Robert McGill

6.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
35 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

Robert McGill is a scholar working on Literature and Literary Theory, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert McGill has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Literature and Literary Theory, 7 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 5 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Robert McGill's work include Data Visualization and Analytics (7 papers), Visual perception and processing mechanisms (5 papers) and Contemporary Literature and Criticism (4 papers). Robert McGill is often cited by papers focused on Data Visualization and Analytics (7 papers), Visual perception and processing mechanisms (5 papers) and Contemporary Literature and Criticism (4 papers). Robert McGill collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Sweden. Robert McGill's co-authors include William S. Cleveland, Wayne A. Larsen, John W. Tukey, Persi Diaconis, Richard A. Becker, Lorraine Denby, Allan R. Wilks, Peter Falb, John Steinhoff and Andy Steven and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of the American Statistical Association and Mathematics of Computation.

In The Last Decade

Robert McGill

32 papers receiving 4.4k citations

Hit Papers

Variations of Box Plots 1978 2026 1994 2010 1978 1984 1978 500 1000 1.5k
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. Variations of Box Plots
    1978 1.8k citations Robert McGill et al. The American Statistician profile →
  2. Graphical Perception: Theory, Experimentation, and Application to the Development of Graphical Methods
    1984 987 citations William S. Cleveland, Robert McGill Journal of the American Statistical Association profile →
  3. Variations of Box Plots
    1978 501 citations Robert McGill et al. The American Statistician profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Robert McGill United States 17 1.6k 842 338 334 287 35 4.8k
Leland Wilkinson United States 29 1.2k 0.8× 908 1.1× 330 1.0× 836 2.5× 180 0.6× 75 6.1k
James A. Reeds United States 20 1.5k 0.9× 718 0.9× 253 0.7× 217 0.6× 219 0.8× 43 7.9k
Michael Friendly Canada 25 582 0.4× 582 0.7× 482 1.4× 246 0.7× 182 0.6× 87 3.4k
Patrick J. F. Groenen Netherlands 32 898 0.6× 1.1k 1.3× 298 0.9× 359 1.1× 146 0.5× 122 6.4k
Paul McCullagh United Kingdom 31 738 0.5× 657 0.8× 413 1.2× 723 2.2× 403 1.4× 181 6.4k
J. Douglas Carroll United States 35 679 0.4× 1.1k 1.3× 494 1.5× 530 1.6× 139 0.5× 119 8.4k
Ingwer Borg Germany 26 1.1k 0.7× 1.2k 1.4× 499 1.5× 293 0.9× 99 0.3× 95 7.0k
Glenn W. Milligan United States 23 519 0.3× 1.9k 2.3× 187 0.6× 422 1.3× 383 1.3× 40 7.8k
Fionn Murtagh United Kingdom 28 1.9k 1.2× 760 0.9× 129 0.4× 109 0.3× 324 1.1× 120 6.6k
Michael Thompson United States 14 1.4k 0.9× 1.5k 1.8× 413 1.2× 131 0.4× 60 0.2× 41 4.6k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Robert McGill

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Robert McGill

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Robert McGill. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Robert McGill 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 Robert McGill. Robert McGill 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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McGill, Robert, et al.. (2018). Negotiating Cultural Difference in Creative Writing Workshops. Pedagogy Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature Language Composition and Culture. 18(1). 69–86. 2 indexed citations
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McGill, Robert. (2017). War Is Here: The Vietnam War and Canadian Literature. 1 indexed citations
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McGill, Robert. (2014). The treacherous imagination: intimacy, ethics, and autobiographical fiction. Choice Reviews Online. 51(10). 51–5429. 4 indexed citations
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McGill, Robert. (2009). Biographical Desire and the Archives of Living Authors. a/b Auto/Biography Studies. 24(1). 129–145. 3 indexed citations
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McGill, Robert. (2007). “A Necessary Collaboration”: Biographical Desire and Elizabeth Smart. English studies in Canada. 33(3). 67–88. 1 indexed citations
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McGill, Robert. (2003). Goon poets of the black Atlantic: Linton Kwesi Johnson's imagined canon. Textual Practice. 17(3). 561–574. 3 indexed citations
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McGill, Robert. (2002). Somewhere I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You: Alice Munro’s Fiction of Distance. The Journal of Commonwealth Literature. 37(1). 9–29. 2 indexed citations
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McGill, Robert. (2000). The Sublime Simulacrum: Vancouver in Douglas Coupland's Geography of Apocalypse.. 252–276. 4 indexed citations
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Cleveland, William S., et al.. (1988). The Shape Parameter of a Two-Variable Graph. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 83(402). 289–300. 58 indexed citations
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Cleveland, William S., et al.. (1988). The Shape Parameter of a Two-Variable Graph. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 83(402). 289–289. 10 indexed citations
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Becker, Richard A., Lorraine Denby, Robert McGill, & Allan R. Wilks. (1987). Analysis of Data from the Places Rated Almanac. The American Statistician. 41(3). 169–186. 41 indexed citations
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Cleveland, William S. & Robert McGill. (1986). An experiment in graphical perception. International Journal of Man-Machine Studies. 25(5). 491–500. 106 indexed citations
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Cleveland, William S. & Robert McGill. (1984). The Many Faces of a Scatterplot. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 79(388). 807–822. 144 indexed citations
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Cleveland, William S. & Robert McGill. (1984). Graphical Perception: Theory, Experimentation, and Application to the Development of Graphical Methods. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 79(387). 531–554. 987 indexed citations breakdown →
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Cleveland, William S. & Robert McGill. (1983). A Color-Caused Optical Illusion on a Statistical Graph. The American Statistician. 37(2). 101–101. 15 indexed citations
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Cleveland, William S., et al.. (1982). Judgments of Circle Sizes on Statistical Maps. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 77(379). 541–547. 31 indexed citations
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McGill, Robert, et al.. (1972). Some Successive Approximation Methods in Control and Oscillation Theory. Mathematics of Computation. 26(120). 1019–1019. 31 indexed citations
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McGill, Robert. (1965). Optimum Control, Inequality State Constraints, and the Generalized Newton-Raphson Algorithm. 3(2). 291–298. 22 indexed citations
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McGill, Robert, et al.. (1964). Solution of variational problems by means of a generalized newton-raphson operator. AIAA Journal. 2(10). 1761–1766. 55 indexed citations

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