Steven Fortune

6.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
58 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Steven Fortune is a scholar working on Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. According to data from OpenAlex, Steven Fortune has authored 58 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, 16 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 15 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Recurrent topics in Steven Fortune's work include Computational Geometry and Mesh Generation (25 papers), Advanced Optical Network Technologies (8 papers) and Millimeter-Wave Propagation and Modeling (6 papers). Steven Fortune is often cited by papers focused on Computational Geometry and Mesh Generation (25 papers), Advanced Optical Network Technologies (8 papers) and Millimeter-Wave Propagation and Modeling (6 papers). Steven Fortune collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Austria. Steven Fortune's co-authors include John E. Hopcroft, Reinaldo A. Valenzuela, Christopher J. Van Wyk, Gordon Wilfong, V. Erceg, Jonathan Ling, A.J. Rustako, Brian W. Kernighan, David M. Gay and Margaret H. Wright and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Communications Magazine and ACM Transactions on Graphics.

In The Last Decade

Steven Fortune

57 papers receiving 3.2k citations

Hit Papers

A sweepline algorithm for Voronoi diagrams 1978 2026 1994 2010 1987 1978 250 500 750
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. A sweepline algorithm for Voronoi diagrams
    1987 755 citations Steven Fortune profile →
  2. Parallelism in random access machines
    1978 556 citations Steven Fortune et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Steven Fortune United States 24 991 968 867 858 713 58 3.6k
F. P. Preparata United States 29 1.5k 1.5× 842 0.9× 932 1.1× 504 0.6× 1.0k 1.4× 88 3.9k
Michael T. Goodrich United States 38 1.7k 1.7× 1.7k 1.7× 829 1.0× 268 0.3× 1.1k 1.6× 235 4.8k
Philip N. Klein United States 28 509 0.5× 914 0.9× 1.5k 1.7× 252 0.3× 1.1k 1.5× 89 3.1k
Narendra Karmarkar United States 16 273 0.3× 922 1.0× 2.2k 2.6× 702 0.8× 209 0.3× 27 4.6k
Naga K. Govindaraju United States 33 1.0k 1.0× 2.4k 2.5× 332 0.4× 303 0.4× 1.8k 2.5× 80 5.5k
John Hershberger United States 36 2.4k 2.4× 1.2k 1.2× 534 0.6× 362 0.4× 1.6k 2.3× 136 4.4k
Emo Welzl Switzerland 34 2.5k 2.5× 718 0.7× 1.4k 1.6× 412 0.5× 1.4k 1.9× 133 4.2k
Zvi M. Kedem United States 20 800 0.8× 829 0.9× 203 0.2× 178 0.2× 720 1.0× 74 2.3k
L. Paul Chew United States 24 1.1k 1.2× 674 0.7× 251 0.3× 103 0.1× 965 1.4× 47 2.9k
Jorge Stolfi Brazil 22 1.4k 1.4× 199 0.2× 429 0.5× 278 0.3× 1.3k 1.8× 74 3.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Steven Fortune

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Fields of papers citing papers by Steven Fortune

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Steven Fortune

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Steven Fortune. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Steven Fortune 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 Steven Fortune. Steven Fortune 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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Fortune, Steven, et al.. (2025). Die Hard: The on-off cycle of galaxies on the star formation main sequence. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 704. A185–A185.
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Fortune, Steven. (2015). Equivalence and generalization in a layered network model. Journal of Computer and System Sciences. 81(8). 1698–1714. 3 indexed citations
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Francini, Andrea, et al.. (2015). A low-cost methodology for profiling the power consumption of network equipment. IEEE Communications Magazine. 53(5). 250–256. 3 indexed citations
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Fortune, Steven, et al.. (2013). Collector-based cell reordering in load-balanced switch fabrics. 1. 1–6. 1 indexed citations
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Fortune, Steven, et al.. (2010). Power-aware routing with rate-adaptive network elements. 1428–1432. 38 indexed citations
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Fortune, Steven, et al.. (2007). Economic modeling of global test strategy II: Software system and examples. Bell Labs Technical Journal. 12(1). 175–186. 3 indexed citations
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Fortune, Steven, et al.. (2007). Economic modeling of global test strategy I: Mathematical models. Bell Labs Technical Journal. 12(1). 161–173. 4 indexed citations
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Fortune, Steven. (2002). An Iterated Eigenvalue Algorithm for Approximating Roots of Univariate Polynomials. Journal of Symbolic Computation. 33(5). 627–646. 40 indexed citations
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Rizk, K., Reinaldo A. Valenzuela, Steven Fortune, Dmitry Chizhik, & F. E. Gardiol. (2002). Lateral, full-3D and vertical plane propagation in microcells and small cells. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 2. 998–1003. 38 indexed citations
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Kim, Seong-Cheol, T.M. Willis, V. Erceg, et al.. (1999). Radio propagation measurements and prediction using three-dimensional ray tracing in urban environments at 908 MHz and 1.9 GHz. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. 48(3). 931–946. 108 indexed citations
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Fortune, Steven & Christopher J. Van Wyk. (1994). Robust Implementation of Geometric Algorithms Using Exact Arithmetic. 233–248. 1 indexed citations
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Fortune, Steven & Gordon Wilfong. (1991). Planning constrained motion. Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence. 3(1). 21–82. 33 indexed citations
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Aronov, Boris, Steven Fortune, & Gordon Wilfong. (1991). Minimum-Speed Motions. The International Journal of Robotics Research. 10(3). 228–239. 13 indexed citations
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Fortune, Steven. (1989). Stable maintenance of point set triangulations in two dimensions. 494–499. 50 indexed citations
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Fortune, Steven. (1986). A sweepline algorithm for Voronoi diagrams. 313–322. 204 indexed citations
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Baker, Brenda S., Steven Fortune, & Stephen R. Mahaney. (1986). Polygon containment under translation. Journal of Algorithms. 7(4). 532–548. 20 indexed citations
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Fortune, Steven. (1985). A Fast Algorithm for Polygon Containment by Translation (Extended Abstract). International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming. 189–198. 18 indexed citations
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Chandra, Ashok K., Steven Fortune, & Richard Lipton. (1985). Unbounded fan-in circuits and associative functions. Journal of Computer and System Sciences. 30(2). 222–234. 38 indexed citations
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Fortune, Steven, et al.. (1980). The directed subgraph homeomorphism problem. Theoretical Computer Science. 10(2). 111–121. 403 indexed citations
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Fortune, Steven, et al.. (1978). Parallelism in random access machines. 114–118. 556 indexed citations breakdown →

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