William B. Jones

6.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
91 papers, 4.4k citations indexed

About

William B. Jones is a scholar working on Applied Mathematics, Numerical Analysis and Modeling and Simulation. According to data from OpenAlex, William B. Jones has authored 91 papers receiving a total of 4.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Applied Mathematics, 23 papers in Numerical Analysis and 21 papers in Modeling and Simulation. Recurrent topics in William B. Jones's work include Mathematical functions and polynomials (41 papers), Fractional Differential Equations Solutions (21 papers) and Iterative Methods for Nonlinear Equations (16 papers). William B. Jones is often cited by papers focused on Mathematical functions and polynomials (41 papers), Fractional Differential Equations Solutions (21 papers) and Iterative Methods for Nonlinear Equations (16 papers). William B. Jones collaborates with scholars based in United States, Norway and United Kingdom. William B. Jones's co-authors include W. J. Thron, Olav Njåstad, Roger M. Gallet, Haakon Waadeland, R. C. Elder, Alice E. Bruce, Mitchell R. M. Bruce, Michelle Young, G. H. Hardy and Edward B. Saff and has published in prestigious journals such as Macromolecules, Inorganic Chemistry and Mathematics of Computation.

In The Last Decade

William B. Jones

78 papers receiving 3.9k citations

Hit Papers

Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications. 1982 2026 1996 2011 1982 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k
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. Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications.
    1982 3.0k citations William B. Jones, W. J. Thron 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
William B. Jones United States 20 1.5k 1.2k 856 758 710 91 4.4k
W. J. Thron United States 22 1.6k 1.1× 1.5k 1.3× 1.1k 1.3× 1.1k 1.4× 894 1.3× 87 4.7k
Tom M. Apostol United States 23 1.3k 0.9× 998 0.9× 1.3k 1.5× 1.2k 1.6× 2.3k 3.2× 125 6.8k
Peter Borwein Canada 28 1.6k 1.0× 810 0.7× 615 0.7× 882 1.2× 1.1k 1.5× 179 3.7k
Herbert S. Wilf United States 35 675 0.4× 1.8k 1.5× 492 0.6× 989 1.3× 883 1.2× 201 5.9k
Gábor Szegő United States 22 3.0k 2.0× 2.1k 1.8× 1.6k 1.9× 1.3k 1.8× 682 1.0× 39 7.5k
Harold Widom United States 34 1.4k 0.9× 673 0.6× 2.3k 2.7× 545 0.7× 260 0.4× 124 4.6k
Shmuel Friedland United States 30 500 0.3× 1.7k 1.4× 641 0.7× 919 1.2× 332 0.5× 198 3.5k
V. S. Varadarajan United States 23 734 0.5× 690 0.6× 1.8k 2.1× 1.2k 1.6× 807 1.1× 81 3.5k
T. J. Rivlin United States 23 1.7k 1.1× 1.4k 1.2× 606 0.7× 523 0.7× 297 0.4× 71 5.3k
Edward B. Saff United States 31 2.4k 1.6× 817 0.7× 871 1.0× 655 0.9× 449 0.6× 184 4.6k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Jones, William B., et al.. (2010). Zeros of orthogonal Laurent polynomials and solutions of strong Stieltjes moment problems. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics. 235(4). 895–903. 2 indexed citations
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Jones, William B.. (2003). Robert Louis Stevenson reconsidered : new critical perspectives. 3 indexed citations
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Jones, William B., et al.. (1999). Para-orthogonal Laurent polynomials and the strong Stieltjes moment problem. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics. 105(1-2). 175–185. 2 indexed citations
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Jones, William B. & Olav Njåstad. (1999). Orthogonal Laurent polynomials and strong moment theory: a survey. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics. 105(1-2). 51–91. 39 indexed citations
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Jones, William B. & A. Sri Ranga. (1998). Orthogonal functions, moment theory, and continued fractions : theory and applications. Marcel Dekker eBooks. 15 indexed citations
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Jones, William B., W. J. Thron, Olav Njåstad, & Haakon Waadeland. (1993). Szegő polynomials applied to frequency analysis. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics. 46(1-2). 217–228. 27 indexed citations
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Jones, William B., et al.. (1992). PC-fractions and orthogonal Laurent polynomials for log-normal distributions. Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications. 170(1). 225–244. 6 indexed citations
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Jones, William B., Olav Njåstad, & Edward B. Saff. (1990). Szegö polynomials associated with Wiener-Levinson filters. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics. 32(3). 387–406. 30 indexed citations
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Jones, William B., et al.. (1990). Orthogonal Laurent-polynomials and continued fractions associated with log-normal distributions. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics. 32(1-2). 39–46. 12 indexed citations
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Jones, William B., et al.. (1990). Asymptotic properties of a family of orthogonal polynomial sequences. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics. 32(1-2). 143–151. 1 indexed citations
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Jones, William B., Olav Njåstad, & W. J. Thron. (1986). Continued fractions associated with trigonometric and other strong moment problems. Constructive Approximation. 2(1). 197–211. 27 indexed citations
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Jones, William B. & W. J. Thron. (1985). On the computation of incomplete gamma functions in the complex domain. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics. 12-13. 401–417. 13 indexed citations
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Jones, William B., W. J. Thron, & Olav Njåstad. (1984). Orthogonal Laurent polynomials and the strong Hamburger moment problem. Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications. 98(2). 528–554. 76 indexed citations
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Jones, William B., Olav Njåstad, & W. J. Thron. (1983). Two-point Padé expansions for a family of analytic functions. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics. 9(2). 105–123. 65 indexed citations
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Jones, William B., Olav Njåstad, & W. J. Thron. (1983). Continued Fractions and Strong Hamburger Moment Problems. Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society. s3-47(2). 363–384. 19 indexed citations
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Jones, William B., W. J. Thron, & Haakon Waadeland. (1980). A Strong Stieltjes Moment Problem. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 261(2). 503–503. 23 indexed citations
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Jones, William B., W. J. Thron, & Haakon Waadeland. (1980). A strong Stieltjes moment problem. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 261(2). 503–528. 100 indexed citations
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Jones, William B., et al.. (1980). Computation of poles of two-point Padé approximants and their limits. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics. 6(2). 105–119. 8 indexed citations
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Stapp, Henry P. & William B. Jones. (1977). Quantum Mechanics, Local Causality, and Process Philosophy. Process Studies. 7(3). 173–182. 2 indexed citations
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Jones, William B., et al.. (1976). Rational approximations corresponding to Newton series (Newton-Padé approximants). Journal of Approximation Theory. 17(4). 366–392. 18 indexed citations

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