Vera Pless

6.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
89 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Vera Pless is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Computer Networks and Communications. According to data from OpenAlex, Vera Pless has authored 89 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 73 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 51 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 29 papers in Computer Networks and Communications. Recurrent topics in Vera Pless's work include Coding theory and cryptography (71 papers), graph theory and CDMA systems (48 papers) and Cooperative Communication and Network Coding (24 papers). Vera Pless is often cited by papers focused on Coding theory and cryptography (71 papers), graph theory and CDMA systems (48 papers) and Cooperative Communication and Network Coding (24 papers). Vera Pless collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and United Kingdom. Vera Pless's co-authors include W. Cary Huffman, Richard A. Brualdi, N. J. A. Sloane, John H. Conway, Jeffrey S. Leon, J. Conway, Patrick Solé, Philippe Gaborit, J. Fields and C. L. Mallows and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences and Mathematics of Computation.

In The Last Decade

Vera Pless

81 papers receiving 3.3k citations

Hit Papers

Fundamentals of Error-Correcting Codes 2003 2026 2010 2018 2003 2011 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. Fundamentals of Error-Correcting Codes
    2003 832 citations W. Cary Huffman, Vera Pless profile →
  2. Handbook Of Coding Theory
    2011 344 citations Vera Pless, Richard A. Brualdi 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
Vera Pless United States 32 3.3k 2.4k 1.2k 1.1k 989 89 3.7k
Tor Helleseth Norway 38 4.9k 1.5× 3.9k 1.7× 1.0k 0.9× 1.2k 1.1× 1.2k 1.2× 293 5.4k
W. Cary Huffman United States 16 1.7k 0.5× 1.1k 0.5× 560 0.5× 563 0.5× 546 0.6× 49 1.9k
Claude Carlet France 35 4.1k 1.2× 2.8k 1.2× 537 0.5× 608 0.6× 703 0.7× 180 4.2k
Rudolf Lidl Australia 14 2.2k 0.7× 1.1k 0.5× 464 0.4× 383 0.4× 825 0.8× 33 2.9k
Victor K. Wei Hong Kong 22 2.0k 0.6× 1.7k 0.7× 226 0.2× 1.0k 0.9× 587 0.6× 70 3.0k
D.K. Ray-Chaudhuri United States 17 1.0k 0.3× 1.1k 0.4× 444 0.4× 541 0.5× 442 0.4× 61 1.8k
Henning Stichtenoth Germany 26 1.8k 0.5× 557 0.2× 597 0.5× 357 0.3× 578 0.6× 72 2.3k
A.E. Brouwer Netherlands 24 1.3k 0.4× 1.5k 0.6× 1.1k 0.9× 411 0.4× 553 0.6× 114 2.2k
Torleiv Kløve Norway 24 1.6k 0.5× 1.5k 0.6× 230 0.2× 925 0.9× 396 0.4× 124 2.0k
J. W. P. Hirschfeld United Kingdom 19 1.6k 0.5× 1.2k 0.5× 1.5k 1.3× 278 0.3× 265 0.3× 62 2.3k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Vera Pless

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Vera Pless

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Vera Pless. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Vera Pless 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 Vera Pless. Vera Pless 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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Pless, Vera. (2002). Parents, children, neighbors and the shadow [binary code theorems]. 303–303. 1 indexed citations
2.
Gaborit, Philippe, W. Cary Huffman, Jon-Lark Kim, & Vera Pless. (2001). On Additive GF(4) Codes. 15 indexed citations
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Fields, J., Philippe Gaborit, W. Cary Huffman, & Vera Pless. (2001). On the classification of extremal even formally self-dual codes of lengths 20 and 22. Discrete Applied Mathematics. 111(1-2). 75–86. 11 indexed citations
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Fields, J., Philippe Gaborit, W. Cary Huffman, & Vera Pless. (1999). On the Classification of Extremal Even Formally Self-Dual Codes. Designs Codes and Cryptography. 18(1-3). 125–148. 12 indexed citations
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Brualdi, Richard A. & Vera Pless. (1993). Greedy Codes.
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Haemers, Willem H., Christopher Parker, Vera Pless, & Vladimir D. Tonchev. (1993). A design and a code invariant under the simple group Co3. Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series A. 62(2). 225–233. 19 indexed citations
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Huffman, W. Cary, et al.. (1993). Multipliers and generalized multipliers of cyclic objects and cyclic codes. Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series A. 62(2). 183–215. 23 indexed citations
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Brualdi, Richard A. & Vera Pless. (1993). Greedy codes. Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series A. 64(1). 10–30. 38 indexed citations
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Brualdi, Richard A., Ning Cai, & Vera Pless. (1992). Orphan structure of the first-order Reed-Muller codes. Discrete Mathematics. 102(3). 239–247. 11 indexed citations
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Pless, Vera. (1991). Codes and designs—existence and uniqueness. Discrete Mathematics. 92(1-3). 261–274. 2 indexed citations
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Brualdi, Richard A. & Vera Pless. (1990). On the covering radius of a code and its subcodes. Discrete Mathematics. 83(2-3). 189–199. 5 indexed citations
12.
Pless, Vera. (1988). POLYADIC CODES(Algebraic Combinatorial Theory). Kyoto University Research Information Repository (Kyoto University). 671(671). 107–115. 1 indexed citations
13.
Pless, Vera & Joseph J. Rushanan. (1988). Triadic Codes. Linear Algebra and its Applications. 98. 415–433. 10 indexed citations
14.
Pless, Vera. (1986). Q-codes. Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series A. 43(2). 258–276. 33 indexed citations
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Assmus, E. F. & Vera Pless. (1983). On the coveting radius of extremal self-dual codes. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 29(3). 359–363. 37 indexed citations
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Leon, Jeffrey S., Vera Pless, & N. J. A. Sloane. (1981). On ternary self-dual codes of length 24. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 27(2). 176–180. 41 indexed citations
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Pless, Vera. (1972). A classification of self-orthogonal codes over GF(2). Discrete Mathematics. 3(1-3). 209–246. 160 indexed citations
18.
Pless, Vera. (1972). Symmetry codes over GF(3) and new five-designs. Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series A. 12(1). 119–142. 82 indexed citations
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Pless, Vera. (1964). On Witt’s theorem for nonalternating symmetric bilinear forms over a field of characteristic 2. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 15(6). 979–983. 10 indexed citations
20.
Pless, Vera. (1958). The continuous transformation ring of biorthogonal bases spaces. Duke Mathematical Journal. 25(2).

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