Shing-Tung Yau

4.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
34 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Shing-Tung Yau is a scholar working on Geometry and Topology, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Computational Mechanics. According to data from OpenAlex, Shing-Tung Yau has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Geometry and Topology, 10 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 10 papers in Computational Mechanics. Recurrent topics in Shing-Tung Yau's work include Geometry and complex manifolds (9 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (9 papers) and Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (9 papers). Shing-Tung Yau is often cited by papers focused on Geometry and complex manifolds (9 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (9 papers) and Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (9 papers). Shing-Tung Yau collaborates with scholars based in United States, Taiwan and Germany. Shing-Tung Yau's co-authors include Richard Schoen, Gang Tian, Joel Smoller, Felix Finster, Xianfeng Gu, Eric Zaslow, Naichung Conan Leung, Tony F. Chan, Lydia Bieri and Yalin Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Scientific Reports, Nuclear Physics B and IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging.

In The Last Decade

Shing-Tung Yau

34 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

On the proof of the positive mass conjecture in general r... 1979 2026 1994 2010 1979 200 400 600
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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. On the proof of the positive mass conjecture in general relativity
    1979 689 citations Richard Schoen, Shing-Tung Yau Communications in Mathematical Physics profile →

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 17 1.1k 1.1k 860 837 334 34 2.1k
H. Blaine Lawson United States 30 998 0.9× 3.7k 3.5× 427 0.5× 3.4k 4.1× 284 0.9× 87 4.8k
Ivan Kolář Czechia 13 480 0.4× 283 0.3× 314 0.4× 632 0.8× 311 0.9× 131 1.3k
Arthur L. Besse United States 7 840 0.8× 1.4k 1.3× 211 0.2× 1.2k 1.4× 158 0.5× 15 1.8k
Gerhard Huisken Germany 23 936 0.9× 2.9k 2.8× 218 0.3× 2.2k 2.6× 85 0.3× 42 3.3k
M. Crampin United Kingdom 23 524 0.5× 237 0.2× 284 0.3× 307 0.4× 976 2.9× 90 1.5k
Yvonne Choquet–Bruhat France 23 1.4k 1.4× 692 0.7× 1.3k 1.5× 171 0.2× 443 1.3× 92 2.3k
Eugenio Calabi United States 20 389 0.4× 1.5k 1.4× 182 0.2× 1.4k 1.7× 194 0.6× 31 2.1k
Joel Langer United States 15 165 0.2× 601 0.6× 80 0.1× 470 0.6× 359 1.1× 32 1.2k
Scott A. Wolpert United States 23 100 0.1× 600 0.6× 232 0.3× 1.1k 1.3× 249 0.7× 46 1.7k
Yong Huang China 21 245 0.2× 672 0.6× 166 0.2× 307 0.4× 193 0.6× 81 1.2k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Yau, Shing-Tung, et al.. (2021). Weil–Petersson geometry on the space of Bridgeland stability conditions. Communications in Analysis and Geometry. 29(3). 681–706. 3 indexed citations
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Lin, Wen-Wei, et al.. (2021). 3D brain tumor segmentation using a two-stage optimal mass transport algorithm. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 14686–14686. 10 indexed citations
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Liu, Jijun, et al.. (2020). The dynamical model for COVID-19 with asymptotic analysis and numerical implementations. Applied Mathematical Modelling. 89. 1965–1982. 14 indexed citations
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Li, Tiexiang, et al.. (2020). Optimized surface parameterizations with applications to Chinese virtual broadcasting. ETNA - Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis. 53. 383–405. 2 indexed citations
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Li, Tiexiang, et al.. (2019). A Novel Algorithm for Volume-Preserving Parameterizations of 3-Manifolds. SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences. 12(2). 1071–1098. 13 indexed citations
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Yau, Shing-Tung, et al.. (2018). Evaluating Quasi-local Angular Momentum and Center-of-Mass at Null Infinity. arXiv (Cornell University). 3 indexed citations
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Yau, Shing-Tung, et al.. (2018). Mirror of Atiyah flop in symplectic geometry and stability conditions. Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics. 22(5). 1149–1207. 4 indexed citations
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Lin, Wen-Wei, et al.. (2018). iSIRA: Integrated shift–invert residual Arnoldi method for graph Laplacian matrices from big data. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics. 346. 518–531. 7 indexed citations
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Bieri, Lydia, David Garfinkle, & Shing-Tung Yau. (2016). Gravitational wave memory in de Sitter spacetime. Physical review. D. 94(6). 34 indexed citations
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Bieri, Lydia, et al.. (2011). Null asymptotics of solutions of\tthe Einstein–Maxwell equations in general relativity and gravitational radiation. Project Euclid (Cornell University). 23 indexed citations
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Wang, Yalin, Jie Shi, Xiaotian Yin, et al.. (2011). Brain Surface Conformal Parameterization With the Ricci Flow. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. 31(2). 251–264. 57 indexed citations
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Gu, Xianfeng, Feng Luo, & Shing-Tung Yau. (2010). Fundamentals of Computational Conformal Geometry. Mathematics in Computer Science. 4(4). 389–429. 18 indexed citations
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Huang, Wen-ling, Shing-Tung Yau, & Xiao Zhang. (2006). Positivity of the Bondi mass in Bondi's radiating spacetimes. Rendiconti Lincei Matematica e Applicazioni. 17(4). 335–349. 8 indexed citations
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Gu, Xianfeng, Yalin Wang, Tony F. Chan, Paul M. Thompson, & Shing-Tung Yau. (2003). Genus Zero Surface Conformal Mapping and Its Application to Brain Surface Mapping. Lecture notes in computer science. 18. 172–184. 56 indexed citations
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Finster, Felix, Joel Smoller, & Shing-Tung Yau. (2000). The interaction of Dirac particles with non-abelian gauge fields and gravity – bound states. Nuclear Physics B. 584(1-2). 387–414. 14 indexed citations
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Finster, Felix, Joel Smoller, & Shing-Tung Yau. (2000). Some recent progress in classical general relativity. Journal of Mathematical Physics. 41(6). 3943–3963. 2 indexed citations
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Finster, Felix, Joel Smoller, & Shing-Tung Yau. (1999). THE COUPLING OF GRAVITY TO SPIN AND ELECTROMAGNETISM. Modern Physics Letters A. 14(16). 1053–1057. 8 indexed citations
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Finster, Felix, Joel Smoller, & Shing-Tung Yau. (1999). Particle-like solutions of the Einstein–Dirac–Maxwell equations. Physics Letters A. 259(6). 431–436. 40 indexed citations
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Schoen, Richard & Shing-Tung Yau. (1981). Proof of the positive mass theorem. II. Communications in Mathematical Physics. 79(2). 231–260. 411 indexed citations
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Schoen, Richard & Shing-Tung Yau. (1979). On the proof of the positive mass conjecture in general relativity. Communications in Mathematical Physics. 65(1). 45–76. 689 indexed citations breakdown →

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