2026 Jürgen Jost: Mathematics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Mathematics	69	293	245	19	18	522	17907

Jürgen Jost 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 Jürgen Jost sits on this spectrum.

42 publications 537+

This scientist: 522 publications — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Jürgen Jost 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 Jürgen Jost sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 86+

This scientist: 69 D-Index — 92nd percentile

92% 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

2013 - Fellow of the American Mathematical Society

Overview

Jürgen Jost is affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Germany. The body of their research primarily involves mathematics and computer science, with significant contributions in subfields such as computational theory and mathematics, applied mathematics, geometry and topology, statistical and nonlinear physics, and cognitive neuroscience.

The scientist's work focuses on several main topics including topological and geometric data analysis, geometric analysis and curvature flows, homotopy and cohomology in algebraic topology, complex network analysis techniques, functional brain connectivity studies, neural dynamics and brain function, and graph theory and applications.

Jürgen Jost has published in multiple frequent venues, with a notable presence in arXiv (Cornell University) with 43 publications, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 6, Theory in Biosciences and Scientific Reports each with 4, and Information Geometry with 3 publications.

The recent papers authored or co-authored by Jost include:

Coupled dynamics on hypergraphs: Master stability of steady states and synchronization, 2020, Physical Review. E
An exploratory study of heuristics for anticipating prices, 2021, Management Decision
FORMAN-RICCI CURVATURE FOR HYPERGRAPHS, 2021, Advances in Complex Systems
Random walks and Laplacians on hypergraphs: When do they match?, 2022, Discrete Applied Mathematics
An atlas of fragrance chemicals in children's products, 2021, The Science of The Total Environment

Frequent co-authors include Parvaneh Joharinad, Guillermo Restrepo, Lukas Silvester Barth, Janis Keck, and Areejit Samal.

Jost has also contributed to several book publications under different publishers. Under Springer Nature, notable books include "The Evolution of Chemical Knowledge" (2022), "Lavoisier" (2023), and "Bernhard Riemann - Über die Hypothesen, welche der Geometrie zu Grunde liegen" (2025). Within Mathematics of Data, the books "Mathematical Principles of Topological and Geometric Data Analysis" (2023) and "Data Visualization with Category Theory and Geometry" (2025) are credited. Additionally, Springer International Publishing includes "Niels Bohr" (2022) and "Bernhard Riemann - On the Hypotheses Which Lie at the Bases of Geometry" (2025).

The scientist's academic recognition includes being named a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2013.

Best Publications

Riemannian geometry and geometric analysis

Jürgen Jost

2588
Citations
Two-dimensional geometric variational problems

Jürgen Jost

416
Citations
Nonpositive Curvature: Geometric and Analytic Aspects

Jürgen Jost

413
Citations
Compact Riemann Surfaces: An Introduction to Contemporary Mathematics

Jürgen Jost

371
Citations
Spectral properties and synchronization in coupled map lattices.

Jürgen Jost;Jürgen Jost;Maliackal Poulo Joy

350
Citations
Delays, Connection Topology, and Synchronization of Coupled Chaotic Maps

Fatihcan M. Atay;Jürgen Jost;Andreas Wende

349
Citations
Spectra of combinatorial Laplace operators on simplicial complexes

Danijela Horak;Jürgen Jost;Jürgen Jost;Jürgen Jost

298
Citations
Quantifying unique information

Nils Bertschinger;Johannes Rauh;Eckehard Olbrich;Jürgen Jost

291
Citations
Equilibrium maps between metric spaces

Jürgen Jost

259
Citations
Compact Riemann Surfaces

Jürgen Jost

251
Citations
Convex functionals and generalized harmonic maps into spaces of non positive curvature.

Jürgen Jost

236
Citations
Ollivier's Ricci curvature, local clustering and curvature dimension inequalities on graphs

Jürgen Jost;Jürgen Jost;Jürgen Jost;Shiping Liu;Shiping Liu;Shiping Liu

232
Citations
Existence results for mean field equations

Weiyue Ding;Jürgen Jost;Jiayu Li;Guofang Wang

225
Citations
The differential equation $\Delta u = {8 \pi - 8 \pi he}^u$ on a compact Riemann surface

Weiyue Ding;Jurgen Jost;Jiayu Li;Guofang Wang

200
Citations
Harmonic maps between surfaces : with a special chapter on conformal mappings

Jürgen Jost

197
Citations
The Lp-Spaces

Jürgen Jost

196
Citations
A nonlinear elliptic system for maps from Hermitian to Riemannian manifolds and rigidity theorems in Hermitian geometry

Jürgen Jost;Shing-Tung Yau

194
Citations
The differential equation on a compact Riemann surface

Weiyue Ding;Jürgen Jost;Jiayu Li;Guofang Wang

192
Citations
Harmonic maps between surfaces

Jürgen Jost

179
Citations
Harmonic mappings and minimal submanifolds

S. Hildebrandt;J. Jost;K. O. Widman

176
Citations
Partial differential equations

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87
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Guofang Wang University of Freiburg

Sergio Albeverio University of Bonn

Shing-Tung Yau Tsinghua University

Boris Gutkin École Normale Supérieure

Peter F. Stadler Leipzig University

Wenlian Lu Fudan University

Karl-Theodor Sturm University of Bonn

Michael Röckner Bielefeld University

Shao-Ming Fei Capital Normal University

Rudolf Rübsamen Leipzig University

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