Shing Tung Yau

8.4k total citations · 4 hit papers
62 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

About

Shing Tung Yau is a scholar working on Geometry and Topology, Applied Mathematics and Astronomy and Astrophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Shing Tung Yau has authored 62 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Geometry and Topology, 18 papers in Applied Mathematics and 15 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Recurrent topics in Shing Tung Yau's work include Geometric Analysis and Curvature Flows (16 papers), Geometry and complex manifolds (13 papers) and Advanced Differential Geometry Research (9 papers). Shing Tung Yau is often cited by papers focused on Geometric Analysis and Curvature Flows (16 papers), Geometry and complex manifolds (13 papers) and Advanced Differential Geometry Research (9 papers). Shing Tung Yau collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and France. Shing Tung Yau's co-authors include Richard Schoen, Peter Li, Peter Li, Xianfeng Gu, Yalin Wang, H. Blaine Lawson, Tony F. Chan, Paul M. Thompson, Edward Witten and Gang Tian and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Physical Review Letters and Nuclear Physics B.

In The Last Decade

Shing Tung Yau

60 papers receiving 4.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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
Shing Tung Yau United States 26 2.8k 2.2k 1.3k 835 815 62 4.9k
Richard S. Hamilton United States 24 4.5k 1.6× 3.7k 1.7× 809 0.6× 1.9k 2.3× 515 0.6× 37 5.5k
Joel Spruck United States 28 5.3k 1.9× 1.7k 0.8× 1.6k 1.3× 345 0.4× 2.8k 3.4× 82 6.2k
Richard Schoen United States 40 6.3k 2.3× 4.0k 1.8× 1.7k 1.4× 2.2k 2.7× 1.7k 2.1× 78 8.2k
Victor Guillemin United States 40 2.1k 0.7× 3.9k 1.8× 4.3k 3.4× 492 0.6× 733 0.9× 174 7.8k
Yann Brenier France 27 2.3k 0.8× 620 0.3× 678 0.5× 321 0.4× 395 0.5× 68 3.8k
Sigurđur Helgason United States 24 2.7k 0.9× 2.2k 1.0× 3.2k 2.5× 748 0.9× 363 0.4× 60 6.0k
Katsumi Nomizu United States 28 4.1k 1.5× 3.7k 1.7× 1.5k 1.2× 2.7k 3.2× 341 0.4× 89 7.0k
Marcel Berger France 21 1.3k 0.5× 1.2k 0.6× 594 0.5× 584 0.7× 280 0.3× 49 2.4k
Peter W. Michor Austria 20 900 0.3× 1.4k 0.7× 1.2k 1.0× 454 0.5× 182 0.2× 104 2.8k
Richard S. Palais United States 28 2.0k 0.7× 1.9k 0.9× 2.0k 1.6× 614 0.7× 851 1.0× 64 4.4k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Ji, Lizhen, Athanase Papadopoulos, & Shing Tung Yau. (2015). Handbook of group actions. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 16 indexed citations
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Bieri, Lydia & Shing Tung Yau. (2015). One hundred years of general relativity : a jubilee volume on general relativity and mathematics. 1 indexed citations
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Yau, Shing Tung, et al.. (2014). Selected expository works of Shing-Tung Yau with commentary. 2 indexed citations
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Chui, S. T., Junjie Du, & Shing Tung Yau. (2014). Resonances and circuit theory for the interaction of metallic disks and annuli with an electromagnetic field. Physical Review E. 90(5). 53202–53202. 5 indexed citations
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Shen, Yibing, Zhongmin Shen, & Shing Tung Yau. (2012). Differential geometry : under the influence of S.-S. Chern. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 5 indexed citations
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Mrowka, Tomasz & Shing Tung Yau. (2011). Perspectives in mathematics and physics : essays dedicated to Isadore Singer's 85th birthday. 2 indexed citations
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Ji, Lizhen & Shing Tung Yau. (2011). Transformation groups and moduli spaces of curves. 6 indexed citations
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Leung, Naichung Conan & Shing Tung Yau. (2011). Geometry of special holonomy and related topics. 4 indexed citations
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Ji, Lizhen, Kefeng Liu, & Shing Tung Yau. (2010). Cohomology of groups and algebraic K-theory. 3 indexed citations
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Cao, Huai-Dong & Shing Tung Yau. (2009). Geometry, analysis, and algebraic geometry : forty years of the Journal of Differential Geometry. 6 indexed citations
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Ji, Lizhen, Scott A. Wolpert, & Shing Tung Yau. (2009). Geometry of Riemann surfaces and their moduli spaces. 2 indexed citations
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Yau, Shing Tung, et al.. (2006). Proceedings of the BIRS workshop on Calabi-Yau varieties and mirror symmetry, December 6-11, 2003, Banff International Research Station for Mathematics Innovation & Discovery.
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Yau, Shing Tung. (2003). The founders of index theory : reminiscences of Atiyah, Bott, Hirzebruch, and Singer. 3 indexed citations
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Fröhlich, Jürg, et al.. (2000). Asymptotic form of zero energy wave functions in supersymmetric matrix models. Nuclear Physics B. 567(1-2). 231–248. 31 indexed citations
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Yau, Shing Tung. (1999). Differential geometry inspired by string theory. 6 indexed citations
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Coates, J. & Shing Tung Yau. (1997). Elliptic curves, modular forms & Fermat's last theorem : proceedings of a conference held in the Institute of Mathematics of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. 1 indexed citations
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Schoen, Richard & Shing Tung Yau. (1997). Lectures on Harmonic Maps. 154 indexed citations
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Yau, Shing Tung. (1995). Geometry, topology, & physics for Raoul Bott. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 8 indexed citations
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Yau, Shing Tung. (1992). Essays on mirror manifolds. 170 indexed citations
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Schoen, Richard & Shing Tung Yau. (1979). Compact group actions and the topology of manifolds with non-positive curvature. Topology. 18(4). 361–380. 81 indexed citations

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