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Edward Witten

Edward Witten publishes mostly in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, on topics such as Black Holes and Theoretical Physics, Cosmology and Gravitation Theories and Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories.

World rank
#88
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#44
of 358,040
Works
151
Citations
7.2k
Citations per work
48.0

What does Edward Witten research?

Nuclear and High Energy Physics: 34.4%Astronomy and Astrophysics: 13.3%Statistical and Nonlinear Physics: 11.1%Geometry and Topology: 7.8%other fields: 33.4%34%top field
Nuclear and High Energy Physics34.4%Astronomy and Astrophysics13.3%Statistical and Nonlinear Physics11.1%Geometry and Topology7.8%other fields33.4%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Nuclear and High Energy Physics34% of their works
  2. 2Astronomy and Astrophysics13% of their works
  3. 3Statistical and Nonlinear Physics11% of their works
  4. 4Geometry and Topology8% of their works
  5. 5Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics7% of their works
  6. 6Artificial Intelligence4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Edward Witten's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Quantum Gravity, Field Theories, Holographic, Cosmological Parameters, Dark Energy, Lorentz Violation, Noncommutative Field Theory and High-Energy Collider.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Quantum Gravity502 topics
  2. Field Theories361 topic
  3. Holographic361 topic
  4. Cosmological Parameters161 topic
  5. Dark Energy161 topic
  6. Lorentz Violation141 topic
  7. Noncommutative Field Theory141 topic
  8. High-Energy Collider111 topic
  9. Particle Physics111 topic
  10. QCD101 topic
  11. charmonium101 topic
  12. Cluster Algebras71 topic
  13. Triangulated Categories71 topic
  14. Python51 topic
  15. Scientific Computing51 topic
  16. Deformations41 topic
  17. Hom-Lie Algebras41 topic

Where does Edward Witten work?

Edward Witten's main affiliation in the publication record is Institute for Advanced Study, United States.

How many publications and citations does Edward Witten have?

Science Explorer counts 151 works and 7,242 citations for Edward Witten, ranking #88 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite 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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