Gerald Held

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
10 papers, 836 citations indexed

About

Gerald Held is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Artificial Intelligence and Information Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Gerald Held has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 836 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 5 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 4 papers in Information Systems. Recurrent topics in Gerald Held's work include Advanced Database Systems and Queries (7 papers), Distributed systems and fault tolerance (4 papers) and Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services (4 papers). Gerald Held is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Database Systems and Queries (7 papers), Distributed systems and fault tolerance (4 papers) and Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services (4 papers). Gerald Held collaborates with scholars based in United States. Gerald Held's co-authors include Michael Stonebraker, Eugene Wong, Eric Allman and Eugene Wong and has published in prestigious journals such as Communications of the ACM, ACM SIGMOD Record and ACM Transactions on Database Systems.

In The Last Decade

Gerald Held

10 papers receiving 666 citations

Hit Papers

The design and implementation of INGRES 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. The design and implementation of INGRES
    1976 583 citations Michael Stonebraker, Gerald Held et al. ACM Transactions on Database Systems profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Gerald Held United States 8 772 468 406 161 43 10 836
Patricia P. Griffiths United States 5 1.1k 1.4× 564 1.2× 587 1.4× 283 1.8× 81 1.9× 6 1.2k
Jacob Stein United States 10 782 1.0× 351 0.8× 498 1.2× 275 1.7× 26 0.6× 16 903
Hong‐Tai Chou United States 10 744 1.0× 325 0.7× 460 1.1× 256 1.6× 31 0.7× 12 890
J. W. Mehl United States 7 1.2k 1.5× 628 1.3× 511 1.3× 277 1.7× 85 2.0× 8 1.3k
Fred J. Maryanski United States 9 381 0.5× 159 0.3× 295 0.7× 154 1.0× 40 0.9× 44 519
Weimin Du United States 11 571 0.7× 209 0.4× 235 0.6× 188 1.2× 42 1.0× 36 653
Georges Gardarin France 14 624 0.8× 354 0.8× 370 0.9× 175 1.1× 17 0.4× 65 759
Carl-Christian Kanne Germany 9 420 0.5× 213 0.5× 227 0.6× 181 1.1× 25 0.6× 27 529
Esen A. Ozkarahan United States 13 471 0.6× 318 0.7× 328 0.8× 144 0.9× 22 0.5× 41 653
Paul McJones United States 7 1.1k 1.4× 371 0.8× 380 0.9× 237 1.5× 59 1.4× 11 1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Gerald Held

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Fields of papers citing papers by Gerald Held

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gerald Held

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Gerald Held. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Gerald Held 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 Gerald Held. Gerald Held is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

10 of 10 papers shown
1.
Stonebraker, Michael, et al.. (1986). The design and implementation of INGRES. Addison-Wesley Longman Publishing Co., Inc. eBooks. 5–45. 38 indexed citations
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Held, Gerald & Michael Stonebraker. (1978). B-trees re-examined. Communications of the ACM. 21(2). 139–143. 19 indexed citations
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Allman, Eric, Michael Stonebraker, & Gerald Held. (1976). Embedding a relational data sublanguage in a general purpose programming language. ACM SIGPLAN Notices. 11(SI). 25–35. 5 indexed citations
4.
Allman, Eric, Michael Stonebraker, & Gerald Held. (1976). Embedding a relational data sublanguage in a general purpose programming language. 25–35. 22 indexed citations
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Allman, Eric, Michael Stonebraker, & Gerald Held. (1976). Embedding a relational data sublanguage in a general purpose programming language. ACM SIGMOD Record. 8(2). 25–35. 2 indexed citations
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Stonebraker, Michael, et al.. (1976). The design and implementation of INGRES. ACM Transactions on Database Systems. 1(3). 189–222. 583 indexed citations breakdown →
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Held, Gerald. (1975). Storage structures for relational data base management systems.. 8 indexed citations
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Held, Gerald & Michael Stonebraker. (1975). Storage Structures and Access Methods in the Relational Data Base Management System INGRES.. 26–33. 9 indexed citations
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Stonebraker, Michael & Gerald Held. (1975). Networks, Hierarchies and Relations in Data Base Management Systems.. 1–9. 8 indexed citations
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Held, Gerald, Michael Stonebraker, & Eugene Wong. (1975). INGRES. 409–409. 142 indexed citations

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