I. J. Good

28.3k total citations · 7 hit papers
403 papers, 16.0k citations indexed

About

I. J. Good is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Statistics and Probability and Computational Theory and Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, I. J. Good has authored 403 papers receiving a total of 16.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 66 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 64 papers in Statistics and Probability and 37 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics. Recurrent topics in I. J. Good's work include Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models (26 papers), Philosophy and History of Science (22 papers) and Statistical Mechanics and Entropy (21 papers). I. J. Good is often cited by papers focused on Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models (26 papers), Philosophy and History of Science (22 papers) and Statistical Mechanics and Entropy (21 papers). I. J. Good collaborates with scholars based in United States, Malta and United Kingdom. I. J. Good's co-authors include Leonard J. Savage, N. Abramson, Patrick Suppes, Lillian V. Holdeman, William Moore, Jack N. Sparks, James O. Berger, Bruce M. Hill, Hilda Geiringer and Richard von Mises and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Journal of the American Statistical Association.

In The Last Decade

I. J. Good

363 papers receiving 13.9k citations

Hit Papers

THE POPULATION FREQUENCIES OF SPECIES AND THE ESTIMATION ... 1952 2026 1976 2001 1953 1955 1964 1952 1972 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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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. THE POPULATION FREQUENCIES OF SPECIES AND THE ESTIMATION OF POPULATION PARAMETERS
    1953 2.5k citations I. J. Good Biometrika profile →
  2. The Foundations of Statistics.
    1955 2.5k citations I. J. Good et al. profile →
  3. Information Theory and Coding.
    1964 668 citations I. J. Good et al. profile →
  4. Rational Decisions
    1952 603 citations I. J. Good profile →
  5. A Probabilistic Theory of Causality.
    1972 581 citations I. J. Good et al. Journal of the American Statistical Association profile →
  6. Human fecal flora: variation in bacterial composition within individuals and a possible effect of emotional stress
    1976 355 citations I. J. Good et al. profile →
  7. The Estimation of Probabilities: An Essay on Modern Bayesian Methods
    1967 339 citations I. J. Good et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
I. J. Good United States 52 4.1k 3.0k 1.8k 1.6k 1.4k 403 16.0k
Frederick Mosteller United States 69 2.9k 0.7× 4.7k 1.6× 2.7k 1.5× 2.1k 1.2× 1.0k 0.7× 254 28.2k
D. V. Lindley United Kingdom 46 3.8k 0.9× 5.5k 1.8× 2.2k 1.2× 3.7k 2.3× 455 0.3× 199 16.9k
M. G. Kendall United Kingdom 47 3.0k 0.7× 4.1k 1.4× 2.9k 1.6× 2.7k 1.6× 1.0k 0.7× 161 29.9k
James O. Berger United States 61 5.8k 1.4× 10.1k 3.4× 1.9k 1.0× 3.1k 1.9× 820 0.6× 192 21.2k
E. T. Jaynes United States 28 6.8k 1.7× 1.2k 0.4× 1.6k 0.8× 1.1k 0.6× 1.1k 0.8× 53 22.8k
Joseph B. Kadane United States 47 3.0k 0.7× 4.4k 1.5× 1.9k 1.0× 2.0k 1.2× 338 0.2× 318 12.3k
Judea Pearl United States 63 19.4k 4.7× 6.7k 2.2× 3.0k 1.6× 3.8k 2.3× 2.3k 1.6× 267 40.7k
Glenn Shafer United States 38 6.4k 1.5× 1.5k 0.5× 1.3k 0.7× 3.8k 2.3× 251 0.2× 104 15.9k
Robert E. Kass United States 50 4.3k 1.0× 5.4k 1.8× 1.9k 1.0× 1.3k 0.8× 1.8k 1.3× 158 23.8k
F. N. David United Kingdom 39 2.1k 0.5× 2.3k 0.8× 984 0.5× 986 0.6× 1.3k 0.9× 152 19.5k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Gilinsky, Norman L. & I. J. Good. (1991). Probabilities of origination, persistence, and extinction of families of marine invertebrate life. Paleobiology. 17(2). 145–166. 29 indexed citations
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Good, I. J.. (1989). Corrigenda Volume 37 (1941), 199-228. Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 105(3). 607–607. 2 indexed citations
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Gilinsky, Norman L. & I. J. Good. (1989). Analysis of clade shape using queueing theory and the fast Fourier transform. Paleobiology. 15(3). 321–333. 11 indexed citations
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Good, I. J.. (1987). Comment. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 82(397). 125–128. 2 indexed citations
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Good, I. J. & Eric P. Smith. (1983). C155. The early history of the quadratic index of diversity or repeat rate. Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation. 17(3). 231–233.
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Good, I. J., et al.. (1980). Density Estimation and Bump-Hunting by the Penalized Likelihood Method Exemplified by Scattering and Meteorite Data. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 75(369). 42–56. 174 indexed citations
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Good, I. J.. (1977). Explicativity: a mathematical theory of explanation with statistical applications. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 354(1678). 303–330. 37 indexed citations
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Good, I. J. & Nicolaus Tideman. (1977). Stirling numbers and a geometric ,structure from voting theory. Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series A. 23(1). 34–45. 5 indexed citations
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Good, I. J., et al.. (1976). Minicommunications. Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation. 5(4). 207–211.
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Good, I. J. & Nicolaus Tideman. (1976). From individual to collective ordering through multidimensional attribute space. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 347(1650). 371–385. 12 indexed citations
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Good, I. J.. (1975). A new formula for cumulants. Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 78(2). 333–337. 5 indexed citations
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Good, I. J.. (1971). Human and Machine Intelligence: Comparisons and Contrasts.. 1 indexed citations
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Good, I. J., et al.. (1971). Nonparametric Roughness Penalties for Probability Densities. Biometrika. 58(2). 255–255. 205 indexed citations
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Good, I. J.. (1971). The factorization of a sum of matrices and the multivariate cumulants of a set of quadratic expressions. Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series A. 11(1). 27–37. 2 indexed citations
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Good, I. J.. (1969). Questions & Answers. The American Statistician. 23(4). 42–45. 5 indexed citations
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Good, I. J.. (1969). Some Applications of the Singular Decomposition of a Matrix. Technometrics. 11(4). 823–831. 100 indexed citations
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Good, I. J.. (1968). The characteristic functions of functions. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 307(1490). 317–334. 2 indexed citations
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Good, I. J., et al.. (1958). A paradox concerning rate of information. Information and Control. 1(2). 113–126. 14 indexed citations
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Good, I. J.. (1955). On the Marking of Chess-Players. The Mathematical Gazette. 39(330). 292–296. 9 indexed citations
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Good, I. J.. (1953). The serial test for sampling numbers and other tests for randomness. Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 49(2). 276–284. 81 indexed citations

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