James Eells

6.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
61 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

James Eells is a scholar working on Applied Mathematics, Geometry and Topology and Computational Theory and Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, James Eells has authored 61 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Applied Mathematics, 21 papers in Geometry and Topology and 11 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics. Recurrent topics in James Eells's work include Geometric Analysis and Curvature Flows (19 papers), Advanced Mathematical Modeling in Engineering (7 papers) and Mathematics and Applications (7 papers). James Eells is often cited by papers focused on Geometric Analysis and Curvature Flows (19 papers), Advanced Mathematical Modeling in Engineering (7 papers) and Mathematics and Applications (7 papers). James Eells collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Italy. James Eells's co-authors include J. H. Sampson, Clifford J. Earle, Nicolaas H. Kuiper, Carol Wood, Richard Arens, Andrea Ratto, Luc Lemaire, Jonathan Wood, Mikhael Gromov and Bent Fuglede and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Annals of Mathematics and Lecture notes in mathematics.

In The Last Decade

James Eells

57 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

Harmonic Mappings of Riemannian Manifolds 1964 2026 1984 2005 1964 250 500 750 1000
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. Harmonic Mappings of Riemannian Manifolds
    1964 1.2k citations James Eells, J. H. Sampson American Journal of Mathematics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
James Eells United Kingdom 25 1.9k 1.8k 885 612 496 61 3.0k
F. W. Warner United States 14 1.6k 0.8× 934 0.5× 840 0.9× 399 0.7× 717 1.4× 20 2.7k
Wilhelm Klingenberg Germany 23 1.3k 0.7× 1.2k 0.7× 701 0.8× 534 0.9× 268 0.5× 90 2.5k
Barrett O’Neill United States 14 2.4k 1.3× 1.9k 1.1× 464 0.5× 1.5k 2.4× 196 0.4× 24 3.2k
Mikhael Gromov France 21 2.4k 1.3× 3.4k 1.9× 2.5k 2.8× 489 0.8× 711 1.4× 26 4.6k
H. Blaine Lawson United States 30 3.7k 1.9× 3.4k 1.9× 1.3k 1.5× 998 1.6× 375 0.8× 87 4.8k
Richard S. Hamilton United States 24 4.5k 2.4× 3.7k 2.1× 809 0.9× 1.9k 3.1× 515 1.0× 37 5.5k
Peter W. Michor Austria 20 900 0.5× 1.4k 0.8× 1.2k 1.4× 454 0.7× 182 0.4× 104 2.8k
M. Schiffer United States 23 746 0.4× 654 0.4× 321 0.4× 265 0.4× 283 0.6× 74 1.8k
Lipman Bers United States 28 1.8k 0.9× 1.8k 1.0× 1.3k 1.4× 65 0.1× 534 1.1× 75 3.2k
Leon Simon United States 23 2.5k 1.3× 1.3k 0.7× 716 0.8× 236 0.4× 1.1k 2.3× 43 3.1k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Eells, James, et al.. (2005). Geometry and Dynamics. Contemporary mathematics - American Mathematical Society. 2 indexed citations
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Eells, James, et al.. (1995). Polynomial harmonic morphisms between Euclidean spheres. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 123(9). 2921–2925. 4 indexed citations
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Eells, James & Luc Lemaire. (1995). Two Reports on Harmonic Maps. World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd. eBooks. 9 indexed citations
4.
Eells, James & Domingo Toledo. (1992). Hassler Whitney Collected Papers. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 9 indexed citations
5.
Eells, James. (1987). The surfaces of Delaunay. The Mathematical Intelligencer. 9(1). 53–57. 62 indexed citations
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Eells, James & Luc Lemaire. (1984). Examples of harmonic maps from disks to hemispheres. Mathematische Zeitschrift. 185(4). 517–519. 5 indexed citations
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Eells, James & Carol Wood. (1983). Harmonic maps from surfaces to complex projective spaces. Advances in Mathematics. 49(3). 217–263. 145 indexed citations
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Eells, James & Luc Lemaire. (1983). Selected Topics in Harmonic Maps. Dépôt institutionnel de l'Université libre de Bruxelles (Université Libre de Bruxelles). 8 indexed citations
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Brown, Ronald E. & James Eells. (1981). Peter Stefan. Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society. 13(2). 170–172.
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Eells, James & Jonathan Wood. (1976). Restrictions on harmonic maps of surfaces. Topology. 15(3). 263–266. 76 indexed citations
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Eells, James & Nicolaas H. Kuiper. (1969). Homotopy negligible subsets. Compositio Mathematica. 21(2). 155–161. 15 indexed citations
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Earle, Clifford J. & James Eells. (1967). The diffeomorphism group of a compact Riemann surface. Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 73(4). 557–559. 63 indexed citations
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Earle, Clifford J. & James Eells. (1967). On the differential geometry of Teichmüller spaces. Journal d Analyse Mathématique. 19(1). 35–52. 27 indexed citations
14.
Eells, James. (1966). Elliptic operators on manifolds. In-house reproduction eBooks. 3 indexed citations
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Eells, James. (1966). A setting for global analysis. Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 72(5). 751–808. 138 indexed citations
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Eells, James & J. H. Sampson. (1964). Harmonic Mappings of Riemannian Manifolds. American Journal of Mathematics. 86(1). 109–109. 1198 indexed citations breakdown →
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Eells, James & Nicolaas H. Kuiper. (1961). Closed manifolds which admit nondegenerate functions with three critical points. Indagationes Mathematicae (Proceedings). 64. 411–417. 7 indexed citations
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Eells, James. (1959). A generalization of the Gauss-Bonnet theorem. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 92(1). 142–153. 5 indexed citations
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Eells, James. (1959). ON SUBMANIFOLDS OF CERTAIN FUNCTION SPACES. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 45(10). 1520–1522. 4 indexed citations
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Arens, Richard & James Eells. (1956). On embedding uniform and topological spaces. Pacific Journal of Mathematics. 6(3). 397–403. 145 indexed citations

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