John B. Conway

9.8k total citations · 4 hit papers
85 papers, 5.8k citations indexed

About

John B. Conway is a scholar working on Applied Mathematics, Mathematical Physics and Computational Theory and Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, John B. Conway has authored 85 papers receiving a total of 5.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Applied Mathematics, 28 papers in Mathematical Physics and 22 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics. Recurrent topics in John B. Conway's work include Holomorphic and Operator Theory (34 papers), Advanced Topics in Algebra (19 papers) and Matrix Theory and Algorithms (14 papers). John B. Conway is often cited by papers focused on Holomorphic and Operator Theory (34 papers), Advanced Topics in Algebra (19 papers) and Matrix Theory and Algorithms (14 papers). John B. Conway collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. John B. Conway's co-authors include T. W. Gamelin, Alison Snow Jones, Robert Hogan, Sheldon Axler, Linda M. McMullen, Pei Yuan Wu, Bradley Bucher, Paul R. Halmos, Roger D. Martin and Kyung Jin and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, American Journal of Preventive Medicine and Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications.

In The Last Decade

John B. Conway

80 papers receiving 5.0k citations

Hit Papers

A Course in Functional Analysis. 1973 2026 1990 2008 1986 1985 1973 1978 400 800 1.2k
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. A Course in Functional Analysis.
    1986 1.4k citations John B. Conway et al. profile →
  2. A Course in Functional Analysis
    1985 1.0k citations John B. Conway profile →
  3. Functions of One Complex Variable
    1973 676 citations John B. Conway profile →
  4. Functions of One Complex Variable I
    1978 515 citations John B. Conway profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
John B. Conway United States 20 2.9k 2.4k 1.3k 1.2k 1.1k 85 5.8k
Helmut Schaefer Germany 17 2.4k 0.9× 3.3k 1.4× 949 0.7× 1.7k 1.4× 1.3k 1.2× 72 5.7k
T. W. Gamelin United States 23 2.1k 0.7× 1.8k 0.7× 821 0.6× 591 0.5× 861 0.8× 60 3.5k
Ralph S. Phillips United States 32 1.5k 0.5× 2.1k 0.9× 470 0.4× 1.2k 1.0× 932 0.9× 91 4.2k
G. A. Garreau United Kingdom 2 2.3k 0.8× 1.7k 0.7× 393 0.3× 1.1k 1.0× 895 0.8× 5 5.9k
W. J. Thron United States 22 1.6k 0.6× 1.1k 0.5× 894 0.7× 1.5k 1.3× 1.1k 1.0× 87 4.7k
Edwin Hewitt United States 30 2.9k 1.0× 4.7k 2.0× 1.8k 1.4× 1.7k 1.4× 2.6k 2.5× 105 8.7k
Gábor Szegő United States 22 3.0k 1.1× 1.6k 0.7× 682 0.5× 2.1k 1.8× 1.3k 1.3× 39 7.5k
Kenneth A. Ross United States 21 1.5k 0.5× 3.2k 1.4× 1.5k 1.2× 840 0.7× 2.2k 2.1× 91 5.5k
Richard Askey United States 36 4.2k 1.5× 1.1k 0.5× 1.9k 1.5× 1.1k 0.9× 964 0.9× 154 6.9k
M. Г. Крейн Germany 23 2.6k 0.9× 2.6k 1.1× 408 0.3× 2.2k 1.9× 460 0.4× 53 5.7k

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Fields of papers citing papers by John B. Conway

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John B. Conway

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of John B. Conway. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of John B. Conway 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 John B. Conway. John B. Conway 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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Conway, John B., et al.. (2013). Powers and direct sums. Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications. 413(2). 880–889.
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Conway, John B., et al.. (2003). On unbounded Bergman operators. Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications. 279(2). 418–429. 7 indexed citations
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Conway, John B.. (1999). A Course in Operator Theory. Graduate studies in mathematics. 272 indexed citations
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Carpenter, David O. & John B. Conway. (1996). Optimizing Professional Education in Public Health. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. 2(4). 66–72. 2 indexed citations
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Conway, John B., et al.. (1993). Analytic Bounded Point Evaluations for Spaces of Rational Functions. Journal of Functional Analysis. 117(1). 1–24. 10 indexed citations
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Conway, John B.. (1991). On the Need to Teach Science to Environmental Health Students.. Journal of environmental health. 54(3). 29–31. 3 indexed citations
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Conway, John B.. (1991). The Theory of Subnormal Operators. Mathematical surveys and monographs. 339 indexed citations
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Conway, John B., et al.. (1990). Operator theory : proceedings of the 1988 GPOTS-Wabash Conference. 1 indexed citations
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Conway, John B., et al.. (1988). Surveys of some recent results in operator theory. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. eBooks. 42 indexed citations
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Conway, John B., et al.. (1987). Roots and logarithms of bounded operators on Hilbert space. Journal of Functional Analysis. 70(1). 171–193. 10 indexed citations
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Conway, John B. & Pei Yuan Wu. (1982). The Structure of Quasinormal Operators and the Double Commutant Property. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 270(2). 641–641. 5 indexed citations
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Conway, John B. & Pei Yuan Wu. (1982). The structure of quasinormal operators and the double commutant property. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 270(2). 641–657. 2 indexed citations
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Axler, Sheldon, et al.. (1982). Toeplitz Operators on Bergman Spaces. Canadian Journal of Mathematics. 34(2). 466–483. 58 indexed citations
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Conway, John B.. (1981). Finite-dimensional points of continuity of Gen and Com. Linear Algebra and its Applications. 35. 121–127. 3 indexed citations
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Conway, John B. & Paul R. Halmos. (1980). Finite-dimensional points of continuity of Lat. Linear Algebra and its Applications. 31. 93–102. 10 indexed citations
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Conway, John B.. (1977). On the Calkin Algebra and the Covering Homotopy Property, II. Canadian Journal of Mathematics. 29(1). 210–215. 1 indexed citations
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Conway, John B.. (1975). On the Calkin algebra and the covering homotopy property. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 211(0). 135–142. 4 indexed citations
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Conway, John B.. (1971). On algebras of operators with totally ordered lattice of invariant subspaces. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 28(1). 163–168. 2 indexed citations
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Conway, John B.. (1966). Projections and retractions. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 17(4). 843–843. 11 indexed citations
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Conway, John B.. (1966). Projections and Retractions. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 17(4). 843–843. 9 indexed citations

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