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D-Index
40
Citations
10566
World Ranking
1995
National Ranking
842

Alan J. Hoffman publication distribution in Mathematics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Mathematics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alan J. Hoffman sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 537+

This scientist: 150 publications — 38th percentile

38% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 537 publications or more.

Alan J. Hoffman D-index placement in Mathematics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Mathematics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alan J. Hoffman sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 174 scientists 31 D-Index: 151 scientists 32 D-Index: 174 scientists 33 D-Index: 117 scientists 34 D-Index: 136 scientists 35 D-Index: 127 scientists 36 D-Index: 145 scientists 37 D-Index: 153 scientists 38 D-Index: 150 scientists 39 D-Index: 150 scientists 40 D-Index: 138 scientists 41 D-Index: 136 scientists 42 D-Index: 93 scientists 43 D-Index: 108 scientists 44 D-Index: 115 scientists 45 D-Index: 112 scientists 46 D-Index: 103 scientists 47 D-Index: 75 scientists 48 D-Index: 59 scientists 49 D-Index: 67 scientists 50 D-Index: 60 scientists 51 D-Index: 57 scientists 52 D-Index: 59 scientists 53 D-Index: 62 scientists 54 D-Index: 60 scientists 55 D-Index: 50 scientists 56 D-Index: 42 scientists 57 D-Index: 54 scientists 58 D-Index: 50 scientists 59 D-Index: 42 scientists 60 D-Index: 41 scientists 61 D-Index: 35 scientists 62 D-Index: 40 scientists 63 D-Index: 21 scientists 64 D-Index: 31 scientists 65 D-Index: 27 scientists 66 D-Index: 29 scientists 67 D-Index: 19 scientists 68 D-Index: 25 scientists 69 D-Index: 17 scientists 70 D-Index: 18 scientists 71 D-Index: 12 scientists 72 D-Index: 14 scientists 73 D-Index: 13 scientists 74 D-Index: 18 scientists 75 D-Index: 9 scientists 76 D-Index: 11 scientists 77 D-Index: 10 scientists 78 D-Index: 9 scientists 79 D-Index: 16 scientists 80 D-Index: 12 scientists 81 D-Index: 10 scientists 82 D-Index: 5 scientists 83 D-Index: 5 scientists 84 D-Index: 13 scientists 85 D-Index: 6 scientists 86+ D-Index: 99 scientists
30 D-Index 86+

This scientist: 40 D-Index — 45th percentile

45% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 86 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2002 - Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
  • 1992 - INFORMS John von Neumann Theory Prize
  • 1987 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1982 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

Alan J. Hoffman was affiliated with IBM in the United States during their career. They were recognized within the scientific and operations research communities for their contributions, as evidenced by several prestigious awards and honors received over the years.

In 1982, Hoffman was elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Five years later, in 1987, they were named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Their recognition continued with the INFORMS John von Neumann Theory Prize in 1992, an award given for outstanding contributions in operations research and the management sciences. Additionally, Hoffman was designated a Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) in 2002.

Hoffman's professional record does not include recent paper publications, frequent co-authors, or specific research topics documented in this data. Likewise, there is no information available concerning book publications, specific fields of study, subfields, or main topics of research covered by Hoffman.

The absence of detailed publication data or specific research fields limits the description of Hoffman's scientific impact strictly to the recognition provided by their awards and affiliation.

Best Publications

  • On approximate solutions of systems of linear inequalities

    A.J. Hoffman

  • Lower bounds for the partitioning of graphs

    W. E. Donath;A. J. Hoffman

  • A CHARACTERIZATION OF COMPARABILITY GRAPHS AND OF INTERVAL GRAPHS

    P. C. Gilmore;A. J. Hoffman

  • On Moore graphs with diameters 2 and 3

    A. J. Hoffman;R. R. Singleton

  • Integral Boundary Points of Convex Polyhedra

    Alan J. Hoffman;Joseph B. Kruskal

  • The variation of the spectrum of a normal matrix

    A. J. Hoffman;H. W. Wielandt

  • Some metric inequalities in the space of matrices

    Ky Fan;A. J. Hoffman

  • On Nonterminating Stochastic Games

    A. J. Hoffman;R. M. Karp

  • On Eigenvalues and Colorings of Graphs, II

    A. J. Hoffman;Leonard Howes

  • A generalization of the Eckart-Young-Mirsky matrix approximation theorem

    G.H. Golub;Alan Hoffman;G.W. Stewart

  • On the Polynomial of a Graph

    A. J. Hoffman

  • On the spectral radius of (0,1)-matrices

    R.A. Brualdi;A.J. Hoffman

  • Totally-Balanced and Greedy Matrices

    A. J. Hoffman;A. W. J. Kolen;M. Sakarovitch

  • ON SIMPLE LINEAR PROGRAMMING PROBLEMS

    A. J. Hoffman

  • Some Properties of Graphs with Multiple Edges

    D. R. Fulkerson;A. J. Hoffman;M. H. McAndrew

  • SOME RECENT APPLICATIONS OF THE THEORY OF LINEAR INEQUALITIES TO EXTREMAL COMBINATORIAL ANALYSIS

    Unknown

  • Applications of Graph Theory to Group Structure.

    Unknown

  • On balanced matrices

    D. R. Fulkerson;A. J. Hoffman;Rosa Oppenheim

  • A generalization of max flow--min cut

    A. J. Hoffman

  • Maximum degree in graphs of diameter 2

    Paul Erdös;Siemion Fajtlowicz;Alan J. Hoffman

  • Systems of inequalities involving convex functions

    Ky Fan;Irving Glicksberg;A. J. Hoffman

  • On limit points of spectral radii of non-negative symmetric integral matrices

    Alan J. Hoffman

Frequent Co-Authors

Uriel G. Rothblum
Uriel G. Rothblum Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
G. W. Stewart
G. W. Stewart University of Maryland, College Park
Gene H. Golub
Gene H. Golub Stanford University
Tim Roughgarden
Tim Roughgarden Columbia University
Don Coppersmith
Don Coppersmith IBM (United States)
Robert K. Brayton
Robert K. Brayton University of California, Berkeley
Richard A. Brualdi
Richard A. Brualdi University of Wisconsin–Madison
George B. Dantzig
George B. Dantzig Stanford University
Yves Crama
Yves Crama University of Liège
Ron Shamir
Ron Shamir Tel Aviv University

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