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D-Index
59
Citations
37608
World Ranking
570
National Ranking
294

Herbert Robbins 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 Herbert Robbins sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 537+

This scientist: 156 publications — 41st percentile

41% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Herbert Robbins 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 Herbert Robbins sits on this spectrum.

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: 59 D-Index — 84th percentile

84% 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

  • 1975 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1974 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1969 - Wald Memorial Lecturer
  • 1952 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1950 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Herbert Robbins was affiliated with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in the United States. The academic profile does not list specific publications or research papers attributed to them. There are no recorded frequent co-authors or common publication venues associated with their work.

Details regarding the primary fields or subfields of study, as well as main topics of research, are not specified in the available data.

Throughout their career, Robbins received several awards recognizing their contributions to the scientific community. These honors included:

  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1952
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 1950
  • Wald Memorial Lecturer, 1969
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 1974
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1975

The awards span from 1950 to 1975, reflecting a sustained period of recognition. The absence of detailed publication or research topic information limits the ability to outline specific scientific contributions or thematic focus areas.

Best Publications

  • A Stochastic Approximation Method

    Herbert Robbins;Sutton Monro

  • Asymptotically efficient adaptive allocation rules

    T.L Lai;Herbert Robbins

  • Some aspects of the sequential design of experiments

    Herbert Robbins

  • An Empirical Bayes Approach to Statistics

    Herbert E. Robbins

  • Complete Convergence and the Law of Large Numbers

    P. L. Hsu;Herbert Robbins

  • Great expectations: The theory of optimal stopping

    Yuan Shih Chow;Herbert Ellis Robbins;David Siegmund

  • What Is Mathematics

    Richard Courant;Herbert Robbins

  • A Remark on Stirling’s Formula

    Herbert Robbins

  • The Empirical Bayes Approach to Statistical Decision Problems

    Herbert Robbins

  • The Central Limit Theorem for Dependent Random Variables

    Wassily Hoeffding;Herbert Robbins

  • A Convergence Theorem for Non Negative Almost Supermartingales and Some Applications

    Unknown

  • ON THE ASYMPTOTIC THEORY OF FIXED-WIDTH SEQUENTIAL CONFIDENCE INTERVALS FOR THE MEAN.

    Unknown

  • What is mathematics : an elementary approach to ideas and methods

    Richard Courant;Herbert Robbins

  • A Theorem on Graphs, with an Application to a Problem of Traffic Control

    Unknown

  • Statistical Methods Related to the Law of the Iterated Logarithm

    Herbert Robbins

  • Strong consistency of least squares estimates in multiple regression II

    T.L Lai;Herbert Robbins;C.Z Wei

  • Minimum Variance Estimation Without Regularity Assumptions

    Unknown

  • Asymptotically Subminimax Solutions of Compound Statistical Decision Problems

    Unknown

  • The asymptotic distribution of the sum of a random number of random variables

    Herbert Robbins

  • Application of the Method of Mixtures to Quadratic Forms in Normal Variates

    Herbert Robbins;E. J. G. Pitman

  • Estimating the Total Probability of the Unobserved Outcomes of an Experiment

    Herbert E. Robbins

  • Boundary Crossing Probabilities for the Wiener Process and Sample Sums

    Herbert Robbins;David Siegmund;David Siegmund

  • Some Thoughts on Empirical Bayes Estimation

    Herbert Robbins

  • Sequential Estimation of the Mean of a Normal Population

    Herbert Robbins

  • Sequential medical trials.

    T. L. Lai;Bruce Levin;Herbert Robbins;David Siegmund

Frequent Co-Authors

Tze Leung Lai
Tze Leung Lai Stanford University
David Siegmund
David Siegmund Stanford University
Cun-Hui Zhang
Cun-Hui Zhang Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Burton H. Singer
Burton H. Singer University of Florida
Herman Chernoff
Herman Chernoff Harvard University
Erich L. Lehmann
Erich L. Lehmann University of California, Berkeley
Irving Kaplansky
Irving Kaplansky University of Chicago
Ulf Grenander
Ulf Grenander Brown University

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