Bruce W. Char

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
45 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Bruce W. Char is a scholar working on Computational Theory and Mathematics, Computer Science Applications and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Bruce W. Char has authored 45 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics, 11 papers in Computer Science Applications and 9 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Bruce W. Char's work include Teaching and Learning Programming (11 papers), Experimental Learning in Engineering (6 papers) and Modeling and Simulation Systems (4 papers). Bruce W. Char is often cited by papers focused on Teaching and Learning Programming (11 papers), Experimental Learning in Engineering (6 papers) and Modeling and Simulation Systems (4 papers). Bruce W. Char collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Switzerland. Bruce W. Char's co-authors include K. O. Geddes, Gastón H. Gonnet, Stephen M. Watt, Michael Monagan, Benton Leong, Nira Herrmann, James F. Bartram, R. P. F. Kanters, Anthony W. Addison and Erich Kaltofen and has published in prestigious journals such as The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Mathematics of Computation and Journal of Magnetic Resonance Series A.

In The Last Decade

Bruce W. Char

40 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

Maple V Language Reference Manual 1991 2026 2002 2014 1991 100 200 300 400
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.

  1. Maple V Language Reference Manual
    1991 487 citations Bruce W. Char, K. O. Geddes et al. profile →

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Bruce W. Char United States 13 299 196 119 119 118 45 1.3k
Michael Monagan Canada 16 517 1.7× 297 1.5× 161 1.4× 161 1.4× 155 1.3× 75 1.6k
Benton Leong Canada 8 298 1.0× 237 1.2× 107 0.9× 106 0.9× 122 1.0× 10 1.1k
Paul S. Wang United States 16 351 1.2× 249 1.3× 114 1.0× 66 0.6× 52 0.4× 58 914
K. O. Geddes Canada 15 620 2.1× 309 1.6× 178 1.5× 210 1.8× 182 1.5× 47 1.9k
S. D. Conte United States 13 224 0.7× 285 1.5× 71 0.6× 359 3.0× 190 1.6× 26 2.4k
Steven Huss‐Lederman United States 12 259 0.9× 286 1.5× 47 0.4× 189 1.6× 184 1.6× 21 2.2k
Richard J. Fateman United States 15 376 1.3× 268 1.4× 64 0.5× 80 0.7× 53 0.4× 77 1.1k
Steven G. Krantz United States 25 328 1.1× 74 0.4× 170 1.4× 109 0.9× 96 0.8× 148 2.8k
Herman H. Goldstine United States 13 244 0.8× 86 0.4× 72 0.6× 61 0.5× 46 0.4× 29 942
Sami Khuri United Arab Emirates 28 203 0.7× 275 1.4× 600 5.0× 96 0.8× 124 1.1× 135 2.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Bruce W. Char

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Fields of papers citing papers by Bruce W. Char

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bruce W. Char

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Zhu, Jichen, et al.. (2020). Modeling Player Knowledge in a Parallel Programming Educational Game. IEEE Transactions on Games. 14(1). 64–75. 6 indexed citations
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Char, Bruce W. & Thomas Hewett. (2020). Work in progress: A First-Year Common Course on Computational Problem Solving and Programming. 24.1383.1–24.1383.17. 1 indexed citations
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Ontañón, Santiago, Jichen Zhu, Brian Smith, et al.. (2017). Designing Visual Metaphors for an Educational Game for Parallel Programming. 2818–2824. 8 indexed citations
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Char, Bruce W.. (2016). Automatic feedback systems for code: what can they tell the busy instructor?. Journal of computing sciences in colleges. 31(4). 87–93. 1 indexed citations
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Char, Bruce W., et al.. (2016). Using Automatic MATLAB Program Testing for a First-Year Engineering Computation Course. Papers on Engineering Education Repository (American Society for Engineering Education). 3 indexed citations
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Char, Bruce W. & Stephen M. Watt. (2007). Representing and Characterizing Handwritten Mathematical Symbols through Succinct Functional Approximation. Proceedings of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition. 1198–1202. 22 indexed citations
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Herrmann, Nira, et al.. (2004). Assessment of a course redesign. ACM SIGCSE Bulletin. 36(1). 66–70. 14 indexed citations
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Herrmann, Nira, et al.. (2003). Academic dishonesty in a high-tech environment. ACM SIGCSE Bulletin. 35(1). 357–358. 3 indexed citations
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Lakshman, Y. N., Bruce W. Char, & Jeremy Johnson. (1998). Software components using symbolic computation for problem solving environments. 46–53. 12 indexed citations
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Char, Bruce W., K. O. Geddes, Gastón H. Gonnet, et al.. (1995). First Leaves: A Tutorial Introduction to Maple V. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 98(1). 21–21. 97 indexed citations
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Bartels, Richard H., et al.. (1992). An approach for floating-point error analysis using computer algebra. 284–293. 4 indexed citations
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Char, Bruce W., K. O. Geddes, Gastón H. Gonnet, et al.. (1991). Maple V Library Reference Manual. 295 indexed citations
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Char, Bruce W., K. O. Geddes, & Gastón H. Gonnet. (1989). GCDHEU: Heuristic polynomial GCD algorithm based on integer GCD computation. Journal of Symbolic Computation. 7(1). 31–48. 16 indexed citations
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Char, Bruce W.. (1986). Proceedings of the fifth ACM symposium on Symbolic and algebraic computation. 9(3). 198–211. 3 indexed citations
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Char, Bruce W., et al.. (1986). A tutorial introduction to Maple. Journal of Symbolic Computation. 2(2). 179–200. 47 indexed citations
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Char, Bruce W., K. O. Geddes, & Gastón H. Gonnet. (1983). The maple symbolic computation system. ACM SIGSAM Bulletin. 17(3-4). 31–42. 13 indexed citations
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Gonnet, Gastón H., Bruce W. Char, & K. O. Geddes. (1983). Solution of a general system of equations. ACM SIGSAM Bulletin. 17(3-4). 48–49. 1 indexed citations

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