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D-Index
51
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12372
World Ranking
1010
National Ranking
469

Richard Askey 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 Richard Askey sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 537+

This scientist: 214 publications — 67th percentile

67% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Richard Askey 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 Richard Askey sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 174 scientists 31 D-Index: 151 scientists 32 D-Index: 174 scientists 33 D-Index: 117 scientists 34 D-Index: 136 scientists 35 D-Index: 127 scientists 36 D-Index: 145 scientists 37 D-Index: 153 scientists 38 D-Index: 150 scientists 39 D-Index: 150 scientists 40 D-Index: 138 scientists 41 D-Index: 136 scientists 42 D-Index: 93 scientists 43 D-Index: 108 scientists 44 D-Index: 115 scientists 45 D-Index: 112 scientists 46 D-Index: 103 scientists 47 D-Index: 75 scientists 48 D-Index: 59 scientists 49 D-Index: 67 scientists 50 D-Index: 60 scientists 51 D-Index: 57 scientists 52 D-Index: 59 scientists 53 D-Index: 62 scientists 54 D-Index: 60 scientists 55 D-Index: 50 scientists 56 D-Index: 42 scientists 57 D-Index: 54 scientists 58 D-Index: 50 scientists 59 D-Index: 42 scientists 60 D-Index: 41 scientists 61 D-Index: 35 scientists 62 D-Index: 40 scientists 63 D-Index: 21 scientists 64 D-Index: 31 scientists 65 D-Index: 27 scientists 66 D-Index: 29 scientists 67 D-Index: 19 scientists 68 D-Index: 25 scientists 69 D-Index: 17 scientists 70 D-Index: 18 scientists 71 D-Index: 12 scientists 72 D-Index: 14 scientists 73 D-Index: 13 scientists 74 D-Index: 18 scientists 75 D-Index: 9 scientists 76 D-Index: 11 scientists 77 D-Index: 10 scientists 78 D-Index: 9 scientists 79 D-Index: 16 scientists 80 D-Index: 12 scientists 81 D-Index: 10 scientists 82 D-Index: 5 scientists 83 D-Index: 5 scientists 84 D-Index: 13 scientists 85 D-Index: 6 scientists 86+ D-Index: 99 scientists
30 D-Index 86+

This scientist: 51 D-Index — 73rd percentile

73% 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
  • 2009 - SIAM Fellow For contributions to the theory of special functions.
  • 1999 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1996 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1969 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Richard Askey was affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their academic work spanned various aspects of mathematics, contributing notably to the theory of special functions.

Throughout their career, they received multiple recognitions including election as a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1999 and fellowship status in prominent scientific societies. These honors included becoming a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2013, a SIAM Fellow in 2009 specifically for contributions to the theory of special functions, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1996, and a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1969.

Best Publications

  • Some Basic Hypergeometric Orthogonal Polynomials That Generalize Jacobi Polynomials

    Richard Askey;James Arthur Wilson

  • Orthogonal Polynomials and Special Functions

    Richard Askey

  • Pi and the AGM

    Richard Askey;Jonathan M. Borwein;Peter B. Borwein

  • Classical orthogonal polynomials

    George E. Andrews;Richard Askey

  • The q-Gamma and q-Beta Functions†

    Richard Askey

  • Recurrence Relations, Continued Fractions, and Orthogonal Polynomials

    Richard Askey;Mourad Ismail

  • A Set of Orthogonal Polynomials That Generalize the Racah Coefficients or 6 - j Symbols.

    Richard Askey;James Wilson

  • Mean convergence of expansions in Laguerre and Hermite series

    Richard Askey;Stephen Wainger

  • A generalization of ultraspherical polynomials

    Richard Askey;Richard Askey;Mourad E.-H. Ismail;Mourad E.-H. Ismail

  • Ramanujan's Extensions of the Gamma and Beta Functions

    Richard Askey

  • Some Basic Hypergeometric Extensions of Integrals of Selberg and Andrews

    Richard Askey

  • Enumeration of Partitions: The Role of Eulerian Series and q-Orthogonal Polynomials

    George E. Andrews;George E. Andrews;Richard Askey;Richard Askey

  • Associated Laguerre and Hermite polynomials

    Richard Askey;Jet Wimp

  • INTEGRAL REPRESENTATIONS FOR JACOBI POLYNOMIALS AND SOME APPLICATIONS.

    Richard Askey;Richard Askey;James Fitch;James Fitch

  • Special Functions: Group Theoretical Aspects and Applications

    Richard Askey;T. H. Koornwinder;Walter Schempp

  • A CONVOLUTION STRUCTURE FOR JACOBI SERIES.

    Richard Askey;Stephen Wainger

  • Continuous Hahn polynomials

    Richard Askey

  • A Century of mathematics in America.

    Richard Askey;Peter L. Duren;Uta C. Merzbach;Harold M Edwards

  • Radial Characteristics Functions.

    Richard Askey

  • Sieved ultraspherical polynomials

    Waleed Al-Salam;W. R. Allaway;Richard Askey

  • CHEBYSHEV POLYNOMIALS From Approximation Theory to Algebra and Number Theory

    Unknown

  • Book reviewAn introduction to orthogonal polynomials: T. S. Chihara, Gordon & Breach, New York/ London/Paris, 1978, 249 pp

    Richard Askey

Frequent Co-Authors

George E. Andrews
George E. Andrews Pennsylvania State University
Mourad E. H. Ismail
Mourad E. H. Ismail University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Stephen Wainger
Stephen Wainger University of Wisconsin–Madison
Tom H. Koornwinder
Tom H. Koornwinder University of Amsterdam
Samuel Karlin
Samuel Karlin Stanford University
Peter Duren
Peter Duren University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Mark Kac
Mark Kac Rockefeller University
Peter Borwein
Peter Borwein Simon Fraser University
Jonathan M. Borwein
Jonathan M. Borwein University of Newcastle Australia
N. H. Bingham
N. H. Bingham Imperial College London

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