Fred Truck

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
4 papers, 538 citations indexed

About

Fred Truck is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Fred Truck has authored 4 papers receiving a total of 538 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 1 paper in Computer Networks and Communications, 1 paper in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 0 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Fred Truck's work include Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life (1 paper), Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies (1 paper) and Caching and Content Delivery (1 paper). Fred Truck is often cited by papers focused on Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life (1 paper), Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies (1 paper) and Caching and Content Delivery (1 paper). Fred Truck collaborates with scholars based in United States. Fred Truck's co-authors include Hans Moravec and Howard Rheingold and has published in prestigious journals such as Leonardo.

In The Last Decade

Fred Truck

4 papers receiving 403 citations

Hit Papers

Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence 1991 2026 2002 2014 1991 100 200 300 400
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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. Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence
    1991 497 citations Fred Truck, Hans Moravec Leonardo profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Fred Truck United States 3 159 84 84 65 63 4 538
Floyd Μerrell United States 12 49 0.3× 62 0.7× 86 1.0× 102 1.6× 25 0.4× 65 442
Robbin te Velde Netherlands 4 85 0.5× 50 0.6× 65 0.8× 28 0.4× 21 0.3× 9 350
Mihai Nadin United States 15 67 0.4× 52 0.6× 101 1.2× 27 0.4× 93 1.5× 84 665
Stephen H. Kellert United States 8 63 0.4× 24 0.3× 97 1.2× 44 0.7× 55 0.9× 17 554
Bernard Scott United Kingdom 14 126 0.8× 22 0.3× 82 1.0× 13 0.2× 162 2.6× 61 883
Rachel E. Scherr United States 18 63 0.4× 31 0.4× 46 0.5× 24 0.4× 75 1.2× 77 1.3k
Johanna Seibt Denmark 13 106 0.7× 25 0.3× 73 0.9× 29 0.4× 135 2.1× 47 443
Annamaria Carusi United Kingdom 14 67 0.4× 11 0.1× 110 1.3× 38 0.6× 82 1.3× 64 849
Terrell Ward Bynum United States 14 145 0.9× 12 0.1× 205 2.4× 63 1.0× 93 1.5× 36 634
Ibrahim A. Halloun United States 11 44 0.3× 12 0.1× 59 0.7× 31 0.5× 96 1.5× 20 2.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Fred Truck

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Fields of papers citing papers by Fred Truck

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Fred Truck. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Fred Truck. The network helps show where Fred Truck may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Fred Truck

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Fred Truck. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Fred Truck based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Fred Truck. Fred Truck is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

4 of 4 papers shown
1.
Truck, Fred. (1991). ArtEngine. Leonardo. 24(1). 91–91. 1 indexed citations
2.
Truck, Fred & Hans Moravec. (1991). Mind Children: The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence. Leonardo. 24(2). 242–242. 497 indexed citations breakdown →
3.
Truck, Fred & Howard Rheingold. (1991). Tools for Thought: The People and Ideas behind the Next Computer Revolution. Leonardo. 24(2). 243–243. 33 indexed citations
4.
Truck, Fred, et al.. (1991). !%@:: A Directory of Electronic Mail Addressing and Networks. Leonardo. 24(2). 246–246. 7 indexed citations

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