. Mohanty Canada 13 63 0.1× 105 0.5× 134 0.7× 121 1.0× 54 0.5× 48 493
Bruno Gaujal France 18 322 0.8× 66 0.3× 345 1.9× 39 0.3× 450 3.9× 120 1.0k
R. Syski United States 8 55 0.1× 55 0.2× 172 0.9× 42 0.3× 96 0.8× 27 418
Haya Kaspi Israel 15 57 0.1× 67 0.3× 341 1.9× 184 1.5× 134 1.2× 39 814
S. L. Hantler United States 13 152 0.4× 42 0.2× 343 1.9× 30 0.3× 251 2.2× 21 647
Shayan Oveis Gharan United States 14 232 0.5× 142 0.6× 47 0.3× 45 0.4× 234 2.0× 34 715
A. A. Jagers Netherlands 5 45 0.1× 65 0.3× 91 0.5× 30 0.3× 72 0.6× 10 299

Countries citing papers authored by Alan Cobham

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alan Cobham

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alan Cobham

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Alan Cobham. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Alan Cobham based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Alan Cobham. Alan Cobham is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

11 of 11 papers shown
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Cobham, Alan. (1986). Stochastic automata with large state spaces and low rank. Linear Algebra and its Applications. 75. 57–66. 1 indexed citations
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Cobham, Alan. (1977). Representation of a word function as the sum of two functions. Theory of Computing Systems. 11(1). 373–377. 4 indexed citations
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Cobham, Alan. (1972). Uniform tag sequences. Theory of Computing Systems. 6(1-2). 164–192. 222 indexed citations
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Cobham, Alan. (1969). On the base-dependence of sets of numbers recognizable by finite automata. Theory of Computing Systems. 3(2). 186–192. 122 indexed citations
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Cobham, Alan. (1968). On the hartmanis-stearns problem for a class of tag machines. 51–60. 32 indexed citations
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Cobham, Alan. (1966). Blazing the Trail. Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society. 70(661). 268–269. 1 indexed citations
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Cobham, Alan. (1966). The recognition problem for the set of perfect squares. 78–87. 58 indexed citations
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Cobham, Alan. (1963). Some remarks concerning theories with recursively enumerable complements. Journal of Symbolic Logic. 28(1). 72–74.
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Cobham, Alan, et al.. (1961). An application of linear programming to the minimization of Boolean functions. 3–9. 26 indexed citations
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Cobham, Alan. (1956). Reduction to a symmetric predicate. Journal of Symbolic Logic. 21(1). 56–59. 1 indexed citations
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Cobham, Alan. (1954). Priority Assignment in Waiting Line Problems. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 2(1). 70–76. 294 indexed citations breakdown →

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