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D-Index
60
Citations
56486
World Ranking
527
National Ranking
275

Iain M. Johnstone 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 Iain M. Johnstone sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 537+

This scientist: 117 publications — 20th percentile

20% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Iain M. Johnstone 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 Iain M. Johnstone sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 86+

This scientist: 60 D-Index — 85th percentile

85% 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

  • 2005 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2004 - Wald Memorial Lecturer
  • 2003 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1997 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1995 - Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA)
  • 1995 - COPSS Presidents' Award
  • 1995 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1988 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Iain M. Johnstone is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their main field of study is Mathematics, with a focus on several subfields including Statistics and Probability, Mathematical Physics, Genetics, Molecular Biology, and Economics and Econometrics. Their research topics center around Random Matrices and Applications, Stochastic Processes and Statistical Mechanics, Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference, Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models, Theoretical and Computational Physics, Diffusion and Search Dynamics, and Spatial and Panel Data Analysis.

Among their recent papers are:

  • Testing in high-dimensional spiked models, 2020, The Annals of Statistics
  • Tracy-Widom at each edge of real covariance and MANOVA estimators, 2022, The Annals of Applied Probability
  • On minimax optimality of sparse Bayes predictive density estimates, 2022, The Annals of Statistics
  • Lead pollution and the Roman economy, 2020, Journal of Roman Archaeology
  • An edge CLT for the log determinant of Wigner ensembles, 2024, Bernoulli

The scientist frequently collaborates with the following coauthors:

  • Damian Pavlyshyn
  • Alexei Onatski
  • Yegor Klochkov
  • Zhou Fan
  • Gourab Mukherjee

Their research has been published in venues including:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • The Annals of Statistics
  • The Annals of Applied Probability
  • Journal of Roman Archaeology
  • Bernoulli

Iain M. Johnstone has received several awards throughout their career, such as:

  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 2005
  • Wald Memorial Lecturer, 2004
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2003
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1997
  • COPSS Presidents' Award, 1995
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 1995
  • Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA), 1995
  • Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 1988

Best Publications

  • Ideal spatial adaptation by wavelet shrinkage

    David L. Donoho;Jain M. Johnstone

  • Least angle regression

    Bradley Efron;Trevor Hastie;Iain Johnstone;Robert Tibshirani

  • Adapting to Unknown Smoothness via Wavelet Shrinkage

    David L. Donoho;Iain M. Johnstone

  • On the distribution of the largest eigenvalue in principal components analysis

    Iain M. Johnstone

  • Wavelet Shrinkage: Asymptopia?

    David L. Donoho;Iain M. Johnstone;Gérard Kerkyacharian;Dominique Picard

  • Minimax estimation via wavelet shrinkage

    David L. Donoho;Iain M. Johnstone

  • Wavelet threshold estimators for data with correlated noise

    Iain M. Johnstone;Bernard W. Silverman

  • Prostate Specific Antigen in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Adenocarcinoma of the Prostate. II. Radical Prostatectomy Treated Patients

    Thomas A. Stamey;John N. Kabalin;John E. Mcneal;Iain M. Johnstone

  • Density estimation by wavelet thresholding

    David L. Donoho;Iain M. Johnstone;Gérard Kerkyacharian;Dominique Picard

  • Biological determinants of cancer progression in men with prostate cancer.

    Thomas A. Stamey;John E. McNeal;Cheryl M. Yemoto;Bronislava M. Sigal

  • Needles and straw in haystacks: Empirical Bayes estimates of possibly sparse sequences

    Iain M. Johnstone;Bernard W. Silverman

  • Adapting to unknown sparsity by controlling the false discovery rate

    Felix Abramovich;Yoav Benjamini;David L. Donoho;Iain M. Johnstone

  • Maximum entropy and the nearly black object

    David L. Donoho;Iain M. Johnstone;Jeffrey C. Hoch;Alan S. Stern

  • Statistical challenges of high-dimensional data.

    Iain M. Johnstone;D. Michael Titterington

  • Medical Care Costs and Quality of Life after Randomization to Coronary Angioplasty or Coronary Bypass Surgery

    M A Hlatky;W J Rogers;I Johnstone;D Boothroyd

  • Empirical Bayes selection of wavelet thresholds

    Iain M. Johnstone;Bernard W. Silverman

  • Normalization, testing, and false discovery rate estimation for RNA-sequencing data

    Jun Li;Daniela M. Witten;Iain M. Johnstone;Robert Tibshirani

  • Ideal denoising in an orthonormal basis chosen from a library of bases

    D. L. Donoho;I. M. Johnstone

  • Threshold selection for wavelet shrinkage of noisy data

    D.L. Donoho;I.M. Johnstone

  • Sparse Principal Components Analysis

    Iain M. Johnstone;Arthur Yu Lu

Frequent Co-Authors

David L. Donoho
David L. Donoho Stanford University
Thomas A. Stamey
Thomas A. Stamey Stanford University
Bernard W. Silverman
Bernard W. Silverman University of Oxford
Gerard Kerkyacharian
Gerard Kerkyacharian Université Paris Cité
Dominique Picard
Dominique Picard Université Paris Cité
John E. McNeal
John E. McNeal Stanford University
Bradley Efron
Bradley Efron Stanford University
Mark A. Hlatky
Mark A. Hlatky Stanford University
Trevor Hastie
Trevor Hastie Stanford University
Robert Tibshirani
Robert Tibshirani Stanford University

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