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Researcher · ETH Zurich · Switzerland

Helmut Hofer

Helmut Hofer publishes mostly in Geometry and Topology, Mathematical Physics and Applied Mathematics, on topics such as Geometric and Algebraic Topology, Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology and Geometric Analysis and Curvature Flows.

ORCID 0000-0002-8849-6738 OpenAlex
World rank
#155,242
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Switzerland
#3,156
of 80,918
Works
396
Citations
9.2k
Citations per work
23.1
h-index
47
i10-index 98Top 0.4% in Geometry and Topology
Helmut Hofer

What does Helmut Hofer research?

Helmut Hofer's work is mostly in Mathematics (45%), Economics, Econometrics and Finance (6%), Social Sciences (4%).

Physical Sciences: 195 works · 49.3% of their workMathematics: 179 works · 45.3% of their workGeometry and Topology: 95 works · 24.0% of their workMathematical Physics: 51 works · 12.9% of their workApplied Mathematics: 33 works · 8.4% of their workEngineering: 16 works · 4.0% of their workAerospace Engineering: 16 works · 4.0% of their workEverything else: 160 works · 40.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 41 works · 10.4% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 24 works · 6.0% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 24 works · 6.0% of their workSocial Sciences: 17 works · 4.4% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 17 works · 4.4% of their workTHEIR WORKHelmut Hofer396works
Physical Sciences49%Social Sciences10%

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. Mathematics17945.3%
    2. Engineering164.0%
  2. Everything else16040.3%
    1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance246.0%
    2. Social Sciences174.4%
  1. 1Geometry and Topology24% of their works
  2. 2Mathematical Physics13% of their works
  3. 3Applied Mathematics8% of their works
  4. 4Economics and Econometrics6% of their works
  5. 5Political Science and International Relations4% of their works
  6. 6Aerospace Engineering4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Helmut Hofer's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Knot Invariants, Symplectic Topology, Symplectic Geometry, Deformation Quantization, Poisson Manifolds, Optimal Transport, Ricci Curvature and Kähler Metrics.

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. Knot Invariants901 topic
  2. Symplectic Topology901 topic
  3. Symplectic Geometry702 topics
  4. Deformation Quantization511 topic
  5. Poisson Manifolds511 topic
  6. Optimal Transport361 topic
  7. Ricci Curvature361 topic
  8. Kähler Metrics261 topic
  9. Stability261 topic
  10. Lagrangian Coherent Structures211 topic
  11. Quantum Chaos211 topic
  12. Financial Crisis191 topic
  13. Gromov-Witten Theory191 topic
  14. Iceland191 topic
  15. Moduli Theory191 topic
  16. On-Orbit Performance181 topic
  17. Radiometric Calibration181 topic

Where does Helmut Hofer work?

Helmut Hofer's main affiliation in the publication record is ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

How many publications and citations does Helmut Hofer have?

OpenAlex counts 396 works and 9,152 citations for Helmut Hofer, an h-index of 47, ranking #155,242 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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