Tom Price

2.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
9 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Tom Price is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems and Signal Processing. According to data from OpenAlex, Tom Price has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 2 papers in Information Systems and 2 papers in Signal Processing. Recurrent topics in Tom Price's work include Advanced Database Systems and Queries (7 papers), Distributed systems and fault tolerance (4 papers) and Data Management and Algorithms (2 papers). Tom Price is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Database Systems and Queries (7 papers), Distributed systems and fault tolerance (4 papers) and Data Management and Algorithms (2 papers). Tom Price collaborates with scholars based in United States. Tom Price's co-authors include Raymond A. Lorie, Patricia G. Selinger, Donald D. Chamberlin, M. M. Astrahan, Jim Gray, Bruce G. Lindsay, Irving L. Traiger, Paul McJones, Mario Schkolnick and Donald R. Slutz and has published in prestigious journals such as ACM Computing Surveys, IBM Journal of Research and Development and ACM Transactions on Database Systems.

In The Last Decade

Tom Price

8 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

Access path selection in a relational database management... 1979 2026 1994 2010 1979 400 800 1.2k
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. Access path selection in a relational database management system
    1979 1.4k citations Patricia G. Selinger, M. M. Astrahan 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
Tom Price United States 7 1.8k 1.1k 737 407 155 9 1.9k
S. Bing Yao United States 18 1.5k 0.9× 861 0.8× 521 0.7× 338 0.8× 135 0.9× 49 1.7k
Patricia G. Selinger United States 13 1.8k 1.0× 1.3k 1.2× 838 1.1× 433 1.1× 65 0.4× 25 2.0k
George P. Copeland United States 19 1.9k 1.1× 858 0.8× 749 1.0× 451 1.1× 237 1.5× 37 2.1k
Donovan A. Schneider United States 16 1.9k 1.1× 931 0.8× 539 0.7× 505 1.2× 194 1.3× 27 2.0k
S. Seshadri United States 20 1.5k 0.9× 720 0.6× 600 0.8× 582 1.4× 192 1.2× 69 1.8k
J. W. Mehl United States 7 1.2k 0.7× 628 0.6× 511 0.7× 277 0.7× 58 0.4× 8 1.3k
Vladislav Shkapenyuk United States 16 1.3k 0.7× 682 0.6× 570 0.8× 571 1.4× 79 0.5× 27 1.6k
Mary Fernández United States 23 1.9k 1.1× 1.2k 1.0× 1.6k 2.2× 711 1.7× 222 1.4× 63 2.4k
Marcin Żukowski Netherlands 16 1.3k 0.8× 515 0.5× 528 0.7× 563 1.4× 243 1.6× 34 1.5k
Patricia P. Griffiths United States 5 1.1k 0.6× 564 0.5× 587 0.8× 283 0.7× 41 0.3× 6 1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Tom Price

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Fields of papers citing papers by Tom Price

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Tom Price. 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 Tom Price. The network helps show where Tom Price may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tom Price

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Tom Price. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Tom Price 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 Tom Price. Tom Price is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

9 of 9 papers shown
1.
Price, Tom. (2018). Election Security and Voting Rights. CQ Press eBooks.
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Blasgen, Michael W., M. M. Astrahan, Donald D. Chamberlin, et al.. (1999). System R: An architectural overview. IBM Systems Journal. 38(2.3). 375–396. 14 indexed citations
3.
Chamberlin, Donald D., M. M. Astrahan, William F. King, et al.. (1981). Support for repetitive transactions and ad hoc queries in System R. ACM Transactions on Database Systems. 6(1). 70–94. 64 indexed citations
4.
Gray, Jim, Paul McJones, Bruce G. Lindsay, et al.. (1981). The Recovery Manager of the System R Database Manager. ACM Computing Surveys. 13(2). 223–242. 284 indexed citations
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Blasgen, Michael W., M. M. Astrahan, Donald D. Chamberlin, et al.. (1981). System R: An architectural overview. IBM Systems Journal. 20(1). 41–62. 27 indexed citations
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Price, Tom, et al.. (1980). The convoy phenomenon. Information Systems. 5(3). 246–246. 1 indexed citations
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Gray, Jim, et al.. (1979). The convoy phenomenon. ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review. 13(2). 20–25. 84 indexed citations
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Selinger, Patricia G., M. M. Astrahan, Donald D. Chamberlin, Raymond A. Lorie, & Tom Price. (1979). Access path selection in a relational database management system. 23–23. 1411 indexed citations breakdown →
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Gaver, Donald P., S. S. Lavenberg, & Tom Price. (1976). Exploratory Analysis of Access Path Length Data for a Data Base Management System. IBM Journal of Research and Development. 20(5). 449–464. 12 indexed citations

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