M. D. McIlroy

1.2k total citations
22 papers, 706 citations indexed

About

M. D. McIlroy is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Computer Networks and Communications and Computational Theory and Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, M. D. McIlroy has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 706 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 6 papers in Computer Networks and Communications and 6 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics. Recurrent topics in M. D. McIlroy's work include Algorithms and Data Compression (9 papers), Logic, programming, and type systems (6 papers) and Advanced Database Systems and Queries (4 papers). M. D. McIlroy is often cited by papers focused on Algorithms and Data Compression (9 papers), Logic, programming, and type systems (6 papers) and Advanced Database Systems and Queries (4 papers). M. D. McIlroy collaborates with scholars based in United States and Ireland. M. D. McIlroy's co-authors include Jon Bentley, James A. Reeds, D. J. O’Sullivan, M. J. Whelton and C. H. Walsh and has published in prestigious journals such as Communications of the ACM, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America and ACM Transactions on Graphics.

In The Last Decade

M. D. McIlroy

21 papers receiving 622 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
M. D. McIlroy United States 13 376 179 166 125 112 22 706
Irene Finocchi Italy 15 186 0.5× 323 1.8× 144 0.9× 81 0.6× 131 1.2× 63 658
H. James Hoover Canada 12 372 1.0× 104 0.6× 240 1.4× 69 0.6× 237 2.1× 35 721
Shojiro Tagawa Japan 3 129 0.3× 100 0.6× 109 0.7× 403 3.2× 110 1.0× 8 666
Leland L. Beck United States 10 174 0.5× 187 1.0× 121 0.7× 63 0.5× 124 1.1× 27 645
Flemming Friche Rodler Denmark 7 382 1.0× 599 3.3× 153 0.9× 153 1.2× 93 0.8× 7 888
Stanley M. Selkow United States 13 245 0.7× 134 0.7× 108 0.7× 112 0.9× 416 3.7× 37 795
Stephen Alstrup Denmark 14 281 0.7× 194 1.1× 34 0.2× 56 0.4× 300 2.7× 43 604
W. W. Bledsoe United States 17 864 2.3× 172 1.0× 92 0.6× 197 1.6× 402 3.6× 40 1.3k
Daniel M. Roy United States 13 659 1.8× 270 1.5× 107 0.6× 121 1.0× 103 0.9× 51 1.1k
T. Lewis United States 14 257 0.7× 767 4.3× 330 2.0× 170 1.4× 169 1.5× 62 1.3k

Countries citing papers authored by M. D. McIlroy

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Fields of papers citing papers by M. D. McIlroy

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of M. D. McIlroy

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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McIlroy, M. D., et al.. (2008). An Algorithm for Differential File Comparison. 167 indexed citations
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McIlroy, M. D.. (2004). Enumerating the strings of regular languages. Journal of Functional Programming. 14(5). 503–518. 8 indexed citations
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McIlroy, M. D.. (2001). The music of streams. Information Processing Letters. 77(2-4). 189–195. 10 indexed citations
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McIlroy, M. D.. (1999). A killer adversary for quicksort. Software Practice and Experience. 29(4). 341–344. 16 indexed citations
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McIlroy, M. D.. (1999). Power series, power serious. Journal of Functional Programming. 9(3). 325–337. 18 indexed citations
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McIlroy, M. D.. (1999). A killer adversary for quicksort. Software Practice and Experience. 29(4). 341–344. 13 indexed citations
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McIlroy, M. D.. (1998). FUNCTIONAL PEARLS Power Series, Power Serious. 3 indexed citations
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McIlroy, M. D., et al.. (1993). Engineering radix sort. 6(1). 5–27. 49 indexed citations
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Bentley, Jon & M. D. McIlroy. (1993). Engineering a sort function. Software Practice and Experience. 23(11). 1249–1265. 96 indexed citations
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McIlroy, M. D. & James A. Reeds. (1992). Multilevel security in the UNIX tradition. Software Practice and Experience. 22(8). 673–694. 59 indexed citations
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McIlroy, M. D.. (1992). Getting raster ellipses right. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 11(3). 259–275. 10 indexed citations
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McIlroy, M. D.. (1990). Squinting at power series. Software Practice and Experience. 20(7). 661–683. 6 indexed citations
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McIlroy, M. D.. (1985). A Note on Discrete Representation of Lines. AT&T Technical Journal. 64(2). 481–490. 39 indexed citations
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McIlroy, M. D.. (1983). Best approximate circles on integer grids. ACM Transactions on Graphics. 2(4). 237–263. 51 indexed citations
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McIlroy, M. D.. (1982). The Number of States of a Dynamic Storage Allocation System. The Computer Journal. 25(3). 388–392. 1 indexed citations
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McIlroy, M. D., et al.. (1978). UNIX Time-Sharing System: Foreword. Bell System Technical Journal. 57(6). 1899–1904. 44 indexed citations
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McIlroy, M. D., et al.. (1976). Glucose tolerance in viral hepatitis. Irish Journal of Medical Science (1971 -). 145(1). 3–9. 1 indexed citations
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McIlroy, M. D.. (1974). The Number of 1’s in Binary Integers: Bounds and Extremal Properties. SIAM Journal on Computing. 3(4). 255–261. 22 indexed citations
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McIlroy, M. D.. (1969). Alternatives to extensible languages. ACM SIGPLAN Notices. 4(8). 50–52. 1 indexed citations
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McIlroy, M. D.. (1960). Macro instruction extensions of compiler languages. Communications of the ACM. 3(4). 214–220. 58 indexed citations

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