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Simon Donaldson

Simon 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.

World rank
#18,632
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#1,729
of 90,785
Works
46
Citations
768
Citations per work
16.7

What does Simon Donaldson research?

Geometry and Topology: 38.6%Applied Mathematics: 20.0%Mathematical Physics: 18.6%Algebra and Number Theory: 4.3%other fields: 18.5%39%top field
Geometry and Topology38.6%Applied Mathematics20.0%Mathematical Physics18.6%Algebra and Number Theory4.3%other fields18.5%

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

  1. 1Geometry and Topology39% of their works
  2. 2Applied Mathematics20% of their works
  3. 3Mathematical Physics19% of their works
  4. 4Algebra and Number Theory4% of their works
  5. 5Statistical and Nonlinear Physics3% of their works
  6. 6Astronomy and Astrophysics3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Simon Donaldson's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Symplectic Geometry, Kähler Metrics, Stability, Optimal Transport, Ricci Curvature, Knot Invariants, Symplectic Topology and Deformation Quantization.

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 Geometry132 topics
  2. Kähler Metrics121 topic
  3. Stability121 topic
  4. Optimal Transport111 topic
  5. Ricci Curvature111 topic
  6. Knot Invariants101 topic
  7. Symplectic Topology101 topic
  8. Deformation Quantization91 topic
  9. Poisson Manifolds91 topic
  10. Cohomology52 topics
  11. Gromov-Witten Theory41 topic
  12. Moduli Theory41 topic
  13. Deformations31 topic
  14. Hom-Lie Algebras31 topic
  15. Automorphic Forms21 topic
  16. Combinatorics21 topic
  17. Langlands Conjectures21 topic
  18. Permutations21 topic

Where does Simon Donaldson work?

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

How many publications and citations does Simon Donaldson have?

Science Explorer counts 46 works and 768 citations for Simon Donaldson, ranking #18,632 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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