William L. Briggs

5.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
33 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

William L. Briggs is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Computational Mechanics and Computational Theory and Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, William L. Briggs has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 5 papers in Computational Mechanics and 4 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics. Recurrent topics in William L. Briggs's work include Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems (3 papers), Digital Filter Design and Implementation (3 papers) and Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques (3 papers). William L. Briggs is often cited by papers focused on Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems (3 papers), Digital Filter Design and Implementation (3 papers) and Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques (3 papers). William L. Briggs collaborates with scholars based in United States and Jordan. William L. Briggs's co-authors include Van Emden Henson, Steve McCormick, Mitchell M. Handelsman, Annette Towler, Robert L. Strawderman, Samuel O. Grim, Richard C. Barth, Chadwick A. Tolman, J. P. Jesson and Alan C. Newell and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Statistical Association, Journal of Computational Physics and Inorganic Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

William L. Briggs

30 papers receiving 3.5k citations

Hit Papers

A multigrid tutorial 1987 2026 2000 2013 1987 2000 2005 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. A multigrid tutorial
    1987 1.3k citations William L. Briggs Medical Entomology and Zoology profile →
  2. A Multigrid Tutorial, Second Edition
    2000 1.0k citations William L. Briggs, Van Emden Henson et al. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics eBooks profile →
  3. A Measure of College Student Course Engagement
    2005 541 citations Mitchell M. Handelsman, William L. Briggs et al. The Journal of Educational Research profile →

Peers

William L. Briggs
Anthony Ralston United States
Philip J. Davis United States
Richard Courant United States
David Bau United States
W.F. Ames United States
R. W. Hamming United States
David S. Watkins United States
Matthew West United States
Garrett Birkhoff United States
Yang Wang China
Anthony Ralston United States
William L. Briggs
Citations per year, relative to William L. Briggs William L. Briggs (= 1×) peers Anthony Ralston

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Fields of papers citing papers by William L. Briggs

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William L. Briggs

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of William L. Briggs. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of William L. Briggs 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 William L. Briggs. William L. Briggs 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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Briggs, William L.. (2018). Quantitative Literacy and Civic Virtue. Numeracy. 11(2). 2 indexed citations
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Briggs, William L.. (2017). Police Oversight: Civilian Oversight Boards and Lessons Learned from Our Neighbors to the North. 40(1). 139. 4 indexed citations
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Handelsman, Mitchell M., et al.. (2005). A Measure of College Student Course Engagement. The Journal of Educational Research. 98(3). 184–192. 541 indexed citations breakdown →
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Briggs, William L., et al.. (2004). Student Engagement in a Quantitative Literacy Course.. 26(1). 18–28. 3 indexed citations
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Briggs, William L.. (2004). Ants, Bikes, and Clocks: Problem Solving for Undergraduates. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 1 indexed citations
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Briggs, William L., Van Emden Henson, & Steve McCormick. (2000). A multigrid tutorial (2nd ed.). Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics eBooks. 249 indexed citations
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Briggs, William L., et al.. (2000). Statistical Reasoning for Everyday Life. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 13 indexed citations
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Strawderman, Robert L., William L. Briggs, & Van Emden Henson. (1999). The DFT: An Owner's Manual for the Discrete Fourier Transform. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 94(445). 349–349. 163 indexed citations
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Briggs, William L., et al.. (1999). Anatomy of a Circle Map. Mathematics Magazine. 72(2). 116–125. 1 indexed citations
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Briggs, William L., et al.. (1998). Dice and Disease in the Classroom. Mathematics Teacher Learning and Teaching PK-12. 91(6). 464–468. 5 indexed citations
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Briggs, William L. & Van Emden Henson. (1995). The DFT: An Owner's Manual for the Discrete Fourier Transform. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics eBooks. 226 indexed citations
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Briggs, William L. & Van Emden Henson. (1993). Wavelets and Multigrid. SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing. 14(2). 506–510. 22 indexed citations
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Sweet, Roland A., et al.. (1991). FFTs and three-dimensional Poisson solvers for hypercubes. Parallel Computing. 17(2-3). 121–131. 11 indexed citations
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Swarztrauber, Paul N., et al.. (1991). Bluestein's FFT for arbitrary N on the hypercube. Parallel Computing. 17(6-7). 607–617. 16 indexed citations
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Briggs, William L., et al.. (1990). A probabilistic approach to the single-point, single-dose problem. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. 37(1). 80–84. 2 indexed citations
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Briggs, William L., et al.. (1988). Fast Poisson solvers for MIMD computers. Parallel Computing. 6(3). 265–274. 7 indexed citations
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Briggs, William L., et al.. (1987). Multiprocessor FFT Methods. SIAM Journal on Scientific and Statistical Computing. 8(1). s27–s42. 13 indexed citations
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Briggs, William L.. (1986). The law of international copyright: with special sections on the colonies and the United States of America.. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 3 indexed citations
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Ramarao, Bandaru V., William R. Wilcox, & William L. Briggs. (1982). Stage II initial transient in off-eutectic solidification. Journal of Crystal Growth. 59(3). 557–562. 3 indexed citations
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Grim, Samuel O., William L. Briggs, Richard C. Barth, Chadwick A. Tolman, & J. P. Jesson. (1974). Unsymmetrical bis-phosphorus ligands. IV. Group VI metal carbonyl derivatives of diphenylphosphinomethyl and diphenylphosphinomethyl phosphinites, (C6H5)2P(CH2)nOP(C6H5)2, n = 1 or 2, and an unusual phosphorus chemical shift chelate effect. Inorganic Chemistry. 13(5). 1095–1100. 130 indexed citations

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