2026 János Pach: Mathematics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Mathematics	71	261	221	4	3	470	16592
Engineering and Technology	71	983	928	3	2	429	16293

János Pach 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 János Pach sits on this spectrum.

42 publications 537+

This scientist: 470 publications — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

János Pach 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 János Pach sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 86+

This scientist: 71 D-Index — 93rd percentile

93% 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

2026 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Hungary Leader Award
2026 - Research.com Mathematics in Hungary Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Hungary Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Mathematics in Hungary Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Hungary Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Hungary Leader Award
2016 - Fellow of the American Mathematical Society For contributions to discrete and combinatorial geometry and to convexity and combinatorics.
2014 - Member of Academia Europaea
2011 - ACM Fellow For contributions to computational geometry.

Overview

János Pach is affiliated with the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics in Hungary. Their research intersects the fields of Computer Science and Mathematics, with significant contributions to Computational Theory and Mathematics as well as Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics. They have also worked extensively within the areas of Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design, Geometry and Topology, and Mathematical Physics.

The scientist's work spans a wide range of topics including:

Advanced Graph Theory Research
Computational Geometry and Mesh Generation
Limits and Structures in Graph Theory
Mathematical Dynamics and Fractals
Graph Labeling and Dimension Problems
Advanced Topology and Set Theory
graph theory and CDMA systems

János Pach has published numerous papers in reputable venues. Recent publications include:

"Two extensions of the Erdős-Szekeres problem" (2020), Journal of the European Mathematical Society
"On the chromatic number of disjointness graphs of curves" (2020), Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series B
"Sunflowers in Set Systems of Bounded Dimension" (2023), COMBINATORICA
"Large Homogeneous Submatrices" (2020), SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics
"Erdős-Hajnal-type results for monotone paths" (2021), Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series B

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series B
SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics
Discrete & Computational Geometry
COMBINATORICA

János Pach has collaborated frequently with a number of scholars, including:

Gábor Tardos
Jacob Fox
Andrew Suk
Gézá Tóth
Péter Frankl

The scientist has been recognized with several awards acknowledging their academic contributions, including:

Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2016) for contributions to discrete and combinatorial geometry and to convexity and combinatorics
Member of Academia Europaea (2014)
ACM Fellow (2011) for contributions to computational geometry

Best Publications

Research Problems in Discrete Geometry

János Pach;Peter Brass;William Moser

1186
Citations
Combinatorial Geometry

Janos Pach;K P Agarwal

1048
Citations
How to draw a planar graph on a grid

H. De Fraysseix;J. Pach;J. Pach;R. Pollack

852
Citations
On the union of Jordan regions and collision-free translational motion amidst polygonal obstacles

Klara Kedem;Ron Livne;János Pach;Micha Sharir

463
Citations
Graphs drawn with few crossings per edge

János Pach;Géza Tóth

408
Citations
The hippocampus as a cognitive graph.

Robert U. Muller;Matt Stead;Janos Pach

406
Citations
Combinatorial Geometry: Pach/Combinatorial

János Pach;Pankaj K. Agarwal

343
Citations
Small sets supporting fary embeddings of planar graphs

Hubert de Fraysseix;János Pach;Richard Pollack

268
Citations
Embedding planar graphs at fixed vertex locations

János Pach;Rephael Wenger

217
Citations
Applications of the crossing number

János Pach;János Pach;Farhad Shahrokhi;Mario Szegedy

201
Citations
On the Number of Incidences Between Points and Curves

János Pach;Micha Sharir

194
Citations
Which Crossing Number Is It Anyway

János Pach;Géza Tóth

192
Citations
Almost tight bounds for e-nets

János Komlós;János Pach;Gerhard Woeginger

191
Citations
Fat Triangles Determine Linearly Many Holes

Jiri Matousek;Janos Pach;Micha Sharir;Shmuel Sifrony

187
Citations
Embedding a planar triangulation with vertices at specified points

János Pach;P. Gritzmann;B. Mohar;Richard Pollack

176
Citations
Improving the Crossing Lemma by Finding More Crossings in Sparse Graphs

Janos Pach;Rados Radoicic;Gabor Tardos;Geza Toth

167
Citations
Quasi-planar graphs have a linear number of edges

Pankaj K. Agarwal;Boris Aronov;János Pach;János Pach;János Pach;Richard Pollack

163
Citations
Repeated angles in the plane and related problems

János Pach;János Pach;Micha Sharir;Micha Sharir

156
Citations
Arrangements of Curves in the Plane- Topology, Combinatorics, and Algorithms

Herbert Edelsbrunner;Leonidas Guibas;János Pach;Richard Pollack

148
Citations
Combinatorial and Computational Geometry

Jacob E. Goodman;Janos Pach;Emo Welzl

109
Citations
Towards a Theory of Geometric Graphs

János Pach

79
Citations
Extremal Graph Theory

János Pach;Pankaj K. Agarwal

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Gábor Tardos Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics

Micha Sharir Tel Aviv University

Jacob Fox Stanford University

Joel Spencer Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences

Paul Erdös Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Peter Frankl Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics

Imre Bárány Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics

Emo Welzl ETH Zurich

Géza Tóth University of the Basque Country

Bruce Reed McGill University

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