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Researcher · Institute for Advanced Study · United States

Edward H. Witten

Edward H. 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 Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies.

ORCID 0000-0002-7752-6073 OpenAlex
World rank
#95
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#47
of 1,627,098
Works
644
Citations
174k
Citations per work
269.9
h-index
185
i10-index 425Top 0.1% in Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Edward H. Witten

What does Edward H. Witten research?

Edward H. Witten's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (66%), Mathematics (14%).

Physical Sciences: 515 works · 80.0% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 426 works · 66.1% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 252 works · 39.2% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 73 works · 11.4% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 72 works · 11.2% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 28 works · 4.3% of their workMathematics: 90 works · 13.9% of their workGeometry and Topology: 50 works · 7.8% of their workMathematical Physics: 39 works · 6.1% of their workEverything else: 129 works · 20.0% of their workTHEIR WORKEdward H. Witten644works
Physical Sciences80%

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. Physics and Astronomy42666.1%
    2. Mathematics9013.9%
  2. Everything else12920.0%
  1. 1Nuclear and High Energy Physics39% of their works
  2. 2Astronomy and Astrophysics11% of their works
  3. 3Statistical and Nonlinear Physics11% of their works
  4. 4Geometry and Topology8% of their works
  5. 5Mathematical Physics6% of their works
  6. 6Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Edward H. Witten's research?

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

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 Gravity5102 topics
  2. Field Theories3691 topic
  3. Holographic3691 topic
  4. Cosmological Parameters1531 topic
  5. Dark Energy1531 topic
  6. High-Energy Collider1451 topic
  7. Particle Physics1451 topic
  8. Lorentz Violation1411 topic
  9. Noncommutative Field Theory1411 topic
  10. QCD1131 topic
  11. charmonium1131 topic
  12. Cluster Algebras511 topic
  13. Triangulated Categories511 topic
  14. Deformation Quantization411 topic
  15. Poisson Manifolds411 topic
  16. Python361 topic
  17. Scientific Computing361 topic

Where does Edward H. Witten work?

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

How many publications and citations does Edward H. Witten have?

OpenAlex counts 644 works and 173,842 citations for Edward H. Witten, an h-index of 185, ranking #95 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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