Ido Tal

4.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
39 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Ido Tal is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ido Tal has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 23 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 19 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Ido Tal's work include Error Correcting Code Techniques (30 papers), DNA and Biological Computing (19 papers) and Advanced Wireless Communication Techniques (15 papers). Ido Tal is often cited by papers focused on Error Correcting Code Techniques (30 papers), DNA and Biological Computing (19 papers) and Advanced Wireless Communication Techniques (15 papers). Ido Tal collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United States and Switzerland. Ido Tal's co-authors include Alexander Vardy, Ramtin Pedarsani, S. Hamed Hassani, Emre Telatar, Ron M. Roth, Gabi Sarkis, Warren J. Gross, Eren Şaşoğlu, Henry D. Pfister and Claude Thibeault and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on Communications and Contemporary Family Therapy.

In The Last Decade

Ido Tal

39 papers receiving 2.4k 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.

List Decoding of Polar Codes

2015 1.1k citations Ido Tal, Alexander Vardy IEEE Transactions on Information Theory profile →
How to Construct Polar Codes

2013 494 citations Ido Tal, Alexander Vardy IEEE Transactions on Information Theory profile →
List decoding of polar codes

2011 385 citations Ido Tal, Alexander Vardy profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ido Tal Israel	13	2.2k	1.9k	897	813	156	39	2.5k
Peter Trifonov Russia	15	991 0.4×	917 0.5×	317 0.4×	556 0.7×	89 0.6×	78	1.2k
Thomas E. Fuja United States	21	1.8k 0.8×	1.8k 1.0×	98 0.1×	458 0.6×	123 0.8×	102	2.2k
Qin Huang China	19	860 0.4×	906 0.5×	97 0.1×	437 0.5×	105 0.7×	113	1.4k
Ruoheng Liu United States	18	1.2k 0.6×	1.7k 0.9×	87 0.1×	236 0.3×	97 0.6×	47	1.8k
Ning Cai China	15	1.4k 0.6×	1.3k 0.7×	71 0.1×	435 0.5×	158 1.0×	84	1.8k
Carlo Condo Canada	16	700 0.3×	707 0.4×	249 0.3×	325 0.4×	24 0.2×	48	922
Y. Be'ery Israel	16	694 0.3×	825 0.4×	113 0.1×	832 1.0×	143 0.9×	58	1.2k
M.C. Davey United Kingdom	6	1.1k 0.5×	987 0.5×	293 0.3×	222 0.3×	173 1.1×	6	1.3k
Huazi Zhang China	17	788 0.4×	950 0.5×	153 0.2×	200 0.2×	17 0.1×	71	1.2k
Kees A. Schouhamer Immink Netherlands	19	608 0.3×	496 0.3×	393 0.4×	670 0.8×	671 4.3×	142	1.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Ido Tal

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ido Tal

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Tal, Ido, et al.. (2025). Constant Weight Polar Codes Through Periodic Markov Processes. 1–6. 1 indexed citations

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Tal, Ido, et al.. (2025). An Analytical Study of the Min-Sum Approximation for Polar Codes. 1–6. 1 indexed citations

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Tal, Ido, et al.. (2024). Strong Polarization for Shortened and Punctured Polar Codes. 2198–2203. 2 indexed citations

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Pfister, Henry D. & Ido Tal. (2021). Polar Codes for Channels with Insertions, Deletions, and Substitutions. 2554–2559. 11 indexed citations

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Tal, Ido, Henry D. Pfister, Arman Fazeli, & Alexander Vardy. (2021). Polar Codes for the Deletion Channel: Weak and Strong Polarization. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 68(4). 2239–2265. 15 indexed citations

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Tal, Ido, et al.. (2020). List Decoding of Universal Polar Codes. 389–394. 2 indexed citations

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Tal, Ido, Henry D. Pfister, Arman Fazeli, & Alexander Vardy. (2019). Polar Codes for the Deletion Channel: Weak and Strong Polarization. 1362–1366. 18 indexed citations

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Balatsoukas‐Stimming, Alexios, Ingmar Land, Ido Tal, Peter Trifonov, & Emanuele Viterbo. (2019). Best Readings in Polar Coding. 2 indexed citations

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Tal, Ido, et al.. (2018). Greedy–Merge Degrading has Optimal Power-Law. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 65(2). 917–934. 6 indexed citations

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Tal, Ido, et al.. (2017). Channel Upgradation for Non-Binary Input Alphabets and MACs. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 63(3). 1410–1424. 8 indexed citations

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Sarkis, Gabi, Ido Tal, Pascal Giard, et al.. (2016). Flexible and Low-Complexity Encoding and Decoding of Systematic Polar Codes. IEEE Transactions on Communications. 64(7). 2732–2745. 60 indexed citations

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Tal, Ido & Alexander Vardy. (2015). List Decoding of Polar Codes. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 61(5). 2213–2226. 1123 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tal, Ido. (2015). On the construction of polar codes for channels with moderate input alphabet sizes. 2. 1297–1301. 4 indexed citations

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Leroux, Camille, Alexandre J. Raymond, Gabi Sarkis, et al.. (2012). Hardware Implementation of Successive-Cancellation Decoders for Polar Codes. Journal of Signal Processing Systems. 69(3). 305–315. 43 indexed citations

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Tal, Ido, et al.. (2012). Constructing polar codes for non-binary alphabets and MACs. 2132–2136. 20 indexed citations

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Tal, Ido & Alexander Vardy. (2011). List decoding of polar codes. 1–5. 385 indexed citations breakdown →

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Pedarsani, Ramtin, S. Hamed Hassani, Ido Tal, & Emre Telatar. (2011). On the construction of polar codes. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 11–15. 78 indexed citations

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Tal, Ido & Ron M. Roth. (2010). Convex Programming Upper Bounds on the Capacity of 2-D Constraints. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 57(1). 381–391. 7 indexed citations

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Tal, Ido & Ron M. Roth. (2009). Concave programming upper bounds on the capacity of 2-D constraints. 1060–1064. 1 indexed citations

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Tal, Ido, Tuvi Etzion, & Ron M. Roth. (2009). On Row-by-Row Coding for 2-D Constraints. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 55(8). 3565–3576. 12 indexed citations

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