John Toland

8.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
119 papers, 5.7k citations indexed

About

John Toland is a scholar working on Applied Mathematics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Mathematical Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, John Toland has authored 119 papers receiving a total of 5.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Applied Mathematics, 32 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and 28 papers in Mathematical Physics. Recurrent topics in John Toland's work include Nonlinear Waves and Solitons (21 papers), Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing (20 papers) and Advanced Mathematical Modeling in Engineering (16 papers). John Toland is often cited by papers focused on Nonlinear Waves and Solitons (21 papers), Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing (20 papers) and Advanced Mathematical Modeling in Engineering (16 papers). John Toland collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Russia. John Toland's co-authors include C. J. Amick, П. И. Плотников, B. Buffoni, Alan Champneys, Boris Buffoni, L. E. Fraenkel, E. N. Dancer, M. D. Groves, C. A. Stuart and Gérard Iooss and has published in prestigious journals such as The American Historical Review, Communications in Mathematical Physics and Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics.

In The Last Decade

John Toland

114 papers receiving 5.2k citations

Hit Papers

NONLINEAR FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS 1985 2026 1998 2012 1986 1985 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. NONLINEAR FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS
    1986 1.3k citations John Toland profile →
  2. APPLIED NONLINEAR ANALYSIS
    1985 1.2k citations John Toland 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 Toland United Kingdom 32 2.2k 1.9k 1.4k 1.3k 1.1k 119 5.7k
Walter A. Strauss United States 47 3.3k 1.5× 1.2k 0.6× 885 0.6× 6.2k 4.9× 4.3k 3.7× 175 10.7k
D. H. Sattinger United States 28 1.5k 0.7× 1.0k 0.5× 545 0.4× 1.5k 1.2× 1.6k 1.4× 74 4.7k
E. N. Dancer Australia 42 4.3k 2.0× 3.1k 1.6× 1.2k 0.8× 1.8k 1.5× 500 0.4× 216 6.0k
Norman Levinson United States 21 1.8k 0.8× 1.3k 0.7× 1.2k 0.9× 1.6k 1.3× 975 0.9× 74 5.7k
Paul H. Rabinowitz United States 39 9.8k 4.5× 6.5k 3.4× 2.3k 1.6× 4.3k 3.5× 1.6k 1.4× 119 13.6k
Earl A. Coddington United States 17 1.7k 0.8× 1.4k 0.8× 1.0k 0.7× 1.8k 1.4× 918 0.8× 37 5.4k
Eberhard Zeidler Germany 21 3.0k 1.4× 3.9k 2.0× 1.5k 1.1× 1.5k 1.2× 491 0.4× 54 7.3k
Wolfgang Wasow United States 21 1.2k 0.6× 1.1k 0.6× 1.7k 1.2× 796 0.6× 725 0.6× 49 5.1k
Helge Holden Norway 36 1.0k 0.5× 856 0.5× 468 0.3× 2.6k 2.0× 2.6k 2.3× 145 5.6k
Shmuel Agmon Israel 23 3.7k 1.7× 3.6k 1.9× 1.1k 0.7× 3.0k 2.4× 449 0.4× 43 7.2k

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Fields of papers citing papers by John Toland

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John Toland

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All Works

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Shankar, Rohit, et al.. (2021). Oro-mucosal midazolam maleate: Use and effectiveness in adults with epilepsy in the UK. Epilepsy & Behavior. 123. 108242–108242. 7 indexed citations
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Jones, Martyn C., et al.. (2008). Inclusion in primary care for people with intellectual disabilities. Journal of Intellectual Disabilities. 12(2). 93–109. 23 indexed citations
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Buffoni, Boris & John Toland. (2003). Analytic Theory of Global Bifurcation. Princeton University Press eBooks. 100 indexed citations
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Shargorodsky, Eugene & John Toland. (2003). Riemann–Hilbert theory for problems with vanishing coefficients that arise in nonlinear hydrodynamics. Journal of Functional Analysis. 197(1). 283–300. 5 indexed citations
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Toland, John & David Williams. (1998). On the Schur Test forL2-Boundedness of Positive Integral Operators with a Wiener–Hopf Example. Journal of Functional Analysis. 160(2). 543–560. 1 indexed citations
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Toland, John. (1996). Errata to "Stokes waves". Topological Methods in Nonlinear Analysis. 8(2). 413–414. 40 indexed citations
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Champneys, Alan, Simon C. Harris, John Toland, Jonathan Warren, & David Williams. (1995). Algebra, analysis and probability for a coupled system of reaction-duffusion equations. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A Physical and Engineering Sciences. 350(1692). 69–112. 26 indexed citations
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Tertikas, Achilles & John Toland. (1992). Graph intersection and uniqueness results for some nonlinear elliptic problems. Journal of Differential Equations. 95(1). 154–168. 4 indexed citations
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Amick, C. J. & John Toland. (1992). Homoclinic orbits in the dynamic phase-space analogy of an elastic strut. European Journal of Applied Mathematics. 3(2). 97–114. 60 indexed citations
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Amick, C. J. & John Toland. (1987). The semi-analytic theory of standing waves. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 411(1840). 123–137. 23 indexed citations
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Toland, John, et al.. (1985). The bifurcation and secondary bifurcation of capillary-gravity waves. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 399(1817). 391–417. 53 indexed citations
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Amick, C. J. & John Toland. (1984). The limiting form of internal waves. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 394(1807). 329–344. 3 indexed citations
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Toland, John. (1984). Uniqueness of positive solutions of some semilinear Sturm–Liouville problems on the half line. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A Mathematics. 97. 259–263. 14 indexed citations
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Stuart, C. A., John Toland, & Peter Williams. (1983). Excited states in the Hartree approximation for the hydrogen ion H─. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 388(1794). 229–246. 3 indexed citations
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Toland, John. (1982). Global bifurcation for Neumann problems without eigenvalues. Journal of Differential Equations. 44(1). 82–110. 18 indexed citations
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Amick, C. J. & John Toland. (1981). On periodic water-waves and their convergence to solitary waves in the long-wave limit. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 303(1481). 633–669. 84 indexed citations
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Toland, John. (1981). Solitary wave solutions for a model of the two-way propagation of water waves in a channel. Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 90(2). 343–360. 20 indexed citations
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Toland, John. (1978). On the existence of a wave of greatest height and Stokes’s conjecture. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 363(1715). 469–485. 85 indexed citations
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Toland, John. (1978). Duality in nonconvex optimization. Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications. 66(2). 399–415. 105 indexed citations
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Stuart, C. A. & John Toland. (1974). A global result applicable to nonlinear Steklov problems. Journal of Differential Equations. 15(2). 247–268. 14 indexed citations

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