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Researcher · California Institute of Technology · United States

Barry Simon

Barry Simon publishes mostly in Mathematical Physics, Applied Mathematics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, on topics such as Spectral Theory in Mathematical Physics, Quantum chaos and dynamical systems and Matrix Theory and Algorithms.

ORCID 0000-0003-2561-8539 OpenAlex
World rank
#14,023
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#4,943
of 1,627,098
Works
702
Citations
46k
Citations per work
66.1
h-index
105
i10-index 375Top 0.1% in Mathematical Physics
Barry Simon

What does Barry Simon research?

Barry Simon's work is mostly in Mathematics (49%), Physics and Astronomy (20%), Computer Science (9%).

Physical Sciences: 544 works · 77.5% of their workMathematics: 343 works · 48.8% of their workMathematical Physics: 211 works · 30.1% of their workApplied Mathematics: 104 works · 14.8% of their workGeometry and Topology: 27 works · 3.9% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 138 works · 19.6% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 72 works · 10.3% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 65 works · 9.3% of their workComputer Science: 64 works · 9.1% of their workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 64 works · 9.1% of their workEverything else: 158 works · 22.5% of their workTHEIR WORKBarry Simon702works
Physical Sciences77%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Mathematics34348.8%
    2. Physics and Astronomy13819.6%
    3. Computer Science649.1%
  2. Everything else15822.5%
  1. 1Mathematical Physics30% of their works
  2. 2Applied Mathematics15% of their works
  3. 3Statistical and Nonlinear Physics10% of their works
  4. 4Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics9% of their works
  5. 5Computational Theory and Mathematics9% of their works
  6. 6Geometry and Topology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Barry Simon's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Differential Operators, Spectral Theory, Lagrangian Coherent Structures, Quantum Chaos, Matrix Computations, Numerical Linear Algebra, Orthogonal Polynomials and Quadrature Methods.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Differential Operators3411 topic
  2. Spectral Theory3411 topic
  3. Lagrangian Coherent Structures1391 topic
  4. Quantum Chaos1391 topic
  5. Matrix Computations981 topic
  6. Numerical Linear Algebra981 topic
  7. Orthogonal Polynomials971 topic
  8. Quadrature Methods971 topic
  9. Inverse Problems681 topic
  10. Regularization Methods681 topic
  11. Heterogeneous561 topic
  12. Multiscale Methods561 topic
  13. Composition Operators491 topic
  14. Weighted Spaces491 topic
  15. Mathematical Physics451 topic
  16. p-adic451 topic

Where does Barry Simon work?

Barry Simon's main affiliation in the publication record is California Institute of Technology, United States.

How many publications and citations does Barry Simon have?

OpenAlex counts 702 works and 46,371 citations for Barry Simon, an h-index of 105, ranking #14,023 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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