Richard Pollack

6.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
76 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Richard Pollack is a scholar working on Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, Computational Theory and Mathematics and Geometry and Topology. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard Pollack has authored 76 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, 23 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics and 19 papers in Geometry and Topology. Recurrent topics in Richard Pollack's work include Computational Geometry and Mesh Generation (43 papers), Advanced Numerical Analysis Techniques (16 papers) and graph theory and CDMA systems (15 papers). Richard Pollack is often cited by papers focused on Computational Geometry and Mesh Generation (43 papers), Advanced Numerical Analysis Techniques (16 papers) and graph theory and CDMA systems (15 papers). Richard Pollack collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Israel. Richard Pollack's co-authors include Saugata Basu, Marie-Françoise Roy, Jacob E. Goodman, János Pach, Hubert de Fraysseix, Micha Sharir, Raimund Seidel, S. Sifrony, Rephael Wenger and P. Erdös and has published in prestigious journals such as Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Journal of the ACM and Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics.

In The Last Decade

Richard Pollack

74 papers receiving 2.8k citations

Hit Papers

Algorithms in Real Algebraic Geometry 2003 2026 2010 2018 2003 2006 200 400 600
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. Algorithms in Real Algebraic Geometry
    2003 616 citations Saugata Basu, Richard Pollack et al. profile →
  2. Algorithms in Real Algebraic Geometry
    2006 456 citations Saugata Basu, Richard Pollack et al. 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 Pollack United States 25 1.5k 1.3k 637 539 537 76 3.0k
Jacob E. Goodman United States 17 651 0.4× 1.4k 1.1× 690 1.1× 356 0.7× 308 0.6× 57 2.3k
Jiřı́ Matoušek Czechia 39 2.3k 1.6× 2.8k 2.1× 1.5k 2.3× 618 1.1× 527 1.0× 221 5.8k
Victor Klee United States 40 2.1k 1.4× 762 0.6× 286 0.4× 257 0.5× 1.4k 2.6× 210 4.6k
Emo Welzl Switzerland 34 1.4k 0.9× 2.5k 1.9× 1.4k 2.1× 447 0.8× 135 0.3× 133 4.2k
Daniel J. Kleitman United States 36 2.0k 1.3× 571 0.4× 404 0.6× 98 0.2× 779 1.5× 171 4.6k
Assaf Naor United States 31 1.1k 0.7× 354 0.3× 212 0.3× 179 0.3× 608 1.1× 125 2.6k
Saugata Basu United States 15 1.3k 0.9× 319 0.2× 131 0.2× 387 0.7× 434 0.8× 76 1.9k
Marie-Françoise Roy France 17 1.5k 1.0× 291 0.2× 117 0.2× 493 0.9× 481 0.9× 57 2.1k
Peter McMullen United Kingdom 29 791 0.5× 554 0.4× 200 0.3× 121 0.2× 1.0k 1.9× 115 2.9k
Ketan Mulmuley United States 19 984 0.7× 589 0.4× 233 0.4× 141 0.3× 123 0.2× 48 1.7k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Richard Pollack

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Richard Pollack

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Goodman, Jacob E., János Pach, & Richard Pollack. (2008). Surveys on discrete and computational geometry : twenty years later : AMS-IMS-SIAM Joint Summer Research Conference, June 18-22, 2006, Snowbird, Utah. American Mathematical Society eBooks. 2 indexed citations
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Goodman, Jacob E., et al.. (2008). Twentieth Anniversary Volume: Discrete & Computational Geometry. Springer eBooks. 635–635. 2 indexed citations
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Basu, Saugata, Richard Pollack, & Marie-Françoise Roy. (2006). Algorithms in Real Algebraic Geometry (Algorithms and Computation in Mathematics). Springer eBooks. 102 indexed citations
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Basu, Saugata, Richard Pollack, & Marie-Françoise Roy. (2006). An asymptotically tight bound on the number of connected components of realizable sign conditions. arXiv (Cornell University). 242(4880). 925–7. 2 indexed citations
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Basu, Saugata, Richard Pollack, & Marie-Françoise Roy. (2004). On the Betti numbers of sign conditions. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 133(4). 965–974. 15 indexed citations
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Basu, Saugata, Richard Pollack, & Marie-Françoise Roy. (1999). Computing roadmaps of semi-algebraic sets on a variety. Journal of the American Mathematical Society. 13(1). 55–82. 48 indexed citations
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Chazelle, Bernard, et al.. (1999). Advances in Discrete and Computational Geometry. Contemporary mathematics - American Mathematical Society. 92 indexed citations
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Cappell, Sylvain E., Jacob E. Goodman, János Pach, Richard Pollack, & Micha Sharir. (1994). Common Tangents and Common Transversals. Advances in Mathematics. 106(2). 198–215. 13 indexed citations
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Chazelle, Bernard, Herbert Edelsbrunner, Leonidas Guibas, et al.. (1992). Counting and cutting cycles of lines and rods in space. Computational Geometry. 1(6). 305–323. 40 indexed citations
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Goodman, Jacob E., Richard Pollack, & William Steiger. (1991). Discrete and Computational Geometry: Papers from the DIMACS Special Year. 11 indexed citations
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Goodman, Jacob E. & Richard Pollack. (1991). The complexity of point configurations. Discrete Applied Mathematics. 31(2). 167–180. 10 indexed citations
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Goodman, Jacob E., Richard Pollack, & Bernd Sturmfels. (1990). The Intrinsic Spread of a Configuration in R d. Journal of the American Mathematical Society. 3(3). 639–639. 11 indexed citations
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Erdös, P., et al.. (1989). Radius, diameter, and minimum degree. Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series B. 47(1). 73–79. 78 indexed citations
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Fraysseix, Hubert de, János Pach, & Richard Pollack. (1988). Small sets supporting fary embeddings of planar graphs. University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy (University of Minnesota). 426–433. 72 indexed citations
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Goodman, Jacob E., et al.. (1985). Discrete geometry and convexity. New York Academy of Sciences eBooks. 63 indexed citations
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Goodman, Jacob E. & Richard Pollack. (1984). Semispaces of configurations, cell complexes of arrangements. Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series A. 37(3). 257–293. 59 indexed citations
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Goodman, Jacob E. & Richard Pollack. (1984). On the number of k-subsets of a set of n points in the plane. Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series A. 36(1). 101–104. 31 indexed citations
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Goodman, Jacob E. & Richard Pollack. (1980). On the combinatorial classification of nondegenerate configurations in the plane. Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series A. 29(2). 220–235. 63 indexed citations
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Goodman, Jacob E. & Richard Pollack. (1980). Proof of Grünbaum's conjecture on the stretchability of certain arrangements of pseudolines. Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series A. 29(3). 385–390. 38 indexed citations
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Pollack, Richard, et al.. (1970). Recurrence Formulas. ˜The œFibonacci quarterly. 8(1). 4–5. 3 indexed citations

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