Simon Thomas

5.1k total citations
81 papers, 669 citations indexed

About

Simon Thomas is a scholar working on Geometry and Topology, Mathematical Physics and Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics. According to data from OpenAlex, Simon Thomas has authored 81 papers receiving a total of 669 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 61 papers in Geometry and Topology, 32 papers in Mathematical Physics and 29 papers in Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics. Recurrent topics in Simon Thomas's work include Advanced Topology and Set Theory (37 papers), Finite Group Theory Research (26 papers) and Geometric and Algebraic Topology (25 papers). Simon Thomas is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Topology and Set Theory (37 papers), Finite Group Theory Research (26 papers) and Geometric and Algebraic Topology (25 papers). Simon Thomas collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Israel. Simon Thomas's co-authors include Boban Veličković, Stephen C. Schroeter, Peter Neumann, Saharon Shelah, Greg Hjorth, Peter H. Kropholler, Katrin Tent, Linus Kramer, Dugald Macpherson and Jan Saxl and has published in prestigious journals such as Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, Advances in Mathematics and Acta Mathematica.

In The Last Decade

Simon Thomas

76 papers receiving 596 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Simon Thomas United States	14	453	269	236	234	109	81	669
Jürgen Klüners Germany	12	311 0.7×	148 0.6×	146 0.6×	106 0.5×	152 1.4×	30	444
Masaaki Homma Japan	11	242 0.5×	69 0.3×	76 0.3×	135 0.6×	57 0.5×	50	381
Péter Komjáth Hungary	12	274 0.6×	86 0.3×	304 1.3×	222 0.9×	36 0.3×	92	438
Burton Fein United States	10	264 0.6×	131 0.5×	87 0.4×	231 1.0×	138 1.3×	55	485
Zvi Arad Israel	13	228 0.5×	122 0.5×	78 0.3×	542 2.3×	158 1.4×	55	691
Marcel van der Vlugt Netherlands	14	180 0.4×	77 0.3×	114 0.5×	134 0.6×	76 0.7×	32	508
Lorenzo Traldi United States	10	258 0.6×	128 0.5×	174 0.7×	198 0.8×	34 0.3×	62	397
Antal Balog Hungary	13	158 0.3×	85 0.3×	89 0.4×	284 1.2×	298 2.7×	54	464
David R. Hayes United States	10	344 0.8×	132 0.5×	92 0.4×	101 0.4×	241 2.2×	29	513
Luise-Charlotte Kappe United States	11	170 0.4×	49 0.2×	80 0.3×	195 0.8×	173 1.6×	40	358

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Simon Thomas

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20 of 20 papers shown

Thomas, Simon, et al.. (2018). Invariant random subgroups of inductive limits of finite alternating groups. Journal of Algebra. 503. 474–533. 6 indexed citations

Thomas, Simon. (2018). Uniformly recurrent subgroups of simple locally finite groups. Israel Journal of Mathematics. 228(1). 321–352.

Thomas, Simon. (2015). A descriptive view of unitary group representations. Journal of the European Mathematical Society. 17(7). 1761–1787. 1 indexed citations

Thomas, Simon. (2011). The Friedman embedding theorem. Journal of Algebra. 332(1). 322–333. 1 indexed citations

Thomas, Simon. (2010). The classification problem for S-local torsion-free abelian groups of finite rank. Advances in Mathematics. 226(4). 3699–3723. 1 indexed citations

Thomas, Simon. (2010). On the number of universal sofic groups. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 138(7). 2585–2590. 4 indexed citations

Thomas, Simon. (2009). On the concept of “largeness” in group theory. Journal of Algebra. 322(12). 4181–4197. 2 indexed citations

Thomas, Simon. (2008). Popa Superrigidity and countable Borel equivalence relations. Annals of Pure and Applied Logic. 158(3). 175–189. 5 indexed citations

Thomas, Simon. (2008). A remark on the Higman–Neumann–Neumann embedding theorem. Journal of Group Theory. 12(4). 1 indexed citations

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Macpherson, Dugald & Simon Thomas. (2005). Comeagre conjugacy classes and free products with amalgamation. Discrete Mathematics. 291(1-3). 135–142. 8 indexed citations

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Kramer, Linus, Saharon Shelah, Katrin Tent, & Simon Thomas. (2004). Asymptotic cones of finitely presented groups. Advances in Mathematics. 193(1). 142–173. 17 indexed citations

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Thomas, Simon. (2002). Superrigidity and countable Borel equivalence relations. Annals of Pure and Applied Logic. 120(1-3). 237–262. 17 indexed citations

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Hamkins, Joel David & Simon Thomas. (2000). Changing the heights of automorphism towers. Annals of Pure and Applied Logic. 102(1-2). 139–157. 3 indexed citations

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Thomas, Simon & Boban Veličković. (2000). Asymptotic Cones of Finitely Generated Groups. Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society. 32(2). 203–208. 27 indexed citations

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Just, Winfried, Saharon Shelah, & Simon Thomas. (1999). The Automorphism Tower Problem Revisited. Advances in Mathematics. 148(2). 243–265. 4 indexed citations

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Thomas, Simon. (1996). Reducts of random hypergraphs. Annals of Pure and Applied Logic. 80(2). 165–193. 18 indexed citations

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Thomas, Simon. (1996). The Cofinalities of the Infinite Dimensional Classical Groups. Journal of Algebra. 179(3). 704–719. 7 indexed citations

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Thomas, Simon. (1991). Reducts of the random graph. Journal of Symbolic Logic. 56(1). 176–181. 36 indexed citations

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Thomas, Simon. (1985). The automorphism tower problem. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 95(2). 166–168. 8 indexed citations

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Thomas, Simon. (1985). The Automorphism Tower Problem. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 95(2). 166–166. 1 indexed citations

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