2026 Herbert Robbins: Mathematics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Mathematics	59	570	293	156	37608

Discipline name

D-Index

World Ranking

National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Mathematics

570

293

156

37608

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

13829
Citations
Asymptotically efficient adaptive allocation rules

T.L Lai;Herbert Robbins

3422
Citations
Some aspects of the sequential design of experiments

Herbert Robbins

3161
Citations
An Empirical Bayes Approach to Statistics

Herbert E. Robbins

1341
Citations
Complete Convergence and the Law of Large Numbers

P. L. Hsu;Herbert Robbins

1333
Citations
Great expectations: The theory of optimal stopping

Yuan Shih Chow;Herbert Ellis Robbins;David Siegmund

1161
Citations
What Is Mathematics

Richard Courant;Herbert Robbins

1037
Citations
A Remark on Stirling’s Formula

Herbert Robbins

981
Citations
The Empirical Bayes Approach to Statistical Decision Problems

Herbert Robbins

869
Citations
The Central Limit Theorem for Dependent Random Variables

Wassily Hoeffding;Herbert Robbins

686
Citations
A Convergence Theorem for Non Negative Almost Supermartingales and Some Applications

Unknown

632
Citations
ON THE ASYMPTOTIC THEORY OF FIXED-WIDTH SEQUENTIAL CONFIDENCE INTERVALS FOR THE MEAN.

Unknown

553
Citations
What is mathematics : an elementary approach to ideas and methods

Richard Courant;Herbert Robbins

410
Citations
A Theorem on Graphs, with an Application to a Problem of Traffic Control

Unknown

352
Citations
Statistical Methods Related to the Law of the Iterated Logarithm

Herbert Robbins

334
Citations
Strong consistency of least squares estimates in multiple regression II

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

287
Citations
Minimum Variance Estimation Without Regularity Assumptions

Unknown

282
Citations
Asymptotically Subminimax Solutions of Compound Statistical Decision Problems

Unknown

249
Citations
The asymptotic distribution of the sum of a random number of random variables

Herbert Robbins

221
Citations
Application of the Method of Mixtures to Quadratic Forms in Normal Variates

Herbert Robbins;E. J. G. Pitman

218
Citations
Estimating the Total Probability of the Unobserved Outcomes of an Experiment

Herbert E. Robbins

216
Citations
Boundary Crossing Probabilities for the Wiener Process and Sample Sums

Herbert Robbins;David Siegmund;David Siegmund

212
Citations
Some Thoughts on Empirical Bayes Estimation

Herbert Robbins

208
Citations
Sequential Estimation of the Mean of a Normal Population

Herbert Robbins

203
Citations
Sequential medical trials.

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

29
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Tze Leung Lai Stanford University

David Siegmund Stanford University

Cun-Hui Zhang Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Burton H. Singer University of Florida

Herman Chernoff Harvard University

Erich L. Lehmann University of California, Berkeley

Irving Kaplansky University of Chicago

Ulf Grenander Brown University

External Links

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