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Researcher · Cornell University · United States

Harry Kesten

Harry Kesten publishes mostly in Mathematical Physics, Statistics and Probability and Condensed Matter Physics, on topics such as Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics, Markov Chains and Monte Carlo Methods and Theoretical and Computational Physics.

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World rank
#156,229
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#58,812
of 1,627,098
Works
268
Citations
15k
Citations per work
57.4
h-index
57
i10-index 150Top 0.3% in Mathematical Physics
Harry Kesten

What does Harry Kesten research?

Harry Kesten's work is mostly in Mathematics (51%), Physics and Astronomy (15%), Decision Sciences (4%).

Physical Sciences: 177 works · 65.9% of their workMathematics: 137 works · 51.3% of their workMathematical Physics: 85 works · 31.7% of their workStatistics and Probability: 43 works · 16.0% of their workGeometry and Topology: 10 works · 3.6% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 39 works · 14.6% of their workCondensed Matter Physics: 22 works · 8.1% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 17 works · 6.5% of their workEverything else: 80 works · 30.0% of their workSocial Sciences: 11 works · 4.1% of their workDecision Sciences: 11 works · 4.1% of their workManagement Science and Operations Research: 11 works · 4.1% of their workTHEIR WORKHarry Kesten268works
Physical Sciences66%Social Sciences4%

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. Mathematics13751.3%
    2. Physics and Astronomy3914.6%
  2. Everything else8030.0%
    1. Decision Sciences114.1%
  1. 1Mathematical Physics32% of their works
  2. 2Statistics and Probability16% of their works
  3. 3Condensed Matter Physics8% of their works
  4. 4Statistical and Nonlinear Physics6% of their works
  5. 5Management Science and Operations Research4% of their works
  6. 6Geometry and Topology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Harry Kesten's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Interacting Particle Systems, Scaling Limits, Monte Carlo Simulation, Bayesian Monte Carlo, Markov Chain, Critical Phenomena, Phase Transitions and Chaos.

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. Interacting Particle Systems1571 topic
  2. Scaling Limits1571 topic
  3. Monte Carlo Simulation732 topics
  4. Bayesian Monte Carlo651 topic
  5. Markov Chain651 topic
  6. Critical Phenomena551 topic
  7. Phase Transitions551 topic
  8. Chaos401 topic
  9. Dynamical Systems401 topic
  10. Eigenvalues311 topic
  11. Random Matrix Theory311 topic
  12. Insurance241 topic
  13. Risk241 topic
  14. Community Structure211 topic
  15. Network Dynamics211 topic
  16. Option Pricing181 topic
  17. Stochastic Calculus181 topic

Where does Harry Kesten work?

Harry Kesten's main affiliation in the publication record is Cornell University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Harry Kesten have?

OpenAlex counts 268 works and 15,371 citations for Harry Kesten, an h-index of 57, ranking #156,229 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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