David E. Blair

6.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
98 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

David E. Blair is a scholar working on Geometry and Topology, Applied Mathematics and Astronomy and Astrophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, David E. Blair has authored 98 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 76 papers in Geometry and Topology, 74 papers in Applied Mathematics and 27 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Recurrent topics in David E. Blair's work include Geometric Analysis and Curvature Flows (71 papers), Geometry and complex manifolds (52 papers) and Geometric and Algebraic Topology (30 papers). David E. Blair is often cited by papers focused on Geometric Analysis and Curvature Flows (71 papers), Geometry and complex manifolds (52 papers) and Geometric and Algebraic Topology (30 papers). David E. Blair collaborates with scholars based in United States, Greece and Italy. David E. Blair's co-authors include Themis Koufogiorgos, Christos Baikoussis, Alfonso Carriazo, Gerald D. Ludden, Pablo Alegre, Ramesh Sharma, Kentaro Yano, Bang‐Yen Chen, J. A. Oubiña and S. I. Goldberg and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Lecture notes in mathematics and Transactions of the American Mathematical Society.

In The Last Decade

David E. Blair

89 papers receiving 3.2k citations

Hit Papers

Contact Manifolds in Riemannian Geometry 1976 2026 1992 2009 1976 2010 2002 250 500 750
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. Contact Manifolds in Riemannian Geometry
    1976 962 citations David E. Blair profile →
  2. Riemannian Geometry of Contact and Symplectic Manifolds
    2010 735 citations David E. Blair profile →
  3. Riemannian Geometry of Contact and Symplectic Manifolds
    2002 637 citations David E. Blair Birkhäuser Boston eBooks profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
David E. Blair United States 23 3.7k 3.4k 2.0k 322 115 98 4.1k
Detlef Gromoll United States 20 2.1k 0.6× 1.7k 0.5× 909 0.5× 558 1.7× 89 0.8× 32 2.6k
Arthur L. Besse United States 7 1.4k 0.4× 1.2k 0.3× 840 0.4× 367 1.1× 158 1.4× 15 1.8k
Tobias Colding United States 30 3.1k 0.8× 2.4k 0.7× 949 0.5× 483 1.5× 27 0.2× 72 3.3k
Peter Petersen United States 16 1.4k 0.4× 1.1k 0.3× 669 0.3× 289 0.9× 62 0.5× 56 1.6k
Bennett Chow United States 19 1.9k 0.5× 1.5k 0.4× 805 0.4× 219 0.7× 62 0.5× 56 2.1k
Shûkichi Tanno Japan 22 1.5k 0.4× 1.2k 0.4× 730 0.4× 185 0.6× 50 0.4× 78 1.6k
Franki Dillen Belgium 25 1.7k 0.5× 1.3k 0.4× 881 0.4× 72 0.2× 62 0.5× 117 1.8k
T. J. Willmore United Kingdom 13 855 0.2× 744 0.2× 570 0.3× 265 0.8× 156 1.4× 17 1.3k
J.-H. Eschenburg Germany 16 987 0.3× 856 0.2× 422 0.2× 303 0.9× 49 0.4× 51 1.3k
Leopold Verstraelen Belgium 23 1.4k 0.4× 1.1k 0.3× 895 0.4× 50 0.2× 51 0.4× 125 1.6k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Blair, David E.. (2013). $\mathcal {D}$-homothetic Warping. Publications de l Institut Mathematique. 47–54. 1 indexed citations
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Blair, David E.. (2012). $\\cal D$-Homothetic Warping and Applications to Geometric Structures and Cosmology. Project Euclid (Cornell University).
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Blair, David E., et al.. (2006). Corrected energy of distributions for 3-Sasakian and normal complex contact manifolds. Osaka Journal of Mathematics. 43(1). 193–200. 2 indexed citations
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Dragomir, Sorin & David E. Blair. (2002). Pseudohermitian geometry on contact Riemannian manifolds. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 9 indexed citations
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Blair, David E.. (2002). Riemannian Geometry of Contact and Symplectic Manifolds. Birkhäuser Boston eBooks. 637 indexed citations breakdown →
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Blair, David E.. (2000). A hyperbolic twistor space.. 5(2). 9–16. 6 indexed citations
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Blair, David E.. (2000). Inversion Theory and Conformal Mapping. 58 indexed citations
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Blair, David E., et al.. (1998). Conformally Anosov flows in contact metric geometry.. 3(2). 33–46. 7 indexed citations
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Blair, David E., Franki Dillen, Leopold Verstraelen, & Luc Vrancken. (1996). Calabi Curves as Holomorphic Legendre Curves and Chen's Inequality. Kyungpook mathematical journal. 35(3). 407–407. 16 indexed citations
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Baikoussis, Christos & David E. Blair. (1992). On the Gauss map of ruled surfaces. Glasgow Mathematical Journal. 34(3). 355–359. 73 indexed citations
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Blair, David E., et al.. (1992). Ruled surfaces with vanishing second Gaussian curvature. Monatshefte für Mathematik. 113(3). 177–181. 29 indexed citations
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Baikoussis, Christos & David E. Blair. (1991). 2-Type Integral Surfaces in $S^5(1)$. Tokyo Journal of Mathematics. 14(2). 4 indexed citations
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Blair, David E. & J. A. Oubiña. (1990). Conformal and related changes of metric on the product of two almost contact metric manifolds. Publicacions Matemàtiques. 34(1). 199–207. 51 indexed citations
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Blair, David E., et al.. (1984). Hypersurfaces satisfaisant a r.c=0 ou c.r=0. Comptes Rendus De L Academie Bulgare Des Sciences. 37(11). 1459–1462. 2 indexed citations
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Blair, David E., Shigeru Ishihara, & Gerald D. Ludden. (1978). Projectable almost complex contact structures. Kodai Mathematical Journal. 1(1). 1 indexed citations
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Blair, David E.. (1975). On the characterization of complex projective space by differential equations. Journal of the Mathematical Society of Japan. 27(1). 10 indexed citations
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Blair, David E. & Koichi Ogiue. (1975). Geometry of integral submanifolds of a contact distribution. Illinois Journal of Mathematics. 19(2). 17 indexed citations
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Blair, David E.. (1975). On a Generalization of the Catenoid. Canadian Journal of Mathematics. 27(2). 231–236. 12 indexed citations
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Blair, David E., et al.. (1974). Almost contact manifolds with Killing structure tensors. II. Journal of Differential Geometry. 9(4). 23 indexed citations
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Blair, David E., Gerald D. Ludden, & Masafumi Okumura. (1973). Hypersurface of an even-dimensional sphere satisfying a certain commutative condition. Journal of the Mathematical Society of Japan. 25(2). 5 indexed citations

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