John Howie

6.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
100 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

John Howie is a scholar working on Computational Theory and Mathematics, Management Science and Operations Research and Geometry and Topology. According to data from OpenAlex, John Howie has authored 100 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 55 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics, 21 papers in Management Science and Operations Research and 18 papers in Geometry and Topology. Recurrent topics in John Howie's work include semigroups and automata theory (48 papers), Fuzzy and Soft Set Theory (21 papers) and Advanced Algebra and Logic (18 papers). John Howie is often cited by papers focused on semigroups and automata theory (48 papers), Fuzzy and Soft Set Theory (21 papers) and Advanced Algebra and Logic (18 papers). John Howie collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Slovakia and Portugal. John Howie's co-authors include Gracinda M. S. Gomes, Nik Ruškuc, John Isbell, R. McFadden, Peter M. Higgins, G. Lallement, N. D. Gilbert, Boris M. Schein, Stephen J. Pride and James D. Mitchell and has published in prestigious journals such as Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, Inventiones mathematicae and Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society.

In The Last Decade

John Howie

95 papers receiving 3.8k citations

Hit Papers

Fundamentals of Semigroup Theory 1976 2026 1992 2009 1995 1976 400 800 1.2k
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. Fundamentals of Semigroup Theory
    1995 1.3k citations John Howie profile →
  2. Introduction to Semigroup Theory
    1976 995 citations John Howie 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 Howie United Kingdom 23 3.6k 1.3k 1.1k 926 642 100 4.2k
G. B. Preston United States 12 2.5k 0.7× 846 0.7× 942 0.9× 740 0.8× 408 0.6× 45 3.1k
A. H. Clifford United States 15 2.9k 0.8× 928 0.7× 1.2k 1.2× 813 0.9× 454 0.7× 34 3.5k
Horst Herrlich Germany 22 1.4k 0.4× 1.2k 1.0× 864 0.8× 988 1.1× 558 0.9× 125 3.0k
John Isbell United States 28 866 0.2× 1.1k 0.9× 474 0.5× 884 1.0× 205 0.3× 132 2.5k
Michael Mislove United States 14 1.6k 0.4× 719 0.6× 887 0.8× 359 0.4× 691 1.1× 63 2.4k
Aleš Pultr Czechia 19 764 0.2× 662 0.5× 238 0.2× 751 0.8× 141 0.2× 130 1.5k
Robert F. Tichy Austria 20 610 0.2× 573 0.5× 125 0.1× 611 0.7× 311 0.5× 146 2.0k
Bjàrni Jónsson United States 28 1.7k 0.5× 452 0.4× 311 0.3× 683 0.7× 817 1.3× 68 2.3k
Bernhard Banaschewski Canada 25 730 0.2× 1.1k 0.9× 276 0.3× 1.3k 1.4× 186 0.3× 169 2.1k
L. Fuchs United States 20 941 0.3× 2.3k 1.8× 165 0.2× 2.7k 2.9× 175 0.3× 145 4.2k

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Fields of papers citing papers by John Howie

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All Works

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Howie, John, et al.. (2008). Rank Properties of the Semigroup of Singular Transformations on a Finite Set. Communications in Algebra. 36(7). 2581–2587. 7 indexed citations
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Howie, John, et al.. (2005). 4D time-lapse monitoring of Chirag Field. The Leading Edge. 24(9). 928–932. 4 indexed citations
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Howie, John, et al.. (2005). Developing the long-term seismic strategy for Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli, South Caspian Sea, Azerbaijan. The Leading Edge. 24(9). 934–939. 2 indexed citations
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Howie, John, et al.. (2005). The structure of elements in finite full transformation semigroups. Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society. 71(1). 69–74. 7 indexed citations
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Howie, John. (2003). Complex Analysis. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 11 indexed citations
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Fahey, Tom & John Howie. (2001). Re-evaluation of a randomized controlled trial of antibiotics for minor respiratory illness in general practice. Family Practice. 18(3). 246–248. 10 indexed citations
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Howie, John. (1999). Walter Douglas Munn. Semigroup Forum. 59(1). 1–8. 2 indexed citations
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Howie, John. (1998). Free subgroups in groups of small deficiency. Journal of Group Theory. 1(1). 17 indexed citations
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Howie, John, et al.. (1995). Finite generalized triangle groups. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 347(9). 3613–3623. 9 indexed citations
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Howie, John. (1995). Fundamentals of Semigroup Theory. 1288 indexed citations breakdown →
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Howie, John, et al.. (1993). The Groups (2, 3, p; q); Asphericity and a Conjecture of Coxeter. Journal of Algebra. 154(2). 289–309. 13 indexed citations
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Howie, John. (1989). Embedding semigroups in nilpotent-generated semigroups. Mathematica Slovaca. 39(1). 47–54.
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Howie, John, Edmund F. Robertson, & Boris M. Schein. (1988). A combinatorial property of finite full transformation semigroups. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A Mathematics. 109(3-4). 319–328. 15 indexed citations
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Gomes, Gracinda M. S. & John Howie. (1987). On the ranks of certain finite semigroups of transformations. Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 101(3). 395–403. 62 indexed citations
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Gomes, Gracinda M. S. & John Howie. (1987). Nilpotents in finite symmetric inverse semigroups. Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society. 30(3). 383–395. 28 indexed citations
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Howie, John. (1976). Desert island books: A distinguished college. BMJ. 2(6042). 991–991. 2 indexed citations
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Howie, John. (1971). Products of idempotents in certain semigroups of transformations. Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society. 17(3). 223–236. 82 indexed citations
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Howie, John & John Isbell. (1967). Epimorphisms and dominions. II. Journal of Algebra. 6(1). 7–21. 78 indexed citations
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Howie, John. (1964). THE EMBEDDING OF SEMIGROUP AMALGAMS. The Quarterly Journal of Mathematics. 15(1). 277–277. 4 indexed citations

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