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Max Tegmark

Max Tegmark

D-Index & Metrics

Physics

D-Index
141
Citations
107516
World Ranking
394
National Ranking
226

Max Tegmark publication distribution in Physics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Physics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Max Tegmark sits on this spectrum.

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103 publications 1,469+

This scientist: 410 publications — 40th percentile

40% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,469 publications or more.

Max Tegmark D-index placement in Physics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Physics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Max Tegmark sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 185+

This scientist: 141 D-Index — 90th percentile

90% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 185 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For his contributions to cosmology, including precision measurements from cosmic microwave background and galaxy clustering data, tests of inflation and gravitation theories, and the development of a new technology for lowfrequency radio interferometry

Overview

Max Tegmark is affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States and has a primary focus in the field of Computer Science, with a substantial body of work in Artificial Intelligence.

Their research spans various specialized areas, including:

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Key topics within their work include:

  • Neural Networks and Applications
  • Model Reduction and Neural Networks
  • Computational Physics and Python Applications
  • Topic Modeling
  • Time Series Analysis and Forecasting
  • Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
  • Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis

Max Tegmark has published extensively, with frequent appearances in venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Physical Review E
  • Entropy
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • Nature Communications

Some representative recent papers include:

  • "The role of artificial intelligence in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "KAN: Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks," 2024, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Machine Learning Conservation Laws from Trajectories," 2021, Physical Review Letters
  • "Assessing whether artificial intelligence is an enabler or an inhibitor of sustainability at indicator level," 2021, Transportation Engineering
  • "AI Feynman 2.0: Pareto-optimal symbolic regression exploiting graph modularity," 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)

Collaborations form a significant part of Tegmark's research. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Ziming Liu
  • Eric J. Michaud
  • Joshua Engels
  • David D. Baek
  • Subhash Kantamneni

The scientist has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) since 2012 for contributions to cosmology, including work on cosmic microwave background and galaxy clustering data, tests of inflation and gravitation theories, as well as advancements in technology for low-frequency radio interferometry.

Best Publications

  • The Seventh Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

    Kevork N. Abazajian;Jennifer K. Adelman-Mccarthy;Marcel A. Agüeros;Sahar S. Allam;Sahar S. Allam

  • Cosmological parameters from SDSS and WMAP

    Max Tegmark;Max Tegmark;Michael Abram Strauss;Michael R. Blanton;Kevork Abazajian

  • Detection of the baryon acoustic peak in the large-scale correlation function of SDSS luminous red galaxies

    Daniel J. Eisenstein;Daniel J. Eisenstein;Idit Zehavi;David W. Hogg;Roman Scoccimarro

  • The Sixth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

    Jennifer K. Adelman-McCarthy;Marcel A. Agüeros;Sahar S. Allam;Sahar S. Allam;Carlos Allende Prieto

  • The fourth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

    Jennifer K. Adelman-McCarthy;Marcel A. Agüeros;Sahar S. Allam;Sahar S. Allam;Kurt S.J. Anderson

  • The Fifth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

    Jennifer K. Adelman-McCarthy;Marcel A. Agüeros;Sahar S. Allam;Sahar S. Allam;Kurt S.J. Anderson

  • The role of artificial intelligence in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals

    Ricardo Vinuesa;Hossein Azizpour;Iolanda Leite;Madeline Balaam

  • THE THREE-DIMENSIONAL POWER SPECTRUM OF GALAXIES FROM THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY

    Max Tegmark;Michael R. Blanton;Michael A. Strauss;Fiona Hoyle

  • The 3D power spectrum of galaxies from the SDSS

    M Tegmark;M Blanton;M Strauss;F Hoyle

  • Baryon Acoustic Oscillations in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 Galaxy Sample

    Will J. Percival;Beth A. Reid;Beth A. Reid;Beth A. Reid;Daniel J. Eisenstein;Neta Bahcall

  • Baryon Acoustic Oscillations in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 Galaxy Sample

    Will J. Percival;Beth A. Reid;Daniel J. Eisenstein;Neta A. Bahcall

  • NYU-VAGC: a galaxy catalog based on new public surveys

    Michael R. Blanton;David J. Schlegel;Michael A. Strauss;J. Brinkmann

  • Cosmological constraints from the SDSS luminous red galaxies

    Max Tegmark;Daniel J. Eisenstein;Michael A. Strauss;David H. Weinberg

  • The Galaxy Luminosity Function and Luminosity Density at Redshift z=0.1

    Michael R. Blanton;David W. Hogg;J. Brinkmann;Andrew J. Connolly

  • The Second Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

    Kevork Abazajian;Jennifer K. Adelman-McCarthy;Marcel A. Agüeros;Sahar S. Allam

  • NEW YORK UNIVERSITY VALUE-ADDED GALAXY CATALOG: A GALAXY CATALOG BASED ON NEW PUBLIC SURVEYS

    Michael R. Blanton;David J. Schlegel;Michael A. Strauss;J. Brinkmann

  • Cosmological parameter analysis including SDSS Lyα forest and galaxy bias: Constraints on the primordial spectrum of fluctuations, neutrino mass, and dark energy

    Uroš Seljak;Alexey Makarov;Patrick McDonald;Scott F. Anderson

  • The Galaxy Luminosity Function and Luminosity Density at Redshift z = 0.1*

    Michael R. Blanton;David W. Hogg;Neta A. Bahcall;J. Brinkmann

  • The first data release of the sloan digital sky survey

    Kevork Abazajian;Jennifer K. Adelman-McCarthy;Marcel A. Agüeros;Sahar S. Allam

  • Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

    Max Tegmark

Frequent Co-Authors

Joshua A. Frieman
Joshua A. Frieman University of Chicago
Daniel J. Eisenstein
Daniel J. Eisenstein Harvard University
Idit Zehavi
Idit Zehavi Case Western Reserve University
Neta A. Bahcall
Neta A. Bahcall Princeton University
Gianni Bernardi
Gianni Bernardi National Institute for Astrophysics
Michael A. Strauss
Michael A. Strauss University of Oklahoma
James E. Gunn
James E. Gunn Princeton University
Robert C. Nichol
Robert C. Nichol University of Surrey
Donald P. Schneider
Donald P. Schneider Pennsylvania State University
Alexander S. Szalay
Alexander S. Szalay Johns Hopkins University

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