René Thom

8.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
71 papers, 4.4k citations indexed

About

René Thom is a scholar working on Mathematical Physics, Geometry and Topology and Philosophy. According to data from OpenAlex, René Thom has authored 71 papers receiving a total of 4.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Mathematical Physics, 5 papers in Geometry and Topology and 5 papers in Philosophy. Recurrent topics in René Thom's work include Linguistics and Discourse Analysis (4 papers), Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology (4 papers) and Algebraic Geometry and Number Theory (3 papers). René Thom is often cited by papers focused on Linguistics and Discourse Analysis (4 papers), Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology (4 papers) and Algebraic Geometry and Number Theory (3 papers). René Thom collaborates with scholars based in France and Venezuela. René Thom's co-authors include Albrecht Dold, Timothy W. Collins, Peter E. Jupp, Luciano Boi, J Hamburger, Pierre Delattre, M. Porte, Wolfgang Wildgen, Jean Dieudonné and Floris Takens and has published in prestigious journals such as Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, Biometrics and European Journal of Operational Research.

In The Last Decade

René Thom

65 papers receiving 3.5k citations

Hit Papers

Structural stability and morphogenesis 1954 2026 1978 2002 1976 1974 1954 400 800 1.2k

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
René Thom France 23 910 777 528 363 322 71 4.4k
Ralph Abraham United States 20 810 0.9× 869 1.1× 1.5k 2.8× 476 1.3× 338 1.0× 61 4.8k
A. T. Bharucha-Reid United States 13 492 0.5× 850 1.1× 622 1.2× 513 1.4× 390 1.2× 46 5.5k
E. C. Zeeman United Kingdom 21 648 0.7× 507 0.7× 323 0.6× 270 0.7× 102 0.3× 57 2.8k
David G. Kendall United Kingdom 35 1.5k 1.7× 741 1.0× 859 1.6× 561 1.5× 120 0.4× 120 7.3k
H. S. M. Coxeter Canada 30 2.8k 3.0× 1.2k 1.5× 582 1.1× 1.2k 3.2× 283 0.9× 130 8.1k
Ian Stewart United Kingdom 36 984 1.1× 686 0.9× 3.4k 6.5× 653 1.8× 655 2.0× 285 9.5k
Robert L. Devaney United States 32 1.4k 1.5× 2.3k 2.9× 2.5k 4.8× 679 1.9× 235 0.7× 124 6.4k
A. N. Kolmogorov Russia 23 234 0.3× 1.3k 1.6× 1.1k 2.1× 1.5k 4.1× 475 1.5× 88 7.7k
Philip J. Davis United States 26 307 0.3× 412 0.5× 381 0.7× 1.0k 2.9× 843 2.6× 128 6.6k
Alan D. Sokal United States 36 378 0.4× 1.9k 2.5× 858 1.6× 444 1.2× 847 2.6× 157 5.6k

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Fields of papers citing papers by René Thom

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of René Thom

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Wildgen, Wolfgang & René Thom. (1999). De la grammaire au dicours : une approche morphodynamique. P. Lang eBooks. 3 indexed citations
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Boi, Luciano & René Thom. (1995). Le problème mathématique de l'espace : une quête de l'intelligible. Springer eBooks. 13 indexed citations
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Virilio, Paul, et al.. (1991). Danses tracées : Dessins et notation des chorégraphes. 2 indexed citations
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Thom, René. (1991). Prédire n'est pas expliquer : entretiens d'Emile Noël. Flammarion eBooks. 1 indexed citations
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Thom, René. (1990). Apologie du logos. Hachette eBooks. 26 indexed citations
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Thom, René. (1990). Esbozo de una semiofísica. Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja). 235(11). 1242–1258. 1 indexed citations
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Thom, René. (1988). Esquisse d'une sémiophysique. 34 indexed citations
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Thom, René. (1987). Chaos can be overplayed. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 10(2). 182–183. 2 indexed citations
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Hamburger, J & René Thom. (1986). La philosophie des sciences aujourd'hui. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 10 indexed citations
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Thom, René, et al.. (1983). Paraboles Et Catastrophes Entretiens Sur les Mathématiques, la Science Et la Philosophie. Flammarion eBooks. 14 indexed citations
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Thom, René. (1981). Matemática 'moderna': ¿error educacional y filosófico?. 2(3). 1–10.
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Thom, René, et al.. (1978). Morphogenèse et imaginaire. 1 indexed citations
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Thom, René. (1977). Stabilité structurelle et morphogénèse : essai d'une théorie générale des modèles. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 85 indexed citations
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Thom, René. (1971). 'Modern Mathematics': An Educational and Philosophic Error?. American Scientist. 59(6). 695–699. 28 indexed citations
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Thom, René. (1967). On some ideals of differentiable functions. Journal of the Mathematical Society of Japan. 19(2). 3 indexed citations
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Thom, René. (1966). Propriétés différentielles locales des ensembles analytiques. French digital mathematics library (Numdam). 9. 69–80. 1 indexed citations
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Thom, René. (1960). Travaux de Milnor sur le cobordisme. French digital mathematics library (Numdam). 5. 169–177. 7 indexed citations
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Thom, René. (1956). La classification des immersions. French digital mathematics library (Numdam). 4. 279–289. 16 indexed citations
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Thom, René. (1956). Les singularités des applications différentiables. French digital mathematics library (Numdam). 3. 357–369. 3 indexed citations
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Thom, René. (1954). Sous-variétés et classes d'homologie des variétés différentiables. French digital mathematics library (Numdam). 2. 271–277. 4 indexed citations

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