Niklaus Wirth

11.0k citations
118 papers · 5.9k · 3 hit papers · h-index 34

Impact in

    • Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques
    • Embedded Systems Design Techniques
  • Software top 0.5%
    • Software Testing and Debugging Techniques

Papers in

Niklaus Wirth

104 papers receiving 4.9k citations

Niklaus Wirth's Hit Papers

Data Structures and Algorithms 1984 · 899 citations
8990+18+36Years since publication250500750

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Niklaus Wirth
Comparison fields: 5 of 155
  • Hardware and Architecture 1.8k
  • Software 860
  • Computational Theory and Mathematics 1.6k
  • Artificial Intelligence 3.2k
  • Computer Science Applications 468
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The 16 scholars most cited alongside Niklaus Wirth, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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Data Structures and Algorithms
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1984899
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Program development by stepwise refinement
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The programming language pascal
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4 1975406
5 1982342
6 1983270
7 1977266
8 1973260
9 1966149
10 1977131
11 1966129
12 1977127
13 1974123
14 1975105
15 196894
16 197489
17 196576
18 197473
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Systematic Programming: An Introduction
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About Niklaus Wirth

Niklaus Wirth is a scholar working on Hardware and Architecture, Artificial Intelligence, Computational Theory and Mathematics, Computer Networks and Communications and Information Systems, having authored 118 papers that have together received 5.9k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques (33 papers), Logic, programming, and type systems (24 papers), Embedded Systems Design Techniques (18 papers), Formal Methods in Verification (16 papers), Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems (12 papers), Teaching and Learning Programming (9 papers), Software Engineering Research (7 papers) and Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms (7 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Hardware and Architecture (1.8k citations), Software (860 citations), Computational Theory and Mathematics (1.6k citations), Artificial Intelligence (3.2k citations) and Computer Science Applications (468 citations). Niklaus Wirth has collaborated with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Kathleen Jensen, C. A. R. Hoare, Helmut Weber, Kathleen Jensen, George E. Forsythe, Paul Abrahams, Jürg Gutknecht, Hanspeter Mössenböck, M. Reiser and Harry D. Huskey. Their work appears in journals such as Communications of the ACM, Software Practice and Experience, ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Computer and ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems.

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