Donald E. Knuth

61.7k total citations · 17 hit papers
266 papers, 36.7k citations indexed

About

Donald E. Knuth is a scholar working on Computational Theory and Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence and Computer Networks and Communications. According to data from OpenAlex, Donald E. Knuth has authored 266 papers receiving a total of 36.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 65 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics, 55 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 22 papers in Computer Networks and Communications. Recurrent topics in Donald E. Knuth's work include Algorithms and Data Compression (28 papers), Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms (19 papers) and semigroups and automata theory (17 papers). Donald E. Knuth is often cited by papers focused on Algorithms and Data Compression (28 papers), Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms (19 papers) and semigroups and automata theory (17 papers). Donald E. Knuth collaborates with scholars based in United States, Sweden and Israel. Donald E. Knuth's co-authors include Robert M. Corless, David J. Jeffrey, D. E. G. Hare, Gastón H. Gonnet, Ronald Graham, Oren Patashnik, Vaughan Pratt, James H. Morris, Stanley Yung‐Chuan Liu and Edward A. Bender and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Technometrics.

In The Last Decade

Donald E. Knuth

256 papers receiving 32.0k citations

Hit Papers

The Art of Computer Programming 1968 2026 1987 2006 1968 1996 1977 1989 1968 2.5k 5.0k 7.5k 10.0k

Peers

Donald E. Knuth
Comparison fields: 5 of 221
  • Artificial Intelligence 15.2k
  • Computational Theory and Mathematics 9.6k
  • Computer Networks and Communications 7.7k
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering 3.9k
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 3.8k
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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
# Work Indexed citations
1
The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4, Fascicle 0: Introduction to Combinatorial Algorithms and Boolean Functions (Art of Computer Programming)
23
2
The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4, Fascicle 4: Generating All Trees--History of Combinatorial Generation (Art of Computer Programming)
55
3
The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4, Fascicle 2: Generating All Tuples and Permutations (Art of Computer Programming)
61
4
The art of computer programming, volume 3: (2nd ed.) sorting and searching breakdown →
916
5 5
6 28
7 12
8 5
9 38
10
The Metafont book
31
11
The T E Xbook
19
12
The Computers & Typesetting, Vol. A: The Texbook
3
13
The Art of Computer Programming, 2nd Ed. (Addison-Wesley Series in Computer Science and Information
247
14
The Computer as Master Mind
56
15
Surreal numbers : how two ex-students turned on to pure mathematics and found total happiness : a mathematical novelette
15
16 14
17 55
18 30
19 2
20 2

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