John C. Oxtoby

3.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
21 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

John C. Oxtoby is a scholar working on Mathematical Physics, Geometry and Topology and Applied Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, John C. Oxtoby has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Mathematical Physics, 6 papers in Geometry and Topology and 4 papers in Applied Mathematics. Recurrent topics in John C. Oxtoby's work include Mathematical Dynamics and Fractals (8 papers), Advanced Topology and Set Theory (4 papers) and Functional Equations Stability Results (1 paper). John C. Oxtoby is often cited by papers focused on Mathematical Dynamics and Fractals (8 papers), Advanced Topology and Set Theory (4 papers) and Functional Equations Stability Results (1 paper). John C. Oxtoby collaborates with scholars based in United States and Hungary. John C. Oxtoby's co-authors include F. E. J. Linton, P. Erdös and Paul Erdős and has published in prestigious journals such as The Journal of Chemical Physics, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society and American Mathematical Monthly.

In The Last Decade

John C. Oxtoby

19 papers receiving 1.1k citations

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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.

Measure and Category

1971 632 citations John C. Oxtoby Graduate texts in mathematics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
John C. Oxtoby United States	11	824	734	483	298	170	21	1.5k
Jens Peter Christensen Denmark	15	777 0.9×	457 0.6×	334 0.7×	614 2.1×	161 0.9×	41	1.6k
William F. Donoghue United States	11	703 0.9×	344 0.5×	600 1.2×	641 2.2×	204 1.2×	30	1.5k
Isaac Namioka United States	8	582 0.7×	462 0.6×	346 0.7×	255 0.9×	202 1.2×	14	1.1k
Glen Baxter United States	16	361 0.4×	312 0.4×	230 0.5×	257 0.9×	378 2.2×	36	1.1k
Abraham Robinson United States	19	815 1.0×	449 0.6×	901 1.9×	174 0.6×	172 1.0×	57	2.1k
Léopoldo Nachbin United States	11	418 0.5×	328 0.4×	206 0.4×	293 1.0×	199 1.2×	43	874
Hillel Fürstenberg Israel	14	1.1k 1.3×	744 1.0×	451 0.9×	163 0.5×	156 0.9×	29	1.8k
A. Seidenberg United States	19	278 0.3×	844 1.1×	690 1.4×	168 0.6×	501 2.9×	53	1.9k
Andrew M. Gleason United States	16	358 0.4×	429 0.6×	367 0.8×	167 0.6×	296 1.7×	42	1.4k
Gerald A. Edgar United States	18	818 1.0×	289 0.4×	305 0.6×	347 1.2×	76 0.4×	51	1.4k

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All Works

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Oxtoby, John C., et al.. (1988). Four Topologically Equivalent Measures in the Cantor Space. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 104(3). 859–859. 6 indexed citations

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Oxtoby, John C.. (1980). Measure and Category. Graduate texts in mathematics. 197 indexed citations

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Oxtoby, John C., et al.. (1978). Homeomorphic measures in the Hilbert cube. Pacific Journal of Mathematics. 77(2). 483–497. 34 indexed citations

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Oxtoby, John C.. (1977). Diameters of Arcs and the Gerrymandering Problem. American Mathematical Monthly. 84(3). 155–155. 3 indexed citations

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Oxtoby, John C.. (1977). Diameters of Arcs and the Gerrymandering Problem. American Mathematical Monthly. 84(3). 155–162. 6 indexed citations

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Oxtoby, John C.. (1972). Horizontal Chord Theorems. American Mathematical Monthly. 79(5). 468–475.

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Oxtoby, John C.. (1971). Measure and Category. Graduate texts in mathematics. 632 indexed citations breakdown →

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Oxtoby, John C.. (1971). Measure and Category: A Survey of the Analogies between Topological and Measure Spaces. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 143 indexed citations

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Oxtoby, John C.. (1970). Homeomorphic measures in metric spaces. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 24(3). 419–423. 20 indexed citations

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Oxtoby, John C.. (1970). Homeomorphic Measures in Metric Spaces. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 24(3). 419–419. 11 indexed citations

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Oxtoby, John C.. (1969). Stochastic Models for Chromatography. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 51(9). 3886–3890. 9 indexed citations

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Oxtoby, John C., et al.. (1965). Measure and Integration.. American Mathematical Monthly. 72(9). 1045–1045. 75 indexed citations

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Oxtoby, John C.. (1961). Cartesian products of Baire spaces. Fundamenta Mathematicae. 49(2). 157–166. 129 indexed citations

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Oxtoby, John C.. (1960). Spaces that admit a category measure.. Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik (Crelles Journal). 1960(205). 156–170. 20 indexed citations

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Oxtoby, John C.. (1960). Book Review: A collection of mathematical problems. Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 66(5). 361–364.

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Erdös, P. & John C. Oxtoby. (1955). Partitions of the plane into sets having positive measure in every non-null measurable product set. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 79(1). 91–102. 17 indexed citations

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Erdős, Paul & John C. Oxtoby. (1955). Partitions of the Plane Into Sets Having Positive Measure in Every Non-Null Measurable Product Set. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 79(1). 91–91. 7 indexed citations

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Oxtoby, John C.. (1953). Stepanoff flows on the torus. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 4(6). 982–987. 8 indexed citations

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Oxtoby, John C.. (1953). Stepanoff Flows on the Torus. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 4(6). 982–982. 3 indexed citations

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Oxtoby, John C.. (1952). Ergodic sets. Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 58(2). 116–136. 145 indexed citations

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