John Whaley

4.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
27 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

John Whaley is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Software and Hardware and Architecture. According to data from OpenAlex, John Whaley has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 11 papers in Software and 9 papers in Hardware and Architecture. Recurrent topics in John Whaley's work include Software Testing and Debugging Techniques (11 papers), Logic, programming, and type systems (10 papers) and Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques (9 papers). John Whaley is often cited by papers focused on Software Testing and Debugging Techniques (11 papers), Logic, programming, and type systems (10 papers) and Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques (9 papers). John Whaley collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and Ireland. John Whaley's co-authors include Monica S. Lam, Mayur Naik, Alex Aiken, Martin Rinard, Michael C. Martin, Michael C. Martin, David Grove, Michael Burke, Michael Hind and Jong-Deok Choi and has published in prestigious journals such as ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Science of Computer Programming and College & Research Libraries.

In The Last Decade

John Whaley

27 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

Effective static race detection for Java 2006 2026 2012 2019 2006 2006 100 200 300
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. Effective static race detection for Java
    2006 342 citations Mayur Naik, Alex Aiken et al. profile →
  2. Effective static race detection for Java
    2006 300 citations Mayur Naik, Alex Aiken et al. ACM SIGPLAN Notices 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 Whaley United States 16 1.3k 1.1k 975 947 935 27 2.4k
David Grove United States 28 1.4k 1.1× 1.8k 1.6× 590 0.6× 1.1k 1.1× 1.4k 1.5× 84 2.8k
Manuel Fähndrich United States 27 2.2k 1.7× 832 0.8× 900 0.9× 997 1.1× 816 0.9× 84 3.0k
Seth Hallem United States 12 1.0k 0.8× 534 0.5× 1.3k 1.3× 1.3k 1.3× 937 1.0× 14 2.5k
Tim Teitelbaum United States 23 1.3k 1.0× 566 0.5× 783 0.8× 957 1.0× 594 0.6× 45 2.2k
Manu Sridharan United States 26 1.3k 1.0× 761 0.7× 1.5k 1.6× 1.4k 1.5× 855 0.9× 77 2.8k
Benjamin Chelf United States 12 894 0.7× 466 0.4× 1.0k 1.1× 1.0k 1.1× 833 0.9× 14 2.0k
Julian Dolby United States 26 947 0.7× 760 0.7× 1.2k 1.2× 1.2k 1.3× 970 1.0× 83 2.5k
Cormac Flanagan United States 14 845 0.6× 1.2k 1.1× 721 0.7× 446 0.5× 1.0k 1.1× 31 2.0k
Gilad Bracha United States 17 2.0k 1.5× 541 0.5× 506 0.5× 1.2k 1.3× 788 0.8× 27 2.5k
Samuel Z. Guyer United States 19 1.1k 0.8× 1.1k 1.0× 628 0.6× 951 1.0× 1.1k 1.2× 41 2.2k

Countries citing papers authored by John Whaley

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Fields of papers citing papers by John Whaley

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John Whaley

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Birhane, Abeba, Vinay Uday Prabhu, & John Whaley. (2022). Auditing saliency cropping algorithms. 2022 IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV). 1515–1523. 15 indexed citations
2.
Lam, Monica S., Michael C. Martin, Benjamin Livshits, & John Whaley. (2008). Securing web applications with static and dynamic information flow tracking. 3–12. 76 indexed citations
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Lam, Monica S. & John Whaley. (2007). Context-sensitive pointer analysis using binary decision diagrams. 17 indexed citations
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Naik, Mayur, Alex Aiken, & John Whaley. (2006). Effective static race detection for Java. ACM SIGPLAN Notices. 41(6). 308–319. 300 indexed citations breakdown →
5.
Whaley, John. (2005). Joeq: A virtual machine and compiler infrastructure. Science of Computer Programming. 57(3). 339–356. 10 indexed citations
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Lam, Monica S., et al.. (2005). Context-sensitive program analysis as database queries. 1–12. 118 indexed citations
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Whaley, John & Christos Kozyrakis. (2005). Heuristics for Profile-Driven Method-Level Speculative Parallelization. 147–156. 13 indexed citations
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Whaley, John & Monica S. Lam. (2004). Cloning-based context-sensitive pointer alias analysis using binary decision diagrams. 131–144. 395 indexed citations
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Whaley, John & Monica S. Lam. (2004). Cloning-based context-sensitive pointer alias analysis using binary decision diagrams. ACM SIGPLAN Notices. 39(6). 131–144. 35 indexed citations
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Whaley, John, Michael C. Martin, & Monica S. Lam. (2002). Automatic extraction of object-oriented component interfaces. ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes. 35 indexed citations
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Whaley, John. (2001). Partial method compilation using dynamic profile information. ACM SIGPLAN Notices. 36(11). 166–179. 8 indexed citations
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Whaley, John. (2001). Partial method compilation using dynamic profile information. 166–179. 61 indexed citations
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Burke, Michael, Jong-Deok Choi, Stephen J. Fink, et al.. (1999). The Jalapeño dynamic optimizing compiler for Java. 129–141. 196 indexed citations
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Whaley, John & Martin Rinard. (1999). Compositional pointer and escape analysis for Java programs. ACM SIGPLAN Notices. 34(10). 187–206. 38 indexed citations
15.
Whaley, John. (1994). Digitizing History. The American Archivist. 57(4). 660–672. 3 indexed citations
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Whaley, John. (1987). Sources of information in the social sciences. Library Acquisitions Practice & Theory. 11(3). 267–269. 6 indexed citations
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Whaley, John. (1986). Professional ethics and librarians. Library Acquisitions Practice & Theory. 10(2). 161–162. 11 indexed citations
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Whaley, John, et al.. (1986). Reactions to "Funding Online Services from the Materials Budget". College & Research Libraries. 47(3). 230–237. 5 indexed citations
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Whaley, John. (1985). Acquisitions management and collection development in libraries. Library Acquisitions Practice & Theory. 9(3). 279–280. 15 indexed citations
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Whaley, John. (1981). An Approach to Collection Analysis.. Library Resources and Technical Services. 25(3). 9 indexed citations

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