Richard P. Stanley

30.3k total citations · 8 hit papers
196 papers, 14.9k citations indexed

About

Richard P. Stanley is a scholar working on Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics, Algebra and Number Theory and Geometry and Topology. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard P. Stanley has authored 196 papers receiving a total of 14.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 113 papers in Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics, 79 papers in Algebra and Number Theory and 59 papers in Geometry and Topology. Recurrent topics in Richard P. Stanley's work include Advanced Combinatorial Mathematics (108 papers), Advanced Mathematical Identities (49 papers) and Algebraic structures and combinatorial models (34 papers). Richard P. Stanley is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Combinatorial Mathematics (108 papers), Advanced Mathematical Identities (49 papers) and Algebraic structures and combinatorial models (34 papers). Richard P. Stanley collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and United Kingdom. Richard P. Stanley's co-authors include Gian‐Carlo Rota, Sergey Fomin, Bruce E. Sagan, William Jockusch, Sara Billey, Herbert S. Wilf, Alexander Postnikov, Ira M. Gessel, Jim Pitman and John R. Stembridge and has published in prestigious journals such as Nuclear Physics B, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences and Language.

In The Last Decade

Richard P. Stanley

180 papers receiving 13.4k citations

Hit Papers

Enumerative Combinatorics 1978 2026 1994 2010 1997 1999 1986 1996 1978 1000 2.0k 3.0k
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. Enumerative Combinatorics
    1997 3.3k citations Richard P. Stanley et al. Cambridge University Press eBooks profile →
  2. Enumerative Combinatorics
    1999 1.3k citations Richard P. Stanley et al. Cambridge University Press eBooks profile →
  3. Enumerative Combinatorics
    1986 1.2k citations Richard P. Stanley profile →
  4. Combinatorics and Commutative Algebra
    1996 690 citations Richard P. Stanley profile →
  5. Hilbert functions of graded algebras
    1978 486 citations Richard P. Stanley profile →
  6. Enumerative Combinatorics: Volume 1
    2011 380 citations Richard P. Stanley Cambridge University Press eBooks profile →
  7. Enumerative Combinatorics
    2011 368 citations Richard P. Stanley Cambridge University Press eBooks profile →
  8. Some combinatorial properties of Jack symmetric functions
    1989 315 citations Richard P. Stanley profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Richard P. Stanley United States 52 9.1k 6.6k 6.4k 4.4k 3.1k 196 14.9k
I. G. Macdonald United Kingdom 24 3.6k 0.4× 3.2k 0.5× 4.7k 0.7× 788 0.2× 3.1k 1.0× 42 7.9k
Sergey Fomin United States 32 2.7k 0.3× 2.5k 0.4× 4.2k 0.7× 1.7k 0.4× 3.3k 1.1× 73 9.7k
Bernd Sturmfels United States 51 2.2k 0.2× 3.6k 0.5× 3.9k 0.6× 5.5k 1.2× 802 0.3× 252 9.8k
George E. Andrews United States 43 5.4k 0.6× 7.1k 1.1× 2.2k 0.3× 911 0.2× 1.4k 0.4× 331 10.6k
P. Erdös Hungary 47 4.6k 0.5× 1.1k 0.2× 3.7k 0.6× 5.6k 1.3× 959 0.3× 338 9.4k
Jonathan M. Borwein Canada 57 1.3k 0.1× 2.3k 0.3× 2.9k 0.4× 7.2k 1.6× 2.6k 0.8× 457 15.3k
László Lovász Hungary 62 3.7k 0.4× 705 0.1× 3.4k 0.5× 11.2k 2.5× 1.4k 0.4× 255 20.5k
William Fulton United States 34 2.1k 0.2× 2.2k 0.3× 6.2k 1.0× 1.6k 0.4× 3.7k 1.2× 69 8.3k
Paul Erdős Hungary 42 2.5k 0.3× 1.0k 0.2× 2.0k 0.3× 2.8k 0.6× 969 0.3× 386 6.9k
Jean-Pierre Serre France 45 2.1k 0.2× 3.8k 0.6× 8.6k 1.4× 1.8k 0.4× 6.6k 2.1× 121 11.1k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Stanley, Richard P.. (2023). Theorems and conjectures on some rational generating functions. European Journal of Combinatorics. 119. 103814–103814.
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Stanley, Richard P., et al.. (2023). A 1RM Strengthening and Exercise Programme for the Treatment of Knee Osteoarthritis: A Quality-Improvement Study. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 12(9). 3156–3156. 1 indexed citations
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Stanley, Richard P. & Fabrizio Zanello. (2015). The Catalan case of Armstrong's conjecture on simultaneous core partitions Read More: https://epubs.siam.org/doi/10.1137/130950318. Digital Commons - Michigan Tech (Michigan Technological University). 12 indexed citations
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Stanley, Richard P. & Fabrizio Zanello. (2013). The Catalan case of Armstrong's conjecture on core partitions. arXiv (Cornell University). 2 indexed citations
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Corteel, Sylvie, Richard P. Stanley, Dennis Stanton, & Lauren Williams. (2012). Formulae for Askey-Wilson moments and enumeration of staircase tableaux. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 364(11). 6009–6037. 13 indexed citations
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Stanley, Richard P.. (2011). Enumerative Combinatorics: Volume 1. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 640–640. 380 indexed citations breakdown →
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Stanley, Richard P.. (2011). Two enumerative results on cycles of permutations. European Journal of Combinatorics. 32(6). 937–943. 12 indexed citations
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Stanley, Richard P.. (2006). Ordering events in Minkowski space. Advances in Applied Mathematics. 37(4). 514–525. 3 indexed citations
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Stanley, Richard P.. (2006). Alternating permutations and symmetric functions. Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series A. 114(3). 436–460. 21 indexed citations
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Stanley, Richard P.. (2005). The Descent Set and Connectivity Set of a Permutation. arXiv (Cornell University). 8. 38. 8 indexed citations
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Billera, Louis J., Curtis Greene, Rodica Simion, & Richard P. Stanley. (1995). Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics (Séries Formelles et Combinatoire Algébrique), 1994. 1 indexed citations
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Stanley, Richard P.. (1993). A Monotonicity Property of h-vectors and h*-vectors. European Journal of Combinatorics. 14(3). 251–258. 56 indexed citations
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McEliece, Robert J. & Richard P. Stanley. (1993). The general theory of convolutional codes. 6 indexed citations
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Stanley, Richard P.. (1991). On the Hilbert function of a graded Cohen-Macaulay domain. Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra. 73(3). 307–314. 46 indexed citations
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Stanley, Richard P.. (1991). Some applications of algebra to combinatorics. Discrete Applied Mathematics. 34(1-3). 241–277. 14 indexed citations
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Stanley, Richard P.. (1988). Differential Posets. Journal of the American Mathematical Society. 1(4). 919–919. 10 indexed citations
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Stanley, Richard P.. (1988). Differential posets. Journal of the American Mathematical Society. 1(4). 919–961. 51 indexed citations
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Stanley, Richard P.. (1979). Balanced Cohen-Macaulay Complexes. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 249(1). 139–139. 35 indexed citations
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Carlitz, L. & Richard P. Stanley. (1975). Branchings and partitions. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 53(1). 246–249. 4 indexed citations
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Stanley, Richard P., et al.. (1973). A Study of Varshamov Codes for Asymmetric Channels. 14. 117–123. 18 indexed citations

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