Cyrus Derman

3.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
70 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Cyrus Derman is a scholar working on Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty and Statistics and Probability. According to data from OpenAlex, Cyrus Derman has authored 70 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, 12 papers in Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty and 12 papers in Statistics and Probability. Recurrent topics in Cyrus Derman's work include Reliability and Maintenance Optimization (19 papers), Software Reliability and Analysis Research (10 papers) and Advanced Statistical Process Monitoring (8 papers). Cyrus Derman is often cited by papers focused on Reliability and Maintenance Optimization (19 papers), Software Reliability and Analysis Research (10 papers) and Advanced Statistical Process Monitoring (8 papers). Cyrus Derman collaborates with scholars based in United States, Israel and Greece. Cyrus Derman's co-authors include Sheldon M. Ross, Gerald J. Lieberman, G. J. Lieberman, Morton Klein, Arthur F. Veinott, Ralph E. Strauch, E. Brodheim, Gregory P. Prastacos, Michael N. Katehakis and Ingram Olkin and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Statistical Association and Technometrics.

In The Last Decade

Cyrus Derman

69 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

align trajectories

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.

Finite State Markovian Decision Processes

1970 549 citations Cyrus Derman profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Cyrus Derman United States	26	592	559	488	460	406	70	2.6k
Laurence A. Baxter United States	17	339 0.6×	401 0.7×	418 0.9×	401 0.9×	789 1.9×	61	3.2k
Henk Tijms Netherlands	25	1.7k 2.8×	834 1.5×	345 0.7×	328 0.7×	789 1.9×	104	3.1k
S. S. Lavenberg United States	19	1.2k 2.0×	655 1.2×	197 0.4×	169 0.4×	989 2.4×	37	2.2k
Ushio Sumita United States	22	434 0.7×	327 0.6×	476 1.0×	568 1.2×	142 0.3×	118	1.6k
Richard M. Soland United States	18	196 0.3×	338 0.6×	189 0.4×	240 0.5×	230 0.6×	46	2.0k
Donald L. Iglehart United States	30	2.0k 3.3×	2.1k 3.7×	164 0.3×	802 1.7×	529 1.3×	87	3.8k
Steven I. Marcus United States	39	427 0.7×	800 1.4×	186 0.4×	304 0.7×	1.0k 2.5×	220	4.7k
Upendra Dave India	17	1.7k 2.9×	1.2k 2.1×	169 0.3×	688 1.5×	595 1.5×	53	3.7k
Wolfgang Stadje Germany	21	680 1.1×	514 0.9×	237 0.5×	380 0.8×	240 0.6×	179	1.7k
Xi‐Ren Cao Hong Kong	29	1.1k 1.8×	1.2k 2.2×	192 0.4×	233 0.5×	1.0k 2.5×	159	3.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Cyrus Derman

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Cyrus Derman's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Cyrus Derman with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Cyrus Derman more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Cyrus Derman

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Cyrus Derman. 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 Cyrus Derman. The network helps show where Cyrus Derman may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Cyrus Derman

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

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

1.

Castillo, Enrique Del, Cyrus Derman, & Sheldon M. Ross. (1997). Statistical Aspects of Quality Control. The American Statistician. 51(4). 374–374. 10 indexed citations

2.

Derman, Cyrus & Sheldon M. Ross. (1995). Reliability for a System with Dependent Components. Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences. 9(1). 59–63. 1 indexed citations

3.

Katehakis, Michael N. & Cyrus Derman. (1987). Optimal repair allocation in a series system expected discounted operation time criterion. Stochastic Analysis and Applications. 5(4). 387–394. 2 indexed citations

4.

Brodheim, E., Cyrus Derman, & Gregory P. Prastacos. (1975). On the Evaluation of a Class of Inventory Policies for Perishable Products Such as Blood. Management Science. 21(11). 1320–1325. 82 indexed citations

5.

Derman, Cyrus, Gerald J. Lieberman, & Sheldon M. Ross. (1972). A Sequential Stochastic Assignment Problem. Management Science. 18(7). 349–355. 128 indexed citations

6.

Derman, Cyrus. (1970). Finite State Markovian Decision Processes. 549 indexed citations breakdown →

7.

Derman, Cyrus & Edward Ignall. (1969). On getting close to but not beyond a boundary. Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications. 28(1). 128–143. 3 indexed citations

8.

Derman, Cyrus. (1966). Denumerable State Markovian Decision Processes-Average Cost Criterion. The Annals of Mathematical Statistics. 37(6). 1545–1553. 87 indexed citations

9.

Derman, Cyrus. (1965). Markovian sequential control processes—Denumerable state space. Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications. 10(2). 295–302. 17 indexed citations

10.

Derman, Cyrus & Morton Klein. (1965). Some Remarks on Finite Horizon Markovian Decision Models. Operations Research. 13(2). 272–278. 42 indexed citations

11.

Derman, Cyrus. (1964). On Sequential Control Processes. The Annals of Mathematical Statistics. 35(1). 341–349. 20 indexed citations

12.

Derman, Cyrus. (1963). Stable sequential control rules and Markov chains. Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications. 6(2). 257–265. 15 indexed citations

13.

Derman, Cyrus. (1962). On Sequential Decisions and Markov Chains. Management Science. 9(1). 16–24. 192 indexed citations

14.

Derman, Cyrus, et al.. (1960). Replacement of periodically inspected equipment. (An optimal optional stopping rule). Naval Research Logistics Quarterly. 7(4). 597–607. 60 indexed citations

15.

Derman, Cyrus, M. V. Johns, & G. J. Lieberman. (1959). Continuous Sampling Procedures Without Control. The Annals of Mathematical Statistics. 30(4). 1175–1191. 20 indexed citations

16.

Derman, Cyrus & H. Solomon. (1958). Development and Evaluation of Surveillance Sampling Plans. Management Science. 5(1). 72–88. 9 indexed citations

17.

Derman, Cyrus. (1956). Stochastic Approximation. The Annals of Mathematical Statistics. 27(4). 879–886. 9 indexed citations

18.

Derman, Cyrus. (1956). SOME ASYMPTOTIC DISTRIBUTION THEORY FOR MARKOV CHAINS WITH A DENUMERABLE NUMBER OF STATES. Biometrika. 43(3-4). 285–294. 8 indexed citations

19.

Derman, Cyrus. (1956). An Application of Chung's Lemma to the Kiefer-Wolfowitz Stochastic Approximation Procedure. The Annals of Mathematical Statistics. 27(2). 532–536. 15 indexed citations

20.

Derman, Cyrus. (1954). A Solution to a Set of Fundamental Equations in Markov Chains. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 5(2). 332–332. 18 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact