Shôshichi Kobayashi

14.3k total citations · 4 hit papers
98 papers, 8.6k citations indexed

About

Shôshichi Kobayashi is a scholar working on Geometry and Topology, Applied Mathematics and Mathematical Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Shôshichi Kobayashi has authored 98 papers receiving a total of 8.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 55 papers in Geometry and Topology, 53 papers in Applied Mathematics and 25 papers in Mathematical Physics. Recurrent topics in Shôshichi Kobayashi's work include Geometric Analysis and Curvature Flows (38 papers), Geometry and complex manifolds (30 papers) and Advanced Differential Geometry Research (23 papers). Shôshichi Kobayashi is often cited by papers focused on Geometric Analysis and Curvature Flows (38 papers), Geometry and complex manifolds (30 papers) and Advanced Differential Geometry Research (23 papers). Shôshichi Kobayashi collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and Canada. Shôshichi Kobayashi's co-authors include Katsumi Nomizu, Takushiro Ochiai, Samuel I. Goldberg, Kentarô Yano, Masaru Takeuchi, Hung-Hsi Wu, F. E. J. Linton, Tadashi Nagano, William M. Boothby and Yoshihiro Ohnita and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Annals of Mathematics and Transactions of the American Mathematical Society.

In The Last Decade

Shôshichi Kobayashi

95 papers receiving 6.8k citations

Hit Papers

Foundations of Differential Geometry 1963 2026 1984 2005 1963 1972 1987 1972 1000 2.0k 3.0k 4.0k
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. Foundations of Differential Geometry
    1963 4.2k citations Shôshichi Kobayashi et al. profile →
  2. Transformation Groups in Differential Geometry
    1972 754 citations Shôshichi Kobayashi profile →
  3. Differential Geometry of Complex Vector Bundles
    1987 577 citations Shôshichi Kobayashi profile →
  4. Hyperbolic Manifolds and Holomorphic Mappings.
    1972 416 citations Shôshichi Kobayashi 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
Shôshichi Kobayashi United States 30 5.3k 5.0k 2.5k 2.4k 1.0k 98 8.6k
Katsumi Nomizu United States 28 3.7k 0.7× 4.1k 0.8× 2.7k 1.1× 1.5k 0.6× 1.0k 1.0× 89 7.0k
Sigurđur Helgason United States 24 2.2k 0.4× 2.7k 0.5× 748 0.3× 3.2k 1.3× 760 0.7× 60 6.0k
Jeff Cheeger United States 36 4.1k 0.8× 5.3k 1.1× 1.8k 0.7× 2.2k 0.9× 238 0.2× 91 6.7k
Nigel Hitchin United Kingdom 32 4.2k 0.8× 2.0k 0.4× 1.6k 0.6× 2.7k 1.1× 2.3k 2.2× 77 7.4k
Victor Guillemin United States 40 3.9k 0.7× 2.1k 0.4× 492 0.2× 4.3k 1.8× 1.8k 1.8× 174 7.8k
Richard S. Palais United States 28 1.9k 0.4× 2.0k 0.4× 614 0.2× 2.0k 0.8× 579 0.6× 64 4.4k
Raoul Bott United States 25 3.3k 0.6× 1.1k 0.2× 375 0.1× 3.0k 1.3× 731 0.7× 42 5.2k
Jürgen Moser Switzerland 32 2.0k 0.4× 3.0k 0.6× 646 0.3× 2.3k 1.0× 2.3k 2.2× 51 7.0k
Richard Schoen United States 40 4.0k 0.7× 6.3k 1.3× 2.2k 0.9× 1.7k 0.7× 525 0.5× 78 8.2k
Shing Tung Yau United States 26 2.2k 0.4× 2.8k 0.6× 835 0.3× 1.3k 0.5× 391 0.4× 62 4.9k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Kobayashi, Shôshichi. (1993). Relative Intrinsic Distance and Hyperbolic Imbedding(HOLOMORPHIC MAPPINGS, DIOPHANTINE GEOMETRY and RELATED TOPICS : in Honor of Professor Shoshichi Kobayashi on his 60th Birthday). Kyoto University Research Information Repository (Kyoto University). 819(819). 239–242.
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Kobayashi, Shôshichi, et al.. (1976). Comments on Satake compactification and the great Picard theorem. Journal of the Mathematical Society of Japan. 28(3). 4 indexed citations
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Kobayashi, Shôshichi & Takushiro Ochiai. (1971). Satake compactification and the great Picard theorem. Journal of the Mathematical Society of Japan. 23(2). 22 indexed citations
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Kobayashi, Shôshichi & Takushiro Ochiai. (1971). Mappings into compact complex manifolds with negative first Chern class. Journal of the Mathematical Society of Japan. 23(1). 31 indexed citations
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Kobayashi, Shôshichi & Takushiro Ochiai. (1970). On complex manifolds with positive tangent bundles. Journal of the Mathematical Society of Japan. 22(4). 35 indexed citations
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Kobayashi, Shôshichi. (1968). Irreducibility of certain unitary representations. Journal of the Mathematical Society of Japan. 20(4). 17 indexed citations
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Kobayashi, Shôshichi. (1967). Invariant distances on complex manifolds and holomorphic mappings. Journal of the Mathematical Society of Japan. 19(4). 82 indexed citations
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Yano, Kentarô & Shôshichi Kobayashi. (1966). Prolongations of tensor fields and connections to tangent bundles II --Infinitesimal automorphisms--. Journal of the Mathematical Society of Japan. 18(3). 13 indexed citations
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Kobayashi, Shôshichi & Tadashi Nagano. (1965). On a fundamental theorem of Weyl-Cartan on $G$ -structures. Journal of the Mathematical Society of Japan. 17(1). 7 indexed citations
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Chu, Hsin & Shôshichi Kobayashi. (1964). The Automorphism Group of a Geometric Structure. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 113(1). 141–141. 6 indexed citations
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Kobayashi, Shôshichi, et al.. (1964). The automorphism group of a geometric structure. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 113(1). 141–150. 11 indexed citations
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Kobayashi, Shôshichi. (1962). On complete Bergman metrics. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 13(4). 511–513. 7 indexed citations
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Kobayashi, Shôshichi. (1962). On Complete Bergman Metrics. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 13(4). 511–511. 4 indexed citations
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Kobayashi, Shôshichi. (1961). On Automorphism Groups of Homogeneous Complex Manifolds. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 12(3). 359–359. 5 indexed citations
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Kobayashi, Shôshichi, et al.. (1960). A fibering of a class of homogeneous complex manifolds. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 94(2). 233–243. 16 indexed citations
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Kobayashi, Shôshichi, et al.. (1960). A Fibering of a Class of Homogeneous Complex Manifolds. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 94(2). 233–233. 9 indexed citations
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Kobayashi, Shôshichi. (1959). Geometry of bounded domains. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 92(2). 267–290. 132 indexed citations
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Kobayashi, Shôshichi. (1959). Remarks on Complex Contact Manifolds. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 10(1). 164–164. 11 indexed citations
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Kobayashi, Shôshichi. (1959). Remarks on complex contact manifolds. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 10(1). 164–167. 30 indexed citations
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Kobayashi, Shôshichi. (1959). Geometry of Bounded Domains. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 92(2). 267–267. 38 indexed citations

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