Étienne Ghys

3.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
54 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Étienne Ghys is a scholar working on Geometry and Topology, Mathematical Physics and Applied Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Étienne Ghys has authored 54 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Geometry and Topology, 27 papers in Mathematical Physics and 11 papers in Applied Mathematics. Recurrent topics in Étienne Ghys's work include Geometric and Algebraic Topology (21 papers), Mathematical Dynamics and Fractals (16 papers) and Algebraic Geometry and Number Theory (8 papers). Étienne Ghys is often cited by papers focused on Geometric and Algebraic Topology (21 papers), Mathematical Dynamics and Fractals (16 papers) and Algebraic Geometry and Number Theory (8 papers). Étienne Ghys collaborates with scholars based in France, Japan and Switzerland. Étienne Ghys's co-authors include Vlad Sergiescu, Jean-Marc Gambaudo, Paweł Walczak, Rémi Langevin, André Haefliger, Alberto Verjovsky, Takashi Tsuboi, Grant Cairns, Marco Brunella and Serge Tabachnikov and has published in prestigious journals such as Annals of Mathematics, Inventiones mathematicae and American Mathematical Monthly.

In The Last Decade

Étienne Ghys

52 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

Sur les Groupes Hyperboliques d’après Mikhael Gromov 1990 2026 2002 2014 1990 100 200 300 400
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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.

  1. Sur les Groupes Hyperboliques d’après Mikhael Gromov
    1990 482 citations Étienne Ghys et al. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) profile →

Peers

Étienne Ghys
Egbert Brieskorn Germany
Robion Kirby United States
Michael Kapovich United States
Bruce Kleiner United States
Friedhelm Waldhausen Germany
John J. Millson United States
Steven P. Kerckhoff United States
W. C. Hsiang United States
Carlo Petronio Italy
John Oprea United States
Egbert Brieskorn Germany
Étienne Ghys
Citations per year, relative to Étienne Ghys Étienne Ghys (= 1×) peers Egbert Brieskorn

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Étienne Ghys. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Étienne Ghys 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 Étienne Ghys. Étienne Ghys 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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Ghys, Étienne. (2011). Sur la coupe des vêtements. Variation autour d'un thème de Tchebychev. 57(1). 165–208. 17 indexed citations
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Ghys, Étienne, et al.. (2006). L'héritage scientifique de Poincaré. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 2 indexed citations
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Ghys, Étienne, et al.. (1997). Singularités des flots holomorphes. II. Annales de l’institut Fourier. 47(4). 1117–1174. 22 indexed citations
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Ghys, Étienne. (1993). Construction de champs de vecteurs sans orbite périodique. French digital mathematics library (Numdam). 36. 283–307. 3 indexed citations
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Ghys, Étienne. (1992). Dynamique des flots unipotents sur les espaces homogènes. Astérisque. 34(206). 93–136. 21 indexed citations
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Ghys, Étienne, André Haefliger, & Alberto Verjovsky. (1991). Group theory from a geometrical viewpoint, 26 March-6 April 1990, ICTP, Trieste, Italy. WORLD SCIENTIFIC eBooks. 4 indexed citations
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Ghys, Étienne. (1991). Flots transversalement affines et tissus feuilletés. Mémoires de la Société mathématique de France. 1. 123–150. 21 indexed citations
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Ghys, Étienne, et al.. (1990). Sur les Groupes Hyperboliques d’après Mikhael Gromov. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 482 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ghys, Étienne. (1990). Les groupes hyperboliques. Astérisque. 32. 203–238. 8 indexed citations
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Ghys, Étienne. (1989). L'invariant de Godbillon-Vey. French digital mathematics library (Numdam). 31. 155–181. 11 indexed citations
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Ghys, Étienne, et al.. (1989). On codimension one nilfoliations and a theorem of Malcev. Topology. 28(2). 197–210. 7 indexed citations
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Ghys, Étienne & Takashi Tsuboi. (1988). Différentiabilité des conjugaisons entre systèmes dynamiques de dimension 1. Annales de l’institut Fourier. 38(1). 215–244. 11 indexed citations
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Ghys, Étienne, et al.. (1988). Surfaces et cohomologie born�e. Inventiones mathematicae. 92(3). 509–526. 33 indexed citations
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Ghys, Étienne. (1987). Classe d'euler et minimal exceptionnel. Topology. 26(1). 93–105. 22 indexed citations
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Ghys, Étienne. (1987). Sur l'invariance topologique de la classe de Godbillon-Vey. Annales de l’institut Fourier. 37(4). 59–76. 15 indexed citations
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Ghys, Étienne. (1985). Groupes d'holonomie des feuilletages de Lie. Indagationes Mathematicae (Proceedings). 88(2). 173–182. 7 indexed citations
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Ghys, Étienne. (1985). Une variete qui n'est pas une feuille. Topology. 24(1). 67–73. 10 indexed citations
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Ghys, Étienne. (1983). Classification des feuilletages totalement g6od~siques de codimen- sion un. 1 indexed citations
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Ghys, Étienne, et al.. (1981). Feuilletages totalement geodesiques. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências. 53(3). 427–432. 10 indexed citations
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Ghys, Étienne & Vlad Sergiescu. (1980). Stabilite et conjugaison differentiable pour certains feuilletages. Topology. 19(2). 179–197. 35 indexed citations

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