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Researcher · Cornell University · United States

Harry Kesten

Harry Kesten publishes mostly in Mathematical Physics, Statistics and Probability and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, on topics such as Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics, Mathematical Dynamics and Fractals and Markov Chains and Monte Carlo Methods.

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World rank
#5,840
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#2,803
of 358,040
Works
71
Citations
1.2k
Citations per work
17.3

What does Harry Kesten research?

Mathematical Physics: 28.9%Statistics and Probability: 11.1%Statistical and Nonlinear Physics: 8.9%Management Science and Operations Research: 6.7%other fields: 44.4%29%top field
Mathematical Physics28.9%Statistics and Probability11.1%Statistical and Nonlinear Physics8.9%Management Science and Operations Research6.7%other fields44.4%

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

  1. 1Mathematical Physics29% of their works
  2. 2Statistics and Probability11% of their works
  3. 3Statistical and Nonlinear Physics9% of their works
  4. 4Management Science and Operations Research7% of their works
  5. 5Condensed Matter Physics7% of their works
  6. 6Geometry and Topology6% 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, Ergodic Theory, Bayesian Monte Carlo, Chaos, Critical Phenomena and Dynamical Systems.

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 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Interacting Particle Systems161 topic
  2. Scaling Limits161 topic
  3. Monte Carlo Simulation102 topics
  4. Ergodic Theory92 topics
  5. Bayesian Monte Carlo61 topic
  6. Chaos61 topic
  7. Critical Phenomena61 topic
  8. Dynamical Systems61 topic
  9. Markov Chain61 topic
  10. Phase Transitions61 topic
  11. Insurance41 topic
  12. Option Pricing41 topic
  13. Risk41 topic
  14. Stochastic Calculus41 topic
  15. Eigenvalues31 topic
  16. Mathematical Physics31 topic
  17. Random Matrix Theory31 topic
  18. p-adic31 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?

Science Explorer counts 71 works and 1,229 citations for Harry Kesten, ranking #5,840 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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