Peter Wegner
Impact in
- Software top 1%
- Artificial Intelligence top 0.2%
- Logic, programming, and type systems
- Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies
- Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge
Papers in
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- Logic, programming, and type systems 34
- Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies 11
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- Distributed systems and fault tolerance 19
- Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems 18
- Co-authors
- Luca Cardelli (1 shared paper)Bruce D. Shriver (2 shared papers)Dina Goldin (19 shared papers)Stanley B. Zdonik (4 shared papers)Gio Wiederhold (2 shared papers)Stefano Ceri (2 shared papers)Paul Abrahams (1 shared paper)Eugene Eberbach (3 shared papers)
- Journals
- ACM SIGPLAN Notices (13 papers)Communications of the ACM (9 papers)ACM Computing Surveys (7 papers)The Computer Journal (3 papers)Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C (Applied Statistics) (2 papers)
- Partner nations
- United StatesGermanyFrance
In The Last Decade
Peter Wegner
137 papers receiving 4.5k citations
Peter Wegner's Hit Papers
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 132
- Software 618
- Artificial Intelligence 3.3k
- Hardware and Architecture 658
- Computational Theory and Mathematics 1.5k
- Computer Networks and Communications 1.7k
Countries citing papers authored by Peter Wegner
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Fields of papers citing papers by Peter Wegner
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Co-authors
The 25 scholars most cited alongside Peter Wegner, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.
All Works
Showing the 20 most-cited of 160 papers — load more, or switch the sort, to bring in the rest.
| # | Work | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On understanding types, data abstraction, and polymorphism Hit paper breakdown → | 1985 | 1271 |
| 2 | Why interaction is more powerful than algorithms Hit paper breakdown → | 1997 | 537 |
| 3 | 1987 | 405 | |
| 4 | Research directions in object-oriented programming | 1987 | 396 |
| 5 | 1990 | 314 | |
| 6 | 1988 | 198 | |
| 7 | 1996 | 174 | |
| 8 | 1998 | 147 | |
| 9 | 1992 | 135 | |
| 10 | The object-oriented classification paradigm | 1987 | 90 |
| 11 | 1987 | 74 | |
| 12 | 2003 | 72 | |
| 13 | 1969 | 72 | |
| 14 | 1984 | 70 | |
| 15 | 2006 | 53 | |
| 16 | 2004 | 53 | |
| 17 | 1978 | 49 | |
| 18 | 1971 | 49 | |
| 19 | 1960 | 47 | |
| 20 | 2005 | 42 |
About Peter Wegner
Peter Wegner is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Computer Networks and Communications, Computational Theory and Mathematics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Information Systems, having authored 160 papers that have together received 5.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Logic, programming, and type systems (34 papers), Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms (30 papers), Distributed systems and fault tolerance (19 papers), Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems (18 papers), Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques (13 papers), Particle Detector Development and Performance (13 papers), Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies (11 papers) and Cellular Automata and Applications (10 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Software (618 citations), Artificial Intelligence (3.3k citations), Hardware and Architecture (658 citations), Computational Theory and Mathematics (1.5k citations) and Computer Networks and Communications (1.7k citations). Peter Wegner has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Germany and France. Frequent co-authors include Luca Cardelli, Bruce D. Shriver, Dina Goldin, Stanley B. Zdonik, Gio Wiederhold, Stefano Ceri, Paul Abrahams, Eugene Eberbach, Scott A. Smolka and Allen B. Tucker. Their work appears in journals such as ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Communications of the ACM, ACM Computing Surveys, The Computer Journal and Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C (Applied Statistics).
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