W. H. Press

4.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
5 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

W. H. Press is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Organic Chemistry and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, W. H. Press has authored 5 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 0 papers in Infectious Diseases, 0 papers in Organic Chemistry and 0 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in W. H. Press's work include . W. H. Press is often cited by papers focused on . W. H. Press collaborates with scholars based in . W. H. Press's co-authors include Brian P. Flannery, Saul A. Teukolsky, William T. Vetterling, L. F. Shampine, C. Lloyd and H. Nieuwenhuijzen and has published in prestigious journals such as Analytica Chimica Acta, American Mathematical Monthly and Scientia Forestalis.

In The Last Decade

W. H. Press

5 papers receiving 3.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Numerical recipes: the art of scientific computing

1987 2.7k citations W. H. Press, Brian P. Flannery et al. Analytica Chimica Acta profile →
Numerical Recipes, The Art of Scientific Computing.

1987 639 citations L. F. Shampine, W. H. Press et al. American Mathematical Monthly profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
W. H. Press	3	448	375	333	297	275	5	3.3k
Chris Birchenhall United Kingdom	15	439 1.0×	261 0.7×	307 0.9×	299 1.0×	370 1.3×	24	4.5k
Winslow Ames	7	288 0.6×	606 1.6×	492 1.5×	303 1.0×	239 0.9×	19	3.7k
Daniel W. Lozier United States	10	550 1.2×	355 0.9×	910 2.7×	264 0.9×	123 0.4×	30	3.8k
Anthony Ralston United States	21	505 1.1×	123 0.3×	491 1.5×	286 1.0×	210 0.8×	100	4.7k
Granino A. Korn United States	14	747 1.7×	263 0.7×	769 2.3×	578 1.9×	177 0.6×	88	4.6k
Ronald F. Boisvert United States	24	625 1.4×	345 0.9×	972 2.9×	311 1.0×	138 0.5×	68	4.7k
D. E. G. Hare Canada	4	1.2k 2.7×	239 0.6×	418 1.3×	553 1.9×	133 0.5×	7	4.3k
Carl-Erik Fröberg Sweden	8	596 1.3×	231 0.6×	629 1.9×	261 0.9×	128 0.5×	27	4.8k
K. J. Falconer United Kingdom	31	282 0.6×	145 0.4×	201 0.6×	258 0.9×	404 1.5×	120	9.7k
J. Douglas Faires United States	5	677 1.5×	110 0.3×	380 1.1×	378 1.3×	156 0.6×	8	5.3k

Countries citing papers authored by W. H. Press

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Fields of papers citing papers by W. H. Press

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of W. H. Press

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

All Works

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5 of 5 papers shown

1.

Press, W. H.. (1993). Books-Received - Numerical Recipes in FORTRAN - ED.2. Scientia Forestalis. 259. 1931. 1 indexed citations

2.

Press, W. H., et al.. (1993). Book Review: Numerical recipes in Fortran: the art of scientific computing / Cambridge U Press. Observatory. 113(1115). 214. 10 indexed citations

3.

Press, W. H., et al.. (1987). Numerical recipes: the art of scientific computing. Analytica Chimica Acta. 199. 293–294. 2693 indexed citations breakdown →

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Shampine, L. F., W. H. Press, Brian P. Flannery, Saul A. Teukolsky, & William T. Vetterling. (1987). Numerical Recipes, The Art of Scientific Computing.. American Mathematical Monthly. 94(9). 889–889. 639 indexed citations breakdown →

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Press, W. H., et al.. (1986). Book-Review - Numerical Recipes - the Art of Scientific Computing. 38. 320. 1 indexed citations

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