2026 Nassif Ghoussoub: Mathematics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Mathematics	40	2046	1797	77	68	227	6990

Research.com Recognitions

2013 - Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
1994 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science

Overview

Nassif Ghoussoub is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada and works primarily in the field of Mathematics. Their research spans several subfields within mathematics including Applied Mathematics, Mathematical Physics, Geometry and Topology, General Health Professions, and Finance.

The scientist's recent publications cover various topics and venues, indicating active engagement in mathematical research. Notable recent papers include:

A solution to the Monge transport problem for Brownian martingales, 2021, The Annals of Probability
The Hardy-Schrödinger operator on the Poincaré ball: Compactness, multiplicity, and stability of the Pohozaev obstruction, 2022, Journal of Differential Equations
Multiplicity and Stability of the Pohozaev Obstruction for Hardy-Schrödinger Equations with Boundary Singularity, 2023, Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society
Stochastic optimal transport with free end time, 2021, Annales de l Institut Henri Poincaré Probabilités et Statistiques
Linear transfers as minimal costs of dilations of measures in balayage order, 2022, arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent co-authors in Ghoussoub's work include Young-Heon Kim, Aaron Zeff Palmer, Saikat Mazumdar, Samer Dweik, and Frédéric Robert. These collaborations have been reflected in multiple joint publications over the years.

The scholar publishes regularly in several venues, including:

arXiv (Cornell University)
The Annals of Probability
Journal of Differential Equations
Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society
Annales de l Institut Henri Poincaré Probabilités et Statistiques

Ghoussoub's research interests and main topics addressed in their work include:

Geometric Analysis and Curvature Flows
Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics
Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations
Point processes and geometric inequalities
Stochastic processes and financial applications
Navier-Stokes equation solutions
Geometry and complex manifolds

Ghoussoub's contributions have been recognized through fellowships in prestigious scientific organizations. They have been named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1994 and a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society since 2013.

Best Publications

Multiple solutions for quasi-linear PDEs involving the critical Sobolev and Hardy exponents

N Ghoussoub;C Yuan

739
Citations
Duality and perturbation methods in critical point theory

Nassif Ghoussoub

648
Citations
On a conjecture of De Giorgi and some related problems

N. Ghoussoub;C. Gui

429
Citations
A general mountain pass principle for locating and classifying critical points

N. Ghoussoub;D. Preiss

260
Citations
Mathematical Analysis of Partial Differential Equations Modeling Electrostatic MEMS

Pierpaolo Esposito;Nassif Ghoussoub;Yujin Guo

223
Citations
Selected new aspects of the calculus of variations in the large

Ivar Ekeland;Nassif Ghoussoub

204
Citations
On the partial differential equations of electrostatic mems devices : Stationary case

Nassif Ghoussoub;Yujin Guo

203
Citations
Bessel pairs and optimal Hardy and Hardy–Rellich inequalities

Nassif Ghoussoub;Amir Moradifam

191
Citations
Some topological and geometrical structures in Banach spaces

N. Ghoussoub

183
Citations
Hardy–Sobolev critical elliptic equations with boundary singularities

N. Ghoussoub;X.S. Kang

173
Citations
Functional Inequalities: New Perspectives and New Applications

Nassif Ghoussoub;Amir Moradifam

156
Citations
The effect of curvature on the best constant in the Hardy–Sobolev inequalities

N. Ghoussoub;F. Robert

140
Citations
Compactness along the branch of semistable and unstable solutions for an elliptic problem with a singular nonlinearity

Pierpaolo Esposito;Nassif Ghoussoub;Yujin Guo

135
Citations
Self-dual Partial Differential Systems and Their Variational Principles

Nassif Ghoussoub

126
Citations
MULTI-PEAK SOLUTIONS FOR A SEMILINEAR NEUMANN PROBLEM INVOLVING THE CRITICAL SOBOLEV EXPONENT

Changfeng Gui;Nassif Ghoussoub

116
Citations
Location, multiplicity and Morse indices of min-max critical points.

N. Ghoussoub

114
Citations
The multiplicity of solutions in non-homogeneous boundary value problems

Phillipe Bolle;Nassif Ghoussoub;Hossein Tehrani

108
Citations
GEOMETRIC INEQUALITIES VIA A GENERAL COMPARISON PRINCIPLE FOR INTERACTING GASES

Martial Agueh;Nassif Ghoussoub;Xiaosong Kang

102
Citations
On the partial differential equations of electrostatic MEMS devices II: Dynamic case

Nassif Ghoussoub;Yujin Guo

101
Citations
On the best possible remaining term in the Hardy inequality

Nassif Ghoussoub;Amir Moradifam

97
Citations
On De Giorgi's conjecture in dimensions 4 and 5

Nassif Ghoussoub;Changfeng Gui

94
Citations
Compactness along the Branch of Semi-stable and Unstable Solutions for an Elliptic Problem with a Singular Nonlinearity

Pierpaolo Esposito;Nassif Ghoussoub;Yujin Guo

1
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

William B. Johnson Texas A&M University

Walter Schachermayer University of Vienna

Ivar Ekeland University of British Columbia

Vitali Milman Tel Aviv University

Gilles Pisier Texas A&M University

Angela Pistoia Sapienza University of Rome

Robert J. McCann University of Toronto

Assaf Naor Princeton University

Chang-Shou Lin National Taiwan University

Jean Bourgain Institute for Advanced Study

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