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Researcher · University of Edinburgh · United Kingdom

Michael Francis Atiyah

Michael Francis Atiyah publishes mostly in Mathematical Physics, Geometry and Topology and Applied Mathematics, on topics such as Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology, Advanced Topics in Algebra and Geometric and Algebraic Topology.

OpenAlex
World rank
#40,005
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#3,152
of 367,258
Works
361
Citations
39k
Citations per work
108.7
h-index
78
i10-index 153Top 0.1% in Mathematical Physics
Michael Francis Atiyah

What does Michael Francis Atiyah research?

Michael Francis Atiyah's work is mostly in Mathematics (50%), Computer Science (6%), Physics and Astronomy (4%).

Physical Sciences: 217 works · 60.1% of their workMathematics: 181 works · 50.1% of their workMathematical Physics: 66 works · 18.3% of their workGeometry and Topology: 61 works · 17.0% of their workApplied Mathematics: 29 works · 8.1% of their workAlgebra and Number Theory: 24 works · 6.7% of their workComputer Science: 21 works · 5.7% of their workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 21 works · 5.7% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 16 works · 4.3% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 16 works · 4.3% of their workEverything else: 144 works · 39.9% of their workTHEIR WORKMichael FrancisAtiyah361works
Physical Sciences60%

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. Mathematics18150.1%
    2. Computer Science215.7%
    3. Physics and Astronomy164.3%
  2. Everything else14439.9%
  1. 1Mathematical Physics18% of their works
  2. 2Geometry and Topology17% of their works
  3. 3Applied Mathematics8% of their works
  4. 4Algebra and Number Theory7% of their works
  5. 5Computational Theory and Mathematics6% of their works
  6. 6Nuclear and High Energy Physics4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Michael Francis Atiyah's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: K-Theory, Cohomology, Deformation Quantization, Poisson Manifolds, Deformations, Hom-Lie Algebras, Knot Invariants and Symplectic Topology.

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. K-Theory812 topics
  2. Cohomology722 topics
  3. Deformation Quantization531 topic
  4. Poisson Manifolds531 topic
  5. Deformations421 topic
  6. Hom-Lie Algebras421 topic
  7. Knot Invariants331 topic
  8. Symplectic Topology331 topic
  9. Geometry311 topic
  10. Hyperbolic311 topic
  11. Automorphic Forms301 topic
  12. Langlands Conjectures301 topic
  13. C*-Algebras281 topic
  14. Historical Sources281 topic
  15. Mathematics Education281 topic
  16. Quantum Groups281 topic
  17. Geometric Algebra271 topic
  18. Quaternionic Analysis271 topic

Where does Michael Francis Atiyah work?

Michael Francis Atiyah's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Michael Francis Atiyah have?

OpenAlex counts 361 works and 39,258 citations for Michael Francis Atiyah, an h-index of 78, ranking #40,005 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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