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Researcher · Imperial College London · United Kingdom

Simon K Donaldson

Simon K Donaldson 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 Geometric and Algebraic Topology.

ORCID 0000-0003-4772-1166 OpenAlex
World rank
#74,030
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#6,360
of 367,258
Works
203
Citations
16k
Citations per work
78.1
h-index
51
i10-index 83Top 0.3% in Geometry and Topology
Simon K Donaldson

What does Simon K Donaldson research?

Simon K Donaldson's work is mostly in Mathematics (81%), Computer Science (3%), Physics and Astronomy (3%).

Physical Sciences: 176 works · 86.6% of their workMathematics: 164 works · 80.8% of their workGeometry and Topology: 89 works · 43.7% of their workApplied Mathematics: 40 works · 19.8% of their workMathematical Physics: 31 works · 15.4% of their workAlgebra and Number Theory: 4 works · 1.9% of their workComputer Science: 6 works · 3.0% of their workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 6 works · 3.0% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 6 works · 2.8% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 6 works · 2.8% of their workEverything else: 27 works · 13.4% of their workTHEIR WORKSimon K Donaldson203works
Physical Sciences87%

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. Mathematics16480.8%
    2. Computer Science63.0%
    3. Physics and Astronomy62.8%
  2. Everything else2713.4%
  1. 1Geometry and Topology44% of their works
  2. 2Applied Mathematics20% of their works
  3. 3Mathematical Physics15% of their works
  4. 4Computational Theory and Mathematics3% of their works
  5. 5Statistical and Nonlinear Physics3% of their works
  6. 6Algebra and Number Theory2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Simon K Donaldson's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Symplectic Geometry, Kähler Metrics, Stability, Optimal Transport, Ricci Curvature, Knot Invariants, Symplectic Topology 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 Geometry912 topics
  2. Kähler Metrics861 topic
  3. Stability861 topic
  4. Optimal Transport831 topic
  5. Ricci Curvature831 topic
  6. Knot Invariants681 topic
  7. Symplectic Topology681 topic
  8. Gromov-Witten Theory461 topic
  9. Moduli Theory461 topic
  10. Deformation Quantization451 topic
  11. Poisson Manifolds451 topic
  12. Cohomology312 topics
  13. Automorphic Forms211 topic
  14. Langlands Conjectures211 topic
  15. Geometry171 topic
  16. Hyperbolic171 topic
  17. Deformations101 topic
  18. Hom-Lie Algebras101 topic

Where does Simon K Donaldson work?

Simon K Donaldson's main affiliation in the publication record is Imperial College London, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Simon K Donaldson have?

OpenAlex counts 203 works and 15,853 citations for Simon K Donaldson, an h-index of 51, ranking #74,030 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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