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Researcher · University of Pittsburgh · United States

Thomas Hales

Thomas Hales publishes mostly in Geometry and Topology, Mathematical Physics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, on topics such as Mathematics and Applications, Computational Geometry and Mesh Generation and Advanced Mathematical Theories and Applications.

OpenAlex
World rank
#494,003
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#172,381
of 1,627,098
Works
141
Citations
5.1k
Citations per work
36.0
h-index
30
i10-index 55Top 2.4% in Geometry and Topology
Thomas Hales

What does Thomas Hales research?

Thomas Hales's work is mostly in Mathematics (38%), Physics and Astronomy (6%), Computer Science (6%).

Everything else: 71 works · 50.6% of their workPhysical Sciences: 70 works · 49.4% of their workMathematics: 53 works · 37.6% of their workGeometry and Topology: 29 works · 20.6% of their workMathematical Physics: 10 works · 7.1% of their workApplied Mathematics: 7 works · 5.2% of their workTheoretical Computer Science: 7 works · 4.7% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 9 works · 6.3% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 9 works · 6.3% of their workComputer Science: 8 works · 5.5% of their workComputer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design: 8 works · 5.5% of their workTHEIR WORKThomas Hales141works
Physical Sciences49%

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. Everything else7150.6%
    1. Mathematics5337.6%
    2. Physics and Astronomy96.3%
    3. Computer Science85.5%
  1. 1Geometry and Topology21% of their works
  2. 2Mathematical Physics7% of their works
  3. 3Statistical and Nonlinear Physics6% of their works
  4. 4Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design6% of their works
  5. 5Applied Mathematics5% of their works
  6. 6Theoretical Computer Science5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Thomas Hales's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Geometry, Hyperbolic, Cantorian-Fractal, Delaunay Triangulations, E-Infinity Theory, Mesh Generation, Automorphic Forms and Langlands Conjectures.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Geometry451 topic
  2. Hyperbolic451 topic
  3. Cantorian-Fractal201 topic
  4. Delaunay Triangulations201 topic
  5. E-Infinity Theory201 topic
  6. Mesh Generation201 topic
  7. Automorphic Forms181 topic
  8. Langlands Conjectures181 topic
  9. Historical Sources171 topic
  10. Mathematics Education171 topic
  11. Gromov-Witten Theory161 topic
  12. Moduli Theory161 topic
  13. Point Processes151 topic
  14. Spatstat151 topic
  15. Radio Astronomy81 topic
  16. Transits of Venus81 topic

Where does Thomas Hales work?

Thomas Hales's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Pittsburgh, United States.

How many publications and citations does Thomas Hales have?

OpenAlex counts 141 works and 5,071 citations for Thomas Hales, an h-index of 30, ranking #494,003 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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