2026 Boris Pittel: Mathematics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Mathematics	40	2061	1812	876	723	148	6555
Engineering and Technology	37	8348	8044	2315	2144	124	6034

Boris Pittel publication distribution in Mathematics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Mathematics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Boris Pittel sits on this spectrum.

42 publications 537+

This scientist: 148 publications — 37th percentile

37% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 537 publications or more.

Boris Pittel D-index placement in Mathematics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Mathematics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Boris Pittel sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 86+

This scientist: 40 D-Index — 45th percentile

45% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 86 D-Index or more.

Overview

Boris Pittel is a researcher affiliated with The Ohio State University in the United States. Their scholarly activities span multiple fields, predominantly focusing on Mathematics and Computer Science. Within these main areas, Pittel's work delves deeply into Mathematical Physics, Computational Theory and Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence, Economics and Econometrics, as well as Statistics and Probability.

The primary topics addressed in Pittel's research include stochastic processes and statistical mechanics, game theory and voting systems, Markov chains and Monte Carlo methods, limits and structures in graph theory, Bayesian methods and mixture models, complexity and algorithms in graphs, and advanced graph theory research.

Recent academic contributions by Boris Pittel include the following publications:

On random stable matchings: Cyclic ones with strict preferences and two-sided ones with partially ordered preferences, 2020, Advances in Applied Mathematics
On a perfect matching in a random digraph with average out-degree below two, 2020, Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series B
Expected Number of Induced Subtrees Shared by Two Independent Copies of a Random Tree, 2023, SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics
On Bollobás-Riordan random pairing model of preferential attachment graph, 2020, Random Structures and Algorithms
The critical beta-splitting random tree I: Heights and related results, 2025, The Annals of Applied Probability

Pittel frequently publishes in several academic venues, with a notable presence in:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Random Structures and Algorithms
Annals of Combinatorics
Advances in Applied Mathematics
Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series B

Their research collaborations involve several co-authors across different publications, including:

Miklós Bóna
Ovidiu Costin
David Aldous
Michał Karoński
Ed Overman

Best Publications

On spreading a rumor

Boris Pittel

588
Citations
Sudden Emergence of a Giantk-Core in a Random Graph

Boris Pittel;Joel Spencer;Nicholas Wormald

529
Citations
The birth of the giant component

Svante Janson;Donald E. Knuth;Tomasz Łuczak;Boris Pittel

524
Citations
Note on the heights of random recursive trees and random m ‐ary search trees

Boris Pittel

278
Citations
Bootstrap percolation on the random regular graph

József Balogh;Boris G. Pittel

224
Citations
On tree census and the giant component in sparse random graphs

Boris Pittel

201
Citations
Closed Exponential Networks of Queues with Saturation: The Jackson-Type Stationary Distribution and Its Asymptotic Analysis

B. Pittel

180
Citations
The structure of a random graph at the point of the phase transition

Tomasz Łuczak;Boris Pittel;John C. Wierman

178
Citations
Paths in a random digital tree: limiting distributions

Boris Pittel

173
Citations
Maximum matchings in sparse random graphs: Karp-Sipser revisited

Jonathan Aronson;Alan Frieze;Boris G. Pittel

169
Citations
The Average Number of Stable Matchings

Unknown

168
Citations
Asymptotical Growth of a Class of Random Trees

Unknown

153
Citations
On growing random binary trees

Boris Pittel

149
Citations
The first cycles in an evolving graph

P. Flajolet;D. E. Knuth;B. Pittel

139
Citations
Size of the largest cluster under zero-range invariant measures

Intae Jeon;Peter March;Boris Pittel

125
Citations
On a Likely Shape of the Random Ferrers Diagram

Boris Pittel

123
Citations
Counting connected graphs inside-out

Boris Pittel;Nicholas C. Wormald

119
Citations
Phase transition and finite-size scaling for the integer partitioning problem

Christian Borgs;Jennifer Chayes;Boris Pittel

97
Citations
Analysis of the space of search trees under the random insertion algorithm

Hosam M. Hahmoud;Boris Pittel

96
Citations
A recurrence related to trees

Donald E. Knuth;Boris Pittel

93
Citations
Stable husbands

Donald E. Knuth;Rajeev Motwani;Boris Pittel

89
Citations
On Likely Solutions of a Stable Marriage Problem

Boris Pittel

75
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Nicholas C. Wormald Monash University

Donald E. Knuth Stanford University

Christian Borgs University of California, Berkeley

Jennifer Chayes University of California, Berkeley

Alan Frieze Carnegie Mellon University

Tomasz Łuczak Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań

Gregory B. Sorkin London School of Economics and Political Science

József Balogh University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Svante Janson Uppsala University

Joel L. Lebowitz Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

External Links

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