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Peter Buneman 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 Peter Buneman sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 195 publications — 44th percentile

44% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Peter Buneman 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 Peter Buneman sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 69 D-Index — 87th percentile

87% 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

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2017 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2009 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
  • 2000 - ACM Fellow Leadership in: Extending databases to new data models, type systems, and languages. Complex value, functional and object-oriented database languages. Semi-structured data and heterogeneous database integration.

Overview

Peter Buneman is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple areas within computer science, with a primary focus on data management, graph theory, and scientific computing.

Their work includes contributions to a range of subfields such as information systems, computer vision and pattern recognition, artificial intelligence, and molecular biology. This diverse reach reflects a multidisciplinary approach to data and computational problems.

Key topics in their research involve:

  • Scientific Computing and Data Management
  • Research Data Management Practices
  • Graph Theory and Algorithms
  • Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
  • Data Quality and Management
  • Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques
  • Data Management and Algorithms

Peter Buneman has published several papers in respected venues, including:

  • "Why data citation isn't working, and what to do about it" (2020) in Database
  • "Data citation and the citation graph" (2021) in Quantitative Science Studies
  • "MITra: A Framework for Multi-Instance Graph Traversal" (2023) in Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
  • "Can we measure the impact of a database?" (2024) in arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Automating Vectorized Distributed Graph Computation" (2024) in Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data

Their frequent collaborators include Dennis Dosso, Matteo Lissandrini, Gianmaria Silvello, Wenyue Zhao, and Nikos Ntarmos, each having co-authored multiple works with them. These collaborations contribute to advancements in data management and computational frameworks.

Publication venues where Peter Buneman's work appears regularly are:

  • Database
  • Quantitative Science Studies
  • Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data

Peter Buneman's contributions have been recognized through awards and honors, including:

  • Member of Academia Europaea (2017)
  • Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom (2009)
  • ACM Fellow (2000) for leadership in extending databases to new data models, type systems, and languages, and work on semi-structured data and heterogeneous database integration

This profile outlines the scope and impact of Peter Buneman's career as a researcher focused on advancing the theoretical and applied aspects of computer science, particularly within the domains of data and information systems.

Best Publications

  • Data on the Web: From Relations to Semistructured Data and XML

    Serge Abiteboul;Peter Buneman;Dan Suciu

  • Why and Where: A Characterization of Data Provenance

    Peter Buneman;Sanjeev Khanna;Wang Chiew Tan

  • Semistructured data

    Peter Buneman

  • A query language and optimization techniques for unstructured data

    Peter Buneman;Susan Davidson;Gerd Hillebrand;Dan Suciu

  • The IUPHAR/BPS Guide to PHARMACOLOGY: an expert-driven knowledgebase of drug targets and their ligands

    Adam J. Pawson;Joanna L. Sharman;Helen E. Benson;Elena Faccenda

  • The Recovery of Trees from Measures of Dissimilarity

    Peter Buneman

  • Types and persistence in database programming languages

    Malcolm P. Atkinson;O. Peter Buneman

  • Adding Structure to Unstructured Data

    Peter Buneman;Susan B. Davidson;Mary F. Fernandez;Dan Suciu

  • A characterisation of rigid circuit graphs

    Peter Buneman

  • Keys for XML

    Peter Buneman;Susan B. Davidson;Wenfei Fan;Carmem S. Hara

  • A Note on the Metric Properties of Trees

    Peter Buneman

  • THE CONCISE GUIDE TO PHARMACOLOGY 2019/20: Introduction and Other Protein Targets.

    Stephen P.H. Alexander;Eamonn Kelly;Alistair Mathie;John A. Peters

  • Provenance management in curated databases

    Peter Buneman;Adriane Chapman;James Cheney

  • Data Provenance: Some Basic Issues

    Peter Buneman;Sanjeev Khanna;Wang Chiew Tan

  • UnQL: a query language and algebra for semistructured data based on structural recursion

    Peter Buneman;Mary Fernandez;Dan Suciu

  • Principles of programming with complex objects and collection types

    Peter Buneman;Shamim Naqvi;Val Tannen;Limsoon Wong

  • Archiving scientific data

    Peter Buneman;Sanjeev Khanna;Keishi Tajima;Wang-Chiew Tan

  • Keys for XML

    Peter Buneman;Susan Davidson;Wenfei Fan;Carmem Hara

  • Comprehension syntax

    Peter Buneman;Leonid Libkin;Dan Suciu;Val Tannen

  • Reasoning about keys for XML

    Peter Buneman;Susan Davidson;Wenfei Fan;Carmem Hara

  • Proceedings of the 1993 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data

    Peter Buneman;Sushil Jajodia

  • THE CONCISE GUIDE TO PHARMACOLOGY 2019/20: Introduction and Other Protein Targets.

    Stephen P H Alexander;Eamonn Kelly;Alistair Mathie;John A Peters

Frequent Co-Authors

Wang-Chiew Tan
Wang-Chiew Tan Facebook (United States)
Wenfei Fan
Wenfei Fan University of Edinburgh
Susan B. Davidson
Susan B. Davidson University of Pennsylvania
James Cheney
James Cheney University of Edinburgh
Limsoon Wong
Limsoon Wong National University of Singapore
Val Tannen
Val Tannen University of Pennsylvania
Sanjeev Khanna
Sanjeev Khanna University of Pennsylvania
Malcolm Atkinson
Malcolm Atkinson University of Edinburgh
Dan Suciu
Dan Suciu University of Washington
Michael Spedding
Michael Spedding DuPont (United States)

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