Ian Niles

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
8 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Ian Niles is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Information Systems and Computer Networks and Communications. According to data from OpenAlex, Ian Niles has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 3 papers in Information Systems and 1 paper in Computer Networks and Communications. Recurrent topics in Ian Niles's work include Semantic Web and Ontologies (6 papers), Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services (3 papers) and Natural Language Processing Techniques (3 papers). Ian Niles is often cited by papers focused on Semantic Web and Ontologies (6 papers), Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services (3 papers) and Natural Language Processing Techniques (3 papers). Ian Niles collaborates with scholars based in United States. Ian Niles's co-authors include Adam Pease and John Li and has published in prestigious journals such as The Knowledge Engineering Review and Philosophia.

In The Last Decade

Ian Niles

8 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Towards a standard upper ontology

2001 905 citations Ian Niles, Adam Pease profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ian Niles United States	7	1.1k	422	221	200	99	8	1.3k
Leo Obrst United States	14	600 0.5×	434 1.0×	109 0.5×	182 0.9×	119 1.2×	47	889
Claudio Masolo Italy	13	794 0.7×	377 0.9×	168 0.8×	188 0.9×	90 0.9×	38	1.0k
James G. Schmolze United States	11	1.7k 1.5×	288 0.7×	208 0.9×	484 2.4×	84 0.8×	20	1.9k
Marco Schorlemmer Spain	13	1.2k 1.0×	654 1.5×	261 1.2×	337 1.7×	120 1.2×	67	1.4k
Volker Haarslev Canada	17	1.2k 1.1×	640 1.5×	245 1.1×	484 2.4×	96 1.0×	121	1.5k
Oliver Kutz Germany	15	913 0.8×	320 0.8×	260 1.2×	264 1.3×	45 0.5×	66	1.1k
Zhibiao Wu United States	5	1.8k 1.5×	542 1.3×	318 1.4×	133 0.7×	56 0.6×	6	2.2k
Alessandro Oltramari United States	18	607 0.5×	281 0.7×	102 0.5×	98 0.5×	58 0.6×	53	890
Vinay K. Chaudhri United States	18	921 0.8×	421 1.0×	122 0.6×	274 1.4×	93 0.9×	75	1.3k
Yannis Kalfoglou United Kingdom	13	1.1k 1.0×	729 1.7×	270 1.2×	322 1.6×	144 1.5×	44	1.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Ian Niles

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ian Niles

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ian Niles

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

All Works

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8 of 8 papers shown

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Niles, Ian, et al.. (2004). The MILO: A General-purpose, Mid-level Ontology.. 15–19. 19 indexed citations

2.

Niles, Ian & Adam Pease. (2003). Mapping WordNet to the SUMO Ontology. 28(3). 309–14. 28 indexed citations

3.

Niles, Ian & Adam Pease. (2003). Linking Lixicons and Ontologies: Mapping WordNet to the Suggested Upper Merged Ontology.. 412–416. 148 indexed citations

4.

Pease, Adam & Ian Niles. (2002). IEEE standard upper ontology: a progress report. The Knowledge Engineering Review. 17(1). 65–70. 44 indexed citations

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Pease, Adam, Ian Niles, & John Li. (2002). The Suggested Upper Merged Ontology: A Large Ontology for the Semantic Web and its Applic ations. 166 indexed citations

6.

Niles, Ian & Adam Pease. (2001). Origins of the IEEE Standard Upper Ontology. 12 indexed citations

7.

Niles, Ian & Adam Pease. (2001). Towards a standard upper ontology. 2–9. 905 indexed citations breakdown →

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Niles, Ian. (1997). Rescuing the counterfactual solution to Chisholm's Paradox. Philosophia. 25(1-4). 351–371. 2 indexed citations

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