William P. Thurston

15.0k total citations · 4 hit papers
87 papers, 6.8k citations indexed

About

William P. Thurston is a scholar working on Geometry and Topology, Mathematical Physics and Computational Theory and Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, William P. Thurston has authored 87 papers receiving a total of 6.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Geometry and Topology, 24 papers in Mathematical Physics and 17 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics. Recurrent topics in William P. Thurston's work include Geometric and Algebraic Topology (28 papers), Computational Geometry and Mesh Generation (15 papers) and Mathematical Dynamics and Fractals (11 papers). William P. Thurston is often cited by papers focused on Geometric and Algebraic Topology (28 papers), Computational Geometry and Mesh Generation (15 papers) and Mathematical Dynamics and Fractals (11 papers). William P. Thurston collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Australia. William P. Thurston's co-authors include Silvio Levy, Allen Hatcher, Gary L. Miller, Daniel D. Sleator, Robert E. Tarjan, M. Gromov, Stephen A. Vavasis, Shang‐Hua Teng, H. E. Winkelnkemper and Michael Handel and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Global Change Biology and Monthly Weather Review.

In The Last Decade

William P. Thurston

84 papers receiving 5.7k citations

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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.

Three dimensional manifolds, Kleinian groups and hyperbolic geometry

1982 712 citations William P. Thurston profile →
Three-Dimensional Geometry and Topology

1997 688 citations William P. Thurston et al. profile →
The geometry and topology of three-manifolds

1979 632 citations William P. Thurston profile →
On the geometry and dynamics of diffeomorphisms of surfaces

1988 582 citations William P. Thurston profile →

Peers

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H. S. M. Coxeter Canada

Louis H. Kauffman United States

Serge Lang United States

Morris W. Hirsch United States

Shing‐Tung Yau United States

Lars V. Ahlfors United States

John Harer United States

Jürgen Jost Germany

Edward B. Saff United States

Svante Janson Sweden

H. S. M. Coxeter Canada

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Countries citing papers authored by William P. Thurston

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Fields of papers citing papers by William P. Thurston

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William P. Thurston

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Retkutė, Renata, William P. Thurston, Keith Cressman, & Christopher A. Gilligan. (2024). A framework for modelling desert locust population dynamics and large-scale dispersal. PLoS Computational Biology. 20(12). e1012562–e1012562. 6 indexed citations

Hodson, David, et al.. (2024). Advancing crop disease early warning in South Asia by complementing expert surveys with internet media scraping. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(3). 3 indexed citations

Retkutė, Renata, William P. Thurston, & Christopher A. Gilligan. (2024). Bayesian Inference for Multiple Datasets. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 7(2). 434–444. 1 indexed citations

Bradshaw, Catherine P., Deborah Hemming, William P. Thurston, et al.. (2024). Transmission pathways for the stem rust pathogen into Central and East Asia and the role of the alternate host, barberry. Environmental Research Letters. 19(11). 114097–114097.

Kepert, Jeffrey D., William P. Thurston, & Kevin J. Tory. (2023). A fast, physically based model of firebrand transport by bushfire plumes. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 345. 109839–109839. 6 indexed citations

Buchanan, Pearse, Carsten Egevang, Sara M. Maxwell, et al.. (2023). Global warming and arctic terns: Estimating climate change impacts on the world's longest migration. Global Change Biology. 29(19). 5596–5614. 6 indexed citations

Meyer, Marcel, William P. Thurston, Sarah Millington, et al.. (2023). Three-Dimensional Visualization of Long-Range Atmospheric Transport of Crop Pathogens and Insect Pests. Atmosphere. 14(6). 910–910. 3 indexed citations

Hoodless, Andrew N., et al.. (2022). Variety in responses of wintering oystercatchersHaematopus ostralegusto near‐collapse of their prey in the Exe Estuary,UK. Ecology and Evolution. 12(11). e9526–e9526. 3 indexed citations

Thurston, William P., Paul Pearce‐Kelly, Hannah Jenkins, et al.. (2022). A Qualitative Risk Assessment for Bluetongue Disease and African Horse Sickness: The Risk of Entry and Exposure at a UK Zoo. Viruses. 14(3). 502–502. 6 indexed citations

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Bradshaw, Catherine P., William P. Thurston, David Hodson, et al.. (2022). Irrigation can create new green bridges that promote rapid intercontinental spread of the wheat stem rust pathogen. Environmental Research Letters. 17(11). 114025–114025. 7 indexed citations

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Rajko‐Nenow, Paulina, Vasiliki Christodoulou, William P. Thurston, et al.. (2020). Origin of Bluetongue Virus Serotype 8 Outbreak in Cyprus, September 2016. Viruses. 12(1). 96–96. 11 indexed citations

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Thurston, William P., et al.. (2013). Large-eddy simulations of bushfire plumes in the turbulent atmospheric boundary layer. Piantadosi, J., Anderssen, R.S. and Boland J. (eds) MODSIM2013, 20th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation. 2 indexed citations

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Sanò, Marcello, et al.. (2011). A detailed assessment of vulnerability to climate change in the Gold Coast, Australia. Journal of Coastal Research. 2011. 245–249. 14 indexed citations

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Hass, Joel, Jack Snoeyink, & William P. Thurston. (1999). The size of spanning disks for polygonal knots. arXiv (Cornell University). 4 indexed citations

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Eliashberg, Yakov & William P. Thurston. (1997). Confoliations. 31 indexed citations

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Sleator, Daniel D., Robert E. Tarjan, & William P. Thurston. (1988). Rotation Distance, Triangulations, and Hyperbolic Geometry. Journal of the American Mathematical Society. 1(3). 647–647. 40 indexed citations

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Sleator, Daniel D., Robert E. Tarjan, & William P. Thurston. (1988). Rotation distance, triangulations, and hyperbolic geometry. Journal of the American Mathematical Society. 1(3). 647–681. 156 indexed citations

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Handel, Michael & William P. Thurston. (1985). New proofs of some results of Nielsen. Advances in Mathematics. 56(2). 173–191. 50 indexed citations

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Hatcher, Allen & William P. Thurston. (1980). A presentation for the mapping class group of a closed orientable surface. Topology. 19(3). 221–237. 148 indexed citations

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Thurston, William P. & H. E. Winkelnkemper. (1975). On the existence of contact forms. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 52(1). 345–347. 91 indexed citations

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