2026 Masaki Kashiwara: Mathematics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Mathematics	69	291	243	3	3	261	21910

Masaki Kashiwara 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 Masaki Kashiwara sits on this spectrum.

42 publications 537+

This scientist: 261 publications — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Masaki Kashiwara 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 Masaki Kashiwara 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

2026 - Research.com Mathematics in Japan Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Mathematics in Japan Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Mathematics in Japan Leader Award
2018 - Kyoto Prize in Mathematical sciences Outstanding Contributions to a Broad Spectrum of Modern Mathematics: Advancement of D-module Theory from Its Foundation
2002 - Academie des sciences, France

Overview

Masaki Kashiwara is affiliated with Kyoto University in Japan and specializes primarily in the field of Mathematics. Their research spans various subfields, including Geometry and Topology, Algebra and Number Theory, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Mathematical Physics, and Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics.

The scientist's work focuses on several main topics, such as Algebraic structures and combinatorial models, Advanced Topics in Algebra, Nonlinear Waves and Solitons, Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology, Advanced Algebra and Geometry, Advanced Combinatorial Mathematics, and Quantum many-body systems.

Frequent venues for publication include arXiv (Cornell University), Proceedings of the Japan Academy Series A Mathematical Sciences, Compositio Mathematica, Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, and Advances in Mathematics.

Recent publications by Masaki Kashiwara include:

Monoidal categorification and quantum affine algebras, 2020, Compositio Mathematica
Monoidal categorification and quantum affine algebras II, 2024, Inventiones mathematicae
PBW theory for quantum affine algebras, 2023, Journal of the European Mathematical Society
Simply laced root systems arising from quantum affine algebras, 2022, Compositio Mathematica
Cluster algebra structures on module categories over quantum affine algebras, 2022, Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society

Masaki Kashiwara has collaborated frequently with other researchers, notably Se-jin Oh, Euiyong Park, Myungho Kim, Andrea D'Agnolo, and Pierre Schapira.

Among the awards received, the Kyoto Prize in Mathematical Sciences was awarded in 2018, recognizing contributions related to the advancement of D-module Theory. Another acknowledgment is from the Academie des sciences, France, awarded in 2002.

Best Publications

Sheaves on Manifolds

Masaki Kashiwara;Pierre Schapira

1674
Citations
On crystal bases of the $Q$-analogue of universal enveloping algebras

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1328
Citations
TRANSFORMATION GROUPS FOR SOLITON EQUATIONS

Etsuro Date;Masaki Kashiwara;Tetsuji Miwa;Michio Jimbo

1252
Citations
Crystalizing the $q$-analogue of universal enveloping algebras

Masaki Kashiwara

897
Citations
Crystal Graphs for Representations of the q-Analogue of Classical Lie Algebras

Masaki Kashiwara;Toshiki Nakashima

764
Citations
On the Segal-Shale-Weil representations and harmonic polynomials

M. Kashiwara;M. Kashiwara;M. Vergne;M. Vergne

665
Citations
B-Functions and Holonomic Systems. Rationality of Roots of B-Functions

Masaki Kashiwara

601
Citations
Operator Approach to the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili Equation —Transformation Groups for Soliton Equations III—

Etsuro Date;Michio Jimbo;Masaki Kashiwara;Tetsuji Miwa

577
Citations
Kazhdan-Lusztig Conjecture and Holonomic Systems.

J. L. Brylinski;M. Kashiwara

558
Citations
Transformation groups for soliton equations: IV. A new hierarchy of soliton equations of KP-type

Etsuro Date;Michio Jimbo;Masaki Kashiwara;Tetsuji Miwa

540
Citations
The crystal base and Littelmann’s refined Demazure character formula

Masaki Kashiwara

491
Citations
On level-zero representation of quantized affine algebras

Masaki Kashiwara

440
Citations
The Riemann-Hilbert Problem for Holonomic Systems

Masaki Kashiwara

439
Citations
Transformation Groups for Soliton Equations —Euclidean Lie Algebras and Reduction of the KP Hierarchy—

Etsuro Date;Michio Jimbo;Masaki Kashiwara;Tetsuji Miwa

414
Citations
Global crystal bases of quantum groups

Masaki Kashiwara

413
Citations
AFFINE CRYSTALS AND VERTEX MODELS

Seok-Jin Kang;Masaki Kashiwara;Kailash C. Misra;Tetsuji Miwa

393
Citations
Geometric construction of crystal bases

Masaki Kashiwara;Yoshihisa Saito

392
Citations
Crystal bases of modified quantized enveloping algebra

Masaki Kashiwara

329
Citations
KP Hierarchies of Orthogonal and Symplectic Type–Transformation Groups for Soliton Equations VI–

Etsuro Date;Michio Jimbo;Masaki Kashiwara;Tetsuji Miwa

320
Citations
D-Modules and Microlocal Calculus

Masaki Kashiwara

280
Citations
Perfect crystals of quantum affine Lie algebras

Seok-Jin Kang;Masaki Kashiwara;Kailash C. Misra;Tetsuji Miwa

275
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Tetsuji Miwa Kyoto University

Etsuro Date Kansai University

Michio Jimbo Rikkyo University

Michèle Vergne Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu

Masato Okado Osaka Metropolitan University

Mark Shimozono Virginia Tech

David A. Vogan MIT

Boris Feigin Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Edward Frenkel University of California, Berkeley

Nolan R. Wallach University of California, San Diego

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