Kristen Nygaard

3.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
30 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Kristen Nygaard is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Computer Networks and Communications and Software. According to data from OpenAlex, Kristen Nygaard has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 6 papers in Computer Networks and Communications and 6 papers in Software. Recurrent topics in Kristen Nygaard's work include Logic, programming, and type systems (6 papers), Software Engineering Research (5 papers) and Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems (5 papers). Kristen Nygaard is often cited by papers focused on Logic, programming, and type systems (6 papers), Software Engineering Research (5 papers) and Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems (5 papers). Kristen Nygaard collaborates with scholars based in Norway, Denmark and United States. Kristen Nygaard's co-authors include Ole-Johan Dahl, Ole Lehrmann Madsen, Morten Kyng, Gro Bjerknes, Pelle Ehn, Stein Gjessing, Olle Dahl, Birger Møller-Pedersen, Bent Bruun Kristensen and Lars Walløe and has published in prestigious journals such as Communications of the ACM, Marine Ecology Progress Series and ACM SIGPLAN Notices.

In The Last Decade

Kristen Nygaard

30 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

SIMULA: an ALGOL-based simulation language 1966 2026 1986 2006 1966 100 200 300 400

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Kristen Nygaard
Comparison fields: 5 of 120
  • Artificial Intelligence 832
  • Information Systems 545
  • Computer Networks and Communications 416
  • Human-Computer Interaction 350
  • Software 270
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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
# Work Indexed citations
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2
“Those were the days”? Or “Heroic times are here again”?
8
3
Object-Oriented Programming in the Beta Programming Language
265
4
Program development as a social activity
38
5 6
6 7
7
Computers and Democracy: A Scandinavian Challenge
491
8
Program Development as a Social Activity (Invited Paper).
6
9 1
10 31
11 8
12 35
13 13
14 3
15 39
16 1
17 59
18 32
19 12
20
SIMULA: an ALGOL-based simulation language breakdown →
458

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