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Researcher · Institute for Advanced Study · United States

Stephen Wolfram

Stephen Wolfram publishes mostly in Computational Theory and Mathematics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Mathematical Physics, on topics such as Cellular Automata and Applications, Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms and Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies.

ORCID 0000-0003-1884-7501 OpenAlex
World rank
#56,047
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#21,655
of 1,627,098
Works
400
Citations
24k
Citations per work
58.9
h-index
46
i10-index 68Top 1.3% in Computational Theory and Mathematics
Stephen Wolfram

What does Stephen Wolfram research?

Stephen Wolfram's work is mostly in Computer Science (28%), Physics and Astronomy (25%), Mathematics (4%).

Physical Sciences: 226 works · 56.6% of their workComputer Science: 110 works · 27.6% of their workComputational Theory and Mathematics: 93 works · 23.3% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 17 works · 4.3% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 98 works · 24.5% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 81 works · 20.2% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 17 works · 4.3% of their workMathematics: 18 works · 4.5% of their workMathematical Physics: 18 works · 4.5% of their workEverything else: 158 works · 39.4% of their workLife Sciences: 16 works · 4.0% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 16 works · 4.0% of their workMolecular Biology: 16 works · 4.0% of their workTHEIR WORKStephen Wolfram400works
Life Sciences4%Physical Sciences57%

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. Computer Science11027.6%
    2. Physics and Astronomy9824.5%
    3. Mathematics184.5%
  2. Everything else15839.4%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology164.0%
  1. 1Computational Theory and Mathematics23% of their works
  2. 2Nuclear and High Energy Physics20% of their works
  3. 3Mathematical Physics4% of their works
  4. 4Artificial Intelligence4% of their works
  5. 5Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics4% of their works
  6. 6Molecular Biology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Stephen Wolfram's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Cellular Automata, Computation, Algorithmic Information Theory, Computability, Lattice QCD, High-Energy Collider, Particle Physics and charmonium.

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. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Cellular Automata411 topic
  2. Computation411 topic
  3. Algorithmic Information Theory331 topic
  4. Computability331 topic
  5. Lattice QCD322 topics
  6. High-Energy Collider271 topic
  7. Particle Physics271 topic
  8. QCD171 topic
  9. charmonium171 topic
  10. Heavy-Ion Collisions151 topic
  11. Quark-Gluon Plasma151 topic
  12. DNA Computing141 topic
  13. Molecular Computation141 topic
  14. Cosmological Parameters101 topic
  15. Dark Energy101 topic
  16. Historical Sources101 topic
  17. Mathematics Education101 topic

Where does Stephen Wolfram work?

Stephen Wolfram's main affiliation in the publication record is Institute for Advanced Study, United States.

How many publications and citations does Stephen Wolfram have?

OpenAlex counts 400 works and 23,566 citations for Stephen Wolfram, an h-index of 46, ranking #56,047 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation 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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