E. N. Gilbert

9.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
77 papers, 6.5k citations indexed

About

E. N. Gilbert is a scholar working on Computational Theory and Mathematics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Computer Networks and Communications. According to data from OpenAlex, E. N. Gilbert has authored 77 papers receiving a total of 6.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics, 16 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 12 papers in Computer Networks and Communications. Recurrent topics in E. N. Gilbert's work include Cellular Automata and Applications (9 papers), Advanced Queuing Theory Analysis (8 papers) and Scheduling and Optimization Algorithms (7 papers). E. N. Gilbert is often cited by papers focused on Cellular Automata and Applications (9 papers), Advanced Queuing Theory Analysis (8 papers) and Scheduling and Optimization Algorithms (7 papers). E. N. Gilbert collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Netherlands. E. N. Gilbert's co-authors include H. O. Pollak, Béla Julesz, E. F. Moore, E. G. Coffman, S. Philip Morgan, L. A. Shepp, H. L. Frisch, Jonathan D. Victor, F. MacWilliams and N. J. A. Sloane and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Technometrics and Management Science.

In The Last Decade

E. N. Gilbert

75 papers receiving 5.8k 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 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.

Capacity of a Burst-Noise Channel

1960 1.7k citations E. N. Gilbert Bell System Technical Journal profile →
Random Graphs

1959 658 citations E. N. Gilbert profile →
Steiner Minimal Trees

1968 582 citations E. N. Gilbert et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
E. N. Gilbert United States	29	2.3k	2.2k	1.4k	1.1k	875	77	6.5k
Claude E. Shannon United States	21	2.7k 1.1×	3.3k 1.5×	2.0k 1.4×	1.3k 1.2×	1.0k 1.1×	31	8.9k
J.B. Moore Australia	44	1.4k 0.6×	1.2k 0.5×	3.3k 2.4×	1.1k 1.0×	667 0.8×	302	12.4k
Sanjoy K. Mitter United States	47	2.3k 1.0×	1.3k 0.6×	1.3k 1.0×	2.8k 2.6×	880 1.0×	151	12.1k
A. Lempel Israel	28	2.6k 1.1×	1.4k 0.6×	5.5k 4.0×	2.4k 2.2×	1.8k 2.1×	69	9.2k
Carl D. Meyer United States	38	1.2k 0.5×	1.2k 0.5×	1.3k 0.9×	2.8k 2.6×	568 0.6×	76	8.4k
Solomon W. Golomb United States	32	1.4k 0.6×	2.5k 1.2×	2.8k 2.0×	1.7k 1.6×	1.1k 1.2×	166	6.5k
Horst D. Simon United States	39	1.9k 0.8×	1.4k 0.6×	1.8k 1.3×	1.6k 1.5×	1.4k 1.6×	142	7.7k
Ronald Graham United States	42	2.7k 1.1×	1.7k 0.8×	1.7k 1.3×	4.2k 4.0×	1.1k 1.2×	177	12.2k
C. Desoer United States	44	1.4k 0.6×	1.6k 0.7×	783 0.6×	1.6k 1.5×	280 0.3×	212	11.7k
Richard E. Blahut United States	21	1.9k 0.8×	2.4k 1.1×	2.0k 1.5×	915 0.9×	893 1.0×	58	5.1k

Countries citing papers authored by E. N. Gilbert

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of E. N. Gilbert

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All Works

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Coffman, E. G. & E. N. Gilbert. (1992). Service by a Queue and a Cart. Management Science. 38(6). 867–883. 5 indexed citations

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Coffman, E. G. & E. N. Gilbert. (1992). Paths through a maze of rectangles. Networks. 22(4). 349–367. 3 indexed citations

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Coffman, Edward G., et al.. (1992). Scheduling Checks and Saves. INFORMS Journal on Computing. 4(1). 60–69. 9 indexed citations

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Gilbert, E. N.. (1991). How Things Float. American Mathematical Monthly. 98(3). 201–201. 15 indexed citations

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Courtois, Pierre, et al.. (1991). A distributed clustering process. Journal of Applied Probability. 28(4). 737–750. 2 indexed citations

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Coffman, E. G., Erol Gelenbe, & E. N. Gilbert. (1986). Analysis of a conveyor queue in a flexible manufacturing system. 204–223. 3 indexed citations

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Gilbert, E. N.. (1985). An optimal minimax algorithm. Annals of Operations Research. 4(1). 103–121. 2 indexed citations

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Coffman, E. G. & E. N. Gilbert. (1984). Dynamic, first-fit packings in two or more dimensions. Information and Control. 61(1). 1–14. 7 indexed citations

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Chung, Fan, E. N. Gilbert, Ron Graham, James B. Shearer, & J. H. van Lint. (1982). Tiling Rectangles with Rectangles. Mathematics Magazine. 55(5). 286–286. 6 indexed citations

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Gilbert, E. N.. (1980). Random Colorings of a Lattice of Squares in the Plane. SIAM Journal on Algebraic and Discrete Methods. 1(2). 152–159. 16 indexed citations

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Caelli, Terry, Béla Julesz, & E. N. Gilbert. (1978). On perceptual analyzers underlying visual texture discrimination: Part II. Biological Cybernetics. 29(4). 201–214. 158 indexed citations

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Julesz, Béla, E. N. Gilbert, L. A. Shepp, & H. L. Frisch. (1973). Inability of Humans to Discriminate between Visual Textures That Agree in Second-Order Statistics—Revisited. Perception. 2(4). 391–405. 258 indexed citations

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Gilbert, E. N.. (1969). Mobile Radio Diversity Reception. Bell System Technical Journal. 48(7). 2473–2492. 10 indexed citations

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Gilbert, E. N.. (1967). Minimum cost communication networks. Bell System Technical Journal. 46(9). 2209–2227. 83 indexed citations

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Gilbert, E. N.. (1965). Energy Reception for Mobile Radio. Bell System Technical Journal. 44(8). 1779–1803. 45 indexed citations

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Gilbert, E. N. & John Riordan. (1961). Symmetry types of periodic sequences. Illinois Journal of Mathematics. 5(4). 59 indexed citations

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Gilbert, E. N.. (1960). Capacity of a Burst-Noise Channel. Bell System Technical Journal. 39(5). 1253–1265. 1681 indexed citations breakdown →

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Gilbert, E. N.. (1960). Synchronization of binary messages. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 6(4). 470–477. 91 indexed citations

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Gilbert, E. N.. (1958). Gray Codes and Paths on the n-Cube. Bell System Technical Journal. 37(3). 815–826. 170 indexed citations

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Gilbert, E. N.. (1956). Enumeration Of Labelled Graphs. Canadian Journal of Mathematics. 8. 405–411. 39 indexed citations

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