William McCune

2.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
45 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

William McCune is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Computational Theory and Mathematics and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, William McCune has authored 45 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 17 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics and 9 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in William McCune's work include Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge (14 papers), Logic, programming, and type systems (12 papers) and Advanced Algebra and Logic (11 papers). William McCune is often cited by papers focused on Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge (14 papers), Logic, programming, and type systems (12 papers) and Advanced Algebra and Logic (11 papers). William McCune collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. William McCune's co-authors include Paul E. Shorb, Larry Wos, Brian Blades, R. Padmanabhan, Gordon S. Letterman, Robert Veroff, William G. Newman, J. Richard Thistlethwaite, Glenn W. Geelhoed and William L. Joseph and has published in prestigious journals such as Annals of Surgery, Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery and Gastrointestinal Endoscopy.

In The Last Decade

William McCune

45 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

Endoscopic Cannulation of the Ampulla of Vater 1968 2026 1987 2006 1968 100 200 300 400
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. Endoscopic Cannulation of the Ampulla of Vater
    1968 400 citations William McCune et al. Annals of Surgery 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 McCune United States 18 674 493 399 349 261 45 1.3k
Thomas Hallgren Sweden 16 376 0.6× 38 0.1× 189 0.5× 131 0.4× 49 0.2× 38 688
John E. Olson United States 18 151 0.2× 76 0.2× 107 0.3× 81 0.2× 208 0.8× 37 969
W. Edwin Clark United States 16 216 0.3× 104 0.2× 239 0.6× 115 0.3× 195 0.7× 58 993
J. Rees United Kingdom 13 190 0.3× 98 0.2× 56 0.1× 272 0.8× 135 0.5× 40 884
Alessandro Di Federico Italy 21 176 0.3× 488 1.0× 731 1.8× 64 0.2× 14 0.1× 103 1.4k
Spyros Potamianos Greece 19 313 0.5× 183 0.4× 70 0.2× 282 0.8× 14 0.1× 50 1.2k
Ke Chen China 19 215 0.3× 208 0.4× 66 0.2× 225 0.6× 10 0.0× 69 994
Kazuhiro Minami Japan 16 243 0.4× 199 0.4× 144 0.4× 130 0.4× 5 0.0× 87 700
Kensuke Tanaka Japan 14 137 0.2× 226 0.5× 96 0.2× 27 0.1× 61 0.2× 80 749
Benjamin Wang United States 10 118 0.2× 401 0.8× 1.2k 2.9× 199 0.6× 12 0.0× 20 1.6k

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Fields of papers citing papers by William McCune

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William McCune

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Araüjo, João & William McCune. (2010). Computer Solutions of Problems in Inverse Semigroups. Communications in Algebra. 38(3). 1104–1121. 3 indexed citations
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Padmanabhan, R., William McCune, & Robert Veroff. (2007). Lattice laws forcing distributivity under unique complementation.. Houston journal of mathematics. 33(2). 391–401. 1 indexed citations
3.
McCune, William, et al.. (2002). Short Single Axioms for Boolean Algebra. Journal of Automated Reasoning. 29(1). 1–16. 44 indexed citations
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McCune, William. (1997). 33 basic test problems: a practical evaluation of some paramodulation strategies. MIT Press eBooks. 71–114. 19 indexed citations
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McCune, William. (1997). Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Automated Deduction. 10 indexed citations
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McCune, William & Larry Wos. (1997). Otter - The CADE-13 Competition Incarnations. Journal of Automated Reasoning. 18(2). 211–220. 51 indexed citations
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McCune, William. (1997). Automated Deduction - CADE-14: 14th International Conference on Automated Deduction, Townsville, North Queensland, Australia, July 13 - 17, 1997, Proceedings. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 1 indexed citations
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McCune, William & R. Padmanabhan. (1996). Single identities for lattice theory and for weakly associative lattices. Algebra Universalis. 36(4). 436–449. 11 indexed citations
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Padmanabhan, R. & William McCune. (1995). Automated reasoning about cubic curves. Computers & Mathematics with Applications. 29(2). 17–26. 3 indexed citations
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McCune, William. (1992). Experiments with discrimination-tree indexing and path indexing for term retrieval. Journal of Automated Reasoning. 9(2). 147–167. 57 indexed citations
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Wos, Larry & William McCune. (1991). Automated theorem proving and logic programming: a natural symbiosis. The Journal of Logic Programming. 11(1). 1–53. 3 indexed citations
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Boyer, Robert S., Ewing Lusk, William McCune, et al.. (1986). Set theory in first-order logic: Clauses for Gödel's axioms. Journal of Automated Reasoning. 2(3). 287–327. 37 indexed citations
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McCune, William & Lawrence J. Henschen. (1985). Experiments with semantic paramodulation. Journal of Automated Reasoning. 1(3). 3 indexed citations
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McCune, William. (1964). Management of Sacrococcygeal Tumors. Annals of Surgery. 159(6). 911–918. 32 indexed citations
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McCune, William & J. Richard Thistlethwaite. (1959). Fistula Cancer. Annals of Surgery. 149(6). 815–821. 16 indexed citations
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McCune, William, et al.. (1957). Resection and Primary Anastomosis in Diverticulitis of the Colon. Annals of Surgery. 145(5). 683–688. 15 indexed citations
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McCune, William, et al.. (1955). Eosinophilic Gastroduodenitis with Pyloric Obstruction. Annals of Surgery. 142(3). 510–518. 26 indexed citations
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McCune, William & Gordon S. Letterman. (1955). Malignant Melanoma. Annals of Surgery. 141(6). 901–909. 43 indexed citations
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McCune, William, et al.. (1953). EXPERIMENTAL ANEURYSMS. Annals of Surgery. 138(2). 216–218. 24 indexed citations
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McCune, William, John M. Keshishian, & Brian Blades. (1952). MESENTERIC THROMBOSIS FOLLOWING BLUNT ABDOMINAL THAUMA. Annals of Surgery. 135(5). 606–614. 18 indexed citations

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