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Researcher · Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences · United States

Lai-Sang Young

Lai-Sang Young publishes mostly in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Mathematical Physics and Cognitive Neuroscience, on topics such as Mathematical Dynamics and Fractals, Quantum chaos and dynamical systems and Neural dynamics and brain function.

ORCID 0000-0003-3257-1134 OpenAlex
World rank
#171,661
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#64,214
of 1,627,098
Works
149
Citations
7.6k
Citations per work
51.2
h-index
44
i10-index 86Top 2.7% in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
Lai-Sang Young

What does Lai-Sang Young research?

Lai-Sang Young's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (26%), Mathematics (21%), Neuroscience (13%).

Physical Sciences: 86 works · 57.5% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 38 works · 25.7% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 38 works · 25.7% of their workMathematics: 31 works · 20.8% of their workMathematical Physics: 31 works · 20.8% of their workComputer Science: 16 works · 11.0% of their workComputer Networks and Communications: 11 works · 7.6% of their workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 5 works · 3.4% of their workEverything else: 37 works · 24.9% of their workLife Sciences: 26 works · 17.6% of their workNeuroscience: 20 works · 13.2% of their workCognitive Neuroscience: 20 works · 13.2% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 7 works · 4.4% of their workMolecular Biology: 7 works · 4.4% of their workTHEIR WORKLai-Sang Young149works
Life Sciences18%Physical Sciences58%

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. Physics and Astronomy3825.7%
    2. Mathematics3120.8%
    3. Computer Science1611.0%
  2. Everything else3724.9%
    1. Neuroscience2013.2%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology74.4%
  1. 1Statistical and Nonlinear Physics26% of their works
  2. 2Mathematical Physics21% of their works
  3. 3Cognitive Neuroscience13% of their works
  4. 4Computer Networks and Communications8% of their works
  5. 5Molecular Biology4% of their works
  6. 6Computational Theory and Mathematics3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Lai-Sang Young's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Dynamical Systems, Chaos, Synchronization, Ergodic Theory, Fractals, Nonlinear Dynamics, Lagrangian Coherent Structures and Quantum 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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Dynamical Systems1082 topics
  2. Chaos932 topics
  3. Synchronization923 topics
  4. Ergodic Theory671 topic
  5. Fractals671 topic
  6. Nonlinear Dynamics572 topics
  7. Lagrangian Coherent Structures411 topic
  8. Quantum Chaos411 topic
  9. Cortical Networks351 topic
  10. Neuronal Oscillations351 topic
  11. Chimera States311 topic
  12. Reaction-Diffusion Model311 topic
  13. Complex Systems261 topic
  14. Time Series Analysis261 topic
  15. Brownian Motors151 topic
  16. Stochastic Resonance151 topic
  17. Fluctuation Theorems141 topic
  18. Stochastic Thermodynamics141 topic
  19. Neural Processing111 topic
  20. Visual Perception111 topic

Where does Lai-Sang Young work?

Lai-Sang Young's main affiliation in the publication record is Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, United States.

How many publications and citations does Lai-Sang Young have?

OpenAlex counts 149 works and 7,630 citations for Lai-Sang Young, an h-index of 44, ranking #171,661 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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