George W. Mackey

6.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
36 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

George W. Mackey is a scholar working on Mathematical Physics, Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics and Geometry and Topology. According to data from OpenAlex, George W. Mackey has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Mathematical Physics, 6 papers in Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics and 6 papers in Geometry and Topology. Recurrent topics in George W. Mackey's work include Advanced Algebra and Geometry (6 papers), Advanced Topics in Algebra (6 papers) and Finite Group Theory Research (6 papers). George W. Mackey is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Algebra and Geometry (6 papers), Advanced Topics in Algebra (6 papers) and Finite Group Theory Research (6 papers). George W. Mackey collaborates with scholars based in United States and Egypt. George W. Mackey's co-authors include Michael Danos and I. E. Segal and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Physics Today.

In The Last Decade

George W. Mackey

35 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Hit Papers

Induced Representations of Locally Compact Groups I 1952 2026 1976 2001 1952 1964 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. Induced Representations of Locally Compact Groups I
    1952 472 citations George W. Mackey Annals of Mathematics profile →
  2. The Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics
    1964 355 citations George W. Mackey et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
George W. Mackey United States 25 1.8k 880 836 778 614 36 3.4k
V. S. Varadarajan United States 23 1.8k 1.0× 1.2k 1.3× 807 1.0× 520 0.7× 734 1.2× 81 3.5k
Masamichi Takesaki Japan 27 3.0k 1.7× 978 1.1× 2.1k 2.5× 565 0.7× 829 1.4× 65 3.8k
Shlomo Sternberg United States 26 1.7k 1.0× 1.6k 1.9× 743 0.9× 312 0.4× 691 1.1× 70 3.9k
Jacques Dixmier France 18 1.9k 1.1× 873 1.0× 1.4k 1.7× 182 0.2× 586 1.0× 37 2.7k
I. E. Segal United States 33 2.2k 1.2× 426 0.5× 706 0.8× 924 1.2× 1.1k 1.8× 135 4.2k
Ola Bratteli Norway 24 2.8k 1.6× 809 0.9× 1.6k 1.9× 1.6k 2.0× 748 1.2× 92 4.6k
Richard V. Kadison United States 34 3.2k 1.8× 1.0k 1.2× 2.7k 3.2× 590 0.8× 1.3k 2.2× 88 4.6k
Harold Widom United States 34 2.3k 1.3× 545 0.6× 260 0.3× 448 0.6× 1.4k 2.3× 124 4.6k
Norman Steenrod United States 13 1.7k 0.9× 1.7k 1.9× 730 0.9× 138 0.2× 664 1.1× 20 3.4k
Nolan R. Wallach United States 28 2.3k 1.3× 2.3k 2.6× 1.1k 1.3× 233 0.3× 1.1k 1.8× 124 3.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of George W. Mackey

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Mackey, George W.. (2005). The Scope and History of Commutative and Noncommutative Harmonic Analysis. 7 indexed citations
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Mackey, George W.. (1992). Harmonic analysis and unitary group representations : the development from 1927 to 1950. French digital mathematics library (Numdam). 2 indexed citations
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Mackey, George W.. (1987). Some remarks on Lie superalgebras. Czechoslovak Journal of Physics. 37(3). 373–386. 1 indexed citations
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Mackey, George W.. (1980). Harmonic analysis as the exploitation of symmetry-a historical survey. Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 3(1). 543–698. 41 indexed citations
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Mackey, George W.. (1978). Unitary Group Representations in Physics, Probability, and Number Theory. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 115 indexed citations
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Mackey, George W.. (1974). Ergodic theory and its significance for statistical mechanics and probability theory. Advances in Mathematics. 12(2). 178–268. 27 indexed citations
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Mackey, George W.. (1968). Induced representations of groups and quantum mechanics. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 224 indexed citations
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Mackey, George W.. (1968). ERGODIC ACTIONS OF THE EUCLIDEAN GROUP AND THE CANONICAL COMMUTATION RELATIONS.. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 1 indexed citations
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Mackey, George W.. (1966). Ergodic theory and virtual groups. Mathematische Annalen. 166(3). 187–207. 120 indexed citations
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Mackey, George W.. (1965). Some Remarks on Symplectic Automorphisms. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 16(3). 393–393. 1 indexed citations
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Mackey, George W., et al.. (1965). Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics.. American Mathematical Monthly. 72(1). 96–96. 16 indexed citations
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Mackey, George W.. (1965). Some remarks on symplectic automorphisms. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 16(3). 393–397. 11 indexed citations
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Segal, I. E. & George W. Mackey. (1963). Mathematical problems of relativistic physics. American Mathematical Society eBooks. 234 indexed citations
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Mackey, George W.. (1963). The mathematical foundations of quantum mechanics : a lecture-note volume. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 31 indexed citations
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Mackey, George W.. (1962). Point realizations of transformation groups. Illinois Journal of Mathematics. 6(2). 87 indexed citations
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Mackey, George W.. (1958). Multiplicity free representations of finite groups. Pacific Journal of Mathematics. 8(3). 503–510. 35 indexed citations
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Mackey, George W.. (1957). Quantum Mechanics and Hilbert Space. American Mathematical Monthly. 64(8P2). 45–57. 59 indexed citations
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Mackey, George W.. (1955). The theory of group representations. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 75 indexed citations
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Mackey, George W.. (1952). Induced Representations of Locally Compact Groups I. Annals of Mathematics. 55(1). 101–101. 472 indexed citations breakdown →
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Mackey, George W.. (1951). On Induced Representations of Groups. American Journal of Mathematics. 73(3). 576–576. 126 indexed citations

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