Paul Abrahams

1.8k total citations
43 papers, 718 citations indexed

About

Paul Abrahams is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Computer Networks and Communications and Hardware and Architecture. According to data from OpenAlex, Paul Abrahams has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 718 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 7 papers in Computer Networks and Communications and 7 papers in Hardware and Architecture. Recurrent topics in Paul Abrahams's work include Logic, programming, and type systems (8 papers), Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques (6 papers) and Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms (5 papers). Paul Abrahams is often cited by papers focused on Logic, programming, and type systems (8 papers), Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques (6 papers) and Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms (5 papers). Paul Abrahams collaborates with scholars based in United States. Paul Abrahams's co-authors include Jean Ε. Sammet, Niklaus Wirth, Philip J. Kiviat, Harry M. Markowitz, Peter Wegner, Ralph E. Griswold, Michael I. Levin, Timothy P. Hart, Daniel Edwards and John McCarthy and has published in prestigious journals such as Communications of the ACM, Mathematics of Computation and IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.

In The Last Decade

Paul Abrahams

37 papers receiving 539 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Paul Abrahams United States 13 329 178 144 136 122 43 718
Ole-Johan Dahl Norway 9 396 1.2× 167 0.9× 260 1.8× 154 1.1× 144 1.2× 19 793
Jean Ε. Sammet United States 12 326 1.0× 136 0.8× 115 0.8× 65 0.5× 145 1.2× 59 659
Chaim Katz Brazil 4 549 1.7× 347 1.9× 134 0.9× 198 1.5× 129 1.1× 8 947
D Barstow United States 14 495 1.5× 171 1.0× 160 1.1× 110 0.8× 336 2.8× 40 768
Julie Sussman United States 3 516 1.6× 226 1.3× 221 1.5× 186 1.4× 197 1.6× 5 928
Erik Sandewall Sweden 15 821 2.5× 186 1.0× 270 1.9× 107 0.8× 202 1.7× 67 1.2k
Bernard Vauquois France 8 636 1.9× 354 2.0× 134 0.9× 199 1.5× 131 1.1× 17 1.0k
Henry Ledgard United States 14 517 1.6× 205 1.2× 288 2.0× 275 2.0× 330 2.7× 51 1.0k
Alan Hartman Israel 17 398 1.2× 178 1.0× 113 0.8× 126 0.9× 183 1.5× 51 1.1k
H. James Hoover Canada 12 372 1.1× 237 1.3× 104 0.7× 64 0.5× 240 2.0× 35 721

Countries citing papers authored by Paul Abrahams

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Fields of papers citing papers by Paul Abrahams

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Paul Abrahams

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Paul Abrahams. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Paul Abrahams 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 Paul Abrahams. Paul Abrahams 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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Abrahams, Paul, et al.. (1995). UNIX for the impatient (2nd ed.). Addison-Wesley Longman Publishing Co., Inc. eBooks. 2 indexed citations
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Abrahams, Paul. (1993). Typographical extensions for programming languages. ACM SIGPLAN Notices. 28(2). 61–68. 5 indexed citations
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Abrahams, Paul. (1992). Software patents. ACM SIGPLAN Notices. 27(8). 87–88. 1 indexed citations
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Abrahams, Paul. (1988). The Strategic Defense Initiative - President's Letter.. Communications of the ACM. 31. 628–629. 1 indexed citations
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Abrahams, Paul. (1988). President's letter. Communications of the ACM. 31(5). 480–481. 5 indexed citations
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Abrahams, Paul. (1987). President's letter. Communications of the ACM. 30(6). 472–473. 3 indexed citations
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Abrahams, Paul. (1983). Subset/G PL/I and the PL/I Standard. 130–132.
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Abrahams, Paul. (1979). The map coloring problem. ACM SIGPLAN Notices. 14(4). 10–11. 2 indexed citations
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Abrahams, Paul & Lori A. Clarke. (1979). Compile-Time Analysis of Data List-Format List Correspondences. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. SE-5(6). 612–617. 2 indexed citations
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Abrahams, Paul. (1975). "Structured programming" considered harmful. ACM SIGPLAN Notices. 10(4). 13–24. 12 indexed citations
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Abrahams, Paul, et al.. (1975). A Mathematical Theory of Global Program Optimization. Mathematics of Computation. 29(132). 1158–1158. 38 indexed citations
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Abrahams, Paul & Ralph E. Griswold. (1974). The Macro Implementation of SNOBOL4. Mathematics of Computation. 28(125). 336–336. 28 indexed citations
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Abrahams, Paul & Boris Beizer. (1973). The Architecture and Engineering of Digital Computer Complexes. Mathematics of Computation. 27(121). 217–217. 18 indexed citations
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Abrahams, Paul, et al.. (1972). Computers in Undergraduate Science Education. Mathematics of Computation. 26(119). 810–810. 2 indexed citations
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Abrahams, Paul, et al.. (1971). Introduction to Computer Science. Mathematics of Computation. 25(114). 399–399. 4 indexed citations
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Abrahams, Paul. (1968). Letters to the editor: On “prime phrase” in Feldman and Gries paper. Communications of the ACM. 11(10). 657–657.
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Abrahams, Paul. (1966). Application of LISP to sequence prediction. Communications of the ACM. 9(8). 2 indexed citations
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Abrahams, Paul. (1966). A final solution to the Dangling else of ALGOL 60 and related languages. Communications of the ACM. 9(9). 679–682. 9 indexed citations
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Abrahams, Paul, et al.. (1963). QUANTITATIVE METHODS OF INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM EVALUATION,. Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC).
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McCarthy, John, Paul Abrahams, Daniel Edwards, Timothy P. Hart, & Michael I. Levin. (1962). LISP 1.5 Programmer's Manual. The MIT Press eBooks. 48 indexed citations

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