F. MacWilliams

2.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

F. MacWilliams is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Computational Theory and Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, F. MacWilliams has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 14 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 8 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics. Recurrent topics in F. MacWilliams's work include Coding theory and cryptography (17 papers), graph theory and CDMA systems (14 papers) and Finite Group Theory Research (4 papers). F. MacWilliams is often cited by papers focused on Coding theory and cryptography (17 papers), graph theory and CDMA systems (14 papers) and Finite Group Theory Research (4 papers). F. MacWilliams collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Netherlands. F. MacWilliams's co-authors include N. J. A. Sloane, E. N. Gilbert, J. G. Thompson, Andrew Odlyzko, C. L. Mallows, Harold N. Ward, Henry B. Mann, JH van Lint, Elwyn R. Berlekamp and J.-M. Goethals and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the IEEE, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory and SIAM Review.

In The Last Decade

F. MacWilliams

22 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

Pseudo-random sequences and arrays 1976 2026 1992 2009 1976 100 200 300 400 500
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.

  1. Pseudo-random sequences and arrays
    1976 526 citations F. MacWilliams, N. J. A. Sloane Proceedings of the IEEE profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
F. MacWilliams United States 14 774 676 256 256 217 24 1.3k
Edward C. Posner United States 23 734 0.9× 494 0.7× 307 1.2× 366 1.4× 94 0.4× 76 2.4k
Robert Gold Germany 7 490 0.6× 744 1.1× 155 0.6× 406 1.6× 49 0.2× 20 1.1k
Mark Rudelson United States 20 455 0.6× 224 0.3× 236 0.9× 169 0.7× 167 0.8× 46 2.3k
C. Heegard United States 18 685 0.9× 1.5k 2.2× 414 1.6× 1.3k 5.1× 57 0.3× 43 2.0k
Joseph Rotman United States 14 262 0.3× 188 0.3× 453 1.8× 83 0.3× 334 1.5× 39 1.8k
M. Golay Switzerland 12 435 0.6× 1.0k 1.5× 103 0.4× 597 2.3× 30 0.1× 32 1.7k
Jan Kratochvı́l Czechia 24 170 0.2× 303 0.4× 1.2k 4.7× 294 1.1× 330 1.5× 143 1.8k
James McKee United Kingdom 11 233 0.3× 254 0.4× 463 1.8× 200 0.8× 58 0.3× 32 1.2k
D.V. Sarwate United States 23 1.5k 2.0× 2.4k 3.5× 555 2.2× 1.9k 7.6× 51 0.2× 71 3.6k
C. A. Rogers United Kingdom 27 125 0.2× 147 0.2× 571 2.2× 77 0.3× 346 1.6× 114 2.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of F. MacWilliams

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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MacWilliams, F., et al.. (1981). The weight distributions of some minimal cyclic codes (Corresp.). IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 27(6). 796–806. 52 indexed citations
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MacWilliams, F.. (1979). Decomposition of cyclic codes of block lengths3p, 5p, 7p(Corresp.). IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 25(1). 112–118. 4 indexed citations
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MacWilliams, F.. (1979). A table of primitive binary idempotents of odd lengthn, 7{leq}n{leq}511(Corresp.). IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 25(1). 118–121. 10 indexed citations
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MacWilliams, F., Andrew Odlyzko, N. J. A. Sloane, & Harold N. Ward. (1978). Self-dual codes over GF(4). Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series A. 25(3). 288–318. 110 indexed citations
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Lint, JH van & F. MacWilliams. (1978). Generalized quadratic residue codes. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 24(6). 730–737. 42 indexed citations
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MacWilliams, F. & Andrew Odlyzko. (1977). Pelikán's conjecture and cyclotomic cosets. Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series A. 22(1). 110–114. 1 indexed citations
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MacWilliams, F. & N. J. A. Sloane. (1976). Pseudo-random sequences and arrays. Proceedings of the IEEE. 64(12). 1715–1729. 526 indexed citations breakdown →
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MacWilliams, F., et al.. (1974). A new theorem about the Mattson-Solomon polynomial, and some applications. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 20(1). 85–89. 4 indexed citations
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Gilbert, E. N., F. MacWilliams, & N. J. A. Sloane. (1974). Codes Which Detect Deception. Bell System Technical Journal. 53(3). 405–424. 167 indexed citations
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MacWilliams, F., N. J. A. Sloane, & J. G. Thompson. (1973). On the existence of a projective plane of order 10. Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series A. 14(1). 66–78. 38 indexed citations
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MacWilliams, F., et al.. (1973). On Finding Low Weight Vectors in Quadratic Residue Codes for $p = 8m - 1$. SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics. 25(1). 95–104.
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MacWilliams, F., N. J. A. Sloane, & J.-M. Goethals. (1972). The MacWilliams Identities for Nonlinear Codes. Bell System Technical Journal. 51(4). 803–819. 22 indexed citations
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MacWilliams, F., N. J. A. Sloane, & J. G. Thompson. (1972). Good self dual codes exist. Discrete Mathematics. 3(1-3). 153–162. 80 indexed citations
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MacWilliams, F., C. L. Mallows, & N. J. A. Sloane. (1972). Generalizations of Gleason's theorem on weight enumerators of self-dual codes. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 18(6). 794–805. 84 indexed citations
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MacWilliams, F.. (1971). Orthogonal circulant matrices over finite fields, and how to find them. Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series A. 10(1). 1–17. 22 indexed citations
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MacWilliams, F.. (1970). On Binary Cyclic Codes Which are Also Cyclic Codes Over $GF(2^s )$. SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics. 19(1). 75–95. 15 indexed citations
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MacWilliams, F. & Henry B. Mann. (1968). On the p-rank of the design matrix of a difference set. Information and Control. 12(5). 474–488. 49 indexed citations
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MacWilliams, F.. (1967). An example of two cyclically orthogonal sequences with maximum period (Corresp.). IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 13(2). 338–339. 5 indexed citations
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Newman, David, et al.. (1963). A Set o f Convolution Equations (Walter Weissblum). SIAM Review. 5(3). 276–283.
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MacWilliams, F.. (1959). Author's reply to Comments on "Topological network analysis as computer program". IRE Transactions on Circuit Theory. 6(1). 136–136. 7 indexed citations

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