2026 Cheryl E. Praeger: Mathematics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Mathematics	52	955	815	27	24	513	11360
Engineering and Technology	51	3914	3752	209	205	326	8890

Cheryl E. Praeger 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 Cheryl E. Praeger sits on this spectrum.

42 publications 537+

This scientist: 513 publications — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Cheryl E. Praeger 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 Cheryl E. Praeger sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 86+

This scientist: 52 D-Index — 74th percentile

74% 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

2019 - Prime Minister's Prize for Science, Australia For her fundamental work in group theory and combinatorics
2013 - Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal, Australian Academy of Science
2013 - Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
1996 - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science

Overview

Cheryl E. Praeger is affiliated with the University of Western Australia in Australia. Their research primarily spans mathematics, computer science, and engineering, with significant contributions in discrete mathematics and combinatorics, electrical and electronic engineering, artificial intelligence, geometry and topology, and computational theory and mathematics. The main focus areas include finite group theory research, graph theory and CDMA systems, coding theory and cryptography, geometric and algebraic topology, limits and structures in graph theory, graph theory and applications, and advanced topics in algebra.

The recent scholarly work of Cheryl E. Praeger includes the following publications:

On flag-transitive 2-(v,k,2) designs, 2020, Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series A
The geometry of diagonal groups, 2021, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society
Block-transitive designs based on grids, 2022, Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society
Rank three innately transitive permutation groups and related 2-transitive groups, 2023, Innovations in incidence geometry
Subgroups of classical groups that are transitive on subspaces, 2023, Journal of Algebra

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Cheryl E. Praeger include:

Alice Devillers
S. P. Glasby
Michael Giudici
Carmen Amarra
Alice C. Niemeyer

The researcher has published extensively in the following academic venues:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series A
Journal of Algebra
Designs Codes and Cryptography
Journal of Combinatorial Designs

Cheryl E. Praeger is also associated with book publications, including a work published by Springer International Publishing titled 2018 MATRIX Annals released in 2020.

Their scholarly achievements include receiving several awards such as:

Prime Minister's Prize for Science, Australia, 2019, for fundamental work in group theory and combinatorics
Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal, Australian Academy of Science, 2013
Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, 2013
Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, 1996

Best Publications

On the O'Nan-Scott theorem for finite primitive permutation groups

Martin W. Liebeck;Cheryl E. Praeger;Jan Saxl

439
Citations
A classification of the maximal subgroups of the finite alternating and symmetric groups

Martin W Liebeck;Cheryl E Praeger;Jan Saxl

432
Citations
An O'Nan-Scott Theorem for finite quasiprimitive permutation groups, and an application to 2-arc transitive graphs.

Cheryl E. Praeger

345
Citations
The maximal factorizations of the finite simple groups and their automorphism groups

Martin W. Liebeck;Cheryl E. Praeger;Jan Saxl

331
Citations
Finite normal edge-transitive Cayley graphs

Cheryl E. Praeger

183
Citations
On transitive Cayley graphs of groups and semigroups

Andrei V. Kelarev;Cheryl E. Praeger

176
Citations
Vertex-primitive graphs of order a product of two distinct primes

Cheryl E. Praeger;Ming-Yao Xu

163
Citations
Finite Transitive Permutation Groups and Bipartite Vertex-Transitive Graphs

Cheryl E. Praeger

158
Citations
Analysing Finite Locally s-arc Transitive Graphs

Michael Giudici;Cai Heng Li;Cheryl E. Praeger

154
Citations
Transitive Subgroups of Primitive Permutation Groups

Martin W. Liebeck;Cheryl E. Praeger;Jan Saxl

151
Citations
Linear Groups with Orders Having Certain Large Prime Divisors

Robert Guralnick;Tim Penttila;Cheryl E. Praeger;Jan Saxl

148
Citations
On the orders of Primitive Permutation Groups

Cheryl E. Praeger;Jan Saxl

137
Citations
On Finite Affine 2-Arc Transitive Graphs

A.A. Ivanov;Cheryl E. Praeger

136
Citations
The Inclusion Problem for Finite Primitive Permutation Groups

Cheryl E. Praeger

135
Citations
A Recognition Algorithm for Special Linear Groups

Peter M. Neumann;Cheryl E. Praeger

120
Citations
Finite Permutation Groups

Cheryl E. Praeger

119
Citations
Symmetric Graphs of Order a Product of Two Distinct Primes

C.E. Praeger;R.J. Wang;M.Y. Xu

115
Citations
Fintte two-arc transitive graphs admitting a suzuki simple group

X.G. Fang;Cheryl Praeger

112
Citations
Cyclic Matrices Over Finite Fields

Peter M. Neumann;Cheryl E. Praeger

105
Citations
Vertex-transitive graphs which are not Cayley graphs, I

Brendan D. McKay;Cheryl E. Praeger

103
Citations
A characterization of a class of symmetric graphs of twice prime valency

C. E. Praeger;M.-Y. Xu

103
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin W. Liebeck Imperial College London

Peter M. Neumann University of Bern

Peter J. Cameron University of St Andrews

Robert M. Guralnick University of Southern California

Marston Conder University of Auckland

Jan Saxl University of Cambridge

Nicholas C. Wormald Monash University

Chris Godsil University of Waterloo

Rob Gray University of East Anglia

Terence P. Speed Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research

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