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Ken Thompson

Active 1968–2025

96
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33,457
Citations
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Citations

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Countries

World map of the countries and regions citing this authorUnited States: 1,439 citing papers, 22.8% of this breakdownUnited Kingdom: 567 citing papers, 9% of this breakdownGermany: 395 citing papers, 6.2% of this breakdownFrance: 333 citing papers, 5.3% of this breakdownCanada: 298 citing papers, 4.7% of this breakdownChina: 298 citing papers, 4.7% of this breakdownAustralia: 266 citing papers, 4.2% of this breakdownNetherlands: 193 citing papers, 3.1% of this breakdownSwitzerland: 187 citing papers, 3% of this breakdownSpain: 165 citing papers, 2.6% of this breakdownItaly: 133 citing papers, 2.1% of this breakdownSweden: 116 citing papers, 1.8% of this breakdown
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Institutions

Fields

  • Computer Science47.7%
  • Environmental Science21.6%
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences16.3%
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology7.1%
  • Medicine1.3%
  • Social Sciences1.3%
  • Other4.7%

Topics

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies5.7%
  • User Authentication and Security Systems4.4%
  • Advanced Malware Detection Techniques4.3%
  • Plant and animal studies4%
  • Algorithms and Data Compression2.2%
  • semigroups and automata theory1.9%
  • Other77.5%

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  1. Regular Expression Search Algorithm

    Authors: Ken Thompson - Communications of the ACM, Commun. ACM 1968 cited by 839

  2. Reflections on Trusting Trust

    Authors: Ken Thompson - ACM eBooks, Commun. ACM 1984 cited by 648

  3. Password Security - A Case History

    Authors: Robert H. Morris Sr., Ken Thompson - Communications of the ACM, Commun. ACM 1979 cited by 930

  4. The Ecology of Hybrid Incompatibilities

    Authors: Ken Thompson, Yaniv Brandvain, Jenn M. Coughlan, Kira E. Delmore, Hannah Justen, Catherine R. Linnen, Daniel Ortíz-Barrientos, Catherine A. Rushworth, Hilde Schneemann, Molly Schumer, Rike Stelkens - Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology 2023 cited by 42

  5. The Go programming language and environment

    Authors: Russ Cox, Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike, Ian Lance Taylor, Ken Thompson - Communications of the ACM, Commun. ACM 2022 cited by 24

  6. Identification of 100 fundamental ecological questions

    Authors: William J. Sutherland, Robert P. Freckleton, H. Charles J. Godfray, Steven R. Beissinger, Tim G. Benton, Duncan D. Cameron, Yohay Carmel, David A. Coomes, Tim Coulson, Mark Emmerson, Rosemary S. Hails, Graeme C. Hays, David J. Hodgson, Michael J. Hutchings, David Johnson, Julia P. G. Jones, Matt J. Keeling, Hanna Kokko, William E. Kunin, Xavier Lambin, Owen T. Lewis, Yadvinder Malhi, Nova Mieszkowska, E.J. Milner‐Gulland, Ken Norris, Albert B. Phillimore, Drew W. Purves, Jane M. Reid, Daniel C. Reuman, Ken Thompson, Justin M. J. Travis, Lindsay A. Turnbull, David A. Wardle, Thorsten Wiegand - Journal of Ecology 2012 cited by 854

  7. A roadmap for urban evolutionary ecology

    Authors: L. Ruth Rivkin, James S. Santangelo, Marina Alberti, Myla F. J. Aronson, Charlotte W. de Keyzer, Sarah E. Diamond, Marie‐Josée Fortin, Lauren J. Frazee, Amanda J. Gorton, Andrew P. Hendry, Yang Liu, Jonathan B. Losos, J. Scott MacIvor, Ryan A. Martin, Mark J. McDonnell, Lindsay S. Miles, Jason Munshi‐South, Robert W. Ness, Amy E. M. Newman, Mason R. Stothart, Panagiotis Theodorou, Ken Thompson, Brian C. Verrelli, Andrew Whitehead, Kristin M. Winchell, Marc T. J. Johnson - Evolutionary Applications 2018 cited by 281

  8. Climate change and plant regeneration from seed

    Authors: Jeffrey L. Walck, Siti N. Hidayati, Kingsley W. Dixon, Ken Thompson, Peter Poschlod - Global Change Biology 2010 cited by 998

  9. Corrigendum to : New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide

    Authors: Natalia Pérez Harguindeguy, Silvia Díaz, Éric Garnier, Sandra Lavorel, Hendrik Poorter, Pedro Jaureguiberry, M. Syndonia Bret‐Harte, William K. Cornwell, Joseph M. Craine, Diego E. Gurvich, Carlos Urcelay, Erik J. Veneklaas, Peter B. Reich, Lourens Poorter, Ian J. Wright, Prasun Ray, Lucas Enrico, Juli G. Pausas, Ad Vos, Nina Buchmann, Guillermo Funes, Fabien Quétier, John Hodgson, Ken Thompson, Huw D. Morgan, Hans ter Steege, Lawren Sack, B. Blonder, Peter Poschlod, María V. Vaieretti, Georgina Conti, A. Carla Staver, Sâmia Aquino, J. H. C. Cornelissen - Australian Journal of Botany 2016 cited by 728

  10. Fluctuating resources in plant communities: a general theory of invasibility

    Authors: Mark A. Davis, J. Philip Grime, Ken Thompson - Journal of Ecology 2000 cited by 3,446

  11. Don't judge species on their origins

    Authors: Mark A. Davis, Matthew K. Chew, Richard J. Hobbs, Ariel E. Lugo, John J. Ewel, Geerat J. Vermeij, James H. Brown, Michael L. Rosenzweig, Mark R. Gardener, Scott P. Carroll, Ken Thompson, Steward T. A. Pickett, Juliet C. Stromberg, Peter Del Tredici, Katharine N. Suding, Joan G. Ehrenfeld, J. Philip Grime, Joseph Mascaro, John C. Briggs - Nature 2011 cited by 1,071

  12. Specific leaf area and leaf dry matter content as alternative predictors of plant strategies

    Authors: Peter J. Wilson, Ken Thompson, John Hodgson - New Phytologist 1999 cited by 948

  13. The LEDA Traitbase: a database of life‐history traits of the Northwest European flora

    Authors: Michael Kleyer, R.M. Bekker, I.C. Knevel, J.P. Bakker, Ken Thompson, Michael Sonnenschein, Peter Poschlod, J.M. Van Groenendael, Leoš Klimeš, Jitka Klimešová, Stefan Klotz, Graciela M. Rusch, Martin Hermy, Dries Adriaens, Ger Boedeltje, Beatrijs Bossuyt, Andrea Dannemann, Patrick Endels, Lars Götzenberger, J. G. Hodgson, A. K. Jackel, Ingolf Kühn, D. Kunzmann, W.A. Ozinga, Christine Römermann, Michael Städler, Jürgen Schlegelmilch, H.J. Steendam, Oliver Tackenberg, Bodil Helene Wilmann, J. H. C. Cornelissen, Ove Eriksson, Éric Garnier, Begoña Peco - Journal of Ecology 2008 cited by 1,565

  14. Adaptive divergence and the evolution of hybrid trait mismatch in threespine stickleback

    Authors: Avneet K. Chhina, Ken Thompson, Dolph Schluter - Evolution Letters 2022 cited by 29

  15. Experimental Hybridization Studies Suggest That Pleiotropic Alleles Commonly Underlie Adaptive Divergence between Natural Populations

    Authors: Ken Thompson - The American Naturalist 2020 cited by 25

  16. The domestic garden – Its contribution to urban green infrastructure

    Authors: Ross Cameron, Tijana Blanuša, Jane Taylor, Andrew Salisbury, A. J. Halstead, B. Henricot, Ken Thompson - Urban forestry & urban greening 2012 cited by 585

  17. Parallel genetic evolution and speciation from standing variation

    Authors: Ken Thompson, Matthew M. Osmond, Dolph Schluter - Evolution Letters 2019 cited by 117

  18. The diverse effects of phenotypic dominance on hybrid fitness

    Authors: Hilde Schneemann, Aslı D. Munzur, Ken Thompson, John J. Welch - Evolution 2022 cited by 16

  19. A conceptual framework for predicting the effects of urban environments on floras

    Authors: Nicholas S. G. Williams, Mark W. Schwartz, Peter A. Vesk, Michael A. McCarthy, Amy K. Hahs, Steven E. Clemants, Richard T. Corlett, Richard P. Duncan, Briony A. Norton, Ken Thompson, Mark J. McDonnell - Journal of Ecology 2008 cited by 421

  20. Retrograde Analysis of Certain Endgames

    Authors: Ken Thompson - ICGA Journal, ICCA J. 1986 cited by 174

  21. A global method for calculating plant CSR ecological strategies applied across biomes world‐wide

    Authors: Simon Pierce, Daniel Negreiros, Bruno Enrico Leone Cerabolini, Jens Kattge, Sandra Dı́az, Michael Kleyer, Bill Shipley, S. Joseph Wright‬, Nadejda A. Soudzilovskaia, V. G. Onipchenko, Peter M. van Bodegom, Cédric Frenette‐Dussault, Evan Weiher, Bruno X. Pinho, Johannes H. C. Cornelissen, John Philip Grime, Ken Thompson, Roderick Hunt, Peter J. Wilson, Gabriella Buffa, Oliver Castor Nyakunga, Peter B. Reich, Marco Caccianiga, Federico Mangili, Roberta M. Ceriani, Alessandra Luzzaro, Guido Brusa, Andrew Siefert, Newton P. U. Barbosa, Francis Stuart Chapin, William K. Cornwell, Jingyun Fang, Geraldo Wilson Fernandes, Éric Garnier, Soizig Le Stradic, Josep Peñuelas, Felipe P. L. Melo, Antonio Slaviero, Marcelo Tabarelli, Duccio Tampucci - Functional Ecology 2016 cited by 585

  22. Nitrogen deposition causes widespread loss of species richness in British habitats

    Authors: Lindsay C. Maskell, Simon M. Smart, James M. Bullock, Ken Thompson, Carly Stevens - Global Change Biology 2009 cited by 338

  23. Contribution of acidification and eutrophication to declines in species richness of calcifuge grasslands along a gradient of atmospheric nitrogen deposition

    Authors: Carly Stevens, Ken Thompson, J. Philip Grime, Christopher J. Long, David Gowing - Functional Ecology 2009 cited by 210

  24. C4 photosynthesis boosts growth by altering physiology, allocation and size

    Authors: Rebecca R. L. Atkinson, Emily J. Mockford, Christopher Bennett, Pascal‐Antoine Christin, Elizabeth L. Spriggs, Robert P. Freckleton, Ken Thompson, Mark Rees, Colin P. Osborne - Nature Plants 2016 cited by 113