Douglas L. Costa

798 total citations · 1 hit paper
21 papers, 347 citations indexed

About

Douglas L. Costa is a scholar working on Algebra and Number Theory, Geometry and Topology and Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics. According to data from OpenAlex, Douglas L. Costa has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 347 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Algebra and Number Theory, 8 papers in Geometry and Topology and 5 papers in Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics. Recurrent topics in Douglas L. Costa's work include Rings, Modules, and Algebras (13 papers), Advanced Topics in Algebra (10 papers) and Commutative Algebra and Its Applications (8 papers). Douglas L. Costa is often cited by papers focused on Rings, Modules, and Algebras (13 papers), Advanced Topics in Algebra (10 papers) and Commutative Algebra and Its Applications (8 papers). Douglas L. Costa collaborates with scholars based in United States and South Africa. Douglas L. Costa's co-authors include J. W. Brewer, Kevin McCrimmon, E.L Lady, Paul-Jean Cahen and Marco Fontana and has published in prestigious journals such as Annals of Mathematics, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society and Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society.

In The Last Decade

Douglas L. Costa

20 papers receiving 296 citations

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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.

Commutative Ring Theory

2023 27 citations Marco Fontana, Paul-Jean Cahen et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Douglas L. Costa United States	11	286	202	103	92	56	21	347
Shizuo Endó Japan	12	272 1.0×	288 1.4×	112 1.1×	100 1.1×	77 1.4×	25	418
Gorô Azumaya United States	10	417 1.5×	280 1.4×	68 0.7×	35 0.4×	84 1.5×	17	490
Kulumani M. Rangaswamy United States	13	423 1.5×	310 1.5×	145 1.4×	53 0.6×	93 1.7×	62	495
Kwangil Koh United States	10	422 1.5×	260 1.3×	66 0.6×	46 0.5×	83 1.5×	56	494
Péter Vámos United Kingdom	12	343 1.2×	267 1.3×	79 0.8×	22 0.2×	63 1.1×	40	400
Arun Vinayak Jategaonkar United States	14	375 1.3×	266 1.3×	53 0.5×	34 0.4×	62 1.1×	21	432
Edward D. Davis United States	10	285 1.0×	243 1.2×	48 0.5×	31 0.3×	91 1.6×	23	366
C R Hajarnavis United Kingdom	10	547 1.9×	369 1.8×	52 0.5×	38 0.4×	81 1.4×	33	579
Friedrich Kasch Germany	10	406 1.4×	269 1.3×	55 0.5×	30 0.3×	76 1.4×	39	477
A. L. S. Corner Germany	10	363 1.3×	315 1.6×	144 1.4×	81 0.9×	130 2.3×	18	477

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Fontana, Marco, et al.. (2023). Commutative Ring Theory. 27 indexed citations breakdown →

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Costa, Douglas L., et al.. (1999). On the Normal Subgroups of $G_2(A)$. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 351(12). 5051–5088. 22 indexed citations

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Costa, Douglas L., et al.. (1998). Power Residue Symbols and the Central Sections of SL(2, A). K-Theory. 15(1). 33–98. 3 indexed citations

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Costa, Douglas L., et al.. (1997). Abstract Radices. Communications in Algebra. 25(7). 2099–2104. 1 indexed citations

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Costa, Douglas L.. (1994). Parameterizing families of non-noetherian rings. Communications in Algebra. 22(10). 3997–4011. 54 indexed citations

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Costa, Douglas L., et al.. (1992). Radix redux: Normal subgroups of symplectic groups.. Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik (Crelles Journal). 1992(427). 51–106. 30 indexed citations

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Costa, Douglas L., et al.. (1991). The E(2, A) Sections of SL(2, A). Annals of Mathematics. 134(1). 159–159. 17 indexed citations

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Costa, Douglas L.. (1990). Some Remarks on The Acc on Annihilators. Communications in Algebra. 18(3). 635–658. 5 indexed citations

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Costa, Douglas L.. (1988). Zero-dimensionality and the GE2 of polynomial rings. Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra. 50(3). 223–229. 9 indexed citations

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Costa, Douglas L., et al.. (1988). On the normal subgroups of SL(2, A). Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra. 53(3). 201–226. 13 indexed citations

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Costa, Douglas L.. (1985). Sequences of linear type. Journal of Algebra. 94(1). 256–263. 8 indexed citations

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Costa, Douglas L.. (1983). On the torsion-freeness of the symmetric powers of an ideal. Journal of Algebra. 80(1). 152–158. 3 indexed citations

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Brewer, J. W., Douglas L. Costa, & Kevin McCrimmon. (1979). Seminormality and root closure in polynomial rings and algebraic curves. Journal of Algebra. 58(1). 217–226. 34 indexed citations

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Brewer, J. W. & Douglas L. Costa. (1979). Seminormality and projective modules over polynomial rings. Journal of Algebra. 58(1). 208–216. 27 indexed citations

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Brewer, J. W. & Douglas L. Costa. (1978). Projective modules over some non-noetherian polynomial rings. Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra. 13(2). 157–163. 25 indexed citations

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Costa, Douglas L.. (1977). Retracts of polynomial rings. Journal of Algebra. 44(2). 492–502. 24 indexed citations

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Costa, Douglas L., et al.. (1976). Inert extensions of Krull domains. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 59(2). 189–194. 5 indexed citations

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Costa, Douglas L.. (1976). Unique Factorization in Modules and Symmetric Algebras. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 224(2). 267–267. 1 indexed citations

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Brewer, J. W., Douglas L. Costa, & E.L Lady. (1975). Prime ideals and localization in commutative group rings. Journal of Algebra. 34(2). 300–308. 26 indexed citations

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Brewer, J. W. & Douglas L. Costa. (1975). Contracted ideals and purity for ring extensions. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 53(2). 271–276. 6 indexed citations

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