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Richard S. Palais 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 S. Palais sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 537+

This scientist: 89 publications — 6th percentile

6% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Richard S. Palais 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 S. Palais sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 86+

This scientist: 35 D-Index — 25th percentile

25% 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
  • 1980 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1965 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Richard S. Palais is affiliated with the University of California, Irvine in the United States. Their recent contributions to the field of mathematics include publications in the Notices of the American Mathematical Society.

Notable papers authored or co-authored by Richard S. Palais include:

  • "Isadore M. Singer (1924-2021) In Memoriam Part 2: Personal Recollections," 2022, Notices of the American Mathematical Society
  • "Richard Palais on His Development as a Young Mathematician," 2025, Notices of the American Mathematical Society

Frequent collaborators in research include:

  • Robert L. Bryant
  • Jeff Cheeger
  • Phillip Griffiths
  • Lenore Blum
  • Dan Burns

The most common venue for publication is the Notices of the American Mathematical Society.

Richard S. Palais has been recognized with several awards throughout the career, including:

  • Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2013)
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (1980)
  • Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (1965)

Best Publications

  • The principle of symmetric criticality

    Richard S. Palais

  • On the Existence of Slices for Actions of Non-Compact Lie Groups

    Richard S. Palais

  • A Global Formulation of the Lie Theory of Transformation Groups

    Richard S. Palais

  • Foundations of global non-linear analysis

    Richard S. Palais

  • Seminar on the Atiyah-Singer Index Theorem.

    Richard S. Palais;Michael Francis Atiyah

  • Morse theory on Hilbert manifolds

    Richard S. Palais

  • Critical Point Theory and Submanifold Geometry

    Richard S. Palais;Chuu-liang Terng

  • HOMOTOPY THEORY OF INFINITE DIMENSIONAL MANIFOLDS

    Richard S. Palais

  • Lusternik-Schnirelman theory on Banach manifolds

    Richard S. Palais

  • A generalized Morse theory

    R. S. Palais;S. Smale

  • Natural operations on differential forms

    Richard S. Palais

  • The classification of G-spaces

    Richard S. Palais

  • Local triviality of the restriction map for embeddings

    Richard S. Palais

  • A general theory of canonical forms

    Richard S. Palais;Chuu-Lian Terng

  • The symmetries of solitons

    Richard S. Palais;Richard S. Palais

  • On the homotopy type of certain groups of operators

    Richard S. Palais

  • Hyperpolar Actions on Symmetric Spaces

    E. Heintze;R. S. Palais;G. Thorbergsson

  • The classification of -spaces

    Unknown

  • A simple proof of the Banach contraction principle

    Richard S. Palais

  • Imbedding of Compact, Differentiable Transformation Groups in Orthogonal Representations

    Richard Palais

  • Critical point theory and the minimax principle

    Unknown

  • On a Class of Transformation Groups

    Andrew M. Gleason;Richard S. Palais

Frequent Co-Authors

Krishna Rajan
Krishna Rajan University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Jeremy D. Pickett-Heaps
Jeremy D. Pickett-Heaps University of Melbourne
Waleed Abdalati
Waleed Abdalati University of Colorado Boulder
Rebecca Fahrig
Rebecca Fahrig Siemens Healthcare (United States)
Karen Uhlenbeck
Karen Uhlenbeck The University of Texas at Austin
Steve Smale
Steve Smale City University of Hong Kong
Michael Atiyah
Michael Atiyah University of Edinburgh
Morris W. Hirsch
Morris W. Hirsch University of California, Berkeley

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