Colin McMillen

19 total papers · 1.4k total citations
10 papers, 838 citations indexed

About

Colin McMillen is a scholar working on Mechanical Engineering, Computer Networks and Communications and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Colin McMillen has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 838 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Mechanical Engineering, 4 papers in Computer Networks and Communications and 4 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Colin McMillen's work include Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence (5 papers), Optimization and Search Problems (3 papers) and Robotic Path Planning Algorithms (2 papers). Colin McMillen is often cited by papers focused on Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence (5 papers), Optimization and Search Problems (3 papers) and Robotic Path Planning Algorithms (2 papers). Colin McMillen collaborates with scholars based in United States and France. Colin McMillen's co-authors include Benjamin Maurer, David Abraham, Manuel Blum, Luis von Ahn, Kristen Stubbs, Paul E. Rybski, Maria Gini, S.A. Stoeter, Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos and Dean F. Hougen and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Robotics and Autonomous Systems and International Journal of Humanoid Robotics.

In The Last Decade

Colin McMillen

10 papers receiving 771 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 benchmark for papers published in the same subfield and year, or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. reCAPTCHA: Human-Based Character Recognition via Web Security Measures
    2008 713 citations Luis von Ahn, Benjamin Maurer et al. Science profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Colin McMillen 281 274 221 220 119 10 838
Alexander J. Quinn 523 1.9× 157 0.6× 233 1.1× 318 1.4× 72 0.6× 23 1.0k
Bill Kules 96 0.3× 409 1.5× 215 1.0× 265 1.2× 66 0.6× 30 927
Quratulain Arshad 189 0.7× 145 0.5× 129 0.6× 146 0.7× 46 0.4× 17 837
Daniel C. Halbert 146 0.5× 290 1.1× 152 0.7× 372 1.7× 28 0.2× 7 866
Dafna Shahaf 96 0.3× 231 0.8× 211 1.0× 554 2.5× 78 0.7× 46 1.0k
Fernando A. Mikic-Fonte 225 0.8× 398 1.5× 142 0.6× 242 1.1× 31 0.3× 65 915
Benjamin Maurer 280 1.0× 271 1.0× 169 0.8× 203 0.9× 119 1.0× 11 792
Pip Laurenson 55 0.2× 225 0.8× 84 0.4× 297 1.4× 38 0.3× 11 905
B. Shneiderman 46 0.2× 190 0.7× 378 1.7× 220 1.0× 185 1.6× 14 793
Panagiotis Mitzias 55 0.2× 244 0.9× 83 0.4× 317 1.4× 39 0.3× 15 898

Countries citing papers authored by Colin McMillen

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Fields of papers citing papers by Colin McMillen

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Colin McMillen. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Colin McMillen. The network helps show where Colin McMillen may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Colin McMillen

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

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