John Sylvester

4.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
44 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

John Sylvester is a scholar working on Mathematical Physics, Biomedical Engineering and Computational Theory and Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, John Sylvester has authored 44 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Mathematical Physics, 19 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 15 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics. Recurrent topics in John Sylvester's work include Numerical methods in inverse problems (32 papers), Microwave Imaging and Scattering Analysis (19 papers) and Advanced Mathematical Modeling in Engineering (13 papers). John Sylvester is often cited by papers focused on Numerical methods in inverse problems (32 papers), Microwave Imaging and Scattering Analysis (19 papers) and Advanced Mathematical Modeling in Engineering (13 papers). John Sylvester collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Finland. John Sylvester's co-authors include Günther Uhlmann, Lassi Païvärinta, David Colton, Adrian Nachman, Victor Isakov, Dale P. Winebrenner, Roland Potthast, Zhen-Qing Chen, Krzysztof Burdzy and Percy Deift and has published in prestigious journals such as Neurology, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing and Experimental Cell Research.

In The Last Decade

John Sylvester

42 papers receiving 2.0k citations

Hit Papers

A Global Uniqueness Theorem for an Inverse Boundary Value... 1987 2026 2000 2013 1987 250 500 750
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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. A Global Uniqueness Theorem for an Inverse Boundary Value Problem
    1987 829 citations John Sylvester, Günther Uhlmann Annals 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
John Sylvester United States 23 2.0k 1.0k 924 679 560 44 2.4k
Adrian Nachman Canada 23 1.3k 0.7× 554 0.5× 953 1.0× 597 0.9× 685 1.2× 48 2.2k
V. G. Romanov Russia 20 1.6k 0.8× 782 0.8× 426 0.5× 547 0.8× 149 0.3× 151 2.1k
William Rundell United States 27 2.0k 1.0× 802 0.8× 440 0.5× 731 1.1× 178 0.3× 96 2.7k
Joyce R. McLaughlin United States 25 1.0k 0.5× 553 0.5× 601 0.7× 423 0.6× 143 0.3× 67 2.0k
Plamen Stefanov United States 26 1.4k 0.7× 591 0.6× 680 0.7× 481 0.7× 108 0.2× 89 1.9k
Houssem Haddar France 29 1.8k 0.9× 602 0.6× 1.3k 1.4× 897 1.3× 398 0.7× 124 2.5k
George Dassios Greece 24 617 0.3× 211 0.2× 629 0.7× 624 0.9× 277 0.5× 165 1.9k
G. F. Roach United Kingdom 16 529 0.3× 477 0.5× 322 0.3× 380 0.6× 246 0.4× 85 1.5k
Peijun Li United States 24 1.1k 0.6× 218 0.2× 811 0.9× 842 1.2× 550 1.0× 125 1.9k
Thomas Schuster Germany 19 766 0.4× 249 0.2× 431 0.5× 215 0.3× 263 0.5× 72 1.4k

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All Works

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Blåsten, Emilia & John Sylvester. (2017). Translation-invariant estimates for operators with simple characteristics. Journal of Differential Equations. 263(9). 5656–5695. 1 indexed citations
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Griesmaier, Roland & John Sylvester. (2017). Uncertainty Principles for Three-Dimensional Inverse Source Problems. SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics. 77(6). 2066–2092. 7 indexed citations
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Sylvester, John. (2006). Notions of support for far fields. Inverse Problems. 22(4). 1273–1288. 28 indexed citations
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Haddar, Houssem, et al.. (2005). The Convex Back-Scattering Support. SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics. 66(2). 591–615. 17 indexed citations
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Sylvester, John, et al.. (2005). The Convex Scattering Support in a Background Medium. SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis. 36(4). 1142–1158. 35 indexed citations
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Chen, Zhen-Qing, et al.. (2004). The heat equation in time dependent domains with insulated boundaries. Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications. 294(2). 581–595. 9 indexed citations
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Burdzy, Krzysztof, Zhen-Qing Chen, & John Sylvester. (2003). The heat equation and reflected Brownian motion in time-dependent domains.. Journal of Functional Analysis. 204(1). 1–34. 19 indexed citations
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Winebrenner, Dale P. & John Sylvester. (2002). Forward and inverse signature modeling for congelation ice. 1. 620–622. 1 indexed citations
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Doraiswamy, P. Murali, et al.. (2000). Hippocampal sulcal cavities on MRI: Relationship to age and apolipoprotein E genotype. Neurology. 54(11). 2150–2153. 33 indexed citations
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Winebrenner, Dale P. & John Sylvester. (1998). Linear and Nonlinear Inverse Scattering. SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics. 59(2). 669–699. 23 indexed citations
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Golden, Kenneth M., Margaret Cheney, Kung‐Hau Ding, et al.. (1998). Forward electromagnetic scattering models for sea ice. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 36(5). 1655–1674. 43 indexed citations
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Alessandrini, Giovanni, John Sylvester, & Ziqi Sun. (1990). Stability For a Multidimensional Inverse Spectral Theorem. Communications in Partial Differential Equations. 15(5). 711–736. 32 indexed citations
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Sylvester, John & Günther Uhlmann. (1989). The Dirichlet to Neumann map and applications. Experimental Cell Research. 28. 459–79. 72 indexed citations
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Sylvester, John & Günther Uhlmann. (1987). A Global Uniqueness Theorem for an Inverse Boundary Value Problem. Annals of Mathematics. 125(1). 153–153. 829 indexed citations breakdown →
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Sylvester, John. (1986). On the dimension of spaces of linear transformations satisfying rank conditions. Linear Algebra and its Applications. 78. 1–10. 22 indexed citations
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Sylvester, John & Günther Uhlmann. (1986). A uniqueness theorem for an inverse boundary value problem in electrical prospection. Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics. 39(1). 91–112. 146 indexed citations
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Sylvester, John. (1985). On the differentiability of O(n) invariant functions of symmetric matrices. Duke Mathematical Journal. 52(2). 14 indexed citations
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Sylvester, John. (1982). A generalization of the Leray—Schauder index formula. Journal of Functional Analysis. 45(2). 213–225. 1 indexed citations
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Deift, Percy & John Sylvester. (1981). Some remarks on the shape-from-shading problem in computer vision. Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications. 84(1). 235–248. 23 indexed citations

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