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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Mathematics 116 18 17 13 12 634 92742

Chi-Wang Shu publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Chi-Wang Shu between 1986 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Chi-Wang Shu published across 40 years, from 1986 to 2025, averaging 18.9 papers a year. Output peaked at 45 publications in 2011. 63 of the 756 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
10 20 30 40
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1986 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 45. Peak 45 publications in 2011. 1986: 1 publication 1987: 3 publications 1988: 4 publications 1989: 5 publications 1990: 4 publications 1991: 6 publications 1992: 9 publications 1993: 5 publications 1994: 6 publications 1995: 10 publications 1996: 8 publications 1997: 5 publications 1998: 13 publications 1999: 6 publications 2000: 16 publications 2001: 15 publications 2002: 13 publications 2003: 20 publications 2004: 16 publications 2005: 24 publications 2006: 25 publications 2007: 34 publications 2008: 23 publications 2009: 31 publications 2010: 20 publications 2011: 45 publications 2012: 28 publications 2013: 27 publications 2014: 13 publications 2015: 22 publications 2016: 22 publications 2017: 33 publications 2018: 23 publications 2019: 31 publications 2020: 34 publications 2021: 36 publications 2022: 35 publications 2023: 22 publications 2024: 32 publications 2025: 31 publications
1986 2025

756 publications in total across all disciplines

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Chi-Wang Shu: publications per year, 1986 to 2025
Year Publications
1986 1
1987 3
1988 4
1989 5
1990 4
1991 6
1992 9
1993 5
1994 6
1995 10
1996 8
1997 5
1998 13
1999 6
2000 16
2001 15
2002 13
2003 20
2004 16
2005 24
2006 25
2007 34
2008 23
2009 31
2010 20
2011 45
2012 28
2013 27
2014 13
2015 22
2016 22
2017 33
2018 23
2019 31
2020 34
2021 36
2022 35
2023 22
2024 32
2025 31
Total 756
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Chi-Wang Shu publications per year - data summary

  • Chi-Wang Shu, a Mathematics scholar from Brown University, has 756 publications recorded across 40 years, from 1986 to 2025.
  • The oldest publication on record dates to 1986 and the most recent to 2025.
  • The most productive year is 2011, with 45 publications.
  • The least productive year with any output is 1986, with 1 publication.
  • The rate of publication averages 18.9 papers per year over the whole span, or 18.9 per year counting only the 40 years with at least one publication.
  • The last 5 years on the chart (2021-2025) hold 156 publications, 21% of the career total.
  • Split into equal eras - 1986-1999: 85 publications (6.1 per year); 2000-2013: 337 publications (24.1 per year); 2014-2025: 334 publications (27.8 per year).
  • Comparing the opening and closing eras, the overall trend of publication is rising.

Chi-Wang Shu 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 Chi-Wang Shu sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
25 50 75 100
Bar chart with 100 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 42–46 to 537+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 112. Most scientists, 112, have 142–146 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 537 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 537+ publications, is where this scientist sits. 42–46 publications: 3 scientists 47–51 publications: 5 scientists 52–56 publications: 7 scientists 57–61 publications: 20 scientists 62–66 publications: 14 scientists 67–71 publications: 25 scientists 72–76 publications: 19 scientists 77–81 publications: 35 scientists 82–86 publications: 50 scientists 87–91 publications: 60 scientists 92–96 publications: 86 scientists 97–101 publications: 84 scientists 102–106 publications: 83 scientists 107–111 publications: 90 scientists 112–116 publications: 99 scientists 117–121 publications: 90 scientists 122–126 publications: 91 scientists 127–131 publications: 109 scientists 132–136 publications: 110 scientists 137–141 publications: 98 scientists 142–146 publications: 112 scientists 147–151 publications: 102 scientists 152–156 publications: 88 scientists 157–161 publications: 106 scientists 162–166 publications: 83 scientists 167–171 publications: 102 scientists 172–176 publications: 77 scientists 177–181 publications: 81 scientists 182–186 publications: 78 scientists 187–191 publications: 71 scientists 192–196 publications: 92 scientists 197–201 publications: 64 scientists 202–206 publications: 69 scientists 207–211 publications: 64 scientists 212–216 publications: 62 scientists 217–221 publications: 58 scientists 222–226 publications: 53 scientists 227–231 publications: 50 scientists 232–236 publications: 46 scientists 237–241 publications: 46 scientists 242–246 publications: 46 scientists 247–251 publications: 43 scientists 252–256 publications: 29 scientists 257–261 publications: 45 scientists 262–266 publications: 30 scientists 267–271 publications: 33 scientists 272–276 publications: 34 scientists 277–281 publications: 30 scientists 282–286 publications: 31 scientists 287–291 publications: 21 scientists 292–296 publications: 34 scientists 297–301 publications: 26 scientists 302–306 publications: 10 scientists 307–311 publications: 17 scientists 312–316 publications: 23 scientists 317–321 publications: 13 scientists 322–326 publications: 16 scientists 327–331 publications: 26 scientists 332–336 publications: 13 scientists 337–341 publications: 13 scientists 342–346 publications: 16 scientists 347–351 publications: 17 scientists 352–356 publications: 12 scientists 357–361 publications: 18 scientists 362–366 publications: 18 scientists 367–371 publications: 9 scientists 372–376 publications: 11 scientists 377–381 publications: 8 scientists 382–386 publications: 8 scientists 387–391 publications: 9 scientists 392–396 publications: 9 scientists 397–401 publications: 8 scientists 402–406 publications: 11 scientists 407–411 publications: 6 scientists 412–416 publications: 6 scientists 417–421 publications: 9 scientists 422–426 publications: 8 scientists 427–431 publications: 5 scientists 432–436 publications: 8 scientists 437–441 publications: 8 scientists 442–446 publications: 4 scientists 447–451 publications: 4 scientists 452–456 publications: 4 scientists 457–461 publications: 2 scientists 462–466 publications: 2 scientists 467–471 publications: 4 scientists 472–476 publications: 3 scientists 477–481 publications: 3 scientists 482–486 publications: 6 scientists 487–491 publications: 3 scientists 492–496 publications: 5 scientists 497–501 publications: 5 scientists 502–506 publications: 1 scientist 507–511 publications: 6 scientists 512–516 publications: 4 scientists 517–521 publications: 1 scientist 522–526 publications: 3 scientists 527–531 publications: 1 scientist 532–536 publications: 4 scientists 537+ publications: 100 scientists
42–46 publications 537+

This scientist: 634 publications — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Mathematics scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 3,584 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
42–46 3
47–51 5
52–56 7
57–61 20
62–66 14
67–71 25
72–76 19
77–81 35
82–86 50
87–91 60
92–96 86
97–101 84
102–106 83
107–111 90
112–116 99
117–121 90
122–126 91
127–131 109
132–136 110
137–141 98
142–146 112
147–151 102
152–156 88
157–161 106
162–166 83
167–171 102
172–176 77
177–181 81
182–186 78
187–191 71
192–196 92
197–201 64
202–206 69
207–211 64
212–216 62
217–221 58
222–226 53
227–231 50
232–236 46
237–241 46
242–246 46
247–251 43
252–256 29
257–261 45
262–266 30
267–271 33
272–276 34
277–281 30
282–286 31
287–291 21
292–296 34
297–301 26
302–306 10
307–311 17
312–316 23
317–321 13
322–326 16
327–331 26
332–336 13
337–341 13
342–346 16
347–351 17
352–356 12
357–361 18
362–366 18
367–371 9
372–376 11
377–381 8
382–386 8
387–391 9
392–396 9
397–401 8
402–406 11
407–411 6
412–416 6
417–421 9
422–426 8
427–431 5
432–436 8
437–441 8
442–446 4
447–451 4
452–456 4
457–461 2
462–466 2
467–471 4
472–476 3
477–481 3
482–486 6
487–491 3
492–496 5
497–501 5
502–506 1
507–511 6
512–516 4
517–521 1
522–526 3
527–531 1
532–536 4
537+ 100 634
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Chi-Wang Shu publication distribution in Mathematics in 2026 - data summary

  • The chart plots the publication count of all 3,584 Mathematics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026, grouped into 100 ranges running from 42–46 to 537+ publications.
  • Chi-Wang Shu, a Mathematics scholar from Brown University, records 634 publications - the 98th percentile of the discipline.
  • 98% of ranked Mathematics scientists score the same or lower than Chi-Wang Shu, and about 2% score higher.
  • The median of the discipline falls in the 172–176 publications range, and Chi-Wang Shu ranks above the median.
  • The most crowded range is 142–146 publications, holding 112 scientists (3% of the field).
  • 47% of the field sits in the lowest quarter of the value range (up to 162–166 publications), so the distribution leans towards the lower end of the scale.
  • The final bar has no upper bound: it groups every scientist with 537 publications or more, 100 scientists in all (3% of the field).

Chi-Wang Shu 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 Chi-Wang Shu sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
50 100 150
Bar chart with 57 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 86+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 174. Most scientists, 174, have 30 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 86 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 86+ D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 30 D-Index: 174 scientists 31 D-Index: 151 scientists 32 D-Index: 174 scientists 33 D-Index: 117 scientists 34 D-Index: 136 scientists 35 D-Index: 127 scientists 36 D-Index: 145 scientists 37 D-Index: 153 scientists 38 D-Index: 150 scientists 39 D-Index: 150 scientists 40 D-Index: 138 scientists 41 D-Index: 136 scientists 42 D-Index: 93 scientists 43 D-Index: 108 scientists 44 D-Index: 115 scientists 45 D-Index: 112 scientists 46 D-Index: 103 scientists 47 D-Index: 75 scientists 48 D-Index: 59 scientists 49 D-Index: 67 scientists 50 D-Index: 60 scientists 51 D-Index: 57 scientists 52 D-Index: 59 scientists 53 D-Index: 62 scientists 54 D-Index: 60 scientists 55 D-Index: 50 scientists 56 D-Index: 42 scientists 57 D-Index: 54 scientists 58 D-Index: 50 scientists 59 D-Index: 42 scientists 60 D-Index: 41 scientists 61 D-Index: 35 scientists 62 D-Index: 40 scientists 63 D-Index: 21 scientists 64 D-Index: 31 scientists 65 D-Index: 27 scientists 66 D-Index: 29 scientists 67 D-Index: 19 scientists 68 D-Index: 25 scientists 69 D-Index: 17 scientists 70 D-Index: 18 scientists 71 D-Index: 12 scientists 72 D-Index: 14 scientists 73 D-Index: 13 scientists 74 D-Index: 18 scientists 75 D-Index: 9 scientists 76 D-Index: 11 scientists 77 D-Index: 10 scientists 78 D-Index: 9 scientists 79 D-Index: 16 scientists 80 D-Index: 12 scientists 81 D-Index: 10 scientists 82 D-Index: 5 scientists 83 D-Index: 5 scientists 84 D-Index: 13 scientists 85 D-Index: 6 scientists 86+ D-Index: 99 scientists
30 D-Index 86+

This scientist: 116 D-Index — 100th percentile

100% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

View D-Index distribution as a table
Number of Mathematics scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 3,584 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 174
31 151
32 174
33 117
34 136
35 127
36 145
37 153
38 150
39 150
40 138
41 136
42 93
43 108
44 115
45 112
46 103
47 75
48 59
49 67
50 60
51 57
52 59
53 62
54 60
55 50
56 42
57 54
58 50
59 42
60 41
61 35
62 40
63 21
64 31
65 27
66 29
67 19
68 25
69 17
70 18
71 12
72 14
73 13
74 18
75 9
76 11
77 10
78 9
79 16
80 12
81 10
82 5
83 5
84 13
85 6
86+ 99 116
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Chi-Wang Shu D-index placement in Mathematics in 2026 - data summary

  • The chart plots the discipline H-index (D-index) of all 3,584 Mathematics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026, grouped into 57 ranges running from 30 to 86+ D-Index.
  • Chi-Wang Shu, a Mathematics scholar from Brown University, records 116 D-Index - the 100th percentile of the discipline.
  • 100% of ranked Mathematics scientists score the same or lower than Chi-Wang Shu, and about 0% score higher.
  • The median of the discipline falls in the 42 D-Index range, and Chi-Wang Shu ranks above the median.
  • The most crowded range is 30 D-Index, holding 174 scientists (5% of the field).
  • 58% of the field sits in the lowest quarter of the value range (up to 44 D-Index), so the distribution is heavily right-skewed and high scores are rare.
  • The final bar has no upper bound: it groups every scientist with 86 D-Index or more, 99 scientists in all (3% of the field).

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Mathematics in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Mathematics in United States Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Mathematics in United States Leader Award
  • 2021 - John von Neumann Lecturer
  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
  • 2009 - SIAM Fellow For contributions to the numerical solution of partial differential equations including discontinuous Galerkin methods.
  • 2007 - SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering For the development of numerical methods that have had a great impact on scientific computing, including TVD temporal discretizations, ENO and WENO finite difference schemes, discontinuous Galerkin methods, and spectral methods.

Overview

Chi-Wang Shu is affiliated with Brown University in the United States and is recognized for extensive work in computational mathematics and engineering. Their research encompasses a broad range of topics within numerical methods and computational fluid dynamics, focusing on solving complex partial differential equations.

Their recent publications include:

  • Essentially non-oscillatory and weighted essentially non-oscillatory schemes (2020, Acta Numerica)
  • Review of Entropy Stable Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Systems of Conservation Laws on Unstructured Simplex Meshes (2020, CSIAM Transactions on Applied Mathematics)
  • An Oscillation-free Discontinuous Galerkin Method for Scalar Hyperbolic Conservation Laws (2021, SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis)
  • An Essentially Oscillation-Free Discontinuous Galerkin Method for Hyperbolic Systems (2022, SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing)
  • Provably physical-constraint-preserving discontinuous Galerkin methods for multidimensional relativistic MHD equations (2021, Numerische Mathematik)

Frequent co-authors working closely with Chi-Wang Shu include:

  • Mengping Zhang
  • Juan Cheng
  • Jianxian Qiu
  • Sergio Amat
  • Yong Liu

The scientist's work is regularly published in journals such as:

  • Journal of Computational Physics
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Communications on Applied Mathematics and Computation
  • Journal of Scientific Computing
  • SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis

Chi-Wang Shu's scholarly contributions also include a book published by the American Mathematical Society entitled 75 Years of Mathematics of Computation (2020).

Major fields of study covered by their research are:

  • Engineering
  • Mathematics

Subfields of interest include:

  • Computational Mechanics
  • Numerical Analysis
  • Applied Mathematics
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Computational Theory and Mathematics

Their work touches on main topics such as:

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics
  • Advanced Numerical Methods in Computational Mathematics
  • Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows
  • Numerical methods for differential equations
  • Differential Equations and Numerical Methods
  • Gas Dynamics and Kinetic Theory
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations

Throughout their career, Chi-Wang Shu has received several awards, including:

  • John von Neumann Lecturer (2021)
  • Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2013)
  • SIAM Fellow (2009) for contributions to numerical solutions of partial differential equations including discontinuous Galerkin methods
  • SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering (2007) for the development of influential numerical methods such as TVD temporal discretizations, ENO and WENO finite difference schemes, discontinuous Galerkin methods, and spectral methods

Best Publications

  • Efficient Implementation of Weighted ENO Schemes

    Guang-Shan Jiang;Chi-Wang Shu

  • Efficient implementation of essentially non-oscillatory shock-capturing schemes,II

    Chi-Wang Shu;Stanley Osher

  • Efficient implementation of essentially non-oscillatory shock-capturing schemes, II

    Unknown

  • The Runge-Kutta Discontinuous Galerkin Method for Conservation Laws V

    Bernardo Cockburn;Chi-Wang Shu

  • Total variation diminishing Runge-Kutta schemes

    Sigal Gottlieb;Chi-Wang Shu

  • Strong Stability-Preserving High-Order Time Discretization Methods

    Sigal Gottlieb;Chi-Wang Shu;Eitan Tadmor

  • The Local Discontinuous Galerkin Method for Time-Dependent Convection-Diffusion Systems

    Bernardo Cockburn;Chi-Wang Shu

  • Essentially Non-Oscillatory and Weighted Essentially Non-Oscillatory Schemes for Hyperbolic Conservation Laws

    Chi-Wang Shu

  • TVB Runge-Kutta local projection discontinuous galerkin finite element method for conservation laws. II: General framework

    Bernardo Cockburn;Chi Wang Shu

  • The Development of Discontinuous Galerkin Methods

    Bernardo Cockburn;George E. Karniadakis;Chi-Wang Shu

  • Runge-Kutta discontinuous Galerkin methods for convection-dominated problems

    Bernardo Cockburn;Chi-Wang Shu

  • TVB Runge-Kutta local projection discontinuous Galerkin finite element method for conservation laws III: one-dimensional systems

    B. Cockburn;S.-Y. Lin;C.-W. Shu

  • The Runge-Kutta local projection discontinuous Galerkin finite element method for conservation laws. IV. The multidimensional case

    Bernardo Cockburn;Bernardo Cockburn;Suchung Hou;Suchung Hou;Chi Wang Shu;Chi Wang Shu

  • Monotonicity Preserving Weighted Essentially Non-oscillatory Schemes with Increasingly High Order of Accuracy

    Dinshaw S. Balsara;Chi-Wang Shu

  • Total-variation-diminishing time discretizations

    Chi-Wang Shu

  • High Order Weighted Essentially Nonoscillatory Schemes for Convection Dominated Problems

    Chi-Wang Shu

  • High-order essentially nonsocillatory schemes for Hamilton-Jacobi equations

    Stanley Osher;Chi-Wang Shu

  • Discontinuous Galerkin Methods: Theory, Computation and Applications

    Bernardo Cockburn;George E. Karniadakis;Chi-Wang Shu

  • On the Gibbs Phenomenon and Its Resolution

    David Gottlieb;Chi-Wang Shu

  • Weighted Essentially Non-oscillatory Schemes on Triangular Meshes

    Changqing Hu;Chi-Wang Shu

  • Review Article Runge-Kutta Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Convection-Dominated Problems

    Bernardo Cockburn;Chi-Wang Shu

Frequent Co-Authors

Irene M. Gamba
Irene M. Gamba The University of Texas at Austin
Bernardo Cockburn
Bernardo Cockburn University of Minnesota
Sze Chun Wong
Sze Chun Wong University of Hong Kong
José A. Carrillo
José A. Carrillo University of Oxford
David Gottlieb
David Gottlieb Brown University
Weinan E
Weinan E Princeton University
Stanley Osher
Stanley Osher University of California, Los Angeles
Eitan Tadmor
Eitan Tadmor University of Maryland, College Park
Carlo Cercignani
Carlo Cercignani Polytechnic University of Milan
Rémi Abgrall
Rémi Abgrall University of Zurich

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