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Mark Kac

Mark Kac publishes mostly in Mathematical Physics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Sociology and Political Science, on topics such as Mathematics and Applications, Quantum Mechanics and Applications and Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics.

World rank
#4,498
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#2,124
of 358,040
Works
74
Citations
881
Citations per work
11.9

What does Mark Kac research?

Mathematical Physics: 8.8%Statistical and Nonlinear Physics: 8.8%Sociology and Political Science: 7.5%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 6.3%other fields: 68.6%9%top field
Mathematical Physics8.8%Statistical and Nonlinear Physics8.8%Sociology and Political Science7.5%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics6.3%other fields68.6%

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

  1. 1Mathematical Physics9% of their works
  2. 2Statistical and Nonlinear Physics9% of their works
  3. 3Sociology and Political Science8% of their works
  4. 4Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics6% of their works
  5. 5Applied Mathematics5% of their works
  6. 6Economics and Econometrics5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Mark Kac's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Bell Inequality, Decoherence, Fluctuation Theorems, Geometry, Hyperbolic, Stochastic Thermodynamics, Econophysics and Historical Sources.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Bell Inequality31 topic
  2. Decoherence31 topic
  3. Fluctuation Theorems31 topic
  4. Geometry31 topic
  5. Hyperbolic31 topic
  6. Stochastic Thermodynamics31 topic
  7. Econophysics21 topic
  8. Historical Sources21 topic
  9. Inverse Problems21 topic
  10. Mathematical Physics21 topic
  11. Mathematics Education21 topic
  12. Multifractal Analysis21 topic
  13. Probability Theory21 topic
  14. Regularization Methods21 topic
  15. Statistical Modeling21 topic
  16. p-adic21 topic

Where does Mark Kac work?

Mark Kac's main affiliation in the publication record is Rockefeller University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Mark Kac have?

Science Explorer counts 74 works and 881 citations for Mark Kac, ranking #4,498 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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