B. Schweizer

5.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
40 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

B. Schweizer is a scholar working on Geometry and Topology, Mathematical Physics and Management Science and Operations Research. According to data from OpenAlex, B. Schweizer has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Geometry and Topology, 9 papers in Mathematical Physics and 6 papers in Management Science and Operations Research. Recurrent topics in B. Schweizer's work include Fixed Point Theorems Analysis (7 papers), Mathematical Dynamics and Fractals (5 papers) and Advanced Differential Geometry Research (4 papers). B. Schweizer is often cited by papers focused on Fixed Point Theorems Analysis (7 papers), Mathematical Dynamics and Fractals (5 papers) and Advanced Differential Geometry Research (4 papers). B. Schweizer collaborates with scholars based in United States, Spain and Slovakia. B. Schweizer's co-authors include A. Sklar, Edward F. Wolff, J. Smı́tal, C. Alsina, Michael Frank, Roger B. Nelsen, Ludger Rüschendorf, M. D. Taylor, Ronald E. Rice and M. F. Janowitz and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Statistical Association, The Annals of Statistics and Communications in Mathematical Physics.

In The Last Decade

B. Schweizer

39 papers receiving 2.8k citations

Hit Papers

Probabilistic Metric Spaces 1983 2026 1997 2011 1983 500 1000 1.5k
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.

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    1983 1.7k citations B. Schweizer, A. Sklar profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
B. Schweizer United States 17 1.1k 831 809 803 592 40 3.1k
A. Sklar United States 13 1.5k 1.3× 1.1k 1.3× 1.6k 2.0× 879 1.1× 651 1.1× 41 4.1k
R. M. Dudley United States 27 478 0.4× 480 0.6× 413 0.5× 999 1.2× 774 1.3× 74 3.7k
Gustave Choquet France 13 1.7k 1.5× 675 0.8× 274 0.3× 955 1.2× 770 1.3× 45 3.1k
Olav Kallenberg United States 20 508 0.4× 320 0.4× 303 0.4× 1.0k 1.3× 656 1.1× 81 3.5k
Berthold Schweizer United States 9 1.1k 0.9× 695 0.8× 1.0k 1.3× 561 0.7× 327 0.6× 14 2.3k
David W. Walkup United States 16 672 0.6× 385 0.5× 187 0.2× 458 0.6× 223 0.4× 27 1.7k
И. А. Ибрагимов Russia 27 850 0.7× 244 0.3× 237 0.3× 1.9k 2.3× 835 1.4× 136 4.7k
Ludger Rüschendorf Germany 34 1.7k 1.5× 237 0.3× 311 0.4× 1.2k 1.5× 500 0.8× 195 4.2k
János Galambos United States 21 528 0.5× 205 0.2× 133 0.2× 901 1.1× 453 0.8× 107 2.8k
W. J. Studden United States 24 1.9k 1.7× 1.6k 1.9× 180 0.2× 887 1.1× 395 0.7× 59 4.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of B. Schweizer

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Schweizer, B., et al.. (2022). Associative functions and abstract semigroups. Publicationes Mathematicae Debrecen. 10(1-4). 69–81. 19 indexed citations
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Alsina, C. & B. Schweizer. (2013). On a theorem Mouchtari and Serstnev. Note di matematica/Note di matematica - Università degli studi di Lecce. 1(1). 19–24. 1 indexed citations
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Menger, Karl, B. Schweizer, A. Sklar, et al.. (2003). Selecta Mathematica : Volume 2.
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Balibrea, Francisco, B. Schweizer, A. Sklar, & J. Smı́tal. (2003). Generalized Specification Property and Distributional Chaos. International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos. 13(7). 1683–1694. 7 indexed citations
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Schweizer, B. & J. Smı́tal. (1994). Measures of chaos and a spectral decomposition of dynamical systems on the interval. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 344(2). 737–754. 246 indexed citations
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Alsina, C., B. Schweizer, & A. Sklar. (1993). On the definition of a probabilistic normed space. Aequationes Mathematicae. 46(1-2). 91–98. 96 indexed citations
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Janowitz, M. F. & B. Schweizer. (1989). Ordinal and percentile clustering. Mathematical Social Sciences. 18(2). 135–186. 15 indexed citations
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Alsina, C. & B. Schweizer. (1988). Mixtures are not derivable. Foundations of Physics Letters. 1(2). 171–174. 2 indexed citations
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Schweizer, B.. (1987). On the Jacobi series. Aequationes Mathematicae. 34(2-3). 186–194. 1 indexed citations
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Schweizer, B. & Edward F. Wolff. (1981). On Nonparametric Measures of Dependence for Random Variables. The Annals of Statistics. 9(4). 387 indexed citations
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Rice, Ronald E., B. Schweizer, & A. Sklar. (1980). When isf(f(z))=az2+bz+c?. American Mathematical Monthly. 87(4). 252–263. 36 indexed citations
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Schweizer, B.. (1975). Multiplications on the space of probability distribution functions. Aequationes Mathematicae. 12(2-3). 156–183. 31 indexed citations
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Schweizer, B. & A. Sklar. (1974). Operations on distribution functions not derivable from operations on random variables. Studia Mathematica. 52(1). 43–52. 87 indexed citations
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Schweizer, B. & A. Sklar. (1973). Probabilistic metric spaces determined by measure preserving transformations. Probability Theory and Related Fields. 26(3). 235–239. 8 indexed citations
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Erber, T., B. Schweizer, & A. Sklar. (1973). Mixing transformations on metric spaces. Communications in Mathematical Physics. 29(4). 311–317. 12 indexed citations
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Schweizer, B. & A. Sklar. (1969). A grammar of functions. Aequationes Mathematicae. 2(1). 62–85. 2 indexed citations
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Schweizer, B. & A. Sklar. (1969). A grammar of functions. Aequationes Mathematicae. 3(1-2). 15–43. 2 indexed citations
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Schweizer, B. & A. Sklar. (1967). The algebra of multiplace vector-valued functions. Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 73(4). 510–515. 5 indexed citations
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Schweizer, B. & A. Sklar. (1965). The algebra of functions. III. Mathematische Annalen. 161(3). 171–196. 12 indexed citations
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Schweizer, B.. (1961). Associative funcrions and statistical triangle inequalities. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 8. 169–186. 1 indexed citations

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