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Researcher · Harvard University Press · United States

Shing–Tung Yau

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

ORCID 0000-0003-3394-2187 OpenAlex
World rank
#11,358
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#5,475
of 358,040
Works
180
Citations
2.1k
Citations per work
11.8

What does Shing–Tung Yau research?

Geometry and Topology: 22.5%Applied Mathematics: 15.7%Mathematical Physics: 11.4%Astronomy and Astrophysics: 10.6%other fields: 39.8%22%top field
Geometry and Topology22.5%Applied Mathematics15.7%Mathematical Physics11.4%Astronomy and Astrophysics10.6%other fields39.8%

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

  1. 1Geometry and Topology22% of their works
  2. 2Applied Mathematics16% of their works
  3. 3Mathematical Physics11% of their works
  4. 4Astronomy and Astrophysics11% of their works
  5. 5Nuclear and High Energy Physics11% of their works
  6. 6Computational Theory and Mathematics6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Shing–Tung Yau's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Kähler Metrics, Optimal Transport, Ricci Curvature, Stability, Field Theories, Holographic, Symplectic Geometry and Cosmological Parameters.

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 Metrics241 topic
  2. Optimal Transport241 topic
  3. Ricci Curvature241 topic
  4. Stability241 topic
  5. Field Theories211 topic
  6. Holographic211 topic
  7. Symplectic Geometry202 topics
  8. Cosmological Parameters111 topic
  9. Dark Energy111 topic
  10. Gromov-Witten Theory111 topic
  11. Moduli Theory111 topic
  12. Automorphic Forms91 topic
  13. Deformation Quantization91 topic
  14. Langlands Conjectures91 topic
  15. Persistent Homology91 topic
  16. Poisson Manifolds91 topic
  17. Topological Methods91 topic

Where does Shing–Tung Yau work?

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

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

Science Explorer counts 180 works and 2,122 citations for Shing–Tung Yau, ranking #11,358 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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