# Brian W. Kernighan

**Type:** Researchers  
**Canonical URL:** https://scholariq.org/researchers/brian-w-kernighan/

## Facts

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Citations | 18,196 |
| Field | Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques |
| h-index | 30 |
| i10-index | 50 |
| OpenAlex ID | https://openalex.org/A5034540227 |
| ORCID iD | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0741-9085 |
| Works | 144 |

## Researcher topics

- [Mathematics, Computing, and Information Processing](https://scholariq.org/topics/mathematics-computing-and-information-processing/)
- [Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques](https://scholariq.org/topics/parallel-computing-and-optimization-techniques/)
- [Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems](https://scholariq.org/topics/distributed-and-parallel-computing-systems/)
- [Logic, programming, and type systems](https://scholariq.org/topics/logic-programming-and-type-systems/)
- [Teaching and Learning Programming](https://scholariq.org/topics/teaching-and-learning-programming-2/)

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Source: ScholarIQ — public research metadata, principally OpenAlex. See https://scholariq.org/sources/ for provenance and https://scholariq.org/methodology/ for what these figures mean.