Allan Sly

4.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
66 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Allan Sly is a scholar working on Statistics and Probability, Mathematical Physics and Condensed Matter Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Allan Sly has authored 66 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Statistics and Probability, 36 papers in Mathematical Physics and 17 papers in Condensed Matter Physics. Recurrent topics in Allan Sly's work include Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics (36 papers), Markov Chains and Monte Carlo Methods (36 papers) and Theoretical and Computational Physics (17 papers). Allan Sly is often cited by papers focused on Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics (36 papers), Markov Chains and Monte Carlo Methods (36 papers) and Theoretical and Computational Physics (17 papers). Allan Sly collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and United Kingdom. Allan Sly's co-authors include Elchanan Mossel, Nike Sun, Eyal Lubetzky, Cristopher Moore, Lenka Zdeborová, Florent Krząkała, Pan Zhang, Joe Neeman, Guy Bresler and Shankar Bhamidi and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory and The Annals of Statistics.

In The Last Decade

Allan Sly

63 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

Spectral redemption in clustering sparse networks 2013 2026 2017 2021 2013 100 200 300
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.

  1. Spectral redemption in clustering sparse networks
    2013 340 citations Elchanan Mossel, Allan Sly et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Allan Sly United States 20 556 552 409 375 220 66 1.4k
David B. Wilson United States 16 424 0.8× 147 0.3× 564 1.4× 214 0.6× 286 1.3× 37 1.2k
James Allen Fill United States 23 713 1.3× 216 0.4× 732 1.8× 519 1.4× 84 0.4× 76 1.7k
Hosam M. Mahmoud United States 20 345 0.6× 300 0.5× 928 2.3× 680 1.8× 253 1.1× 131 1.6k
John C. Wierman United States 17 443 0.8× 245 0.4× 660 1.6× 86 0.2× 439 2.0× 80 1.1k
Sourav Chatterjee United States 18 559 1.0× 146 0.3× 421 1.0× 185 0.5× 121 0.6× 46 1.2k
Hans-Otto Georgii Germany 15 591 1.1× 346 0.6× 960 2.3× 158 0.4× 705 3.2× 36 1.6k
James Propp United States 17 766 1.4× 128 0.2× 597 1.5× 425 1.1× 209 0.9× 66 1.8k
Guilhem Semerjian France 17 124 0.2× 360 0.7× 85 0.2× 307 0.8× 324 1.5× 30 1.1k
Oliver Riordan United Kingdom 23 364 0.7× 1.6k 2.8× 994 2.4× 242 0.6× 403 1.8× 70 2.9k
Graham Brightwell United Kingdom 19 235 0.4× 147 0.3× 228 0.6× 269 0.7× 75 0.3× 90 1.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Allan Sly

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Fields of papers citing papers by Allan Sly

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Allan Sly

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Mossel, Elchanan, et al.. (2025). Exact phase transitions for stochastic block models and reconstruction on trees. The Annals of Probability. 53(3).
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Sly, Allan, et al.. (2024). Local Geometry of NAE-SAT Solutions in the Condensation Regime. 1083–1093. 2 indexed citations
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Sly, Allan, et al.. (2023). Spread of infections in a heterogeneous moving population. Probability Theory and Related Fields. 187(1-2). 73–131. 1 indexed citations
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Abbé, Emmanuel, et al.. (2023). Learning sparse graphons and the generalized Kesten–Stigum threshold. The Annals of Statistics. 51(2). 1 indexed citations
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Nguyen, Hoi H., et al.. (2022). Critical value asymptotics for the contact process on random graphs. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 375(6). 3899–3967. 4 indexed citations
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Abbé, Emmanuel, et al.. (2018). Group synchronization on grids. 1(3). 227–256. 8 indexed citations
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Lubetzky, Eyal, Fabio Martinelli, Allan Sly, Fabio Lucio Toninelli, & Pietro Caputo. (2016). Scaling limit and cube-root fluctuations in SOS surfaces above a wall. Iris (Roma Tre University). 14 indexed citations
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Lubetzky, Eyal & Allan Sly. (2014). Information percolation for the Ising model: cutoff in three dimensions up to criticality. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations
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Mossel, Elchanan, Joe Neeman, & Allan Sly. (2014). Consistency Thresholds for Binary Symmetric Block Models.. 24 indexed citations
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Dembo, Amir, Andrea Montanari, Allan Sly, & Nike Sun. (2014). The Replica Symmetric Solution for Potts Models on d-Regular Graphs. Communications in Mathematical Physics. 327(2). 551–575. 27 indexed citations
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Lubetzky, Eyal, Fabio Martinelli, Allan Sly, & Fabio Lucio Toninelli. (2013). Quasi-polynomial mixing of the 2D stochastic Ising model with “plus” boundary up to criticality. Journal of the European Mathematical Society. 15(2). 339–386. 14 indexed citations
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Sly, Allan, et al.. (2013). Simple random walk on long-range percolation clusters II: Scaling limits. The Annals of Probability. 41(2). 12 indexed citations
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Mossel, Elchanan, Sébastien Roch, & Allan Sly. (2013). Robust Estimation of Latent Tree Graphical Models: Inferring Hidden States With Inexact Parameters. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 59(7). 4357–4373. 8 indexed citations
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Caputo, Pietro, Eyal Lubetzky, Fabio Martinelli, Allan Sly, & Fabio Lucio Toninelli. (2012). The shape of the ( 2 + 1 ) d SOS surface above a wall. Comptes Rendus Mathématique. 350(13-14). 703–706. 6 indexed citations
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Lubetzky, Eyal & Allan Sly. (2011). Explicit Expanders with Cutoff Phenomena. Electronic Journal of Probability. 16(none). 6 indexed citations
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Sly, Allan, et al.. (2011). Simple random walk on long range percolation clusters I: heat kernel bounds. Probability Theory and Related Fields. 154(3-4). 753–786. 16 indexed citations
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Sly, Allan, et al.. (2009). Exact conditions for no ruin for the generalised Ornstein–Uhlenbeck process. Stochastic Processes and their Applications. 119(8). 2544–2562. 5 indexed citations
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Mossel, Elchanan & Allan Sly. (2009). Rapid mixing of Gibbs sampling on graphs that are sparse on average. Random Structures and Algorithms. 35(2). 250–270. 3 indexed citations
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Sly, Allan. (2007). Integrated Fractional white Noise as an Alternative to Multifractional Brownian Motion. Journal of Applied Probability. 44(2). 393–408. 3 indexed citations
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Sly, Allan. (2007). Integrated Fractional white Noise as an Alternative to Multifractional Brownian Motion. Journal of Applied Probability. 44(2). 393–408.

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