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Researcher · Stony Brook University · United States

John Milnor

John Milnor publishes mostly in Geometry and Topology, Mathematical Physics and Applied Mathematics, on topics such as Mathematics and Applications, Mathematical Dynamics and Fractals and Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology.

OpenAlex
World rank
#5,226
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#1,797
of 1,627,098
Works
265
Citations
34k
Citations per work
128.7
h-index
76
i10-index 128Top 0.1% in Geometry and Topology
John Milnor

What does John Milnor research?

John Milnor's work is mostly in Mathematics (56%), Computer Science (6%), Physics and Astronomy (5%).

Physical Sciences: 180 works · 68.0% of their workMathematics: 149 works · 56.4% of their workGeometry and Topology: 70 works · 26.3% of their workMathematical Physics: 48 works · 18.0% of their workApplied Mathematics: 19 works · 7.0% of their workAlgebra and Number Theory: 14 works · 5.1% of their workComputer Science: 17 works · 6.3% of their workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 17 works · 6.3% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 14 works · 5.3% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 14 works · 5.3% of their workEverything else: 85 works · 32.0% of their workTHEIR WORKJohn Milnor265works
Physical Sciences68%

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. Mathematics14956.4%
    2. Computer Science176.3%
    3. Physics and Astronomy145.3%
  2. Everything else8532.0%
  1. 1Geometry and Topology26% of their works
  2. 2Mathematical Physics18% of their works
  3. 3Applied Mathematics7% of their works
  4. 4Computational Theory and Mathematics6% of their works
  5. 5Statistical and Nonlinear Physics5% of their works
  6. 6Algebra and Number Theory5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe John Milnor's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Dynamical Systems, Geometry, Hyperbolic, Symplectic Geometry, Chaos, Fractals, Deformation Quantization and Poisson Manifolds.

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. Dynamical Systems702 topics
  2. Geometry551 topic
  3. Hyperbolic551 topic
  4. Symplectic Geometry552 topics
  5. Chaos511 topic
  6. Fractals511 topic
  7. Deformation Quantization371 topic
  8. Poisson Manifolds371 topic
  9. Bifurcations341 topic
  10. Planar Systems341 topic
  11. Historical Sources281 topic
  12. Mathematics Education281 topic
  13. Knot Invariants261 topic
  14. Symplectic Topology261 topic
  15. Lagrangian Coherent Structures191 topic
  16. Quantum Chaos191 topic
  17. Gromov-Witten Theory181 topic
  18. Moduli Theory181 topic

Where does John Milnor work?

John Milnor's main affiliation in the publication record is Stony Brook University, United States.

How many publications and citations does John Milnor have?

OpenAlex counts 265 works and 34,103 citations for John Milnor, an h-index of 76, ranking #5,226 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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