William N. Joy

1.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
14 papers, 765 citations indexed

About

William N. Joy is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Hardware and Architecture and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, William N. Joy has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 765 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 5 papers in Hardware and Architecture and 5 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in William N. Joy's work include Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems (6 papers), Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques (5 papers) and Logic, programming, and type systems (4 papers). William N. Joy is often cited by papers focused on Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems (6 papers), Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques (5 papers) and Logic, programming, and type systems (4 papers). William N. Joy collaborates with scholars based in United States. William N. Joy's co-authors include Samuel J. Leffler, R. S. Fabry, Marshall Kirk McKusick, Özalp Babaoğlu, Charles B. Haley, Susan L. Graham, Olivier Roubine, Stuart L. Graham and Mark Horton and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Gut and ACM Transactions on Computer Systems.

In The Last Decade

William N. Joy

13 papers receiving 611 citations

Hit Papers

A fast file system for UNIX 1984 2026 1998 2012 1984 100 200 300 400 500
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 fast file system for UNIX
    1984 569 citations Marshall Kirk McKusick, William N. Joy et al. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems 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 N. Joy United States 8 668 337 131 126 33 14 765
Hans van Staveren Netherlands 8 424 0.6× 275 0.8× 126 1.0× 152 1.2× 26 0.8× 12 563
David D. Redell United States 8 451 0.7× 372 1.1× 74 0.6× 218 1.7× 18 0.5× 15 589
Joshua Auerbach United States 13 546 0.8× 413 1.2× 129 1.0× 110 0.9× 25 0.8× 45 738
R. Rashid United States 10 760 1.1× 564 1.7× 147 1.1× 182 1.4× 15 0.5× 18 843
Greg Thiel United States 5 671 1.0× 215 0.6× 141 1.1× 105 0.8× 7 0.2× 6 693
Mark Mergen United States 10 618 0.9× 563 1.7× 281 2.1× 293 2.3× 63 1.9× 12 818
Kathleen Knobe United States 11 419 0.6× 453 1.3× 68 0.5× 116 0.9× 15 0.5× 23 545
Peter A. Buhr Canada 11 291 0.4× 193 0.6× 128 1.0× 104 0.8× 20 0.6× 38 392
Przemysław Pardyak United States 8 709 1.1× 459 1.4× 198 1.5× 513 4.1× 23 0.7× 13 935
Svend Frølund United States 15 703 1.1× 175 0.5× 273 2.1× 174 1.4× 27 0.8× 30 806

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Fields of papers citing papers by William N. Joy

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William N. Joy

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All Works

14 of 14 papers shown
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Joy, William N. & Mark Horton. (1998). An Introduction to Display Editing with Vi. 4 indexed citations
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Joy, William N., et al.. (1998). An Introduction to the C shell. 9 indexed citations
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Joy, William N., et al.. (1985). Workstations in Science. Science. 228(4698). 467–470. 6 indexed citations
4.
Joy, William N.. (1984). The other side of the hill: 200 years of Australian exploration. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 1 indexed citations
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McKusick, Marshall Kirk, William N. Joy, Samuel J. Leffler, & R. S. Fabry. (1984). A fast file system for UNIX. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems. 2(3). 181–197. 569 indexed citations breakdown →
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Leffler, Samuel J., William N. Joy, & R. S. Fabry. (1983). 4.2bsd Networking Implementation Notes (Revised July, 1983). Gut. 53(8). 1109–16. 2 indexed citations
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Leffler, Samuel J., R. S. Fabry, & William N. Joy. (1983). A 4.2bsd Interprocess Communication Primer. 27 indexed citations
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McKusick, Marshall Kirk, William N. Joy, Samuel J. Leffler, & R. S. Fabry. (1983). A Fast File System for UNIX (Revised July 27, 1983). UC Berkeley. 1 indexed citations
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Babaoğlu, Özalp & William N. Joy. (1981). Converting a swap-based system to do paging in an architecture lacking page-referenced bits. ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review. 15(5). 78–86. 49 indexed citations
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Joy, William N., et al.. (1981). Converting a swap-based system to do paging in an architecture lacking page-referenced bits. 78–86. 29 indexed citations
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Graham, Susan L., Charles B. Haley, & William N. Joy. (1979). Practical LR error recovery. ACM SIGPLAN Notices. 14(8). 168–175. 18 indexed citations
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Graham, Stuart L., William N. Joy, & Olivier Roubine. (1979). Hashed symbol tables for languages with explicit scope control. 50–57. 8 indexed citations
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Graham, Susan L., Charles B. Haley, & William N. Joy. (1979). Practical LR error recovery. 168–175. 40 indexed citations
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Graham, Stuart L., William N. Joy, & Olivier Roubine. (1979). Hashed symbol tables for languages with explicit scope control. ACM SIGPLAN Notices. 14(8). 50–57. 2 indexed citations

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