Steven Skiena

12.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
197 papers, 6.5k citations indexed

About

Steven Skiena is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Molecular Biology and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. According to data from OpenAlex, Steven Skiena has authored 197 papers receiving a total of 6.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 75 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 51 papers in Molecular Biology and 32 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Recurrent topics in Steven Skiena's work include Algorithms and Data Compression (30 papers), Computational Geometry and Mesh Generation (23 papers) and Topic Modeling (19 papers). Steven Skiena is often cited by papers focused on Algorithms and Data Compression (30 papers), Computational Geometry and Mesh Generation (23 papers) and Topic Modeling (19 papers). Steven Skiena collaborates with scholars based in United States, Israel and Canada. Steven Skiena's co-authors include Steffen Mueller, Eckard Wimmer, Dimitris Papamichail, J. Robert Coleman, Bryan Perozzi, Bruce Futcher, Vivek Kulkarni, Vladimir Filkov, Charles B. Ward and Haochen Chen and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Biotechnology.

In The Last Decade

Steven Skiena

182 papers receiving 6.1k citations

Hit Papers

The Algorithm Design Manual 2007 2026 2013 2019 2008 2007 2015 100 200 300 400
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. The Algorithm Design Manual
    2008 419 citations Steven Skiena profile →
  2. Large-Scale Sentiment Analysis for News and Blogs
    2007 368 citations Steven Skiena et al. profile →
  3. Statistically Significant Detection of Linguistic Change
    2015 211 citations Vivek Kulkarni, Rami Al‐Rfou 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 Skiena United States 37 2.1k 1.6k 647 498 468 197 6.5k
Peter J. Mucha United States 39 714 0.3× 814 0.5× 414 0.6× 267 0.5× 2.5k 5.4× 158 7.7k
David K. Smith Hong Kong 45 930 0.5× 2.8k 1.7× 551 0.9× 1.9k 3.8× 246 0.5× 159 15.6k
Edward M. Reingold United States 23 1.4k 0.7× 599 0.4× 1.6k 2.5× 957 1.9× 877 1.9× 76 6.4k
Madhav Marathe United States 47 759 0.4× 438 0.3× 379 0.6× 951 1.9× 1.4k 3.1× 332 9.3k
Haesun Park United States 43 2.4k 1.2× 1.2k 0.7× 2.9k 4.5× 603 1.2× 620 1.3× 194 8.4k
Pushmeet Kohli United Kingdom 60 3.4k 1.6× 2.4k 1.5× 8.0k 12.3× 769 1.5× 268 0.6× 201 15.9k
Walter L. Ruzzo United States 43 2.1k 1.0× 5.0k 3.1× 395 0.6× 880 1.8× 207 0.4× 102 8.3k
Aravind Srinivasan United States 40 1.1k 0.5× 312 0.2× 270 0.4× 1.5k 2.9× 650 1.4× 175 6.8k
Craig W. Reynolds United States 36 1.5k 0.7× 1.2k 0.7× 2.1k 3.3× 451 0.9× 580 1.2× 84 13.0k
Naren Ramakrishnan United States 41 2.1k 1.0× 698 0.4× 704 1.1× 320 0.6× 822 1.8× 355 5.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Steven Skiena

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Fields of papers citing papers by Steven Skiena

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Steven Skiena

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Steven Skiena. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Steven Skiena 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 Skiena. Steven Skiena 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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Jones, Jason, et al.. (2024). The Evolution of Occupational Identity in Twitter Biographies. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. 18. 502–514. 1 indexed citations
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Skiena, Steven, et al.. (2023). Does It Pay to Optimize AUC?. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 37(9). 11408–11416.
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Richmond, Lauren L., et al.. (2023). Explainable automated evaluation of the clock drawing task for memory impairment screening. Alzheimer s & Dementia Diagnosis Assessment & Disease Monitoring. 15(2). e12441–e12441. 5 indexed citations
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Mujica‐Parodi, Lilianne R., Anar Amgalan, Syed Fahad Sultan, et al.. (2020). Diet modulates brain network stability, a biomarker for brain aging, in young adults. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(11). 6170–6177. 100 indexed citations
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Dai, Hanjun, Yingtao Tian, Bo Dai, Steven Skiena, & Le Song. (2018). Syntax-Directed Variational Autoencoder for Structured Data. International Conference on Learning Representations. 8 indexed citations
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Al‐Rfou, Rami, Vivek Kulkarni, Bryan Perozzi, & Steven Skiena. (2015). POLYGLOT-NER: Massive Multilingual Named Entity Recognition. 586–594. 69 indexed citations
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Al‐Rfou, Rami & Steven Skiena. (2012). SpeedRead: A Fast Named Entity Recognition Pipeline. arXiv (Cornell University). 51–66. 5 indexed citations
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Skiena, Steven, et al.. (2007). Large-Scale Sentiment Analysis for News and Blogs. 368 indexed citations breakdown →
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Skiena, Steven, et al.. (2007). Large-Scale Sentiment Analysis for News and Blogs (system demonstration).. 4 indexed citations
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Mueller, Steffen, Dimitris Papamichail, J. Robert Coleman, Steven Skiena, & Eckard Wimmer. (2006). Reduction of the Rate of Poliovirus Protein Synthesis through Large-Scale Codon Deoptimization Causes Attenuation of Viral Virulence by Lowering Specific Infectivity. Journal of Virology. 80(19). 9687–9696. 289 indexed citations
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Skiena, Steven, et al.. (2006). Newspapers vs. Blogs: Who Gets the Scoop?. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 117–124. 23 indexed citations
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Amir, Amihood, Yonatan Aumann, Gary Benson, et al.. (2006). Pattern matching with address errors: rearrangement distances. Symposium on Discrete Algorithms. 1221–1229. 15 indexed citations
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Skiena, Steven, et al.. (2005). Question Answering with Lydia (TREC 2005 QA Track).. Text REtrieval Conference. 7 indexed citations
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Bender, Michael A., Dongdong Ge, Simai He, et al.. (2004). Improved bounds on sorting with length-weighted reversals. Symposium on Discrete Algorithms. 919–928. 8 indexed citations
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Bender, Michael A., et al.. (2001). Finding least common ancestors in directed acyclic graphs. Symposium on Discrete Algorithms. 845–854. 12 indexed citations
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Arkin, Esther M., et al.. (1997). On the maximum scatter TSP. Symposium on Discrete Algorithms. 211–220. 4 indexed citations
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Agarwala, Richa, Serafim Batzoglou, Vlado Dančík, et al.. (1997). Local rules for protein folding on a triangular lattice and generalized hydrophobicity in the HP model. Symposium on Discrete Algorithms. 390–399. 5 indexed citations
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Skiena, Steven, et al.. (1996). Optimizing triangle strips for fast rendering. IEEE Visualization. 319–326. 127 indexed citations
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Omohundro, Steve, et al.. (1988). Tablet: personal computer of the year 2000. Communications of the ACM. 31(6). 638–648. 10 indexed citations

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