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Researcher · Stanford University · United States

Persi W. Diaconis

Persi W. Diaconis publishes mostly in Statistics and Probability, Artificial Intelligence and Mathematical Physics, on topics such as Markov Chains and Monte Carlo Methods, Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics and Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models.

ORCID 0000-0003-0837-6662 OpenAlex
World rank
#45,302
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#17,443
of 1,627,098
Works
403
Citations
28k
Citations per work
69.7
h-index
76
i10-index 221Top 0.6% in Statistics and Probability
Persi W. Diaconis

What does Persi W. Diaconis research?

Persi W. Diaconis's work is mostly in Mathematics (49%), Computer Science (22%).

Physical Sciences: 283 works · 70.2% of their workMathematics: 196 works · 48.7% of their workStatistics and Probability: 79 works · 19.7% of their workMathematical Physics: 55 works · 13.6% of their workDiscrete Mathematics and Combinatorics: 40 works · 10.0% of their workGeometry and Topology: 22 works · 5.4% of their workComputer Science: 87 works · 21.5% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 56 works · 13.8% of their workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 31 works · 7.7% of their workEverything else: 120 works · 29.8% of their workTHEIR WORKPersi W. Diaconis403works
Physical Sciences70%

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. Mathematics19648.7%
    2. Computer Science8721.5%
  2. Everything else12029.8%
  1. 1Statistics and Probability20% of their works
  2. 2Artificial Intelligence14% of their works
  3. 3Mathematical Physics14% of their works
  4. 4Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics10% of their works
  5. 5Computational Theory and Mathematics8% of their works
  6. 6Geometry and Topology5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Persi W. Diaconis's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Model Selection, Bayesian Monte Carlo, Markov Chain, Interacting Particle Systems, Scaling Limits, Clustering, Mixture Models and Eigenvalues.

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. Model Selection1132 topics
  2. Bayesian Monte Carlo901 topic
  3. Markov Chain901 topic
  4. Interacting Particle Systems851 topic
  5. Scaling Limits851 topic
  6. Clustering771 topic
  7. Mixture Models771 topic
  8. Eigenvalues722 topics
  9. Combinatorics711 topic
  10. Permutations711 topic
  11. Covariance Matrices491 topic
  12. Random Matrix Theory491 topic
  13. Chaos261 topic
  14. Dynamical Systems261 topic
  15. Graph Spectra231 topic
  16. Regularization231 topic
  17. Topological Indices231 topic
  18. Variable Selection231 topic

Where does Persi W. Diaconis work?

Persi W. Diaconis's main affiliation in the publication record is Stanford University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Persi W. Diaconis have?

OpenAlex counts 403 works and 28,104 citations for Persi W. Diaconis, an h-index of 76, ranking #45,302 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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