S. Kullback

25.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
59 papers, 16.7k citations indexed

About

S. Kullback is a scholar working on Statistics and Probability, Artificial Intelligence and Physical and Theoretical Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, S. Kullback has authored 59 papers receiving a total of 16.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Statistics and Probability, 10 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 7 papers in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry. Recurrent topics in S. Kullback's work include Advanced Statistical Methods and Models (15 papers), Statistical Methods and Inference (8 papers) and History and advancements in chemistry (7 papers). S. Kullback is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Statistical Methods and Models (15 papers), Statistical Methods and Inference (8 papers) and History and advancements in chemistry (7 papers). S. Kullback collaborates with scholars based in United States and Egypt. S. Kullback's co-authors include Meyer Dwass, D. V. Lindley, Sasanka Roy, C. T. Ireland, H. H. Ku, C. C. Craig, D. V. Gokhale, Imre Csiszár, C. L. Mallows and Harry H. Ku and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Statistical Association, Journal of Applied Physics and Econometrica.

In The Last Decade

S. Kullback

54 papers receiving 15.5k citations

Hit Papers

On Information and Sufficiency 1951 2026 1976 2001 1951 1960 1959 4.0k 8.0k 12.0k
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. On Information and Sufficiency
    1951 12.8k citations S. Kullback et al. The Annals of Mathematical Statistics profile →
  2. Information Theory and Statistics.
    1960 1.1k citations Meyer Dwass, S. Kullback American Mathematical Monthly profile →
  3. Information Theory and Statistics.
    1959 652 citations S. Kullback et al. Journal of the American Statistical Association profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
S. Kullback United States 26 5.1k 2.4k 2.0k 1.9k 1.4k 59 16.7k
Irene A. Stegun United States 12 2.4k 0.5× 2.1k 0.8× 3.7k 1.9× 1.1k 0.6× 1.1k 0.8× 19 38.0k
Milton Abramowitz United States 21 3.0k 0.6× 2.7k 1.1× 5.4k 2.7× 1.3k 0.7× 1.6k 1.1× 30 51.4k
N. Metropolis United States 19 3.4k 0.7× 2.4k 1.0× 2.2k 1.1× 1.0k 0.6× 3.3k 2.4× 71 28.3k
J. Friedman United States 25 5.1k 1.0× 1.9k 0.8× 522 0.3× 2.3k 1.2× 2.6k 1.9× 49 21.3k
Edward Teller United States 24 3.3k 0.7× 2.4k 1.0× 1.9k 0.9× 1.0k 0.5× 3.4k 2.4× 122 28.3k
Emanuel Parzen United States 40 3.7k 0.7× 3.2k 1.3× 657 0.3× 1.6k 0.9× 562 0.4× 114 15.8k
J. A. Hartigan United States 35 6.9k 1.3× 2.1k 0.9× 913 0.5× 3.3k 1.8× 2.9k 2.0× 83 22.2k
M. N. Rosenbluth United States 72 3.5k 0.7× 2.4k 1.0× 3.4k 1.7× 1.0k 0.5× 4.2k 3.0× 298 48.4k
M. G. Kendall United Kingdom 47 3.0k 0.6× 4.1k 1.7× 723 0.4× 737 0.4× 1.0k 0.7× 161 29.9k
E. T. Jaynes United States 28 6.8k 1.3× 1.2k 0.5× 6.4k 3.2× 731 0.4× 1.1k 0.8× 53 22.8k

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Fields of papers citing papers by S. Kullback

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of S. Kullback

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Kullback, S., et al.. (1987). Topics in Statistical Information Theory. Lecture notes in statistics. 39 indexed citations
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Kullback, S., et al.. (1985). The minimum discrimination information approach to the analysis of contingency tables. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis. 3. 133–141. 1 indexed citations
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Gokhale, D. V. & S. Kullback. (1978). The minimum discrimination information approach in analyzing categorical data. Communication in Statistics- Theory and Methods. 7(10). 987–1005. 11 indexed citations
4.
Ku, Harry H. & S. Kullback. (1974). Loglinear Models in Contingency Table Analysis. The American Statistician. 28(4). 115–122. 30 indexed citations
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Kullback, S.. (1973). Estimating and Testing Linear Hypotheses on Parameters in the Log‐linear Model. Biometrische Zeitschrift. 15(6). 371–388. 6 indexed citations
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Kullback, S. & Marian R. Fisher. (1973). Partitioning Second-Order Interaction in Three-Way Contingency Tables. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C (Applied Statistics). 22(2). 172–172. 6 indexed citations
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Kullback, S.. (1971). Marginal Homogeneity of Multidimensional Contingency Tables. The Annals of Mathematical Statistics. 42(2). 594–606. 28 indexed citations
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Kullback, S.. (1969). A Bound for the Variation of Gaussian Densities. The Annals of Mathematical Statistics. 40(6). 2180–2182.
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Kullback, S.. (1969). Information Theory and Reliable Communication (R. G. Gallager). SIAM Review. 11(4). 633–634. 1 indexed citations
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Kullback, S., et al.. (1969). Symmetry and Marginal Homogeneity of an r × r Contingency Table. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 64(328). 1323–1323. 11 indexed citations
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Kullback, S.. (1968). On the convergence of discrimination information (Corresp.). IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 14(5). 765–766. 12 indexed citations
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Kullback, S.. (1967). An Extension of an Information-Theoretic Derivation of Certain Limit Relations for a Markov Chain. SIAM Journal on Control. 5(1). 51–53. 2 indexed citations
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Kullback, S.. (1967). On Testing Correlation Matrices. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C (Applied Statistics). 16(1). 80–80. 37 indexed citations
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Kullback, S., et al.. (1966). A Note on Minimum Discrimination Information. The Annals of Mathematical Statistics. 37(1). 279–280. 27 indexed citations
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Kullback, S., et al.. (1962). Tests for Contingency Tables and Markov Chains. Technometrics. 4(4). 573–573. 48 indexed citations
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Dwass, Meyer & S. Kullback. (1960). Information Theory and Statistics.. American Mathematical Monthly. 67(3). 310–310. 1070 indexed citations breakdown →
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Craig, C. C. & S. Kullback. (1960). Information Theory and Statistics. Mathematics of Computation. 14(72). 387–387. 113 indexed citations
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Kullback, S., et al.. (1957). ON THE ANALYSIS OF MULTIPLE REGRESSION IN k CATEGORIES. Biometrika. 44(1-2). 67–83. 30 indexed citations
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Kullback, S.. (1953). A Note on Information Theory. Journal of Applied Physics. 24(1). 106–107. 4 indexed citations
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Kullback, S., et al.. (1951). On Information and Sufficiency. The Annals of Mathematical Statistics. 22(1). 79–86. 12779 indexed citations breakdown →

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