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Paul E. McKenney 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 Paul E. McKenney sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 189 publications — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Paul E. McKenney 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 Paul E. McKenney sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 56 D-Index — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Paul E. McKenney is affiliated with Facebook in the United States. Their research spans the fields of Mathematics and Computer Science, with specific contributions in Geometry and Topology, Computer Networks and Communications, Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics, Hardware and Architecture, and Computational Theory and Mathematics.

The main topics of McKenney's work include Limits and Structures in Graph Theory, Advanced Topology and Set Theory, Distributed systems and fault tolerance, Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques, Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems, Advanced Graph Theory Research, and Graph theory and applications.

Recent publications by Paul E. McKenney include:

  • RCU Usage In the Linux Kernel, 2020, ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
  • Density of monochromatic infinite subgraphs II, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Density of monochromatic infinite subgraphs II - Erratum, 2025, Forum of Mathematics Sigma

Frequent co-authors collaborating with McKenney are:

  • Jan Corsten
  • Louis DeBiasio
  • Joel Fernandes
  • Silas Boyd-Wickizer
  • Jonathan Walpole

Paul E. McKenney has published in venues such as ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review, arXiv (Cornell University), and Forum of Mathematics Sigma.

Best Publications

  • Stochastic fairness queueing

    P.E. McKenney

  • READ-COPY UPDATE: USING EXECUTION HISTORY TO SOLVE CONCURRENCY PROBLEMS

    Paul E. Mckenney;John D. Slingwine

  • Packet recovery in high-speed networks using coding and buffer management

    N. Shacham;P. McKenney

  • Apparatus and method for achieving reduced overhead mutual exclusion and maintaining coherency in a multiprocessor system utilizing execution history and thread monitoring

    John D. Slingwine;Paul E. McKenney

  • Performance of memory reclamation for lockless synchronization

    Thomas E. Hart;Paul E. Mckenney;Angela Demke Brown;Jonathan Walpole

  • User-Level Implementations of Read-Copy Update

    M. Desnoyers;P. E. McKenney;A. S. Stern;M. R. Dagenais

  • Apparatus and system for dynamically allocating main memory among a plurality of applications

    Sorav Bansal;Paul Edward McKenney;Dharmendra Shantilal Modha

  • The Flow Queue CoDel Packet Scheduler and Active Queue Management Algorithm

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  • Exploiting deferred destruction: an analysis of read-copy-update techniques in operating system kernels

    Paul E. Mckenney;Jonathan Walpole

  • Enabling autonomic behavior in systems software with hot swapping

    J. Appavoo;K. Hui;C. A. N. Soules;R. W. Wisniewski

  • Adaptive Reader-Writer Lock

    Paul E. McKenney

  • Is Parallel Programming Hard, And, If So, What Can You Do About It?

    Paul E. McKenney

  • Reader-writer lock for multiprocessor systems

    Paul E. McKenney;Brent Kingsbury

  • Method for maintaining data coherency using thread activity summaries in a multicomputer system

    John D. Slingwine;Paul E. McKenney

  • The read-copy-update mechanism for supporting real-time applications on shared-memory multiprocessor systems with Linux

    D. Guniguntala;P. E. McKenney;J. Triplett;J. Walpole

  • Efficient Demultiplexing of Incoming TCP Packets.

    Paul E. McKenney;Ken F. Dove

  • Software implementation of synchronous memory Barriers

    Paul E. McKenney

  • Memory allocator for a multiprocessor computer system

    Paul E. McKenney;Phillip E. Krueger;Stuart A. Friedberg;Brent A. Kingsbury

  • What is RCU, Fundamentally?

    Paul E. McKenney;Jonathan Walpole

  • Lingering locks with fairness control for multi-node computer systems

    Paul E. McKenney;Kevin A. Closson;Raghupathi Malige

  • Resizable, scalable, concurrent hash tables via relativistic programming

    Josh Triplett;Paul E. McKenney;Jonathan Walpole

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan Walpole
Jonathan Walpole Portland State University
Orran Krieger
Orran Krieger Boston University
Maged M. Michael
Maged M. Michael Facebook (United States)
Ramakrishnan Rajamony
Ramakrishnan Rajamony Goldman Sachs (United States)
Alex Groce
Alex Groce Northern Arizona University
Dharmendra S. Modha
Dharmendra S. Modha IBM (United States)
Robert W. Wisniewski
Robert W. Wisniewski Intel (United States)
Daniel Kroening
Daniel Kroening Amazon (United States)
James Peter Ward
James Peter Ward IBM (United States)
Gregory R. Ganger
Gregory R. Ganger Carnegie Mellon University

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