J. Aczél

8.0k total citations · 3 hit papers
130 papers, 5.0k citations indexed

About

J. Aczél is a scholar working on Applied Mathematics, Management Science and Operations Research and Geometry and Topology. According to data from OpenAlex, J. Aczél has authored 130 papers receiving a total of 5.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Applied Mathematics, 17 papers in Management Science and Operations Research and 16 papers in Geometry and Topology. Recurrent topics in J. Aczél's work include Functional Equations Stability Results (32 papers), Multi-Criteria Decision Making (13 papers) and Mathematics and Applications (11 papers). J. Aczél is often cited by papers focused on Functional Equations Stability Results (32 papers), Multi-Criteria Decision Making (13 papers) and Mathematics and Applications (11 papers). J. Aczél collaborates with scholars based in Canada, Hungary and United States. J. Aczél's co-authors include F. Hahn, Thomas L. Saaty, Jean Dhombres, C. Alsina, C. T. Ng, Fred S. Roberts, Zoltán Daróczy, M. A. McKiernan, Bruno Forte and Gyula Maksa and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory and Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety.

In The Last Decade

J. Aczél

121 papers receiving 4.4k citations

Hit Papers

Lectures on Functional Equations and their Applications. 1968 2026 1987 2006 1968 1983 1989 500 1000 1.5k
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. Lectures on Functional Equations and their Applications.
    1968 1.8k citations J. Aczél et al. American Mathematical Monthly profile →
  2. Procedures for synthesizing ratio judgements
    1983 633 citations J. Aczél et al. profile →
  3. Functional Equations in Several Variables
    1989 621 citations J. Aczél 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
J. Aczél Canada 27 1.5k 1.5k 737 689 637 130 5.0k
John C. Nash Canada 20 874 0.6× 1.0k 0.7× 642 0.9× 284 0.4× 1.1k 1.8× 113 5.0k
Gustave Choquet France 13 1.7k 1.2× 421 0.3× 675 0.9× 770 1.1× 346 0.5× 45 3.1k
Charalambos D. Aliprantis United States 26 1.1k 0.7× 1.6k 1.0× 1.0k 1.4× 231 0.3× 1.9k 3.0× 121 5.5k
Kim C. Border United States 14 1.2k 0.8× 334 0.2× 624 0.8× 214 0.3× 1.6k 2.4× 25 3.2k
Barry C. Arnold United States 35 2.0k 1.3× 1.4k 0.9× 1.2k 1.6× 1.9k 2.7× 887 1.4× 244 11.1k
F. Hahn United States 14 497 0.3× 604 0.4× 468 0.6× 313 0.5× 310 0.5× 25 2.6k
Paul Dupuis United States 37 1.1k 0.7× 436 0.3× 827 1.1× 398 0.6× 536 0.8× 113 5.3k
Б. Л. С. Пракаса Рао India 23 746 0.5× 498 0.3× 287 0.4× 539 0.8× 611 1.0× 202 4.3k
PE United States 15 797 0.5× 279 0.2× 510 0.7× 941 1.4× 696 1.1× 25 5.4k
Ludger Rüschendorf Germany 34 1.7k 1.2× 588 0.4× 237 0.3× 500 0.7× 809 1.3× 195 4.2k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of J. Aczél

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Aczél, J., et al.. (2024). Attack Graph Based Optimizations of Firewall Rules. 233–238.
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Gilányi, Attila, C. T. Ng, & J. Aczél. (2005). On a functional equation arising from comparison of utility representations. Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications. 304(2). 572–583. 2 indexed citations
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Aczél, J., et al.. (2000). FUNCTIONAL EQUATIONS IN THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES^1. Mathematica japonica. 52(3). 469–512. 13 indexed citations
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Aczél, J., Gyula Maksa, & Zsolt Páles. (2000). Solution of a functional equation arising in an axiomatization of the utility of binary gambles. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 129(2). 483–493. 6 indexed citations
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Aczél, J. & Jean‐Claude Falmagne. (1999). Consistency of Monomial and Difference Representations of Functions Arising from Empirical Phenomena. Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications. 234(2). 632–659. 6 indexed citations
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Aczél, J., Gyula Maksa, & Mark Taylor. (1997). Equations of Generalized Bisymmetry and of Consistent Aggregation: Weakly Surjective Solutions Which May Be Discontinuous at Places. Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications. 214(1). 22–35. 9 indexed citations
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Aczél, J. & Gyula Maksa. (1996). Solution of the Rectangularm×nGeneralized Bisymmetry Equation and of the Problem of Consistent Aggregation. Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications. 203(1). 104–126. 29 indexed citations
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Aczél, J., R. Duncan Luce, & Gyula Maksa. (1996). Solutions to Three Functional Equations Arising from Different Ways of Measuring Utility. Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications. 204(2). 451–471. 5 indexed citations
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Aczél, J.. (1990). Determining merged relative scores. Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications. 150(1). 20–40. 29 indexed citations
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Aczél, J. & Zsolt Páles. (1988). The Behaviour of Means Under Equal Increments of Their Variables. American Mathematical Monthly. 95(9). 856–860. 1 indexed citations
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Aczél, J. & C. Alsina. (1987). Synthesizing judgements: a functional equations approach. Mathematical Modelling. 9(3-5). 311–320. 41 indexed citations
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Aczél, J.. (1986). A Short Course on Functional Equations: Based Upon Recent Applications to the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety. 226. 112813–112813. 111 indexed citations
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Aczél, J., et al.. (1986). On scientific laws without dimensional constants. Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications. 119(1-2). 389–416. 56 indexed citations
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Aczél, J.. (1985). Solution of a system of functional-differential equations arising from an optimization problem. Linear Algebra and its Applications. 71. 9–13. 2 indexed citations
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Aczél, J. & C. T. Ng. (1983). Determination of all semisymmetric recursive information measures of multiplicative type on n positive discrete probability distributions. Linear Algebra and its Applications. 52-53. 1–30. 11 indexed citations
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Aczél, J. & Pl. Kannappan. (1978). A mixed theory of information. III. Inset entropies of degree β. Information and Control. 39(3). 315–322. 22 indexed citations
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Aczél, J.. (1975). Entropy and ergodic theory. 3 indexed citations
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Aczél, J., Bruno Forte, & C. T. Ng. (1974). Why the Shannon and Hartley entropies are ‘natural’. Advances in Applied Probability. 6(1). 131–146. 71 indexed citations
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Aczél, J. & Alexander Ostrowski. (1973). On the characterization of Shannon's entropy by Shannon's inequality. Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society. 16(3). 368–374. 6 indexed citations
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