2026 Erich Novak: Mathematics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Mathematics	31	3281	2927	200	183	179	6655

Erich Novak 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 Erich Novak sits on this spectrum.

42 publications 537+

This scientist: 179 publications — 53rd percentile

53% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Erich Novak 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 Erich Novak sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 86+

This scientist: 31 D-Index — 9th percentile

9% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Erich Novak is affiliated with Friedrich Schiller University Jena in Germany and specializes in the field of Mathematics, with a focus on Numerical Analysis, Statistics and Probability, Applied Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence, and Algebra and Number Theory.

Their research spans various topics, primarily concentrating on Mathematical Approximation and Integration. Additional areas of work include Statistical Methods and Inference, Analytic Number Theory Research, Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications, Machine Learning and Algorithms, Matrix Theory and Algorithms, and Advanced Numerical Methods in Computational Mathematics.

Novak has contributed extensively to the Journal of Complexity, with a total of 35 publications in this venue. Other frequent publication venues include arXiv (Cornell University) with 10 papers, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, Mathematics of Computation, and the Journal of Approximation Theory.

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Novak include:

Random sections of ellipsoids and the power of random information (2021), Transactions of the American Mathematical Society
Lower bounds for integration and recovery in L2 (2022), Journal of Complexity
Recovery of Sobolev functions restricted to iid sampling (2022), Mathematics of Computation
Randomized approximation of summable sequences - adaptive and non-adaptive (2024), Journal of Approximation Theory
The curse of dimensionality for the L-discrepancy with finite p (2023), Journal of Complexity

Frequent collaborators of Novak include David Krieg, Friedrich Pillichshammer, Henryk Woźniakowski, Aicke Hinrichs, and Mario Ullrich.

Best Publications

High dimensional polynomial interpolation on sparse grids

Volker Barthelmann;Erich Novak;Klaus Ritter

856
Citations
Tractability of Multivariate Problems

Henryk Woźniakowski

564
Citations
Tractability of Multivariate Problems Volume II: Standard Information for Functionals

Erich Novak;Henryk Woźniakowski

507
Citations
Deterministic and Stochastic Error Bounds in Numerical Analysis

Erich Novak

502
Citations
High dimensional integration of smooth functions over cubes

Erich Novak;Klaus Ritter

499
Citations
Tractability of Multivariate Problems: Volume I: Linear Information

Erich Novak;Henryk Woźniakowski

465
Citations
Simple Cubature Formulas with High Polynomial Exactness

Erich Novak;Klaus Ritter

345
Citations
Tractability of Multivariate Problems, Volume III: Standard Information for Operators.

Erich Novak;Henryk Woźniakowski

247
Citations
The inverse of the star-discrepancy depends linearly on the dimension

Stefan Heinrich;Henryk Woźniakowski;Grzegorz W. Wasilkowski;Erich Novak

191
Citations
The Curse of Dimension and a Universal Method For Numerical Integration

Erich Novak;Klaus Ritter

140
Citations
Monte Carlo-Algorithmen

Thomas Müller-Gronbach;Erich Novak;Klaus Ritter

139
Citations
Quantum Complexity of Integration

Erich Novak

124
Citations
Approximation of infinitely differentiable multivariate functions is intractable

Erich Novak;Henryk Woniakowski

106
Citations
Function Spaces in Lipschitz Domains and Optimal Rates of Convergence for Sampling

Erich Novak;Hans Triebel

102
Citations
Intractability Results for Integration and Discrepancy

Erich Novak;H. Woźniakowski

90
Citations
The Real Number Model in Numerical Analysis

E. Novak

88
Citations
On the power of adaption

Erich Novak

84
Citations
Optimal approximation of elliptic problems by linear and nonlinear mappings I

Stephan Dahlke;Erich Novak;Winfried Sickel

83
Citations
Foundations of Computational Mathematics: When are integration and discrepancy tractable?

Unknown

81
Citations
Tractability of Approximation for Weighted Korobov Spaces on Classical and Quantum Computers

Erich Novak;Ian H. Sloan;Henryk Wo’zniakowski

78
Citations
Optimal Order of Convergence and (In)Tractability of Multivariate Approximation of Smooth Functions

Erich Novak;Henryk Woźniakowski;Henryk Woźniakowski

71
Citations
The curse of dimensionality for numerical integration of smooth functions

A. Hinrichs;E. Novak;M. Ullrich;H. Woźniakowski

40
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Henryk Woźniakowski University of Warsaw

Ian H. Sloan University of New South Wales

Joseph F. Traub Columbia University

Winfried Sickel Friedrich Schiller University Jena

Stephan Dahlke Philipp University of Marburg

Josef Dick University of New South Wales

Vladimir Temlyakov Lomonosov Moscow State University

Hans Triebel Friedrich Schiller University Jena

External Links

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