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Mathematical Approximation and Integration

Mathematical Approximation and Integration is a research topic within Numerical Analysis. Science Explorer counts 10k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on high-dimensional integration techniques, particularly emphasizing the use of Quasi-Monte Carlo methods, lattice rules, and randomized approaches for multivariate approximation. The research also delves into applications in spherical crystals, discrepancy minimization, and the tractability of numerical integration in weighted spaces.

  • Quasi-Monte Carlo
  • High-dimensional Integration
  • Lattice Rules
  • Multivariate Approximation
  • Randomized Methods
  • Spherical Crystals
  • Discrepancy Minimization
  • Tractability
  • Weighted Spaces
  • Numerical Integration
Research works
10k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+11%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
20% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Mathematical Approximation and Integration

Which countries lead Mathematical Approximation and Integration research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (195 and 173 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 195 works
  2. 2 China 173 works
  3. 3 Russia 148 works
  4. 4 India 113 works
  5. 5 Türkiye 88 works
  6. 6 Germany 82 works
  7. 7 Ukraine 56 works
  8. 8 France 53 works
  9. 9 United Kingdom 45 works
  10. 10 Japan 40 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 19.7%China: 17.4%Russia: 14.9%India: 11.4%6 others listed: 36.6%20%largest
United States195 · 19.7%China173 · 17.4%Russia148 · 14.9%India113 · 11.4%6 others listed363 · 36.6%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Mathematical Approximation and Integration research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Mathematical Approximation and Integration research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Lomonosov Moscow State University.

Who are the leading researchers in Mathematical Approximation and Integration?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Mathematical Approximation and Integration include R. W. L. Jones, H. Vincent Poor and David L. Donoho.

  1. 1 R. W. L. Jones United Kingdom 189k citations
  2. 2 H. Vincent Poor United States 165k citations
  3. 3 David L. Donoho United States 154k citations
  4. 4 Bernhard Schölkopf Germany 148k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Mathematical Approximation and Integration?

The most cited paper in Mathematical Approximation and Integration is "Global sensitivity indices for nonlinear mathematical models and their Monte Carlo estimates" (Ilya M. Sobol, 2001), with 6,427 citations. Next come "Optimal approximations by piecewise smooth functions and associated variational problems" (5,245) and "Random Number Generation and Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods." (2,965).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Global sensitivity indices for nonlinear mathematical models and their Monte Carlo estimates Ilya M. Sobol · Mathematics and Computers in Simulation Feb 2001 6,427
2 Optimal approximations by piecewise smooth functions and associated variational problems David B. Mumford, Jayant M. Shah · Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics Open access Jul 1989 5,245
3 Random Number Generation and Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods. Bruce Jay Collings, Harald Niederreiter · Journal of the American Statistical Association Jun 1993 2,965
4 Centroidal Voronoi Tessellations: Applications and Algorithms Qiang Du, Vance Faber, Max Gunzburger · SIAM Review 1999 2,297
5 On the efficiency of certain quasi-random sequences of points in evaluating multi-dimensional integrals John H. Halton · Numerische Mathematik Dec 1960 2,009
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Where is Mathematical Approximation and Integration research done?

The largest centres of Mathematical Approximation and Integration research in 2022-now are Moscow (Russia), Beijing (China), Sofia (Bulgaria) and Kyiv (Ukraine). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Sofia.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MoscowRussia 79 works
  2. 2 BeijingChina 32 works
  3. 3 SofiaBulgaria 25 works
  4. 4 KyivUkraine 25 works
  5. 5 ParisFrance 20 works
  6. 6 AnkaraTürkiye 19 works
  7. 7 TokyoJapan 17 works
  8. 8 LinzAustria 13 works
  9. 9 ShanghaiChina 13 works
  10. 10 Saint PetersburgRussia 12 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. SofiaBG · 25.5 works16×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Mathematical Approximation and Integration than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Mathematical Approximation and Integration?

Among universities, judged by research, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University and Johannes Kepler University of Linz score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 15.22%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Lesya Ukrainka Volyn…Johannes Kepler Univ…Tripura UniversityLomonosov Moscow Sta…
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussia 52.46.2%20.8×23 +19.3%
2Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National UniversityUkraine 45.939.7%118.0×10 -24.0%
3Johannes Kepler University of LinzAustria 32.917.3%43.9×10 +1.6%
4Tripura UniversityIndia 19.88.3%155.7×8 +151.7%
5St Petersburg UniversityRussia 2.44.6%14.0×9 -45.2%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Mathematical Approximation and Integration, country by country

Is Mathematical Approximation and Integration research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 11% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Mathematical Approximation and Integration.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Mathematical Approximation and Integration as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0073% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Mathematical Approximation and Integration over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

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Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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