Alex Pothen

5.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
87 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Alex Pothen is a scholar working on Computational Theory and Mathematics, Computer Networks and Communications and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. According to data from OpenAlex, Alex Pothen has authored 87 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics, 29 papers in Computer Networks and Communications and 19 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Recurrent topics in Alex Pothen's work include Matrix Theory and Algorithms (21 papers), Advanced Graph Theory Research (19 papers) and Graph Theory and Algorithms (16 papers). Alex Pothen is often cited by papers focused on Matrix Theory and Algorithms (21 papers), Advanced Graph Theory Research (19 papers) and Graph Theory and Algorithms (16 papers). Alex Pothen collaborates with scholars based in United States, Norway and Canada. Alex Pothen's co-authors include Horst D. Simon, K. N. Liou, Assefaw H. Gebremedhin, Thomas F. Coleman, Fredrik Manne, David Hysom, Dayanand N. Naik, Mahantesh Halappanavar, Stephen T. Barnard and Michael Wagner and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems and ACM Transactions on Graphics.

In The Last Decade

Alex Pothen

83 papers receiving 2.7k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Partitioning Sparse Matrices with Eigenvectors of Graphs

1990 1.0k citations Alex Pothen, Horst D. Simon et al. SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alex Pothen United States	25	1.0k	710	546	472	445	87	3.0k
Shang‐Hua Teng United States	37	1.4k 1.4×	1.3k 1.8×	525 1.0×	532 1.1×	1.2k 2.6×	154	4.9k
Bruce Hendrickson United States	31	801 0.8×	1.9k 2.6×	1.0k 1.8×	413 0.9×	668 1.5×	84	4.5k
Kyle A. Gallivan United States	32	713 0.7×	793 1.1×	571 1.0×	882 1.9×	476 1.1×	147	3.5k
Antoine Girard France	29	1.9k 1.8×	1.3k 1.8×	354 0.6×	304 0.6×	565 1.3×	117	4.6k
Victor Y. Pan United States	36	3.3k 3.2×	473 0.7×	569 1.0×	157 0.3×	1.0k 2.3×	261	5.3k
Kurt Mehlhorn Germany	41	1.9k 1.8×	1.5k 2.1×	628 1.2×	215 0.5×	1.7k 3.9×	273	5.6k
Ahmed Sameh United States	34	1.4k 1.3×	977 1.4×	490 0.9×	247 0.5×	377 0.8×	174	3.3k
Donald J. Rose United States	34	1.9k 1.8×	530 0.7×	1.3k 2.4×	177 0.4×	283 0.6×	74	4.6k
R. Brockett United States	37	936 0.9×	1.6k 2.3×	326 0.6×	821 1.7×	654 1.5×	118	8.3k
Seung-Jean Kim United States	18	279 0.3×	1.1k 1.6×	1.1k 2.0×	175 0.4×	740 1.7×	35	4.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Alex Pothen

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alex Pothen

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alex Pothen

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Alex Pothen. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Alex Pothen 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 Alex Pothen. Alex Pothen is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Pothen, Alex, et al.. (2023). Dynamic Asset Allocation with Expected Shortfall via Quantum Annealing. Entropy. 25(3). 541–541. 4 indexed citations

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Biscola, Natália P., Deborah Jaffey, Leif A. Havton, et al.. (2023). A novel statistical methodology for quantifying the spatial arrangements of axons in peripheral nerves. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 17. 1072779–1072779. 1 indexed citations

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Azad, Ariful, Bartek Rajwa, & Alex Pothen. (2016). Immunophenotype Discovery, Hierarchical Organization, and Template-Based Classification of Flow Cytometry Samples. Frontiers in Oncology. 6. 188–188. 10 indexed citations

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Azad, Ariful, Bartek Rajwa, & Alex Pothen. (2016). flowVS: channel-specific variance stabilization in flow cytometry. BMC Bioinformatics. 17(1). 291–291. 20 indexed citations

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Khan, Arif, David F. Gleich, Alex Pothen, & Mahantesh Halappanavar. (2012). A multithreaded algorithm for network alignment via approximate matching. IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics. 1–11. 14 indexed citations

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Azad, Ariful, Saumyadipta Pyne, & Alex Pothen. (2012). Matching phosphorylation response patterns of antigen-receptor-stimulated T cells via flow cytometry. BMC Bioinformatics. 13(S2). S10–S10. 15 indexed citations

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Azad, Ariful & Alex Pothen. (2012). Multithreaded Algorithms for Matching in Graphs with Application to Data Analysis in Flow Cytometry. 2494–2497. 4 indexed citations

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Ward, Michael D., Xin Guo, Adam Sawyer, et al.. (2008). Physical and in silico approaches identify DNA-PK in a Tax DNA-damage response interactome. Retrovirology. 5(1). 92–92. 16 indexed citations

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Wagner, Michael, Dayanand N. Naik, Alex Pothen, et al.. (2004). Computational protein biomarker prediction: a case study for prostate cancer. BMC Bioinformatics. 5(1). 26–26. 72 indexed citations

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Wagner, Michael, Dayanand N. Naik, & Alex Pothen. (2003). Protocols for disease classification from mass spectrometry data. PROTEOMICS. 3(9). 1692–1698. 90 indexed citations

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Gebremedhin, Assefaw H., Fredrik Manne, & Alex Pothen. (2002). Graph Coloring in Optimization Revisited. 1 indexed citations

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Hysom, David & Alex Pothen. (2000). Parallel ILU Ordering and Convergence Relationships: Numerical Experiments. Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). 90(1). 74–84. 1 indexed citations

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Pothen, Alex, et al.. (1997). Preface and conference report. Linear Algebra and its Applications. 254(1-3). 1–5. 1 indexed citations

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Pothen, Alex, et al.. (1994). Parallel Sparse Cholesky Factorization with Spectral Nested Dissection Ordering. NASA Technical Reports Server (NASA). 4 indexed citations

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Pothen, Alex. (1993). Predicting the structure of sparse orthogonal factors. Linear Algebra and its Applications. 194. 183–203. 9 indexed citations

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Pothen, Alex, et al.. (1992). Towards a fast implementation of spectral nested dissection. Conference on High Performance Computing (Supercomputing). 42–51. 32 indexed citations

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Pothen, Alex, et al.. (1991). Distributed Multifrontal Factorization Using Clique Trees. 34–40. 10 indexed citations

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Pothen, Alex, Horst D. Simon, & K. N. Liou. (1990). Partitioning Sparse Matrices with Eigenvectors of Graphs. SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications. 11(3). 430–452. 1040 indexed citations breakdown →

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Pothen, Alex & Padma Raghavan. (1989). Distributed Orthogonal Factorization: Givens and Householder Algorithms. SIAM Journal on Scientific and Statistical Computing. 10(6). 1113–1134. 38 indexed citations

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Coleman, Thomas F. & Alex Pothen. (1984). The Sparse Null Space Basis Problem. eCommons (Cornell University). 3 indexed citations

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