Jonathan Richard Shewchuk

11.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
61 papers, 5.8k citations indexed

About

Jonathan Richard Shewchuk is a scholar working on Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, Computational Mechanics and Signal Processing. According to data from OpenAlex, Jonathan Richard Shewchuk has authored 61 papers receiving a total of 5.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, 20 papers in Computational Mechanics and 13 papers in Signal Processing. Recurrent topics in Jonathan Richard Shewchuk's work include Computational Geometry and Mesh Generation (46 papers), Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques (21 papers) and 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis (14 papers). Jonathan Richard Shewchuk is often cited by papers focused on Computational Geometry and Mesh Generation (46 papers), Computer Graphics and Visualization Techniques (21 papers) and 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis (14 papers). Jonathan Richard Shewchuk collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Greece. Jonathan Richard Shewchuk's co-authors include James F. O’Brien, François Labelle, David R. O’Hallaron, Chen Shen, Siu-Wing Cheng, Tamal K. Dey, Gary L. Miller, Martin Isenburg, Loukas F. Kallivokas and Omar Ghattas and has published in prestigious journals such as Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, ACM Transactions on Graphics and SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization.

In The Last Decade

Jonathan Richard Shewchuk

60 papers receiving 5.4k citations

Hit Papers

An Introduction to the Co... 1994 2026 2004 2015 1994 2002 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. An Introduction to the Conjugate Gradient Method Without the Agonizing Pain
    1994 1.3k citations Jonathan Richard Shewchuk profile →
  2. Delaunay refinement algorithms for triangular mesh generation
    2002 818 citations Jonathan Richard Shewchuk Computational Geometry profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Jonathan Richard Shewchuk United States 31 2.4k 2.3k 1.2k 475 443 61 5.8k
Franz Aurenhammer Austria 19 1.8k 0.8× 693 0.3× 1.2k 1.0× 368 0.8× 496 1.1× 105 4.8k
David Levin Israel 32 2.7k 1.1× 4.3k 1.8× 1.8k 1.6× 338 0.7× 130 0.3× 96 6.4k
Mark de Berg Netherlands 26 3.0k 1.2× 979 0.4× 2.6k 2.2× 456 1.0× 645 1.5× 204 7.8k
Rüdiger Westermann Germany 41 2.7k 1.1× 2.0k 0.8× 2.7k 2.3× 141 0.3× 139 0.3× 181 5.8k
Wayne Tiller United States 24 1.8k 0.7× 5.2k 2.2× 1.4k 1.2× 147 0.3× 166 0.4× 42 7.4k
Gerald Farin United States 33 2.6k 1.1× 5.0k 2.1× 1.5k 1.3× 109 0.2× 133 0.3× 107 6.6k
Otfried Cheong South Korea 15 1.6k 0.7× 605 0.3× 1.4k 1.2× 261 0.5× 434 1.0× 67 4.6k
Larry L. Schumaker United States 42 1.6k 0.6× 5.9k 2.5× 1.6k 1.4× 173 0.4× 226 0.5× 192 9.3k
R. K. Beatson New Zealand 22 853 0.4× 1.7k 0.7× 792 0.7× 208 0.4× 215 0.5× 55 3.1k
Robert M. Kirby United States 35 678 0.3× 2.0k 0.9× 559 0.5× 138 0.3× 357 0.8× 145 3.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Jonathan Richard Shewchuk

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jonathan Richard Shewchuk

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Shewchuk, Jonathan Richard, et al.. (2021). Restricted Constrained Delaunay Triangulations. DROPS (Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics). 2 indexed citations
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Biedl, Thérèse, et al.. (2016). Realizing Farthest-Point Voronoi Diagrams.. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 48–56. 1 indexed citations
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Shewchuk, Jonathan Richard & Brielin C. Brown. (2015). Fast segment insertion and incremental construction of constrained Delaunay triangulations. Computational Geometry. 48(8). 554–574. 12 indexed citations
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Shewchuk, Jonathan Richard. (2014). Reprint of: Delaunay refinement algorithms for triangular mesh generation. Computational Geometry. 47(7). 741–778. 32 indexed citations
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Shewchuk, Jonathan Richard & Hang Si. (2014). Higher-Quality Tetrahedral Mesh Generation for Domains with Small Angles by Constrained Delaunay Refinement. 290–299. 7 indexed citations
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Shewchuk, Jonathan Richard. (2013). Lecture Notes on Geometric Robustness. 10 indexed citations
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Si, Hang & Jonathan Richard Shewchuk. (2013). Incrementally constructing and updating constrained Delaunay tetrahedralizations with finite-precision coordinates. Engineering With Computers. 30(2). 253–269. 16 indexed citations
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Shewchuk, Jonathan Richard, et al.. (2012). Updated sparse cholesky factors for corotational elastodynamics. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 31(5). 1–13. 50 indexed citations
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Wicke, Martin, et al.. (2010). Dynamic local remeshing for elastoplastic simulation. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 29(4). 1–11. 108 indexed citations
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Chentanez, Nuttapong, Bryan E. Feldman, François Labelle, James F. O’Brien, & Jonathan Richard Shewchuk. (2007). Liquid simulation on lattice-based tetrahedral meshes. 219–228. 70 indexed citations
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Isenburg, Martin, Peter Lindström, Stefan Gumhold, & Jonathan Richard Shewchuk. (2006). Streaming compression of tetrahedral volume meshes. University of North Texas Digital Library (University of North Texas). 115–121. 23 indexed citations
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Isenburg, Martin, Yuanxin Liu, Jonathan Richard Shewchuk, & Jack Snoeyink. (2006). Streaming computation of Delaunay triangulations. 1049–1049. 41 indexed citations
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Shen, Chen, James F. O’Brien, & Jonathan Richard Shewchuk. (2005). Interpolating and approximating implicit surfaces from polygon soup. 204–204. 7 indexed citations
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Shen, Chen, James F. O’Brien, & Jonathan Richard Shewchuk. (2004). Interpolating and approximating implicit surfaces from polygon soup. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 23(3). 896–904. 226 indexed citations
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Shewchuk, Jonathan Richard, et al.. (2003). The Strange Complexity of Constrained Delaunay Triangulation.. Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry. 89–93. 4 indexed citations
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Shewchuk, Jonathan Richard. (2002). Constrained Delaunay Tetrahedralizations and Provably Good Boundary Recovery.. IMR. 193–204. 86 indexed citations
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Shewchuk, Jonathan Richard. (2002). Delaunay refinement algorithms for triangular mesh generation. Computational Geometry. 22(1-3). 21–74. 818 indexed citations breakdown →
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Shewchuk, Jonathan Richard. (1998). A condition guaranteeing the existence of higher-dimensional constrained Delaunay triangulations. 76–85. 65 indexed citations
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Feldmann, Anja, Omar Ghattas, James Gilbert, et al.. (1996). Automated Parallel Solution of Unstructured PDE Problems. 3 indexed citations
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Haigh, Karen Zita, Jonathan Richard Shewchuk, & Manuela Veloso. (1994). Route Planning and Learning from Execution. 4 indexed citations

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