Dusa McDuff

8.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
86 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Dusa McDuff is a scholar working on Geometry and Topology, Mathematical Physics and Applied Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Dusa McDuff has authored 86 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 78 papers in Geometry and Topology, 57 papers in Mathematical Physics and 12 papers in Applied Mathematics. Recurrent topics in Dusa McDuff's work include Geometric and Algebraic Topology (64 papers), Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology (49 papers) and Geometry and complex manifolds (25 papers). Dusa McDuff is often cited by papers focused on Geometric and Algebraic Topology (64 papers), Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology (49 papers) and Geometry and complex manifolds (25 papers). Dusa McDuff collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Dusa McDuff's co-authors include Dietmar Salamon, François Lalonde, Leonid Polterovich, Graeme Segal, Miguel Abreu, Susan Tolman, Pierre de la Harpe, Katrin Wehrheim, Dominic Joyce and Kenji Fukaya and has published in prestigious journals such as Annals of Mathematics, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society and Inventiones mathematicae.

In The Last Decade

Dusa McDuff

79 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Hit Papers

Introduction to Symplectic Topology 1995 2026 2005 2015 1995 2012 100 200 300 400
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. Introduction to Symplectic Topology
    1995 436 citations Dusa McDuff, Dietmar Salamon profile →
  2. J-holomorphic curves and symplectic topology
    2012 233 citations Dusa McDuff, Dietmar Salamon CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Dusa McDuff United States 28 2.8k 2.2k 717 318 294 86 3.2k
É. B. Vinberg Russia 25 1.5k 0.6× 1.3k 0.6× 347 0.5× 614 1.9× 513 1.7× 65 2.1k
Arnaud Beauville France 23 2.2k 0.8× 1.4k 0.7× 291 0.4× 369 1.2× 167 0.6× 59 2.3k
Tammo tom Dieck Germany 17 1.3k 0.5× 1.3k 0.6× 285 0.4× 602 1.9× 194 0.7× 64 1.9k
Friedrich Hirzebruch Germany 27 2.3k 0.8× 1.8k 0.8× 736 1.0× 735 2.3× 338 1.1× 70 3.2k
G. D. Mostow United States 27 2.0k 0.7× 1.7k 0.8× 868 1.2× 626 2.0× 343 1.2× 66 2.8k
Wolf Barth Germany 16 2.4k 0.9× 1.2k 0.6× 586 0.8× 424 1.3× 192 0.7× 32 2.6k
Pierre Schapira France 18 1.2k 0.4× 1.1k 0.5× 356 0.5× 476 1.5× 102 0.3× 73 1.7k
G. A. Margulis United States 27 1.1k 0.4× 1.4k 0.7× 405 0.6× 277 0.9× 264 0.9× 62 1.9k
Robion Kirby United States 17 1.5k 0.5× 1.3k 0.6× 233 0.3× 141 0.4× 314 1.1× 27 1.7k
Yuri I. Manin Germany 18 1.5k 0.5× 1.1k 0.5× 156 0.2× 740 2.3× 165 0.6× 58 1.9k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Dusa McDuff

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Dusa McDuff

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Dusa McDuff. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Dusa McDuff based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Dusa McDuff. Dusa McDuff is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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McDuff, Dusa, et al.. (2024). Symplectic capacities, unperturbed curves and convex toric domains. Geometry & Topology. 28(3). 1213–1285. 3 indexed citations
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McDuff, Dusa, et al.. (2019). Virtual Fundamental Cycles in Symplectic Topology. Mathematical surveys and monographs. 7 indexed citations
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McDuff, Dusa & Dietmar Salamon. (2017). Introduction to Symplectic Topology. Oxford University Press eBooks. 105 indexed citations
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McDuff, Dusa. (2015). Symplectic embeddings of 4-dimensional ellipsoids. Journal of Topology. 8(4). 1119–1122. 18 indexed citations
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McDuff, Dusa & Dietmar Salamon. (2012). J-holomorphic curves and symplectic topology. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 233 indexed citations breakdown →
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McDuff, Dusa & Katrin Wehrheim. (2012). Smooth Kuranishi structures with trivial isotropy. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations
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McDuff, Dusa & Katrin Wehrheim. (2012). Smooth Kuranishi atlases with trivial isotropy. arXiv (Cornell University). 4 indexed citations
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McDuff, Dusa & Susan Tolman. (2009). Polytopes with Mass Linear Functions, Part 1. International Mathematics Research Notices. 6 indexed citations
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McDuff, Dusa & Dietmar Salamon. (2004). 𝐽-holomorphic Curves and Symplectic Topology. 168 indexed citations
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Lalonde, François & Dusa McDuff. (2003). Symplectic structures on fiber bundles. Topology. 42(2). 309–347. 18 indexed citations
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Abreu, Miguel & Dusa McDuff. (2000). Topology of symplectomorphism groups of rational ruled surfaces. Journal of the American Mathematical Society. 13(4). 971–1009. 50 indexed citations
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McDuff, Dusa & Dietmar Salamon. (1995). Introduction to Symplectic Topology. 436 indexed citations breakdown →
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McDuff, Dusa & Dietmar Salamon. (1994). 𝐽-Holomorphic Curves and Quantum Cohomology. 86 indexed citations
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McDuff, Dusa & Leonid Polterovich. (1994). Symplectic packings and algebraic geometry. Inventiones mathematicae. 115(1). 405–429. 86 indexed citations
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McDuff, Dusa. (1990). The structure of rational and ruled symplectic 4-manifolds. Journal of the American Mathematical Society. 3(3). 679–712. 136 indexed citations
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McDuff, Dusa. (1983). Some canonical cohomology classes on groups of volume preserving diffeomorphisms. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 275(1). 345–356. 4 indexed citations
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McDuff, Dusa. (1979). On the classifying spaces of discrete monoids. Topology. 18(4). 313–320. 23 indexed citations
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McDuff, Dusa. (1975). Configuration spaces of positive and negative particles. Topology. 14(1). 91–107. 102 indexed citations
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McDuff, Dusa. (1974). HARMONIC ANALYSIS ON SEMI-SIMPLE LIE GROUPS-I. Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society. 6(2). 250–251. 3 indexed citations
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McDuff, Dusa. (1970). ON THE STRUCTURE OF II1-FACTORS. Russian Mathematical Surveys. 25(6). 29–50. 3 indexed citations

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