Prolific Genetic Programers

README.md

Most Published GP Authors

http://www.saulshanabrook.com/post/80761618102/searching-for-gp

1. Download gp-bibliography.bib and put it in the same directory
2. pip install bibtexparser
3. python most_published.py

most_published.py

import itertools
import collections
import pprint

from bibtexparser.bparser import BibTexParser


with open('gp-bibliography.bib', 'r') as bibfile:
        bp = BibTexParser(bibfile)

entries = bp.get_entry_list()
authors = [entry['author'] for entry in entries if 'author' in entry]

authors_split = [author.split(' and ') for author in authors]
authors_joined = list(itertools.chain.from_iterable(authors_split))
authors_fixed = [author.replace('\n', ' ') for author in authors_joined]

pprint.pprint(collections.Counter(authors_fixed).most_common(50))

output.py

# I have annotated this with the institution of each author
[(u'Riccardo Poli', 204),               # Unversity of Essex
 (u'Mengjie Zhang', 186),               # Victoria University of Wellington
 (u'John R. Koza', 172),                # Stanford University
 (u"Michael O'Neill", 150),             # University College Dublin
 (u'W. B. Langdon', 149),               # University College London
 (u'Wolfgang Banzhaf', 138),            # Memorial University of Newfoundland
 (u'Conor Ryan', 109),                  # University of Limerick
 (u'Hitoshi Iba', 104),                 # University of Tokyo
 (u'Anthony Brabazon', 89),             # University College Dublin
 (u'Shu-Heng Chen', 79),                # AI-ECON
 (u'Leonardo Vanneschi', 76),           # New University of Lison
 (u'Kotaro Hirasawa', 74),              # University of Trier
 (u'Julian F. Miller', 73),             # University of York
 (u'Lee Spector', 71),                  # Hampshire College
 (u'Shingo Mabu', 67),                  # Yamaguchi University
 (u'Peter Nordin', 65),                 # Chalmers University of Technology
 (u"Una-May O'Reilly", 63),             # MIT
 (u'Ivan Tanev', 62),                   # Doshisha University
 (u'William B. Langdon', 61),           # University College London
 (u'Martin A. Keane', 61),              # Econometrics Inc.
 (u'Miha Kovacic', 59),                 # University of Maribor
 (u'David Andre', 58),                  # Cerebellum Capital
 (u'Forrest H {Bennett III}', 55),      # Twitter
 (u'Mark Johnston', 53),                # ?
 (u'Krzysztof Krawiec', 53),            # Poznań University of Technology
 (u'Miran Brezocnik', 50),              # University of Maribor
 (u'Chia-Hsuan Yeh', 47),               # Yuan Ze University
 (u'Terence Soule', 46),                # University of Idaho
 (u'Marco Tomassini', 41),              # University of Lausanne
 (u'Amir Hossein Gandomi', 41),         # The University of Akron
 (u'Byoung-Tak Zhang', 39),             # Seoul National University
 (u'Tina Yu', 38),                      # Memorial University of Newfoundland
 (u'Moshe Sipper', 37),                 # Ben‑Gurion University of the Negev
 (u'Daniel Howard', 37),                # Western Washington University
 (u'Jason M. Daida', 37),               # University of Michigan
 (u'Miguel Nicolau', 37),               # University College Dublin
 (u'Malcolm I. Heywood', 36),           # Dalhousie University
 (u'Maarten Keijzer', 36),              # ?
 (u'R. Poli', 35),                      # University of Essex
 (u'Sebastian Ventura', 35),            # Universidad de Córdoba
 (u'Amir Hossein Alavi', 35),           # Michigan State University
 (u'Brian J. Ross', 35),                # Brock University
 (u'Vic Ciesielski', 34),               # RMIT University
 (u'Jason H. Moore', 34),               # Dartmouth
 (u'Andy Song', 33),                    # RMIT University
 (u'Sara Silva', 33),                   # University of Coimbra
 (u'Erik Hemberg', 31),                 # MIT
 (u'R. I. (Bob) McKay', 31),            # Seoul National University
 (u'Nicholas Freitag McPhee', 31),      # University of Minnesota
 (u'Kwong Sak Leung', 30)]              # Chinese University of Hong Kong