S. C. Johnson

9.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
53 papers, 5.7k citations indexed

About

S. C. Johnson is a scholar working on Computational Theory and Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence and Hardware and Architecture. According to data from OpenAlex, S. C. Johnson has authored 53 papers receiving a total of 5.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics, 14 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 13 papers in Hardware and Architecture. Recurrent topics in S. C. Johnson's work include Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques (13 papers), semigroups and automata theory (8 papers) and Logic, programming, and type systems (7 papers). S. C. Johnson is often cited by papers focused on Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques (13 papers), semigroups and automata theory (8 papers) and Logic, programming, and type systems (7 papers). S. C. Johnson collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and France. S. C. Johnson's co-authors include Murray Hill, Alfred V. Aho, Dennis M. Ritchie, Michael Lesk, Brian W. Kernighan, Jeffrey D. Ullman, Randy Allen, W. Morven Gentleman, Andrew S. Kende and Louis N. Jungheim and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Chemical Communications.

In The Last Decade

S. C. Johnson

52 papers receiving 5.0k citations

Hit Papers

Hierarchical Clustering S... 1967 2026 1986 2006 1967 1978 1000 2.0k 3.0k
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. Hierarchical Clustering Schemes
    1967 3.3k citations S. C. Johnson profile →
  2. Yacc : Yet Another Compiler Compiler
    1978 777 citations S. C. Johnson, Murray Hill profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
S. C. Johnson 2.1k 810 697 693 637 53 5.7k
Edwin V. Bonilla 2.0k 1.0× 599 0.7× 592 0.8× 914 1.3× 304 0.5× 37 4.3k
Peter Henderson 1.8k 0.9× 834 1.0× 662 0.9× 203 0.3× 524 0.8× 180 5.1k
Dennis Kibler 3.8k 1.9× 1.3k 1.6× 616 0.9× 111 0.2× 533 0.8× 55 6.4k
V.I. Levenshtein 4.3k 2.1× 1.5k 1.9× 996 1.4× 169 0.2× 751 1.2× 48 7.5k
Sheldon M. Ross 1.6k 0.8× 518 0.6× 3.0k 4.4× 254 0.4× 665 1.0× 212 13.0k
Edward M. Reingold 1.4k 0.7× 402 0.5× 899 1.3× 241 0.3× 957 1.5× 76 6.4k
Lawrence Davis 3.8k 1.8× 379 0.5× 835 1.2× 197 0.3× 1.4k 2.2× 26 8.8k
J. Laurie Snell 1.8k 0.9× 222 0.3× 981 1.4× 134 0.2× 1.5k 2.4× 77 8.5k
William Shakespeare 3.7k 1.8× 541 0.7× 887 1.3× 156 0.2× 1.6k 2.5× 554 12.6k
Wolfgang Banzhaf 4.6k 2.3× 513 0.6× 778 1.1× 130 0.2× 1.1k 1.7× 231 7.7k

Countries citing papers authored by S. C. Johnson

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Fields of papers citing papers by S. C. Johnson

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by S. C. Johnson. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by S. C. Johnson. The network helps show where S. C. Johnson may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of S. C. Johnson

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of S. C. Johnson. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of S. C. Johnson 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 S. C. Johnson. S. C. Johnson 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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Pisani, R. P., T. K. Hemmick, Hua Chung, et al.. (1999). A prototype HBD for PHENIX. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment. 433(1-2). 212–216. 1 indexed citations
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HAND, E. S., S. C. Johnson, & David C. Baker. (1997). Magnesium Methyl Carbonate-Activated Alkylation of Methyl Ketones with an ω-Halo Nitrile, Esters, and Amides. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 62(5). 1348–1355. 10 indexed citations
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Johnson, S. C., et al.. (1995). 1l-2,3:4,5-bis-O-(tetraisopropyldisiloxane-1,3-diyl)-chiro-inositol: a useful intermediate for the preparation of several novel cyclitols. Carbohydrate Research. 266(2). 301–307. 4 indexed citations
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DeBenedictis, Erik P. & S. C. Johnson. (1993). I/O for TFLOPS Supercomputers.. PPSC. 751–758. 1 indexed citations
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Johnson, S. C., et al.. (1993). Synthesis of the 3-deoxy-3-C-(phosphonomethyl) analogue of 1d-myo-inositol 3-(dihydrogenphosphate). Carbohydrate Research. 250(2). 315–321. 3 indexed citations
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DeBenedictis, Erik P. & S. C. Johnson. (1993). Extending Unix for scalable computing. Computer. 26(11). 43–53. 7 indexed citations
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Johnson, S. C. & Ravi Sethi. (1990). Yacc: a parser generator. 347–374. 18 indexed citations
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Johnson, S. C.. (1990). Hot chips and soggy software. IEEE Micro. 10(1). 23–26. 2 indexed citations
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Johnson, S. C.. (1988). YACC meets C. 1. 159–167. 3 indexed citations
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Allen, Randy & S. C. Johnson. (1988). Compiling C for vectorization, parallelization, and inline expansion. ACM SIGPLAN Notices. 23(7). 241–249. 53 indexed citations
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Johnson, S. C. & Dennis M. Ritchie. (1986). Portability of C programs and the UNIX system. Prentice-Hall, Inc eBooks. 114–141. 10 indexed citations
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Johnson, S. C., Thomas J. Bailey, Robert R. Becker, & Janet M. Cardenas. (1979). Isolation and sequence determination of a peptide located in or near the active site of bovine muscle pyruvate kinase. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 90(2). 525–530. 16 indexed citations
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Johnson, S. C. & Murray Hill. (1978). Yacc : Yet Another Compiler Compiler. 2. 353–387. 777 indexed citations breakdown →
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Johnson, S. C. & Murray Hill. (1978). Lint, a C Program Checker. 192 indexed citations
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Aho, Alfred V. & S. C. Johnson. (1976). Optimal Code Generation for Expression Trees. Journal of the ACM. 23(3). 488–501. 159 indexed citations
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Gentleman, W. Morven & S. C. Johnson. (1974). The evaluation of determinants by expansion by minors and the general problem of substitution. Mathematics of Computation. 28(126). 543–548. 9 indexed citations
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Aho, Alfred V. & S. C. Johnson. (1974). LR Parsing. ACM Computing Surveys. 6(2). 99–124. 77 indexed citations

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