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Researcher · Harvard University · United States

Shing–Tung Yau

Shing–Tung Yau publishes mostly in Geometry and Topology, Applied Mathematics and Mathematical Physics, on topics such as Geometry and complex manifolds, Geometric Analysis and Curvature Flows and Black Holes and Theoretical Physics.

ORCID 0000-0003-3394-2187 OpenAlex
World rank
#51,852
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#20,040
of 1,627,098
Works
727
Citations
28k
Citations per work
39.2
h-index
82
i10-index 295Top 0.1% in Geometry and Topology
Shing–Tung Yau

What does Shing–Tung Yau research?

Shing–Tung Yau's work is mostly in Mathematics (50%), Physics and Astronomy (22%).

Physical Sciences: 529 works · 72.7% of their workMathematics: 366 works · 50.4% of their workGeometry and Topology: 190 works · 26.1% of their workApplied Mathematics: 99 works · 13.6% of their workMathematical Physics: 78 works · 10.7% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 162 works · 22.3% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 65 works · 9.0% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 57 works · 7.9% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 39 works · 5.4% of their workEverything else: 198 works · 27.3% of their workTHEIR WORKShing–Tung Yau727works
Physical Sciences73%

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. Mathematics36650.4%
    2. Physics and Astronomy16222.3%
  2. Everything else19827.3%
  1. 1Geometry and Topology26% of their works
  2. 2Applied Mathematics14% of their works
  3. 3Mathematical Physics11% of their works
  4. 4Nuclear and High Energy Physics9% of their works
  5. 5Astronomy and Astrophysics8% of their works
  6. 6Statistical and Nonlinear Physics5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Shing–Tung Yau's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Symplectic Geometry, Kähler Metrics, Stability, Optimal Transport, Ricci Curvature, Field Theories, Holographic and Gromov-Witten Theory.

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. Symplectic Geometry2342 topics
  2. Kähler Metrics2161 topic
  3. Stability2161 topic
  4. Optimal Transport2121 topic
  5. Ricci Curvature2121 topic
  6. Field Theories1641 topic
  7. Holographic1641 topic
  8. Gromov-Witten Theory1631 topic
  9. Moduli Theory1631 topic
  10. General Relativity1242 topics
  11. Automorphic Forms781 topic
  12. Langlands Conjectures781 topic
  13. Deformation Quantization711 topic
  14. Poisson Manifolds711 topic
  15. Cosmological Parameters691 topic
  16. Dark Energy691 topic
  17. Finsler Geometry551 topic
  18. Riemannian Manifolds551 topic

Where does Shing–Tung Yau work?

Shing–Tung Yau's main affiliation in the publication record is Harvard University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Shing–Tung Yau have?

OpenAlex counts 727 works and 28,472 citations for Shing–Tung Yau, an h-index of 82, ranking #51,852 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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