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Nigel Hitchin

Nigel Hitchin publishes mostly in Geometry and Topology, Mathematical Physics and Applied Mathematics, on topics such as Geometry and complex manifolds, Geometric Analysis and Curvature Flows and Advanced Algebra and Geometry.

World rank
#19,976
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#1,856
of 90,785
Works
41
Citations
832
Citations per work
20.3

What does Nigel Hitchin research?

Geometry and Topology: 31.6%Mathematical Physics: 17.5%Applied Mathematics: 10.5%Astronomy and Astrophysics: 5.3%other fields: 35.1%32%top field
Geometry and Topology31.6%Mathematical Physics17.5%Applied Mathematics10.5%Astronomy and Astrophysics5.3%other fields35.1%

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

  1. 1Geometry and Topology32% of their works
  2. 2Mathematical Physics18% of their works
  3. 3Applied Mathematics10% of their works
  4. 4Astronomy and Astrophysics5% of their works
  5. 5Experimental and Cognitive Psychology4% of their works
  6. 6Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Nigel Hitchin's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Kähler Metrics, Stability, Symplectic Geometry, Automorphic Forms, Langlands Conjectures, Optimal Transport, Ricci Curvature and Deformation Quantization.

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. Kähler Metrics71 topic
  2. Stability71 topic
  3. Symplectic Geometry62 topics
  4. Automorphic Forms41 topic
  5. Langlands Conjectures41 topic
  6. Optimal Transport41 topic
  7. Ricci Curvature41 topic
  8. Deformation Quantization31 topic
  9. Geometry31 topic
  10. Gromov-Witten Theory31 topic
  11. Hyperbolic31 topic
  12. Knot Invariants31 topic
  13. Moduli Theory31 topic
  14. Poisson Manifolds31 topic
  15. Symplectic Topology31 topic
  16. Delaunay Triangulations21 topic
  17. Mesh Generation21 topic

Where does Nigel Hitchin work?

Nigel Hitchin's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Oxford, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Nigel Hitchin have?

Science Explorer counts 41 works and 832 citations for Nigel Hitchin, ranking #19,976 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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