Three Rice professors among most frequently cited authors

Three Rice professors among most frequently cited authors
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BY LIA UNRAU
Rice News Staff

Three Rice computer science professors are among the top 100 most cited authors in computer science literature as of January 2001, according to the ResearchIndex database.

Ken Kennedy, the Ann and John Doerr Professor in Computational Engineering and professor in electrical and computing engineering, is the 23rd most cited author, with 3,438 citations. Moshe Vardi, the Karen Ostrom George Professor in Computational Engineering and chair of the computer science department, is No. 75, with 2,388 citations. Willy Zwaenepoel, the Karl F. Hasselmann Professor of Computer Science and professor in electrical and computer engineering, is No. 89, with 2,286 citations.

“For a small department to have three people in the top 100 is quite impressive,” Vardi said. Princeton University has one person in the top 100, Stanford University has eight and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has seven. The latter two institutions have computer science departments that are significantly larger than Rice’s.

“This evidence, as well as the numerous honors won by computer science faculty members (see <www.cs.rice.edu/Database/honors.shtml>), testifies to the outstanding quality of the computer science department,” Vardi added.

The list is generated from documents in the ResearchIndex database. The list does not include citations where one or more authors of the citing and cited articles match. A total of 474,188 authors were found.

The complete list is online at <http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/allcited.html>.
ResearchIndex is a scientific literature digital library that aims to improve the dissemination and feedback of scientific literature.