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Peter Sanders 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 Sanders sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 499 publications — 93rd percentile

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

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

Peter Sanders 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 Sanders sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 76 D-Index — 91st percentile

91% 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 Germany Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Computer Science in Germany Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Germany Leader Award

Overview

Peter Sanders is affiliated with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on computer science, with extensive work in subfields that include computer networks and communications, artificial intelligence, computer vision and pattern recognition, hardware and architecture, and electrical and electronic engineering.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics related to algorithms and data compression, interconnection networks and systems, VLSI and FPGA design techniques, caching and content delivery, advanced image and video retrieval techniques, graph theory and algorithms, and parallel computing and optimization techniques.

Peter Sanders has published numerous papers in various venues. Notable recent publications include:

  • High-Quality Hypergraph Partitioning, 2022, ACM Journal of Experimental Algorithmics
  • More Recent Advances in (Hyper)Graph Partitioning, 2022, ACM Computing Surveys
  • High-Quality Hypergraph Partitioning, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Parallel Weighted Random Sampling, 2022, ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software
  • Linear work generation of R-MAT graphs, 2020, Repository KITopen (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

The frequent venues for their publications include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl)
  • Repository KITopen (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
  • Spirituality in Clinical Practice
  • Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics eBooks

Collaboration plays a role in their research activities. Frequent coauthors are:

  • Hans-Peter Lehmann
  • Lars Gottesbüren
  • Tobias Heuer
  • Daniel Seemaier
  • Stefan Walzer

Peter Sanders' profile reflects a comprehensive engagement with both theoretical and applied aspects of computer science, particularly in areas intersecting algorithms, graph theory, and system optimization.

Best Publications

  • Polynomial time algorithms for multicast network code construction

    S. Jaggi;P. Sanders;P.A. Chou;M. Effros

  • Contraction hierarchies: faster and simpler hierarchical routing in road networks

    Robert Geisberger;Peter Sanders;Dominik Schultes;Daniel Delling

  • Route Planning in Transportation Networks

    Hannah Bast;Daniel Delling;Andrew V. Goldberg;Matthias Müller-Hannemann

  • Engineering Route Planning Algorithms

    Daniel Delling;Peter Sanders;Dominik Schultes;Dorothea Wagner

  • Simple linear work suffix array construction

    Juha Kärkkäinen;Peter Sanders

  • Algorithms and Data Structures: The Basic Toolbox

    Kurt Mehlhorn;Peter Sanders

  • Highway hierarchies hasten exact shortest path queries

    Peter Sanders;Dominik Schultes

  • Linear work suffix array construction

    Juha Kärkkäinen;Peter Sanders;Stefan Burkhardt

  • Recent Advances in Graph Partitioning

    Aydın Buluç;Henning Meyerhenke;Ilya Safro;Peter Sanders

  • Polynomial time algorithms for network information flow

    Peter Sanders;Sebastian Egner;Ludo Tolhuizen

  • Exact Routing in Large Road Networks Using Contraction Hierarchies

    Robert Geisberger;Peter Sanders;Dominik Schultes;Christian Vetter

  • Δ-stepping: a parallelizable shortest path algorithm

    U. Meyer;P. Sanders

  • Combining hierarchical and goal-directed speed-up techniques for dijkstra's algorithm

    Reinhard Bauer;Daniel Delling;Peter Sanders;Dennis Schieferdecker

  • Fast Routing in Road Networks with Transit Nodes

    Holger Bast;Stefan Funke;Peter Sanders;Dominik Schultes

  • In transit to constant time shortest-path queries in road networks

    Holger Bast;Stefan Funke;Domagoj Matijevic;Peter Sanders

  • Better approximation of betweenness centrality

    Robert Geisberger;Peter Sanders;Dominik Schultes

  • Engineering highway hierarchies

    Peter Sanders;Dominik Schultes

  • Think Locally, Act Globally: Highly Balanced Graph Partitioning

    Peter Sanders;Christian Schulz

  • Graph Partitioning and Graph Clustering

    David Bader;Henning Meyerhenke;Peter Sanders;Dorothea Wagner

  • Space Efficient Hash Tables With Worst Case Constant Access Time

    Dimitris Fotakis;Rasmus Pagh;Peter Sanders;Paul G. Spirakis

Frequent Co-Authors

Christian Schulz
Christian Schulz Heidelberg University
Kurt Mehlhorn
Kurt Mehlhorn Max Planck Institute for Informatics
Dorothea Wagner
Dorothea Wagner Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Daniel Delling
Daniel Delling Apple (United States)
Renato F. Werneck
Renato F. Werneck Microsoft (United States)
Giuseppe F. Italiano
Giuseppe F. Italiano Guido Carli Free International University for Social Studies
Ralf Mikut
Ralf Mikut Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Jeffrey Scott Vitter
Jeffrey Scott Vitter University of Mississippi
Martin Skutella
Martin Skutella Technical University of Berlin
Berthold Vöcking
Berthold Vöcking RWTH Aachen University

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