2026 Elchanan Mossel: Mathematics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	66	2363	2293	1175	1134	298	13909
Mathematics	66	367	304	198	151	298	14023

Elchanan Mossel 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 Elchanan Mossel sits on this spectrum.

42 publications 537+

This scientist: 298 publications — 86th percentile

86% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Elchanan Mossel 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 Elchanan Mossel sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 86+

This scientist: 66 D-Index — 90th percentile

90% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

2019 - Fellow of the American Mathematical Society For contributions to probability, combinatorics, computing, and especially the interface between them.
2005 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Elchanan Mossel is a researcher primarily affiliated with MIT in the United States. Their work spans across the field of Computer Science, with a focus on subfields such as Artificial Intelligence, Computational Theory and Mathematics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Statistics and Probability, and Management Science and Operations Research. The researcher's publications address a range of topics within these areas.

Notable topics in Mossel's research include:

Complex Network Analysis Techniques
Machine Learning and Algorithms
Complexity and Algorithms in Graphs
Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence
Markov Chains and Monte Carlo Methods
Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference
Game Theory and Applications

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Mossel cover various aspects of graph theory, opinion dynamics, and related computational problems. Examples include:

Seeded graph matching via large neighborhood statistics, 2020, Random Structures and Algorithms
Minimum Neighboring Degree Realization in Graphs and Trees, 2020, Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl)

Frequent coauthors in Mossel's scholarly output are Ilias Zadik, Colin Sandon, Youngtak Sohn, Ali Jadbabaie, and Julia Gaudio. Collaboration with these researchers appears consistently across multiple publications.

Mossel's research has been published in several venues with varying frequencies. The most frequent publication venues include:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Random Structures and Algorithms
Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl)
Operations Research
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Elchanan Mossel has been recognized with honors such as the Fellowship of the American Mathematical Society in 2019 for contributions spanning probability, combinatorics, and computing. Additionally, they have been named a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2005.

Best Publications

Optimal Inapproximability Results for MAX-CUT and Other 2-Variable CSPs?

Subhash Khot;Guy Kindler;Elchanan Mossel;Ryan O’Donnell

835
Citations
Spectral redemption in clustering sparse networks

Florent Krzakala;Cristopher Moore;Elchanan Mossel;Joseph Neeman

743
Citations
On approximately fair allocations of indivisible goods

R. J. Lipton;E. Markakis;E. Mossel;A. Saberi

571
Citations
Reconstruction and estimation in the planted partition model

Elchanan Mossel;Joseph Neeman;Allan Sly;Allan Sly

386
Citations
Noise stability of functions with low influences: Invariance and optimality

Elchanan Mossel;Ryan O’Donnell;Krzysztof Oleszkiewicz

375
Citations
A Proof of the Block Model Threshold Conjecture

Elchanan Mossel;Joe Neeman;Allan Sly

334
Citations
On the submodularity of influence in social networks

Elchanan Mossel;Sebastien Roch

289
Citations
Stochastic Block Models and Reconstruction

Elchanan Mossel;Joe Neeman;Allan Sly

278
Citations
Incomplete Lineage Sorting: Consistent Phylogeny Estimation from Multiple Loci

Elchanan Mossel;Sebastien Roch

199
Citations
Phylogenetic MCMC Algorithms Are Misleading on Mixtures of Trees

Elchanan Mossel;Elchanan Mossel;Eric Vigoda;Eric Vigoda

195
Citations
Noisy sorting without resampling

Mark Braverman;Elchanan Mossel

193
Citations
Random biochemical networks: the probability of self-sustaining autocatalysis.

Elchanan Mossel;Mike Steel

191
Citations
Glauber dynamics on trees and hyperbolic graphs

Noam Berger;Claire Kenyon;Elchanan Mossel;Yuval Peres

183
Citations
Gaussian Bounds for Noise Correlation of Functions

Elchanan Mossel;Elchanan Mossel

181
Citations
Belief propagation, robust reconstruction and optimal recovery of block models

Elchanan Mossel;Elchanan Mossel;Joe Neeman;Joe Neeman;Allan M. Sly;Allan M. Sly

180
Citations
Noise stability of functions with low influences: Invariance and optimality

E. Mossel;R. O'Donnell;K. Oleszkiewicz

179
Citations
Majority dynamics and aggregation of information in social networks

Elchanan Mossel;Joe Neeman;Omer Tamuz

171
Citations
Learning functions of k relevant variables

Elchanan Mossel;Ryan O'Donnell;Rocco A. Servedio

162
Citations
Phase transitions in phylogeny

Elchanan Mossel

158
Citations
Information flow on trees

Elchanan Mossel;Yuval Peres

157
Citations
Optimal inapproximability results for MAX-CUT and other 2-variable CSPs?

S. Khot;G. Kindler;E. Mossel;R. O'Donnell

154
Citations
Glauber dynamics on trees and hyperbolic graphs

C. Kenyon;E. Mossel;Y. Peres

72
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Allan Sly Princeton University

Ryan O'Donnell Carnegie Mellon University

Mike Steel University of Canterbury

Constantinos Daskalakis MIT

Luca Trevisan Bocconi University

Ankur Moitra MIT

Amir Shpilka Tel Aviv University

Nathan Keller Bar-Ilan University

Sébastien Bubeck Microsoft (United States)

Gil Kalai Hebrew University of Jerusalem

External Links

Wikipedia of Elchanan Mossel Personal website of Elchanan Mossel Google Scholar page

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