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Jeffrey Scott Vitter publication distribution in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Computer Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jeffrey Scott Vitter sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 366 publications — 84th percentile

84% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 991 publications or more.

Jeffrey Scott Vitter D-index placement in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Computer Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jeffrey Scott Vitter sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 80 D-Index — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1996 - ACM Fellow For contributions to the theory of information storage and retrieval and to the design and mathematical analysis of computer algorithms.
  • 1993 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to the theory of sorting and searching and to the design and analysis of computer algorithms.
  • 1986 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Jeffrey Scott Vitter is affiliated with the University of Mississippi in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields with a focus on computer science and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Within these main fields, their work explores various subfields including molecular biology, artificial intelligence, computer vision and pattern recognition, statistical and nonlinear physics, and computer graphics and computer-aided design.

The scientist's research topics primarily include algorithms and data compression, genomics and phylogenetic studies, DNA and biological computing, advanced graph neural networks, graph theory and algorithms, complex network analysis techniques, and computational geometry and mesh generation.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with this researcher include Hongwei Huo, Zhigang Sun, Jun Huan, Sushovan Majhi, and Carola Wenk.

Key recent papers authored by Jeffrey Scott Vitter are:

  • Feature reduction based on semantic similarity for graph classification, 2020, Neurocomputing
  • Approximating Gromov-Hausdorff distance in Euclidean space, 2023, Computational Geometry
  • Efficient Compression and Indexing for Highly Repetitive DNA Sequence Collections, 2020, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
  • Practical High-Order Entropy-Compressed Text Self-Indexing, 2021, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
  • CIndex: compressed indexes for fast retrieval of FASTQ files, 2021, Bioinformatics

The venues in which this researcher frequently publishes include Neurocomputing, Computational Geometry, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, and Bioinformatics.

Throughout their career, Jeffrey Scott Vitter has received several honors including:

  • Fellow, National Academy of Inventors (2018)
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2009)
  • ACM Fellow (1996) for contributions to the theory of information storage and retrieval and to the design and mathematical analysis of computer algorithms
  • IEEE Fellow (1993) for contributions to the theory of sorting and searching and to the design and analysis of computer algorithms
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1986)

Best Publications

  • Random sampling with a reservoir

    Jeffrey S. Vitter

  • The input/output complexity of sorting and related problems

    Alok Aggarwal;S. Vitter Jeffrey

  • External memory algorithms and data structures: dealing with massive data

    Jeffrey Scott Vitter

  • High-order entropy-compressed text indexes

    Roberto Grossi;Ankur Gupta;Jeffrey Scott Vitter

  • Compressed Suffix Arrays and Suffix Trees with Applications to Text Indexing and String Matching

    Roberto Grossi;Jeffrey Scott Vitter

  • Wavelet-based histograms for selectivity estimation

    Yossi Matias;Jeffrey Scott Vitter;Min Wang

  • Design and analysis of dynamic Huffman codes

    Jeffrey Scott Vitter

  • Algorithms for parallel memory, I: Two-level memories

    Jeffrey S Vitter;Elizabeth A.M. Shriver

  • Approximate computation of multidimensional aggregates of sparse data using wavelets

    Jeffrey Scott Vitter;Min Wang

  • Arithmetic coding for data compression

    P.G. Howard;J.S. Vitter

  • External-memory graph algorithms

    Yi-Jen Chiang;Michael T. Goodrich;Edward F. Grove;Roberto Tamassia

  • Efficient indexing methods for probabilistic threshold queries over uncertain data

    Reynold Cheng;Yuni Xia;Sunil Prabhakar;Rahul Shah

  • Practical prefetching via data compression

    Kenneth M. Curewitz;P. Krishnan;Jeffrey Scott Vitter

  • Optimal prefetching via data compression

    Jeffrey Scott Vitter;P. Krishnan

  • Average-Case Analysis of Algorithms and Data Structures.

    Jeffrey Scott Vitter;Philippe Flajolet

  • Data cube approximation and histograms via wavelets

    Jeffrey Scott Vitter;Min Wang;Bala Iyer

  • Fast and efficient lossless image compression

    P.G. Howard;J.S. Vitter

  • Scalable Sweeping-Based Spatial Join

    Lars Arge;Octavian Procopiuc;Sridhar Ramaswamy;Torsten Suel

  • External-memory computational geometry

    M.T. Goodrich;Jyh-Jong Tsay;D.E. Vengroff;J.S. Vitter

  • e-approximations with minimum packing constraint violation (extended abstract)

    Jyh-Han Lin;Jeffrey Scott Vitter

  • Compressed suffix arrays and suffix trees with applications to text indexing and string matching (extended abstract)

    Roberto Grossi;Jeffrey Scott Vitter

  • External-Memory Graph Algorithms

    Yi-Feng Chian;Michael T. Goodrich;Edward Grove;Roberto Tamassia

Frequent Co-Authors

Lars Arge
Lars Arge Aarhus University
Roberto Tamassia
Roberto Tamassia Brown University
Min Wang
Min Wang Google (United States)
Pankaj K. Agarwal
Pankaj K. Agarwal Duke University
Yossi Matias
Yossi Matias Google (United States)
Philip M. Long
Philip M. Long Google (United States)
Michael T. Goodrich
Michael T. Goodrich University of California, Irvine
Franco P. Preparata
Franco P. Preparata Brown University
Peter Sanders
Peter Sanders Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Walid G. Aref
Walid G. Aref Purdue University West Lafayette

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