William S. Massey

4.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
47 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

William S. Massey is a scholar working on Geometry and Topology, Mathematical Physics and Algebra and Number Theory. According to data from OpenAlex, William S. Massey has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Geometry and Topology, 20 papers in Mathematical Physics and 14 papers in Algebra and Number Theory. Recurrent topics in William S. Massey's work include Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology (18 papers), Advanced Topics in Algebra (11 papers) and Geometric and Algebraic Topology (9 papers). William S. Massey is often cited by papers focused on Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology (18 papers), Advanced Topics in Algebra (11 papers) and Geometric and Algebraic Topology (9 papers). William S. Massey collaborates with scholars based in United States. William S. Massey's co-authors include Barry Mitchell, Franklin P. Peterson, William Fulton, Lawrence Markus, Robert Ellis, F. Hahn, L. Auslander, Leon A. Greenberg, Robert H. Szczarba and Lorenzo Traldi and has published in prestigious journals such as Annals of Mathematics, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society and American Mathematical Monthly.

In The Last Decade

William S. Massey

43 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Algebraic Topology: An Introduction.

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
William S. Massey United States	24	1.3k	1.1k	603	445	430	47	2.5k
Wolfgang M. Schmidt United States	28	1.2k 0.9×	1.2k 1.0×	664 1.1×	766 1.7×	476 1.1×	146	2.4k
J. W. S. Cassels United Kingdom	25	2.0k 1.6×	1.4k 1.2×	976 1.6×	1.0k 2.3×	571 1.3×	96	3.8k
Norman Steenrod United States	13	1.7k 1.3×	1.7k 1.5×	500 0.8×	730 1.6×	664 1.5×	20	3.4k
C. A. Rogers United Kingdom	27	815 0.6×	695 0.6×	571 0.9×	158 0.4×	816 1.9×	114	2.4k
Hans Zassenhaus United States	24	1.1k 0.9×	606 0.5×	658 1.1×	917 2.1×	360 0.8×	122	3.0k
Allen Hatcher United States	21	2.2k 1.8×	2.0k 1.8×	1.1k 1.8×	311 0.7×	463 1.1×	39	3.6k
James R. Munkres United States	11	634 0.5×	597 0.5×	462 0.8×	157 0.4×	297 0.7×	24	1.7k
Yitzhak Katznelson United States	21	796 0.6×	1.5k 1.3×	650 1.1×	336 0.8×	1.1k 2.6×	63	3.1k
André Haefliger Switzerland	23	2.9k 2.3×	2.0k 1.8×	994 1.6×	353 0.8×	1.0k 2.4×	46	3.8k
Igor R. Shafarevich Russia	18	1.2k 0.9×	625 0.5×	578 1.0×	454 1.0×	218 0.5×	61	1.9k

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Massey, William S.. (1998). HIGHER ORDER LINKING NUMBERS. Journal of Knot Theory and Its Ramifications. 7(3). 393–414. 24 indexed citations

Massey, William S. & William Fulton. (1996). Algebraic Topology: A First Course.. American Mathematical Monthly. 103(9). 819–819. 16 indexed citations

Massey, William S.. (1992). The homotopy type of certain configuration spaces. Boletín de la Sociedad Matemática Mexicana. 37. 355–365. 2 indexed citations

Massey, William S.. (1991). A Basic Course in Algebraic Topology. Graduate texts in mathematics. 327 indexed citations

Massey, William S.. (1990). Homotopy classification of 3-component links of codimension greater than 2. Topology and its Applications. 34(3). 269–300. 7 indexed citations

Massey, William S. & Lorenzo Traldi. (1981). Links with free groups are trivial. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 82(1). 155–156. 1 indexed citations

Massey, William S.. (1980). Singular Homology Theory. Graduate texts in mathematics. 128 indexed citations

Massey, William S.. (1978). Homology and cohomology theory : an approach based on Alexander-Spanier cochains. Marcel Dekker eBooks. 30 indexed citations

Massey, William S.. (1974). Finite covering spaces of 2-manifolds with boundary. Duke Mathematical Journal. 41(4). 5 indexed citations

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Massey, William S.. (1969). Pontryagin squares in the Thom space of a bundle. Pacific Journal of Mathematics. 31(1). 133–142. 9 indexed citations

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Massey, William S. & Franklin P. Peterson. (1965). The cohomology structure of certain fibre spaces—I. Topology. 4(1). 47–65. 53 indexed citations

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Ellis, Robert, L. Auslander, F. Hahn, et al.. (1964). Flows on Homogeneous Spaces.. American Mathematical Monthly. 71(6). 702–702. 193 indexed citations

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Massey, William S.. (1962). On the Stiefel-Whitney classes of a manifold. II. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 13(6). 938–942. 23 indexed citations

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Massey, William S.. (1962). On the Stiefel-Whitney Classes of a Manifold. II. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 13(6). 938–938. 6 indexed citations

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Massey, William S. & Robert H. Szczarba. (1962). Line element fields on manifolds. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society. 104(3). 450–456. 5 indexed citations

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Massey, William S.. (1962). Surfaces of Gaussian curvature zero in Euclidean $3$-space. Tohoku Mathematical Journal. 14(1). 39 indexed citations

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Massey, William S.. (1962). Non-existence of almost-complex structures on quaternionic projective spaces. Pacific Journal of Mathematics. 12(4). 1379–1384. 41 indexed citations

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Massey, William S.. (1961). Normal vector fields on manifolds. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 12(1). 33–40. 12 indexed citations

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Massey, William S.. (1958). On the Cohomology Ring of a Sphere Bundle. Indiana University Mathematics Journal. 7(2). 265–289. 46 indexed citations

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Massey, William S., et al.. (1951). The Homotopy Groups of a Triad I. Annals of Mathematics. 53(1). 161–161. 74 indexed citations

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