2026 Douglas B. Lenat: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	30	13812	5485	74	12769

Discipline name

D-Index

World Ranking

National Ranking

Publications

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Computer Science

13812

5485

12769

Research.com Recognitions

2008 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
1990 - Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)

Overview

Douglas B. Lenat was affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research spanned several areas within computer science and decision sciences, with a focus on artificial intelligence, management science and operations research, and information systems and management.

The main topics covered in their work included advanced graph neural networks, data quality and management, semantic web and ontologies, and scientific computing and data management.

Douglas B. Lenat published research articles in prominent venues such as AI Magazine and IEEE Annals of the History of Computing. Notable publications include:

Knowledge graphs: Introduction, history, and perspectives (2022, AI Magazine)
Knowledge Graphs: Introduction, History and, Perspectives (2022, AI Magazine)
Creating a 30-Million-Rule System: MCC and Cycorp (2022, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing)

The scientist frequently collaborated with the following coauthors:

Vinay K. Chaudhri
Chaitanya Baru
Naren Chittar
Michael Genesereth
James Hendler

They were recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2008 and as a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) in 1990.

Best Publications

Building Expert Systems

Frederick Hayes-Roth;Donald A. Waterman;Douglas B. Lenat

3344
Citations
Building Large Knowledge-Based Systems: Representation and Inference in the Cyc Project

Douglas B. Lenat;R. V. Guha

3118
Citations
CYC: a large-scale investment in knowledge infrastructure

Douglas B. Lenat

2952
Citations
Knowledge-based systems in artificial intelligence

Randall Davis;Douglas B Lenat

912
Citations
Building large knowledge-based systems

Douglas Lenat;Ramanathan V. Guha

890
Citations
Cyc: toward programs with common sense

Douglas B. Lenat;R. V. Guha;Karen Pittman;Dexter Pratt

791
Citations
Cyc: a mid-term report

R. V. Guha;Douglas B. Lenat

577
Citations
CYC: a mid-term report

R. V. Guha;Douglas B. Lenat

569
Citations
CYC: Using common sense knowledge to overcome brittleness and knowledge acquistion bottlenecks

Doug Lenat;Mayank Prakash;Mary Shepherd

445
Citations
On the thresholds of knowledge

Douglas B. Lenat;Edward A. Feigenbaum

440
Citations
Why AM an EUISKO appear to work.

Douglas B. Lenat;John Seely Brown

394
Citations
AM, an artificial intelligence approach to discovery in mathematics as heuristic search

Douglas Bruce Lenat

356
Citations
Eurisko: A program that learns new heuristics and domain concepts

Douglas B. Lenat

339
Citations
Enabling agents to work together

R. V. Guha;Douglas B. Lenat

274
Citations
The nature of heuristics

Douglas B. Lenat

248
Citations
The Role of Heuristics in Learning by Discovery: Three Case Studies

Douglas B. Lenat

221
Citations
Mapping Ontologies into Cyc

Unknown

200
Citations
Searching for common sense: populating Cyc™ from the web

Cynthia Matuszek;Michael Witbrock;Robert C. Kahlert;John Cabral

175
Citations
Automated theory formation in mathematics

Douglas B. Lenat

175
Citations
Theory formation by heuristic search

Douglas B. Lenat

147
Citations
The ubiquity of discovery

Douglas B. Lenat

147
Citations
The ubiquity of discovery

Douglas B. Lenat

144
Citations
BEINGs: knowledge as interacting experts

Douglas B. Lenat

113
Citations
Beings: knowledge as interacting experts

Douglas B. Lenat

112
Citations
A representation language language

Russell Greiner;Douglas B. Lenat

105
Citations
On the thresholds of knowledge

Douglas B. Lenat;Edward A. Feigenbaum

91
Citations
PRINCIPLES OF PATTERN-DIRECTED INFERENCE SYSTEMS

Frederick Hayes-Roth;D.A. Waterman;Douglas B. Lenat

91
Citations
Building expert systems

Frederick Hayes-Roth;Donald A. Waterman;Douglas B. Lenat

47
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Ramanathan V. Guha Google (United States)

Randall Davis MIT

Edward A. Feigenbaum Stanford University

Bilge Mutlu University of Wisconsin–Madison

Benjamin Van Durme Johns Hopkins University

Eric Horvitz Microsoft (United States)

John Seely Brown Palo Alto Research Center

David E. Shaw D. E. Shaw Research

Roger Azevedo University of Central Florida

Takayuki Kanda Kyoto University

External Links

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