2026 Max Tegmark: Physics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Physics	141	394	379	226	217	410	107516

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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

6145
Citations
Cosmological parameters from SDSS and WMAP

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

5345
Citations
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

5180
Citations
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

3091
Citations
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

3023
Citations
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

2986
Citations
The role of artificial intelligence in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals

Ricardo Vinuesa;Hossein Azizpour;Iolanda Leite;Madeline Balaam

2723
Citations
THE THREE-DIMENSIONAL POWER SPECTRUM OF GALAXIES FROM THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY

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

2387
Citations
The 3D power spectrum of galaxies from the SDSS

M Tegmark;M Blanton;M Strauss;F Hoyle

2350
Citations
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

2205
Citations
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

2179
Citations
NYU-VAGC: a galaxy catalog based on new public surveys

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

1849
Citations
Cosmological constraints from the SDSS luminous red galaxies

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

1830
Citations
The Galaxy Luminosity Function and Luminosity Density at Redshift z=0.1

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

1586
Citations
The Second Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

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

1501
Citations
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

1436
Citations
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

1360
Citations
The Galaxy Luminosity Function and Luminosity Density at Redshift z = 0.1*

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

1343
Citations
The first data release of the sloan digital sky survey

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

1314
Citations
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Max Tegmark

1314
Citations