Aad van der Vaart

20.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
143 papers, 11.5k citations indexed

About

Aad van der Vaart is a scholar working on Statistics and Probability, Artificial Intelligence and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Aad van der Vaart has authored 143 papers receiving a total of 11.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 73 papers in Statistics and Probability, 50 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 17 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Aad van der Vaart's work include Statistical Methods and Inference (62 papers), Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models (43 papers) and Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference (29 papers). Aad van der Vaart is often cited by papers focused on Statistical Methods and Inference (62 papers), Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models (43 papers) and Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference (29 papers). Aad van der Vaart collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United States and United Kingdom. Aad van der Vaart's co-authors include Jon A. Wellner, Susan A. Murphy, Subhashis Ghosal, J. H. van Zanten, Thomas Mikosch, Jayanta K. Ghosh, B. J. K. Kleijn, Valérie Ventura, Mark J. van der Laan and James M. Robins and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Statistical Association, Bioinformatics and NeuroImage.

In The Last Decade

Aad van der Vaart

134 papers receiving 10.9k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Weak Convergence and Empirical Processes

1996 3.1k citations Aad van der Vaart, Jon A. Wellner Springer series in statistics profile →
Asymptotic Statistics

1998 2.8k citations Aad van der Vaart profile →
Weak Convergence and Empirical Processes

1997 519 citations Aad van der Vaart, Jon A. Wellner et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Aad van der Vaart Netherlands	38	7.6k	3.5k	1.4k	1.1k	969	143	11.5k
Jon A. Wellner United States	35	8.9k 1.2×	3.0k 0.9×	1.9k 1.3×	1.2k 1.1×	1.1k 1.1×	123	11.7k
M. C. Jones United Kingdom	43	5.6k 0.7×	2.8k 0.8×	1.2k 0.9×	1.2k 1.1×	877 0.9×	155	11.8k
Edward I. George United States	32	4.0k 0.5×	2.8k 0.8×	588 0.4×	1.3k 1.2×	962 1.0×	110	9.2k
Peter Hall Australia	53	5.1k 0.7×	2.7k 0.8×	829 0.6×	827 0.8×	693 0.7×	315	10.9k
J. S. Marron United States	57	5.3k 0.7×	3.6k 1.0×	688 0.5×	805 0.8×	592 0.6×	176	12.6k
Adelchi Azzalini Italy	30	5.4k 0.7×	2.2k 0.6×	1.5k 1.0×	1.0k 0.9×	1.2k 1.2×	75	10.4k
Peter J. Bickel United States	60	9.2k 1.2×	4.1k 1.2×	1.8k 1.2×	1.7k 1.6×	1.4k 1.5×	221	19.0k
A. P. Dawid United Kingdom	43	3.5k 0.5×	4.7k 1.3×	402 0.3×	914 0.9×	1.5k 1.5×	177	10.8k
Art B. Owen United States	41	4.5k 0.6×	1.4k 0.4×	779 0.5×	477 0.4×	820 0.8×	117	9.4k
Norman L. Johnson United States	34	6.2k 0.8×	3.0k 0.9×	1.4k 1.0×	1.3k 1.2×	2.4k 2.5×	354	15.4k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Kremer, Daan, Aad van der Vaart, Daan J. Touw, et al.. (2025). Increased ferritin levels are associated with incident diabetes after kidney transplantation: A prospective cohort study. Diabetes & Metabolism. 51(2). 101626–101626.

Meulen, Frank van der, et al.. (2025). On a class of exponential changes of measure for stochastic PDEs. Stochastic Processes and their Applications. 185. 104630–104630. 1 indexed citations

Vaart, Aad van der & Jon A. Wellner. (2023). Weak Convergence and Empirical Processes. Springer series in statistics. 22 indexed citations

Pas, Stéphanie van der & Aad van der Vaart. (2018). Bayesian community detection. Leiden Repository (Leiden University). 12 indexed citations

Pas, Stéphanie van der, Botond Szabó, & Aad van der Vaart. (2016). How many needles in the haystack? Adaptive inference and uncertainty quantification for the horseshoe. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations

Wieringen, Wessel N. van & Aad van der Vaart. (2015). Transcriptomic Heterogeneity in Cancer as a Consequence of Dysregulation of the Gene–Gene Interaction Network. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology. 77(9). 1768–1786. 4 indexed citations

Jonker, Marianne A. & Aad van der Vaart. (2014). On the Correction of the Asymptotic Distribution of the Likelihood Ratio Statistic If Nuisance Parameters Are Estimated Based on an External Source. The International Journal of Biostatistics. 10(2). 123–142. 3 indexed citations

Vaart, Aad van der & Harry van Zanten. (2011). Information Rates of Nonparametric Gaussian Process Methods. Journal of Machine Learning Research. 12(60). 2095–2119. 69 indexed citations

Vaart, Aad van der & Jon A. Wellner. (2009). A note on bounds for VC dimensions. PubMed. 5. 103–107. 10 indexed citations

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Ghosal, Subhashis, et al.. (2007). Posterior convergence rates of Dirichlet mixtures at smooth densities. NCSU Libraries Repository (North Carolina State University Libraries). 70 indexed citations

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Vaart, Aad van der & Mark J. van der Laan. (2006). Estimating a Survival Distribution with Current Status Data and High-dimensional Covariates. The International Journal of Biostatistics. 2(1). 34 indexed citations

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Dommelen, Paula van, Mathisca C. M. de Gunst, Aad van der Vaart, Stef van Buuren, & Dorret I. Boomsma. (2004). Groeidiagrammen voor lengte, gewicht en 'body mass index' van tweelingen in de peutertijd. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 2 indexed citations

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Dommelen, Paula van, Mathisca C. M. de Gunst, Aad van der Vaart, & Dorret I. Boomsma. (2004). Genetic Study of the Height and Weight Process During Infancy. Twin Research. 7(6). 607–616. 2 indexed citations

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Jong, Kees H. de, Elena Marchiori, & Aad van der Vaart. (2003). Finding Clusters using Support Vector Classifiers. The European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks. 223–228. 8 indexed citations

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Boellaard, Ronald, Odile A. van den Heuvel, Dick J. Veltman, et al.. (2003). Effects of attenuation correction and reconstruction method on PET activation studies. NeuroImage. 20(2). 898–908. 9 indexed citations

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Klaassen, Chris A. J., et al.. (2001). State of the art in probability and statistics : Festschrift for Willem R. van Zwet. 2 indexed citations

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Murphy, Susan A., Aad van der Vaart, & Jon A. Wellner. (1999). Current Status Regression. Mathematical Methods of Statistics. 8. 407–425. 15 indexed citations

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Murphy, Susan A. & Aad van der Vaart. (1998). Observed Information in Semiparametric Models. Deep Blue (University of Michigan). 1 indexed citations

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Murphy, Susan A. & Aad van der Vaart. (1996). SEMIPARAMETRIC LIKELIHOOD RATIO INFERENCE. Deep Blue (University of Michigan). 1 indexed citations

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Vaart, Aad van der. (1988). Statistical estimation in large parameter spaces. 44. 1–205. 53 indexed citations

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