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Shing Tung Yau

Shing Tung Yau publishes mostly in Geometry and Topology, Applied Mathematics and Astronomy and Astrophysics, on topics such as Geometric Analysis and Curvature Flows, Geometry and complex manifolds and Advanced Differential Geometry Research.

World rank
#202,669
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#81,888
of 358,040
Works
19
Citations
198
Citations per work
10.4

What does Shing Tung Yau research?

Geometry and Topology: 35.0%Applied Mathematics: 25.0%Astronomy and Astrophysics: 15.0%Computational Theory and Mathematics: 5.0%other fields: 20.0%35%top field
Geometry and Topology35.0%Applied Mathematics25.0%Astronomy and Astrophysics15.0%Computational Theory and Mathematics5.0%other fields20.0%

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

  1. 1Geometry and Topology35% of their works
  2. 2Applied Mathematics25% of their works
  3. 3Astronomy and Astrophysics15% of their works
  4. 4Computational Theory and Mathematics5% of their works
  5. 5Computer Networks and Communications5% of their works
  6. 6Mathematical Physics5% 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, Finsler Geometry, Riemannian Manifolds, Complex Networks and Knot Invariants.

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 Metrics51 topic
  2. Optimal Transport51 topic
  3. Ricci Curvature51 topic
  4. Stability51 topic
  5. Finsler Geometry31 topic
  6. Riemannian Manifolds31 topic
  7. Complex Networks22 topics
  8. Knot Invariants21 topic
  9. Symplectic Topology21 topic
  10. Chimera States11 topic
  11. Critical Phenomena11 topic
  12. Deformation Quantization11 topic
  13. Persistent Homology11 topic
  14. Phase Transitions11 topic
  15. Poisson Manifolds11 topic
  16. Synchronization11 topic
  17. Topological Methods11 topic

Where does Shing Tung Yau work?

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

How many publications and citations does Shing Tung Yau have?

Science Explorer counts 19 works and 198 citations for Shing Tung Yau, ranking #202,669 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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