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Georg Cantor

Georg Cantor publishes mostly in Theoretical Computer Science, Geometry and Topology and Mathematical Physics, on topics such as History and Theory of Mathematics, Mathematics and Applications and Mathematical and Theoretical Analysis.

OpenAlex
World rank
#3,621,986
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Germany
#181,222
of 364,343
Works
76
Citations
4k
Citations per work
52.6
h-index
25
i10-index 30Top 2.5% in Theoretical Computer Science
Georg Cantor

What does Georg Cantor research?

Georg Cantor's work is mostly in Mathematics (54%), Arts and Humanities (15%).

Physical Sciences: 41 works · 54.0% of their workMathematics: 41 works · 54.0% of their workTheoretical Computer Science: 21 works · 27.0% of their workGeometry and Topology: 9 works · 12.2% of their workMathematical Physics: 8 works · 10.1% of their workApplied Mathematics: 4 works · 4.7% of their workEverything else: 24 works · 31.1% of their workSocial Sciences: 11 works · 14.9% of their workArts and Humanities: 11 works · 14.9% of their workPhilosophy: 7 works · 9.5% of their workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 4 works · 5.4% of their workTHEIR WORKGeorg Cantor76works
Physical Sciences54%Social Sciences15%

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. Mathematics4154.0%
  2. Everything else2431.1%
    1. Arts and Humanities1114.9%
  1. 1Theoretical Computer Science27% of their works
  2. 2Geometry and Topology12% of their works
  3. 3Mathematical Physics10% of their works
  4. 4Philosophy10% of their works
  5. 5History and Philosophy of Science5% of their works
  6. 6Applied Mathematics5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Georg Cantor's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Historical Sources, Mathematics Education, Geometry, Hyperbolic, Generalized Functions, Infinite and Infinitesimal Numbers, Metaphysics and Bildung.

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. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Historical Sources401 topic
  2. Mathematics Education401 topic
  3. Geometry161 topic
  4. Hyperbolic161 topic
  5. Generalized Functions121 topic
  6. Infinite and Infinitesimal Numbers121 topic
  7. Metaphysics102 topics
  8. Bildung82 topics
  9. Point Processes71 topic
  10. Spatstat71 topic
  11. Logical Empiricism61 topic
  12. Vienna Circle61 topic
  13. Autorschaft41 topic
  14. Ethics41 topic
  15. Literaturkritik41 topic
  16. Philosophy41 topic
  17. Algorithmic Information Theory31 topic
  18. Computability31 topic

Where does Georg Cantor work?

Georg Cantor's main affiliation in the publication record is Francke Foundations, Germany.

How many publications and citations does Georg Cantor have?

OpenAlex counts 76 works and 4,000 citations for Georg Cantor, an h-index of 25, ranking #3,621,986 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation 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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