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10531
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9988
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Peter Wegner 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 Wegner sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 134 publications — 20th percentile

20% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Peter Wegner 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 Wegner sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 131+

This scientist: 38 D-Index — 30th percentile

30% 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

  • 2000 - ACM Distinguished Service Award For many years of generous service to ACM and the computing community, including outstanding and inspiring leadership in publications and in charting research directions for computer science.
  • 1995 - ACM Fellow For many 27 years Professor Wegner has been an initiating leader in ACM's educational and publication efforts while inspiring several generations of computer scientists.

Overview

Peter Wegner is affiliated with Brown University in the United States and has contributed to research in fields spanning computer science, physics, and astronomy. Their work focuses on various subfields including nuclear and high energy physics, computer networks and communications, hardware and architecture, cultural studies, and social psychology.

The scientist's research topics include particle detector development and performance, distributed and parallel computing systems, astrophysics and cosmic phenomena, advanced data storage technologies, parallel computing and optimization techniques, psychoanalysis and social critique, as well as psychology, coaching, and therapy.

Recent publications authored by Peter Wegner include:

  • "The Array Control and Data Acquisition System of the Cherenkov Telescope Array," 2020, HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
  • "Prototyping the Resource Manager and Central Control System for the Cherenkov Telescope Array," 2020, JACOW
  • "Trends in computing technologies and markets: The HEPiX TechWatch WG," 2020, EPJ Web of Conferences
  • "Die Zeitlosigkeit des Unbewussten und das psychoanalytische Setting," 2024, Forum der Psychoanalyse
  • "Il lavoro psicoanalitico orientato al processo nel primo colloquio e l'importanza della scena di apertura," 2025, PSICOANALISI

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Peter Wegner include:

  • David Melkumyan
  • I. Sadeh
  • U. Schwanke
  • I. Oya
  • Sebastian Funk

Their publications often appear in venues such as:

  • HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
  • JACOW
  • EPJ Web of Conferences
  • Forum der Psychoanalyse
  • PSICOANALISI

Peter Wegner has also received recognition in their field, including the ACM Distinguished Service Award in 2000 for contributions to the computing community and leadership in publications and research directions. In 1995, they were named an ACM Fellow in acknowledgment of long-term leadership and educational efforts in computer science.

Best Publications

  • On understanding types, data abstraction, and polymorphism

    Luca Cardelli;Peter Wegner

  • Why interaction is more powerful than algorithms

    Peter Wegner

  • Dimensions of object-based language design

    Peter Wegner

  • Concepts and paradigms of object-oriented programming

    Peter Wegner

  • Inheritance as an Incremental Modification Mechanism or What Like Is and Isn't Like

    Peter Wegner;Stanley B. Zdonik

  • Toward megaprogramming

    Gio Wiederhold;Peter Wegner;Stefano Ceri

  • Research directions in object-oriented programming

    Bruce Shriver;Peter Wegner

  • Interactive foundations of computing

    Peter Wegner

  • Interactive Computation: The New Paradigm

    Dina Goldin;Scott A. Smolka;Peter Wegner

  • The Vienna Definition Language

    Peter Wegner

  • Research directions in concurrent object-oriented programming

    Gul Agha;Peter Wegner;Akinori Yonezawa

  • The object-oriented classification paradigm

    Peter Wegner

  • Turing machines, transition systems, and interaction

    Dina Q. Goldin;Scott A. Smolka;Paul C. Attie;Elaine L. Sonderegger

  • Computation beyond turing machines

    Peter Wegner;Dina Goldin

  • Turing’s Ideas and Models of Computation

    Eugene Eberbach;Dina Goldin;Peter Wegner

  • Capital-Intensive Software Technology

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  • Programming Languages, Information Structures, and Machine Organization.

    Peter. Wegner

  • Globalizing business, education, culture through the Internet

    Nabil Adam;Baruch Awerbuch;Jacob Slonim;Peter Wegner

  • The church-turing thesis: breaking the myth

    Dina Goldin;Peter Wegner

  • An algebraic model of subtype and inheritance

    Kim B. Bruce;Peter Wegner

  • Language and Methodology for Object-Oriented Database Environments

    Stanley B. Zdonik;Peter Wegner

Frequent Co-Authors

Akinori Yonezawa
Akinori Yonezawa University of Tokyo
Gul Agha
Gul Agha University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Kim B. Bruce
Kim B. Bruce Pomona College
Stanley B. Zdonik
Stanley B. Zdonik Brown University
Peter J. Denning
Peter J. Denning Naval Postgraduate School
Scott A. Smolka
Scott A. Smolka Stony Brook University
Gio Wiederhold
Gio Wiederhold Stanford University
Stefano Ceri
Stefano Ceri Polytechnic University of Milan
Luca Cardelli
Luca Cardelli University of Oxford
Baruch Awerbuch
Baruch Awerbuch Johns Hopkins University

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