Robert Penner

3.6k total citations
76 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Robert Penner is a scholar working on Geometry and Topology, Mathematical Physics and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert Penner has authored 76 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Geometry and Topology, 33 papers in Mathematical Physics and 14 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Robert Penner's work include Geometric and Algebraic Topology (26 papers), Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology (20 papers) and Mathematical Dynamics and Fractals (13 papers). Robert Penner is often cited by papers focused on Geometric and Algebraic Topology (26 papers), Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology (20 papers) and Mathematical Dynamics and Fractals (13 papers). Robert Penner collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Denmark. Robert Penner's co-authors include John Harer, D. B. A. Epstein, Jørgen Ellegaard Andersen, Athanase Papadopoulos, Michael S. Waterman, Christian M. Reidys, Ralph M. Kaufmann, Shing Tung Yau, Fenix W. D. Huang and Leonid Chekhov and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Bioinformatics.

In The Last Decade

Robert Penner

72 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Robert Penner United States 21 1.2k 935 252 241 239 76 1.7k
Irwin Kra United States 20 1.1k 1.0× 660 0.7× 159 0.6× 158 0.7× 27 0.1× 62 1.7k
David N. Yetter United States 15 994 0.9× 737 0.8× 319 1.3× 313 1.3× 61 0.3× 38 1.4k
James Stasheff United States 20 1.7k 1.5× 1.7k 1.8× 229 0.9× 178 0.7× 67 0.3× 35 2.6k
Victor Matveevich Buchstaber Russia 21 1.3k 1.1× 769 0.8× 633 2.5× 254 1.1× 18 0.1× 224 2.0k
Oleg Viro Russia 12 876 0.8× 598 0.6× 333 1.3× 212 0.9× 12 0.1× 25 1.2k
Miles Reid United Kingdom 20 1.1k 1.0× 603 0.6× 149 0.6× 205 0.9× 12 0.1× 34 1.4k
Ravi Vakil United States 14 834 0.7× 474 0.5× 202 0.8× 186 0.8× 15 0.1× 41 1.2k
G. A. Margulis United States 27 1.1k 0.9× 1.4k 1.5× 264 1.0× 238 1.0× 21 0.1× 62 1.9k
Caroline Series United Kingdom 18 701 0.6× 869 0.9× 130 0.5× 206 0.9× 20 0.1× 48 1.2k
Vaughan F. R. Jones United States 23 3.1k 2.7× 2.8k 3.0× 945 3.8× 436 1.8× 74 0.3× 58 4.2k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Penner, Robert. (2021). Antiviral Resistance against Viral Mutation: Praxis and Policy for SARS-CoV-2. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 9(1). 81–89. 1 indexed citations
2.
Penner, Robert. (2020). Backbone Free Energy Estimator Applied to Viral Glycoproteins. Journal of Computational Biology. 27(10). 1495–1508. 7 indexed citations
3.
Wang, Yue, et al.. (2020). Model of Morphogenesis. Journal of Computational Biology. 27(9). 1373–1383. 8 indexed citations
4.
Penner, Robert. (2017). Ministering in Honor-Shame Cultures: Biblical Foundations and Practical Essentials. 1(15). 4 indexed citations
5.
Andersen, Jørgen Ellegaard, Leonid Chekhov, Paul Norbury, & Robert Penner. (2015). Topological recursion for Gaussian means and cohomological field\n theories. arXiv (Cornell University). 3 indexed citations
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Andersen, Jørgen Ellegaard, Leonid Chekhov, Paul Norbury, & Robert Penner. (2015). Models of discretized moduli spaces, cohomological field theories, and\n Gaussian means. arXiv (Cornell University). 9 indexed citations
7.
Papadopoulos, Athanase & Robert Penner. (2013). Hyperbolic metrics, measured foliations and pants decompositions for\n non-orientable surfaces. arXiv (Cornell University). 6 indexed citations
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Andersen, Jørgen Ellegaard, Robert Penner, Christian M. Reidys, & Michael S. Waterman. (2012). Topological classification and enumeration of RNA structures by genus. Journal of Mathematical Biology. 67(5). 1261–1278. 25 indexed citations
9.
Andersen, Jørgen Ellegaard, et al.. (2010). Finite type invariants and fatgraphs. Advances in Mathematics. 225(4). 2117–2161. 5 indexed citations
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Penner, Robert & Greg McShane. (2009). STABLE CURVES AND SCREENS ON FATGRAPHS (Analysis and Topology of Discrete Groups and Hyperbolic Spaces). Kyoto University Research Information Repository (Kyoto University). 1660(1660). 62–84. 1 indexed citations
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Morita, Shigeyuki, Athanase Papadopoulos, & Robert Penner. (2007). Teichmüller Space (Classical and Quantum). Oberwolfach Reports. 3(2). 1537–1614. 1 indexed citations
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Andersen, Jørgen Ellegaard, et al.. (2007). Groupoid Lifts of Mapping Class Representations for Bordered Surfaces. arXiv (Cornell University). 4 indexed citations
13.
Penner, Robert. (1999). Discrete mathematics: proof techniques and mathematical structures. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 5 indexed citations
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Penner, Robert, et al.. (1998). The Lie Algebra of Homeomorphisms of the Circle. Advances in Mathematics. 140(2). 282–322. 4 indexed citations
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Penner, Robert. (1993). Universal Constructions in Teichmüller Theory. Advances in Mathematics. 98(2). 143–215. 36 indexed citations
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Penner, Robert & Michael S. Waterman. (1993). Spaces of RNA Secondary Structures. Advances in Mathematics. 101(1). 31–49. 49 indexed citations
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Penner, Robert. (1991). Bounds on least dilatations. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 113(2). 443–450. 39 indexed citations
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Penner, Robert. (1988). A construction of pseudo-Anosov homeomorphisms. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 310(1). 179–197. 65 indexed citations
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Penner, Robert. (1988). Extremal lengths on Denjoy domains. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 102(3). 641–645. 1 indexed citations
20.
Penner, Robert. (1988). The Schottky problem on pants. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 104(1). 253–256. 3 indexed citations

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