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Top Algebra and Number Theory Researchers

Stephan Ramon Garcia ranks first, out of 3,887 ranked researchers.

Composite score: field-normalised excellence, output and total citations weighted 50 / 30 / 20, each as a percentile so no single heavy-tailed measure dominates. Floor: 15 works, and an institution the snapshot can resolve.

The ranking

  1. 1 Stephan Ramon Garcia United States · #107 worldwide 4k citations · 136 works
  2. 2 Steven J. Miller United States · #283 worldwide 3.8k citations · 110 works
  3. 3 Donald E. Knuth United States · #357 worldwide 4k citations · 107 works
  4. 4 N. J. A. Sloane United States · #887 worldwide 2.8k citations · 116 works
  5. 5 Hywel C Williams United Kingdom · #1,208 worldwide 1.9k citations · 173 works
  6. 6 Jeffrey C. Lagarias United States · #2,191 worldwide 1.9k citations · 76 works
  7. 7 Michael Atiyah United Kingdom · #2,229 worldwide 1.4k citations · 87 works
  8. 8 Terence Tao United States · #2,469 worldwide 3.1k citations · 215 works
  9. 9 G. H. Hardy United Kingdom · #2,515 worldwide 939 citations · 96 works
  10. 10 David J. Benson United States · #2,816 worldwide 1.5k citations · 75 works
  11. 11 Pierre Deligne France · #2,851 worldwide 1.3k citations · 71 works
  12. 12 Jean-Pierre Serre France · #3,009 worldwide 1.5k citations · 158 works
  13. 13 Vladimir I. Arnold Russia · #3,467 worldwide 1.5k citations · 136 works
  14. 14 Alain Connes France · #4,358 worldwide 1.3k citations · 90 works
  15. 15 Persi Diaconis United States · #5,021 worldwide 1.5k citations · 100 works
  16. 16 André Joyal Canada · #5,534 worldwide 375 citations · 95 works
  17. 17 I. J. Schoenberg United States · #5,723 worldwide 1k citations · 87 works
  18. 18 Solomon W. Golomb United States · #6,768 worldwide 776 citations · 89 works
  19. 19 Jacques Tits France · #7,140 worldwide 588 citations · 72 works
  20. 20 Jeong-Ho Park South Korea · #7,221 worldwide 868 citations · 69 works
  21. 21 William W. Adams United States · #7,432 worldwide 1.3k citations · 64 works
  22. 22 Donald M. Arnold Canada · #7,505 worldwide 746 citations · 74 works
  23. 23 Irving Kaplansky United States · #7,572 worldwide 514 citations · 69 works
  24. 24 Goro Shimura United States · #7,799 worldwide 907 citations · 66 works
  25. 25 Ivan Niven United States · #8,315 worldwide 604 citations · 59 works
  26. 26 Gian‐Carlo Rota United States · #8,408 worldwide 1.8k citations · 243 works
  27. 27 Harald Niederreiter Austria · #8,551 worldwide 1.3k citations · 97 works
  28. 28 Barry Mazur United States · #8,590 worldwide 671 citations · 70 works
  29. 29 T. Kailath United States · #8,837 worldwide 2.1k citations · 175 works
  30. 30 H. Davenport United Kingdom · #9,074 worldwide 512 citations · 79 works
  31. 31 I. M. Gel'fand United States · #9,314 worldwide 648 citations · 59 works
  32. 32 Alexander Schrijver Netherlands · #9,360 worldwide 1.2k citations · 80 works
  33. 33 Freeman J. Dyson United States · #9,624 worldwide 508 citations · 105 works
  34. 34 Cumrun Vafa United States · #9,650 worldwide 2.1k citations · 89 works
  35. 35 P. Erdös Hungary · #10,229 worldwide 815 citations · 99 works
  36. 36 Hyman Bass United States · #10,448 worldwide 853 citations · 55 works
  37. 37 Herbert S. Wilf United States · #10,997 worldwide 690 citations · 92 works
  38. 38 Richard Askey United States · #11,228 worldwide 653 citations · 73 works
  39. 39 Jean Bourgain United States · #11,238 worldwide 1.4k citations · 142 works
  40. 40 William B. Jones United States · #12,394 worldwide 1.1k citations · 48 works
  41. 41 David Mumford United States · #13,452 worldwide 630 citations · 83 works
  42. 42 Hans Grauert Germany · #13,854 worldwide 427 citations · 58 works
  43. 43 Jeremy C. Smith United States · #13,917 worldwide 2.3k citations · 194 works
  44. 44 Andreĭ Okounkov United States · #13,921 worldwide 785 citations · 50 works
  45. 45 Andrew Odlyzko United States · #14,259 worldwide 899 citations · 83 works
  46. 46 Bruno Zumino Switzerland · #14,373 worldwide 1.3k citations · 54 works
  47. 47 Carl Wagner United States · #14,420 worldwide 1.1k citations · 84 works
  48. 48 J. E. Littlewood United Kingdom · #14,715 worldwide 611 citations · 48 works
  49. 49 Robin Pemantle United States · #15,274 worldwide 824 citations · 76 works
  50. 50 P. M. Cohn United Kingdom · #15,559 worldwide 578 citations · 75 works
  51. 51 L. C. Biedenharn United States · #15,684 worldwide 910 citations · 77 works
  52. 52 S. Mandelstam United States · #15,977 worldwide 1.1k citations · 48 works
  53. 53 Paul Thomas Young United States · #16,535 worldwide 488 citations · 55 works
  54. 54 Leonard Gillman United States · #16,720 worldwide 764 citations · 42 works
  55. 55 Pablo A. Parrilo United States · #17,799 worldwide 978 citations · 71 works
  56. 56 Boris Dubrovin Italy · #18,188 worldwide 825 citations · 54 works
  57. 57 Wilhelm Magnus United States · #18,260 worldwide 491 citations · 48 works
  58. 58 David Evans United States · #18,519 worldwide 712 citations · 83 works
  59. 59 Emil Artin United States · #19,119 worldwide 532 citations · 42 works
  60. 60 Samuel Eilenberg United States · #19,532 worldwide 591 citations · 41 works
  61. 61 Robin Hartshorne United States · #19,975 worldwide 439 citations · 48 works
  62. 62 S. Ferrara Switzerland · #20,626 worldwide 1.9k citations · 143 works
  63. 63 Philippe Flajolet France · #20,698 worldwide 710 citations · 51 works
  64. 64 C. T. C. Wall United Kingdom · #20,831 worldwide 562 citations · 54 works
  65. 65 Tetsuji Miwa Japan · #20,976 worldwide 777 citations · 46 works
  66. 66 Saunders MacLane United States · #22,168 worldwide 476 citations · 40 works
  67. 67 Carl Ludwig Siegel Germany · #22,882 worldwide 393 citations · 43 works
  68. 68 Peter Borwein Canada · #23,123 worldwide 521 citations · 110 works
  69. 69 Claus Michael Ringel Germany · #24,055 worldwide 540 citations · 59 works
  70. 70 John Tate United States · #24,548 worldwide 744 citations · 37 works
  71. 71 Paul Erdős Hungary · #24,583 worldwide 983 citations · 195 works
  72. 72 Dennis Sullivan United States · #25,275 worldwide 596 citations · 41 works
  73. 73 Michio Jimbo Japan · #25,423 worldwide 1.3k citations · 36 works
  74. 74 Nathan O. Kaplan United States · #25,525 worldwide 1.1k citations · 135 works
  75. 75 Janós Kollár United States · #26,201 worldwide 1k citations · 147 works
  76. 76 William Fulton United States · #26,736 worldwide 370 citations · 77 works
  77. 77 Nicolai Reshetikhin United States · #26,816 worldwide 660 citations · 48 works
  78. 78 Haradhan Kumar Mohajan Bangladesh · #28,081 worldwide 264 citations · 50 works
  79. 79 Sergey Fomin United States · #28,716 worldwide 564 citations · 39 works
  80. 80 Israel Gohberg Israel · #28,951 worldwide 980 citations · 160 works
  81. 81 Ralf Meyer United States · #29,424 worldwide 432 citations · 52 works
  82. 82 Walter Van Assche Belgium · #29,841 worldwide 603 citations · 79 works
  83. 83 Dorian Goldfeld United States · #30,288 worldwide 332 citations · 49 works
  84. 84 D. R. Heath‐Brown United States · #30,360 worldwide 432 citations · 62 works
  85. 85 Harish-chandra Harish-Chandra United States · #30,575 worldwide 405 citations · 49 works
  86. 86 Patrick F. Smith United Kingdom · #30,783 worldwide 335 citations · 72 works
  87. 87 David Eisenbud United States · #31,584 worldwide 458 citations · 80 works
  88. 88 David A. Vogan United States · #31,806 worldwide 370 citations · 46 works
  89. 89 Idun Reiten United States · #32,031 worldwide 487 citations · 40 works
  90. 90 Jonathan M. Borwein Canada · #32,286 worldwide 1.1k citations · 189 works
  91. 91 Peter J. Olver United States · #32,567 worldwide 683 citations · 82 works
  92. 92 E.I. Jury United States · #32,612 worldwide 511 citations · 68 works
  93. 93 Gilles Pisier France · #32,684 worldwide 434 citations · 85 works
  94. 94 Don Zagier Germany · #32,692 worldwide 437 citations · 57 works
  95. 95 Armand Borel United States · #32,701 worldwide 405 citations · 66 works
  96. 96 Ke Wu Canada · #34,783 worldwide 3.2k citations · 469 works
  97. 97 Richard P. Stanley United States · #35,403 worldwide 758 citations · 116 works
  98. 98 Henri Cohen France · #35,720 worldwide 355 citations · 40 works
  99. 99 André Lichnerowicz France · #35,943 worldwide 441 citations · 45 works
  100. 100 I. M. Isaacs United States · #36,215 worldwide 320 citations · 54 works

authors from the 6,000 highest-output in Algebra and Number Theory, re-ranked on the composite score. Author identities come from OpenAlex disambiguation and inherit its errors: a merged record can put one name over two people’s work, and a split one can halve a career. Every row links out to the OpenAlex record so the underlying claim is checkable, and anything that looks wrong can be reported from the row. That report files a correction against the bibliographic record for a human to review — it is not a removal or delisting request, and no such route exists yet.

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