T. E. Harris

10.3k total citations · 5 hit papers
36 papers, 6.5k citations indexed

About

T. E. Harris is a scholar working on Mathematical Physics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, T. E. Harris has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 6.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Mathematical Physics, 6 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and 5 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in T. E. Harris's work include Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics (12 papers), Mathematical Dynamics and Fractals (7 papers) and Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (4 papers). T. E. Harris is often cited by papers focused on Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics (12 papers), Mathematical Dynamics and Fractals (7 papers) and Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (4 papers). T. E. Harris collaborates with scholars based in United States and Egypt. T. E. Harris's co-authors include Peter Ney, Kenneth J. Arrow, Jacob Marschak, Richard Bellman, Michael J. M. Fischer, Peter H. Baxendale, Herbert Robbins, Alan G. Konheim, Harold N. Shapiro and D. E. Barton and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Econometrica and Technometrics.

In The Last Decade

T. E. Harris

34 papers receiving 5.7k citations

Hit Papers

The Theory of Branching Processes 1951 2026 1976 2001 1965 1963 1974 1951 1964 500 1000 1.5k
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. The Theory of Branching Processes
    1965 1.7k citations Peter Ney, T. E. Harris Technometrics profile →
  2. The Theory of Branching Processes
    1963 1.4k citations T. E. Harris profile →
  3. Contact Interactions on a Lattice
    1974 658 citations T. E. Harris The Annals of Probability profile →
  4. Optimal Inventory Policy
    1951 622 citations Kenneth J. Arrow, T. E. Harris et al. Econometrica profile →
  5. The Theory of Branching Processes.
    1964 354 citations T. E. Harris 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
T. E. Harris United States 22 2.9k 1.4k 1.2k 1.1k 660 36 6.5k
Peter Ney United States 20 2.4k 0.9× 606 0.4× 1.3k 1.1× 440 0.4× 413 0.6× 58 4.5k
Frank Spitzer United States 26 2.6k 0.9× 1.0k 0.7× 1.2k 1.0× 593 0.5× 417 0.6× 57 4.4k
Harry Kesten United States 46 5.5k 1.9× 2.3k 1.6× 2.9k 2.4× 1.1k 1.0× 411 0.6× 179 8.3k
J. M. Hammersley United Kingdom 30 1.9k 0.7× 1.9k 1.4× 1.5k 1.2× 925 0.8× 332 0.5× 84 8.3k
William Feller United States 35 3.5k 1.2× 860 0.6× 2.8k 2.4× 1.8k 1.6× 1.3k 1.9× 76 16.5k
S. N. Ethier United States 18 2.7k 0.9× 477 0.3× 1.3k 1.0× 578 0.5× 665 1.0× 70 6.1k
Richard Durrett United States 40 2.4k 0.9× 900 0.7× 1.3k 1.1× 1.1k 1.0× 963 1.5× 111 7.4k
J. L. Doob United States 19 3.0k 1.1× 371 0.3× 1.9k 1.6× 1.1k 0.9× 344 0.5× 48 9.8k
Thomas M. Liggett United States 31 3.7k 1.3× 2.1k 1.6× 2.1k 1.7× 2.2k 1.9× 346 0.5× 90 6.7k
E. Seneta Australia 39 2.7k 0.9× 427 0.3× 2.3k 2.0× 891 0.8× 492 0.7× 291 9.3k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Harris, T. E., Kenneth S. Alexander, & Joseph C. Watkins. (1991). Spatial stochastic processes : a festschrift in honor of Ted Harris on his seventieth birthday. Birkhäuser eBooks. 2 indexed citations
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Harris, T. E.. (1984). Coalescing and noncoalescing stochastic flows in R1. Stochastic Processes and their Applications. 17(2). 187–210. 37 indexed citations
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Harris, T. E.. (1981). Brownian Motions on the Homeomorphisms of the Plane. The Annals of Probability. 9(2). 25 indexed citations
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Harris, T. E.. (1978). Additive Set-Valued Markov Processes and Graphical Methods. The Annals of Probability. 6(3). 120 indexed citations
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Harris, T. E.. (1977). A Correlation Inequality for Markov Processes in Partially Ordered State Spaces. The Annals of Probability. 5(3). 76 indexed citations
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Harris, T. E.. (1974). Contact Interactions on a Lattice. The Annals of Probability. 2(6). 658 indexed citations breakdown →
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Harris, T. E.. (1972). Nearest-neighbor Markov interaction processes on multidimensional lattices. Advances in Mathematics. 9(1). 66–89. 101 indexed citations
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Harris, T. E.. (1969). Correction to a proof. Probability Theory and Related Fields. 12(2). 172–172. 4 indexed citations
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Harris, T. E.. (1965). Diffusion with “collisions” between particles. Journal of Applied Probability. 2(2). 323–338. 320 indexed citations
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Harris, T. E.. (1965). Diffusion with “collisions” between particles. Journal of Applied Probability. 2(2). 323–338. 20 indexed citations
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Barton, D. E. & T. E. Harris. (1965). The Theory of Branching Processes.. Biometrika. 52(3/4). 672–672. 1 indexed citations
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Ney, Peter & T. E. Harris. (1965). The Theory of Branching Processes. Technometrics. 7(1). 79–79. 1725 indexed citations breakdown →
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Konheim, Alan G. & T. E. Harris. (1965). The Theory of Branching Processes. Mathematics of Computation. 19(90). 355–355. 8 indexed citations
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Harris, T. E.. (1961). George Fitzhugh and C. Van Woodward, ed., Cannibals All! or, Slaves Without Masters.. The Journal of Negro History. 46(1). 54–55. 1 indexed citations
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Harris, T. E.. (1960). On One-Dimensional Neutron Multiplication. 6 indexed citations
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Harris, T. E.. (1957). Transient Markov chains with stationary measures. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 8(5). 937–942. 29 indexed citations
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Bellman, Richard & T. E. Harris. (1952). On Age-Dependent Binary Branching Processes. Annals of Mathematics. 55(2). 280–280. 85 indexed citations
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Harris, T. E.. (1952). First passage and recurrence distributions. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 73(3). 471–486. 116 indexed citations
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Bellman, Richard & T. E. Harris. (1951). Recurrence times for the Ehrenfest model. Pacific Journal of Mathematics. 1(2). 179–193. 50 indexed citations
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Arrow, Kenneth J., T. E. Harris, & Jacob Marschak. (1951). Optimal Inventory Policy. Econometrica. 19(3). 250–250. 622 indexed citations breakdown →

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