Krishna B. Athreya

6.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
135 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Krishna B. Athreya is a scholar working on Mathematical Physics, Statistics and Probability and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Krishna B. Athreya has authored 135 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 85 papers in Mathematical Physics, 63 papers in Statistics and Probability and 26 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Krishna B. Athreya's work include Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics (73 papers), Markov Chains and Monte Carlo Methods (48 papers) and Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models (24 papers). Krishna B. Athreya is often cited by papers focused on Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics (73 papers), Markov Chains and Monte Carlo Methods (48 papers) and Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models (24 papers). Krishna B. Athreya collaborates with scholars based in United States, India and South Korea. Krishna B. Athreya's co-authors include Peter Ney, Samuel Karlin, Sastry G. Pantula, Peter Jagers, David McDonald, N. Kaplan, Jayaram Sethuraman, Hani Doss, Kevin K. Anderson and Cheng–Der Fuh and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of the American Statistical Association and The Journal of Physical Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Krishna B. Athreya

126 papers receiving 3.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Krishna B. Athreya United States 26 2.1k 1.5k 728 699 653 135 3.7k
Peter Ney United States 20 2.4k 1.1× 1.3k 0.9× 723 1.0× 978 1.4× 671 1.0× 58 4.5k
Anthony G. Pakes Australia 27 1.4k 0.7× 1.2k 0.8× 522 0.7× 969 1.4× 678 1.0× 184 2.8k
Ν. H. Bingham United Kingdom 29 2.0k 0.9× 1.1k 0.8× 486 0.7× 1.4k 2.0× 1.8k 2.7× 175 5.0k
Olav Kallenberg United States 20 1.4k 0.7× 1.0k 0.7× 656 0.9× 508 0.7× 1.0k 1.6× 81 3.5k
Geoffrey Grimmett United Kingdom 29 2.4k 1.1× 1.7k 1.1× 733 1.0× 343 0.5× 361 0.6× 123 5.7k
PE United States 15 839 0.4× 1.1k 0.7× 941 1.3× 797 1.1× 745 1.1× 25 5.4k
J. D. Biggins United Kingdom 27 1.3k 0.6× 959 0.7× 485 0.7× 430 0.6× 346 0.5× 67 2.9k
Jim Pitman United States 39 2.8k 1.3× 1.8k 1.2× 2.5k 3.5× 441 0.6× 1.1k 1.7× 138 5.7k
A. D. Barbour Switzerland 31 1.4k 0.7× 1.7k 1.2× 1.1k 1.5× 612 0.9× 352 0.5× 155 4.0k
Kai Lai Chung United States 25 2.3k 1.1× 1.4k 1.0× 904 1.2× 995 1.4× 1.3k 2.0× 92 6.4k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Iyengar, Radhika & Krishna B. Athreya. (2013). A DIFFUSION PROCESS APPROACH TO A RANDOM EIGENVALUE PROBLEM. 57(5). 185.
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Athreya, Krishna B.. (2012). Coalescence in Critical and Subcritical Galton-Watson Branching Processes. Journal of Applied Probability. 49(3). 627–638. 3 indexed citations
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Athreya, Krishna B., et al.. (2006). Measure Theory and Probability Theory (Springer Texts in Statistics). Springer eBooks. 34 indexed citations
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Athreya, Krishna B., et al.. (2001). On the Supercritical Bellman-Harris Process with Finite Mean. eCommons (Cornell University). 65(2). 229–248. 2 indexed citations
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Athreya, Krishna B. & Örjan Stenflo. (2000). Perfect sampling for Doeblin chains. eCommons (Cornell University). 65(4). 763–777. 5 indexed citations
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Athreya, Krishna B., et al.. (1998). KERNEL ESTIMATION FOR REAL-VALUED MARKOV CHAINS. 60(1). 1–17. 12 indexed citations
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Anderson, Kevin K. & Krishna B. Athreya. (1988). A note on conjugate Π-variation and a weak limit theorem for the number of renewals. Statistics & Probability Letters. 6(3). 151–154. 5 indexed citations
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Athreya, Krishna B.. (1988). On the Maximum Sequence in a Critical Branching Process. The Annals of Probability. 16(2). 19 indexed citations
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Athreya, Krishna B. & Sastry G. Pantula. (1986). A note on strong mixing of ARMA processes. Statistics & Probability Letters. 4(4). 187–190. 31 indexed citations
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Athreya, Krishna B.. (1985). On the range of recurrent Markov chains. Statistics & Probability Letters. 3(3). 143–145. 2 indexed citations
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Youngquist, G. R. & Krishna B. Athreya. (1984). Advances in crystallization from solutions. 5 indexed citations
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Athreya, Krishna B.. (1983). Strong law for the bootstrap. Statistics & Probability Letters. 1(3). 147–150. 32 indexed citations
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Athreya, Krishna B. & Peter Ney. (1978). A new approach to the limit theory of recurrent Markov chains. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 245(0). 493–501. 266 indexed citations
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Athreya, Krishna B. & Niels Keiding. (1977). Estimation theory for continuous-time branching processes. 35(7). 1147–51. 22 indexed citations
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Athreya, Krishna B., P.R. Parthasarathy, & G. Sankaranarayanan. (1974). Supercritical age-dependent branching processes with immigration. Journal of Applied Probability. 11(4). 695–702. 6 indexed citations
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Athreya, Krishna B. & Peter Ney. (1974). Functionals of Critical Multitype Branching Processes. The Annals of Probability. 2(2). 12 indexed citations
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Athreya, Krishna B.. (1971). A note on a functional equation arising in Galton-Watson branching processes. Journal of Applied Probability. 8(3). 589–598. 6 indexed citations
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Athreya, Krishna B. & Peter Ney. (1970). The local limit theorem and some related aspects of super-critical branching processes. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 152(1). 233–251. 15 indexed citations
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Athreya, Krishna B. & Peter Ney. (1970). The Local Limit Theorem and Some Related Aspects of Super-Critical Branching Processes. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 152(1). 233–233. 3 indexed citations
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Athreya, Krishna B. & Samuel Karlin. (1967). Limit Theorems for the Split Times of Branching Processes. Indiana University Mathematics Journal. 17(3). 257–277. 38 indexed citations

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