Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies
if any of the following hold:
it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the
threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.
1980Coding and Information Theory
1977Digital Filters
1975Mathematics of Computation
1965Mathematics of Computation
1962CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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Co-authors
The 24 scholars most cited alongside R. W. Hamming, linked wherever they
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CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research)·R. W. Hamming
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