Svante Janson

17.6k total citations · 4 hit papers
302 papers, 8.7k citations indexed

About

Svante Janson is a scholar working on Mathematical Physics, Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics and Statistics and Probability. According to data from OpenAlex, Svante Janson has authored 302 papers receiving a total of 8.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 165 papers in Mathematical Physics, 76 papers in Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics and 71 papers in Statistics and Probability. Recurrent topics in Svante Janson's work include Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics (128 papers), Limits and Structures in Graph Theory (61 papers) and Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models (42 papers). Svante Janson is often cited by papers focused on Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics (128 papers), Limits and Structures in Graph Theory (61 papers) and Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models (42 papers). Svante Janson collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, United States and United Kingdom. Svante Janson's co-authors include Tomasz Łuczak, Andrzej Ruciński, Jan Vegelius, Jaak Peetre, Oliver Riordan, Malwina Luczak, Geoffrey Grimmett, Johan Tysk, Donald E. Knuth and Richard Rochberg and has published in prestigious journals such as Oecologia, Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications and Mathematical Programming.

In The Last Decade

Svante Janson

284 papers receiving 7.9k citations

Hit Papers

Random Graphs 1997 2026 2006 2016 2000 2000 1997 2007 250 500 750 1000
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. Random Graphs
    2000 1.1k citations Tomasz Łuczak, Svante Janson et al. profile →
  2. Random Graphs
    2000 894 citations Svante Janson, Tomasz Łuczak et al. profile →
  3. Gaussian Hilbert Spaces
    1997 538 citations Svante Janson profile →
  4. The phase transition in inhomogeneous random graphs
    2007 326 citations Svante Janson 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
Svante Janson Sweden 41 3.7k 2.1k 2.0k 1.8k 1.7k 302 8.7k
Yuval Peres United States 42 4.6k 1.3× 1.5k 0.7× 536 0.3× 2.8k 1.6× 1.0k 0.6× 289 8.1k
Sergey Fomin United States 32 3.3k 0.9× 1.7k 0.8× 2.7k 1.3× 589 0.3× 1.1k 0.7× 73 9.7k
Michel Talagrand France 39 2.8k 0.8× 1.2k 0.6× 381 0.2× 2.3k 1.3× 1.8k 1.1× 237 7.4k
Philippe Flajolet France 43 2.0k 0.6× 1.9k 0.9× 2.3k 1.1× 750 0.4× 442 0.3× 143 8.3k
Ofer Zeitouni Israel 30 3.3k 0.9× 702 0.3× 518 0.3× 2.9k 1.6× 784 0.5× 179 8.5k
Richard P. Stanley United States 52 3.1k 0.8× 4.4k 2.1× 9.1k 4.5× 1.1k 0.6× 762 0.5× 196 14.9k
Joel Spencer United States 33 1.2k 0.3× 3.7k 1.8× 2.6k 1.3× 561 0.3× 222 0.1× 155 7.7k
Amir Dembo United States 36 2.5k 0.7× 815 0.4× 313 0.2× 2.1k 1.2× 752 0.5× 136 8.4k
Tom M. Apostol United States 23 1.3k 0.4× 998 0.5× 867 0.4× 385 0.2× 1.3k 0.8× 125 6.8k
Tomasz Łuczak Poland 33 1.3k 0.3× 2.6k 1.2× 2.3k 1.2× 604 0.3× 109 0.1× 158 5.1k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Svante Janson

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Svante Janson

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Janson, Svante, et al.. (2025). The Generalized Alice HH Vs Bob HT Problem. Journal of Theoretical Probability. 38(4). 1 indexed citations
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Janson, Svante, et al.. (2024). Approximation of subgraph counts in the uniform attachment model. Combinatorics Probability Computing. 34(1). 90–114.
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Janson, Svante, et al.. (2024). Central limit theorem for components in meandric systems through high moments. Combinatorics Probability Computing. 33(5). 597–610.
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Janson, Svante, et al.. (2023). Estimating Global Subgraph Counts by Sampling. The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics. 30(2).
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Janson, Svante. (2023). The Number of Occurrences of Patterns in a Random Tree or Forest Permutation. The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics. 30(2).
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Janson, Svante, et al.. (2022). The distance profile of rooted and unrooted simply generated trees. KTH Publication Database DiVA (KTH Royal Institute of Technology). 1 indexed citations
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Janson, Svante, et al.. (2016). On a representation theorem for finitely exchangeable random vectors. Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications. 442(2). 703–714. 8 indexed citations
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Janson, Svante, Róbert Kozma, Miklós Ruszinkó, & Yury Sokolov. (2015). Activation process on a long-range percolation graph with power law long edge distribution. Part I: phase transition without inhibition. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations
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Janson, Svante. (2014). The probability that a random multigraph is simple. II. Journal of Applied Probability. 51(A). 123–137. 4 indexed citations
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Gravier, Sylvain, et al.. (2014). Graphs where every k-subset of vertices is an identifying set. Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science. Vol. 16 no. 1(Combinatorics). 2 indexed citations
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Janson, Svante. (2013). Euler-Frobenius numbers and rounding. 1–34. 1 indexed citations
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Fill, James Allen, et al.. (2011). On Vertex, Edge, and Vertex-Edge Random Graphs (Extended Abstract). 16–22. 3 indexed citations
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Janson, Svante, Louigi Addario‐Berry, & Luc Devroye. (2010). Sub-Gaussian tail bounds for the width and height of conditioned Galton–Watson trees. KTH Publication Database DiVA (KTH Royal Institute of Technology). 29 indexed citations
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Janson, Svante, Tomasz Łuczak, & Ilkka Norros. (2010). Large Cliques in a Power-Law Random Graph. Journal of Applied Probability. 47(4). 1124–1135. 26 indexed citations
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Janson, Svante, et al.. (2009). The Integral of the Supremum Process of Brownian Motion. Journal of Applied Probability. 46(2). 593–600. 3 indexed citations
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Janson, Svante. (2004). ONE-SIDED INTERVAL TREES. 3(2). 149–164. 7 indexed citations
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Fill, James Allen & Svante Janson. (2004). The number of bit comparisons used by Quicksort: an average-case analysis. Symposium on Discrete Algorithms. 300–307. 9 indexed citations
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Janson, Svante, Tomasz Łuczak, & Andrzej Ruciński. (2000). Random Graphs. 894 indexed citations breakdown →
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Janson, Svante & Michael J. Wichura. (1984). Invariance principles for stochastic area and related stochastic integrals. Stochastic Processes and their Applications. 16(1). 71–84. 15 indexed citations
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Gut, Allan & Svante Janson. (1983). The limiting behaviour of certain stopped sums and some applications. Scandinavian Journal of Statistics. 10(4). 281–292. 30 indexed citations

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