Edwin H. Spanier

6.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
53 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Edwin H. Spanier is a scholar working on Computational Theory and Mathematics, Mathematical Physics and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Edwin H. Spanier has authored 53 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics, 19 papers in Mathematical Physics and 14 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Edwin H. Spanier's work include semigroups and automata theory (21 papers), Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology (14 papers) and DNA and Biological Computing (8 papers). Edwin H. Spanier is often cited by papers focused on semigroups and automata theory (21 papers), Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology (14 papers) and DNA and Biological Computing (8 papers). Edwin H. Spanier collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Norway. Edwin H. Spanier's co-authors include Seymour Ginsburg, Lester E. Dubins, J. H. C. Whitehead, John Milnor, William Browder, Shiing-Shen Chern, Armin B. Cremers, Paul Martin Holm, P. J. Hilton and Jonathan Goldstine and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Information Sciences and Journal of the ACM.

In The Last Decade

Edwin H. Spanier

49 papers receiving 2.8k citations

Hit Papers

Algebraic Topology 1990 2026 2002 2014 1990 500 1000 1.5k
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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. Algebraic Topology
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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Edwin H. Spanier United States 24 1.4k 1.4k 1.4k 650 529 53 3.5k
Donald Ornstein United States 31 2.1k 1.4× 846 0.6× 892 0.6× 397 0.6× 149 0.3× 71 3.1k
H. F. Trotter United States 15 812 0.6× 555 0.4× 709 0.5× 482 0.7× 158 0.3× 28 3.2k
W. J. Thron United States 22 1.1k 0.8× 1.5k 1.0× 1.1k 0.8× 585 0.9× 894 1.7× 87 4.7k
J. H. van Lint Netherlands 28 512 0.4× 1.4k 1.0× 872 0.6× 2.3k 3.5× 525 1.0× 128 5.0k
Hans Schneider United States 32 342 0.2× 2.2k 1.6× 712 0.5× 294 0.5× 734 1.4× 204 3.8k
Richard K. Guy Canada 16 371 0.3× 931 0.7× 649 0.5× 767 1.2× 786 1.5× 138 3.0k
J. W. S. Cassels United Kingdom 25 1.4k 1.0× 976 0.7× 2.0k 1.4× 412 0.6× 1.0k 2.0× 96 3.8k
Karl H. Hofmann Germany 24 1.5k 1.0× 1.9k 1.4× 1.7k 1.2× 612 0.9× 1.1k 2.1× 215 4.4k
Samuel Eilenberg United States 26 1.7k 1.2× 893 0.6× 1.8k 1.3× 315 0.5× 1.5k 2.8× 43 3.2k
John Riordan United States 21 454 0.3× 673 0.5× 453 0.3× 534 0.8× 717 1.4× 65 3.2k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Edwin H. Spanier

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Edwin H. Spanier

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Spanier, Edwin H.. (1992). Locally constant cohomology. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 329(2). 607–624. 1 indexed citations
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Spanier, Edwin H.. (1990). Weakly additive cohomology. Publicacions Matemàtiques. 34(1). 145–150. 1 indexed citations
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Spanier, Edwin H.. (1987). Cohomology theories on spaces. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 301(1). 149–161. 3 indexed citations
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Ginsburg, Seymour, Jonathan Goldstine, & Edwin H. Spanier. (1983). On the equality of grammatical families. Journal of Computer and System Sciences. 26(2). 171–196.
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Spanier, Edwin H.. (1981). Algebraic Topology. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 107 indexed citations
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Spanier, Edwin H.. (1978). Tautness for Alexander-Spanier cohomology. Pacific Journal of Mathematics. 75(2). 561–563. 30 indexed citations
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Cremers, Armin B., Seymour Ginsburg, & Edwin H. Spanier. (1977). The structure of context-free grammatical families. Journal of Computer and System Sciences. 15(3). 262–279. 15 indexed citations
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Ginsburg, Seymour & Edwin H. Spanier. (1977). Pushdown acceptor forms. Theoretical Computer Science. 5(3). 307–320. 1 indexed citations
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Ginsburg, Seymour & Edwin H. Spanier. (1974). On incomparable abstract family of languages (AFL). Journal of Computer and System Sciences. 9(1). 88–108. 6 indexed citations
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Ginsburg, Seymour & Edwin H. Spanier. (1971). AFL with the semilinear property. Journal of Computer and System Sciences. 5(4). 365–396. 35 indexed citations
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Spanier, Edwin H., et al.. (1969). Referenced automata and metaregular families. Journal of Computer and System Sciences. 3(4). 423–446. 1 indexed citations
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Spanier, Edwin H., et al.. (1968). Euler characteristics. Pacific Journal of Mathematics. 26(2). 317–339. 29 indexed citations
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Ginsburg, Seymour & Edwin H. Spanier. (1968). Derivation-bounded languages. Journal of Computer and System Sciences. 2(3). 228–250. 44 indexed citations
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Ginsburg, Seymour & Edwin H. Spanier. (1966). Bounded Regular Sets. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 17(5). 1043–1043. 3 indexed citations
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Ginsburg, Seymour & Edwin H. Spanier. (1966). Semigroups, Presburger formulas, and languages. Pacific Journal of Mathematics. 16(2). 285–296. 192 indexed citations
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Ginsburg, Seymour & Edwin H. Spanier. (1965). Mappings of languages by two-tape devices. Journal of the ACM. 12(3). 423–434. 25 indexed citations
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Browder, William & Edwin H. Spanier. (1962). H-spaces and duality. Pacific Journal of Mathematics. 12(2). 411–414. 48 indexed citations
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Spanier, Edwin H. & J. H. C. Whitehead. (1958). Duality in Relative Homotopy Theory. Annals of Mathematics. 67(2). 203–203. 7 indexed citations
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Spanier, Edwin H.. (1956). The homology of Kummer manifolds. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 7(1). 155–160. 23 indexed citations
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Chern, Shiing-Shen & Edwin H. Spanier. (1951). A theorem on orientable surfaces in four-dimensional space. Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici. 25(1). 205–209. 30 indexed citations

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