John C. Doyle

66.5k total citations · 21 hit papers
327 papers, 41.1k citations indexed

About

John C. Doyle is a scholar working on Control and Systems Engineering, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, John C. Doyle has authored 327 papers receiving a total of 41.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 127 papers in Control and Systems Engineering, 55 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and 53 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in John C. Doyle's work include Stability and Control of Uncertain Systems (77 papers), Control Systems and Identification (46 papers) and Gene Regulatory Network Analysis (42 papers). John C. Doyle is often cited by papers focused on Stability and Control of Uncertain Systems (77 papers), Control Systems and Identification (46 papers) and Gene Regulatory Network Analysis (42 papers). John C. Doyle collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Australia. John C. Doyle's co-authors include K. Glover, Kemin Zhou, Bruce A. Francis, Pramod P. Khargonekar, G. Stein, Steven H. Low, Marie Csete, Allen Tannenbaum, Jean M. Carlson and Andrew Packard and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

John C. Doyle

313 papers receiving 38.3k citations

Hit Papers

State-space solutions to standard H/sub 2/ and H/sub infi... 1978 2026 1994 2010 1989 1997 1997 2002 1992 1000 2.0k 3.0k 4.0k
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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. State-space solutions to standard H/sub 2/ and H/sub infinity / control problems
    1989 4.1k citations John C. Doyle, K. Glover et al. profile →
  2. Robust and Optimal Control
    1997 3.2k citations Kemin Zhou, John C. Doyle et al. Automatica profile →
  3. Essentials of Robust Control
    1997 2.8k citations Kemin Zhou, John C. Doyle profile →
  4. Robust and optimal control
    2002 2.6k citations John C. Doyle profile →
  5. Feedback Control Theory
    1992 2.1k citations John C. Doyle et al. profile →
  6. Multivariable feedback design: Concepts for a classical/modern synthesis
    1981 1.6k citations John C. Doyle et al. profile →
  7. Analysis of feedback systems with structured uncertainties
    1982 1.2k citations John C. Doyle profile →
  8. Analysis of feedback systems with structured uncertainties
    1982 1.1k citations John C. Doyle profile →
  9. The complex structured singular value
    1993 1.1k citations Andrew Packard, John C. Doyle Automatica profile →
  10. State-space formulae for all stabilizing controllers that satisfy an H∞-norm bound and relations to relations to risk sensitivity
    1988 952 citations K. Glover, John C. Doyle profile →
  11. Layering as Optimization Decomposition: A Mathematical Theory of Network Architectures
    2007 951 citations Steven H. Low, John C. Doyle et al. profile →
  12. Reverse Engineering of Biological Complexity
    2002 834 citations John C. Doyle et al. profile →
  13. Robustness of Cellular Functions
    2004 788 citations John C. Doyle et al. profile →
  14. Robust perfect adaptation in bacterial chemotaxis through integral feedback control
    2000 735 citations John C. Doyle et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  15. State-space solutions to standard H2 and H∞ control problems
    1988 598 citations John C. Doyle, K. Glover et al. profile →
  16. Robustness in the presence of mixed parametric uncertainty and unmodeled dynamics
    1991 575 citations John C. Doyle et al. profile →
  17. Internet congestion control
    2002 554 citations Steven H. Low, Fernando Paganini et al. profile →
  18. Complexity and robustness
    2002 527 citations Jean M. Carlson, John C. Doyle Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  19. Robustness with observers
    1979 517 citations John C. Doyle et al. profile →
  20. Guaranteed margins for LQG regulators
    1978 514 citations John C. Doyle profile →
  21. Cross-Layer Congestion Control, Routing and Scheduling Design in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks
    2006 391 citations Lijun Chen, Steven H. Low 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
John C. Doyle United States 73 23.9k 5.5k 5.1k 4.8k 4.4k 327 41.1k
Brian D. O. Anderson Australia 90 18.8k 0.8× 12.2k 2.2× 7.4k 1.5× 4.4k 0.9× 534 0.1× 1.0k 39.5k
James Kennedy United States 23 16.4k 0.7× 7.3k 1.3× 17.2k 3.4× 1.2k 0.3× 2.4k 0.5× 38 77.0k
Stephen Boyd United States 99 19.4k 0.8× 23.9k 4.4× 26.8k 5.3× 3.3k 0.7× 2.1k 0.5× 441 91.4k
R.C. Eberhart United States 21 14.5k 0.6× 6.1k 1.1× 14.9k 2.9× 944 0.2× 1.9k 0.4× 48 65.1k
Eduardo D. Sontag United States 77 18.7k 0.8× 4.0k 0.7× 1.5k 0.3× 2.3k 0.5× 7.6k 1.7× 472 32.3k
Richard M. Murray United States 91 21.4k 0.9× 25.7k 4.7× 4.5k 0.9× 2.7k 0.6× 4.3k 1.0× 580 52.8k
Lennart Ljung Sweden 72 24.7k 1.0× 1.7k 0.3× 3.2k 0.6× 2.0k 0.4× 835 0.2× 509 38.3k
Jorge Nocedal United States 44 4.4k 0.2× 1.3k 0.2× 3.6k 0.7× 1.8k 0.4× 1.9k 0.4× 105 37.3k
Gene H. Golub United States 84 3.6k 0.1× 2.5k 0.5× 5.1k 1.0× 3.4k 0.7× 1.4k 0.3× 294 45.6k
R. E. Kalman United States 30 11.2k 0.5× 2.9k 0.5× 3.3k 0.6× 2.3k 0.5× 740 0.2× 61 33.4k

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All Works

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Wu, Ning, et al.. (2018). A Control-Theoretic Approach to In-Network Congestion Management. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. 26(6). 2443–2456. 2 indexed citations
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Lamperski, Andrew & John C. Doyle. (2013). The $H_2$ Control Problem for Decentralized Systems with Delays.. arXiv (Cornell University). 7 indexed citations
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Chen, Lijun, Na Li, Steven H. Low, & John C. Doyle. (2010). Two Market Models for Demand Response in Power Networks. 397–402. 216 indexed citations
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Low, Steven H., et al.. (2007). Layering as optimization decomposition. 12 indexed citations
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Andrew, Lachlan L. H., David X. Wei, B. Wydrowski, et al.. (2006). A WAN-in-Lab for Protocol Development. Swinburne Research Bank (Swinburne University of Technology). 2 indexed citations
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Doyle, John C., David Alderson, Lun Li, et al.. (2005). The “robust yet fragile” nature of the Internet. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(41). 14497–14502. 304 indexed citations
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Li, Lun, David Alderson, John C. Doyle, & Walter Willinger. (2005). Supplement to "Towards a Theory of Scale-Free Graphs: Definition, Properties, and Implications". Internet Mathematics. 2(4). 18 indexed citations
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Willinger, Walter, David Alderson, John C. Doyle, & Lun Li. (2004). More "normal" than normal: scaling distributions and complex systems. Winter Simulation Conference. 130–141. 31 indexed citations
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Jin, Chengzhi, David X. Wei, Steven H. Low, et al.. (2003). FAST TCP: From Background Theory to Experiments. 4 indexed citations
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Carlson, Jean M. & John C. Doyle. (1999). Highly optimized tolerance: A mechanism for power laws in designed systems. Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics. 60(2). 1412–1427. 345 indexed citations
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Zhou, Kemin, John C. Doyle, & K. Glover. (1997). Robust and Optimal Control. Automatica. 11(33). 2095. 3208 indexed citations breakdown →
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Doyle, John C. & Andrew Packard. (1987). Uncertain Multivariable Systems from a State Space Perspective. American Control Conference. 2147–2152. 19 indexed citations
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Lenz, Kathryn E., Pramod P. Khargonekar, & John C. Doyle. (1987). When is classical loop shaping H ∞ -optimal?. American Control Conference. 24(24). 617–621. 1 indexed citations
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Packard, Andrew & John C. Doyle. (1987). Robust Control with an H 2 Performance Objective. American Control Conference. 2141–2146. 10 indexed citations
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Doyle, John C., Roy S. Smith, & Dale Enns. (1987). Control of Plants with Input Saturation Nonlinearities. American Control Conference. 1034–1039. 148 indexed citations
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Doyle, John C. & Cheng-Chih Chu. (1985). Matrix interpolation and H ∞ performance bounds. American Control Conference. 129–134. 13 indexed citations
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Ardeman, S., I. Chanarin, & John C. Doyle. (1964). Studies on Secretion of Gastric Intrinsic Factor in Man. BMJ. 2(5409). 600–603. 64 indexed citations
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Doyle, John C.. (1961). Pott’s paraplegia treated by antero-lateral decompression. Irish Journal of Medical Science (1971 -). 36(5). 218–226. 1 indexed citations

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