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D-Index
60
Citations
45249
World Ranking
528
National Ranking
40

M. J. D. Powell 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 M. J. D. Powell sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 537+

This scientist: 130 publications — 27th percentile

27% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

M. J. D. Powell 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 M. J. D. Powell sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 86+

This scientist: 60 D-Index — 85th percentile

85% 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

  • 2001 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1982 - Dantzig Prize, by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) and the Mathematical Optimization Society (MOS)

Overview

M. J. D. Powell was affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research covered various fields including Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Arts and Humanities, and Social Sciences. Within these broader areas, they focused explicitly on subfields such as Economics and Econometrics, History, and Sociology and Political Science.

The main topics addressed in their research work involved:

  • Historical Economic and Social Studies
  • Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes
  • Historical Gender and Feminism Studies

Powell's publication record includes contributions to academic journals, with at least one identified paper:

  • "Widows and Their Wills: Death, Property, and Kinship Amongst Four Women of a Rural English Parish, 1695-1730" published in 2025 in The Virginia Tech Undergraduate Historical Review

The Virginia Tech Undergraduate Historical Review was noted as a frequent venue for their work, with at least one publication. There is no record of frequent coauthors linked to this scholar.

M. J. D. Powell received several distinctions during their career, including membership in the National Academy of Sciences awarded in 2001. Earlier, in 1982, they were honored with the Dantzig Prize, given by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) in conjunction with the Mathematical Optimization Society (MOS).

Best Publications

  • A Rapidly Convergent Descent Method for Minimization

    R. Fletcher;M. J. D. Powell

  • An efficient method for finding the minimum of a function of several variables without calculating derivatives

    M. J. D. Powell

  • Nonlinear Programming—Sequential Unconstrained Minimization Techniques

    Unknown

  • A fast algorithm for nonlinearly constrained optimization calculations

    M. J. D. Powell

  • Radial basis functions for multivariable interpolation: a review

    M. J. D. Powell

  • Restart procedures for the conjugate gradient method

    M. J. Powell

  • A method for nonlinear constraints in minimization problems

    M. J. D. Powell

  • Approximation theory and methods

    Michael J. D. Powell

  • The BOBYQA algorithm for bound constrained optimization without derivatives

    M. J. D. Powell

  • A Direct Search Optimization Method That Models the Objective and Constraint Functions by Linear Interpolation

    M. J. D. Powell

  • A Method for Minimizing a Sum of Squares of Non-Linear Functions Without Calculating Derivatives

    M. J. D. Powell

  • THE CONVERGENCE OF VARIABLE METRIC METHODS FOR NONLINEARLY CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION CALCULATIONS

    M.J.D. Powell

  • Direct search algorithms for optimization calculations

    M. J. D. Powell

  • Algorithms for nonlinear constraints that use lagrangian functions

    M. J. Powell

  • A New Algorithm for Unconstrained Optimization

    M.J.D. Powell

  • Nonconvex minimization calculations and the conjugate gradient method

    M. J. D. Powell

  • The NEWUOA software for unconstrained optimization without derivatives

    M. J. D. Powell

  • On the Estimation of Sparse Jacobian Matrices

    A. R. Curtis;M. J. D. Powell;J. K. Reid

  • Piecewise Quadratic Approximations on Triangles

    M. J. D. Powell;M. A. Sabin

  • Variable Metric Methods for Constrained Optimization

    M. J. D. Powell

  • UOBYQA: unconstrained optimization by quadratic approximation

    M.J.D. Powell

Frequent Co-Authors

Ya-xiang Yuan
Ya-xiang Yuan Chinese Academy of Sciences
Roger Fletcher
Roger Fletcher University of Dundee
John Reid
John Reid Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Philippe L. Toint
Philippe L. Toint University of Namur
Arieh Iserles
Arieh Iserles University of Cambridge
Yurii Nesterov
Yurii Nesterov Université Catholique de Louvain
Yinyu Ye
Yinyu Ye Stanford University
Andrzej Ruszczyński
Andrzej Ruszczyński Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Andreas Griewank
Andreas Griewank Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Masao Fukushima
Masao Fukushima Kyoto University

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