David E. Rumelhart

105.8k total citations · 16 hit papers
89 papers, 50.8k citations indexed

About

David E. Rumelhart is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Neuroscience and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, David E. Rumelhart has authored 89 papers receiving a total of 50.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 12 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 10 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in David E. Rumelhart's work include Neural Networks and Applications (23 papers), Blind Source Separation Techniques (5 papers) and Speech Recognition and Synthesis (5 papers). David E. Rumelhart is often cited by papers focused on Neural Networks and Applications (23 papers), Blind Source Separation Techniques (5 papers) and Speech Recognition and Synthesis (5 papers). David E. Rumelhart collaborates with scholars based in United States, Thailand and Canada. David E. Rumelhart's co-authors include James L. McClelland, Geoffrey E. Hinton, Ronald J. Williams, David Zipser, Donald A. Norman, Michael I. Jordan, Andreas S. Weigend, Bernardo A. Huberman, Elizabeth F. Loftus and Bernard Widrow and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Psychological Review.

In The Last Decade

David E. Rumelhart

87 papers receiving 47.1k citations

Hit Papers

Learning representations by back-propagating errors 1975 2026 1992 2009 1986 1986 1981 1987 1989 5.0k 10.0k 15.0k
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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. Learning representations by back-propagating errors
    1986 19.3k citations David E. Rumelhart, Geoffrey E. Hinton et al. Nature profile →
  2. Parallel Distributed Processing
    1986 10.1k citations David E. Rumelhart, James L. McClelland et al. profile →
  3. An interactive activation model of context effects in letter perception: I. An account of basic findings.
    1981 3.4k citations James L. McClelland, David E. Rumelhart Psychological Review profile →
  4. Parallel Distributed Processing
    1987 2.2k citations James L. McClelland, David E. Rumelhart et al. profile →
  5. Similarity and Analogical Reasoning
    1989 1.6k citations Stella Vosniadou, Lance J. Rips et al. Cambridge University Press eBooks profile →
  6. Parallel distributed processing: explorations in the microstructure of cognition, vol. 1: foundations
    1986 1.2k citations David E. Rumelhart, James L. McClelland MIT Press eBooks profile →
  7. An interactive activation model of context effects in letter perception: II. The contextual enhancement effect and some tests and extensions of the model.
    1982 1.1k citations David E. Rumelhart, James L. McClelland Psychological Review profile →
  8. Forward Models: Supervised Learning with a Distal Teacher
    1992 1.0k citations David E. Rumelhart et al. profile →
  9. Explorations in Cognition
    1975 902 citations Donald A. Norman, David E. Rumelhart et al. profile →
  10. Feature Discovery by Competitive Learning*
    1985 696 citations David E. Rumelhart, David Zipser profile →
  11. Distributed memory and the representation of general and specific information.
    1985 670 citations James L. McClelland, David E. Rumelhart profile →
  12. Parallel distributed processing: explorations in the microstructure of cognition, vol. 2: psychological and biological models
    1986 663 citations David E. Rumelhart, James L. McClelland MIT Press eBooks profile →
  13. Feature discovery by competitive learning
    1985 628 citations David E. Rumelhart, David Zipser profile →
  14. Distributed memory and the representation of general and specific information.
    1985 577 citations James L. McClelland, David E. Rumelhart profile →
  15. PREDICTING THE FUTURE: A CONNECTIONIST APPROACH
    1990 525 citations Andreas S. Weigend, David E. Rumelhart et al. profile →
  16. Explorations in Parallel Distributed Processing: A Handbook of Models, Programs, and Exercises
    1989 492 citations James L. McClelland, David E. Rumelhart et al. profile →

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Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
David E. Rumelhart United States 47 19.6k 11.6k 7.2k 5.4k 4.4k 89 50.8k
James L. McClelland United States 89 14.7k 0.8× 29.0k 2.5× 17.9k 2.5× 2.7k 0.5× 9.5k 2.1× 267 53.9k
Demis Hassabis United Kingdom 52 20.7k 1.1× 8.9k 0.8× 2.1k 0.3× 7.2k 1.3× 1.8k 0.4× 77 51.2k
Joshua B. Tenenbaum United States 76 13.9k 0.7× 7.0k 0.6× 6.4k 0.9× 9.2k 1.7× 2.6k 0.6× 413 34.1k
Terrence J. Sejnowski United States 125 10.4k 0.5× 43.2k 3.7× 1.8k 0.3× 5.9k 1.1× 4.7k 1.1× 619 73.7k
Michael I. Jordan United States 117 48.1k 2.5× 8.6k 0.7× 1.2k 0.2× 19.3k 3.6× 1.7k 0.4× 556 96.0k
John W. Tukey United States 70 6.7k 0.3× 3.2k 0.3× 1.2k 0.2× 4.7k 0.9× 1.8k 0.4× 229 52.7k
Jeffrey L. Elman United States 44 8.2k 0.4× 6.7k 0.6× 5.5k 0.8× 1.3k 0.2× 4.0k 0.9× 102 19.8k
Tomaso Poggio United States 102 12.1k 0.6× 15.1k 1.3× 712 0.1× 23.6k 4.4× 1.8k 0.4× 424 51.0k
Alan Yuille United States 96 13.5k 0.7× 5.9k 0.5× 1.9k 0.3× 31.5k 5.8× 1.8k 0.4× 571 51.8k
Richard S. Sutton Canada 51 20.7k 1.1× 5.9k 0.5× 904 0.1× 3.9k 0.7× 755 0.2× 144 40.8k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Lisetti, Christine & David E. Rumelhart. (1998). Facial Expression Recognition Using a Neural Network. The Florida AI Research Society. 328–332. 131 indexed citations
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Servos, Philip, Jeffrey M. Zacks, David E. Rumelhart, & Gary H. Glover. (1998). Somatotopy of the human arm using fMRI. Neuroreport. 9(4). 605–609. 37 indexed citations
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Rumelhart, David E., Richard Durbin, Richard M. Golden, & Yves Chauvin. (1995). Backpropagation: the basic theory. 1–34. 203 indexed citations
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Chauvin, Yves & David E. Rumelhart. (1995). Back-Propagation: Theory, Architecture, and Applications. 23(3). 276–7. 42 indexed citations
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Weigend, Andreas S. & David E. Rumelhart. (1994). Weight elimination and effective network size. Conference on Learning Theory. 457–476. 3 indexed citations
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Zipser, David & David E. Rumelhart. (1993). The neurobiological significance of the new learning models. MIT Press eBooks. 192–200. 15 indexed citations
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Cohen, Michael, Horacio Franco, Nelson Morgan, David E. Rumelhart, & Victor Abrash. (1992). Context-Dependent Multiple Distribution Phonetic Modeling with MLPs. Neural Information Processing Systems. 5. 649–657. 18 indexed citations
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Rumelhart, David E., et al.. (1991). A Self-Organizing Integrated Segmentation and Recognition Neural Net. Neural Information Processing Systems. 4. 496–503. 30 indexed citations
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Keeler, James D., David E. Rumelhart, & Wee Kheng Leow. (1990). Integrated Segmentation and Recognition of Hand-Printed Numerals. Neural Information Processing Systems. 3. 557–563. 79 indexed citations
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Rumelhart, David E.. (1990). Brain style computation: learning and generalization. 405–420. 47 indexed citations
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Durbin, Richard & David E. Rumelhart. (1989). Product Units: A Computationally Powerful and Biologically Plausible Extension to Backpropagation Networks. Neural Computation. 1(1). 133–142. 281 indexed citations
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Vosniadou, Stella, Lance J. Rips, Edward E. Smith, et al.. (1989). Similarity and Analogical Reasoning. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 1600 indexed citations breakdown →
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Savitch, Walter J., et al.. (1988). Implementing neural networks. University Microfilms International eBooks. 5 indexed citations
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Rumelhart, David E. & James L. McClelland. (1986). Parallel distributed processing: explorations in the microstructure of cognition, vol. 2: psychological and biological models. MIT Press eBooks. 663 indexed citations breakdown →
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McClelland, James L. & David E. Rumelhart. (1986). Psychological and biological models. MIT Press eBooks. 274 indexed citations
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McClelland, James L. & David E. Rumelhart. (1986). Parallel distributed processing: explorations in the microstructure, vol. 2: psychological and biological models. MIT Press eBooks. 611–611. 2 indexed citations
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Rumelhart, David E. & James L. McClelland. (1986). Parallel distributed processing: explorations in the microstructure of cognition, vol. 1: foundations. MIT Press eBooks. 1177 indexed citations breakdown →
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Rumelhart, David E., Geoffrey E. Hinton, & Ronald J. Williams. (1986). Learning representations by back-propagating errors. Nature. 323(6088). 533–536. 19290 indexed citations breakdown →
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Rumelhart, David E. & James L. McClelland. (1982). An interactive activation model of context effects in letter perception: II. The contextual enhancement effect and some tests and extensions of the model.. Psychological Review. 89(1). 60–94. 1123 indexed citations breakdown →
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Rumelhart, David E. & Donald A. Norman. (1973). Active semantic networks as a model of human memory. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 450–457. 24 indexed citations

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