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Robert J. McCann

Robert J. McCann

D-Index & Metrics

Mathematics

D-Index
36
Citations
8206
World Ranking
2586
National Ranking
104

Robert J. McCann 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 Robert J. McCann sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 537+

This scientist: 121 publications — 21st percentile

21% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Robert J. McCann 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 Robert J. McCann sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 86+

This scientist: 36 D-Index — 29th percentile

29% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 86 D-Index or more.

Overview

Robert J. McCann is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada. Their research mainly spans the field of Mathematics, with a particular focus on Applied Mathematics. Additional subfields of their study include Astronomy and Astrophysics, Geometry and Topology, Mathematical Physics, and Modeling and Simulation.

The scientist's work covers several main research topics: geometric analysis and curvature flows, point processes and geometric inequalities, advanced differential geometry research, geometry and complex manifolds, nonlinear partial differential equations, mathematical biology related to tumor growth, and advanced mathematical modeling in engineering.

Robert J. McCann has contributed to multiple peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings. Some recent papers include:

  • "Discovery of Ongoing Selective Sweeps within Anopheles Mosquito Populations Using Deep Learning" (2020) published in Molecular Biology and Evolution
  • "ADMoE: Anomaly Detection with Mixture-of-Experts from Noisy Labels" (2023) published in Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • "A Lorentzian analog for Hausdorff dimension and measure" (2022) published in Pure and Applied Analysis
  • "Classifying Minimum Energy States for Interacting Particles: Spherical Shells" (2022) published in SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics
  • "Classifying Minimum Energy States for Interacting Particles: Regular Simplices" (2022) published in Communications in Mathematical Physics

The frequent co-authors collaborating with McCann are:

  • Tongseok Lim
  • Kelvin Shuangjian Zhang
  • Clemens Sämann
  • Cale Rankin
  • Mathias Braun

McCann's publications appear often in several venues, with notable frequency in:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis
  • Communications in Mathematical Physics
  • Molecular Biology and Evolution
  • Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

In addition to journal articles, Robert J. McCann has contributed to book publications. One example includes a work published by RAND Corporation eBooks titled "Managing Adverse and Reportable Information Regarding U.S. Military Officers: 2019 Update" from 2022.

Best Publications

  • A Convexity Principle for Interacting Gases

    Robert J. McCann

  • The geometry of optimal transportation

    Wilfrid Gangbo;Robert J. McCann;Robert J. McCann

  • Existence and uniqueness of monotone measure-preserving maps

    Robert J. McCann

  • Kinetic equilibration rates for granular media and related equations: entropy dissipation and mass transportation estimates

    José A. Carrillo;Robert J. McCann;Cédric Villani

  • Polar factorization of maps on Riemannian manifolds

    Robert J. McCann

  • Contractions in the 2-Wasserstein Length Space and Thermalization of Granular Media

    José A. Carrillo;Robert J. McCann;Cédric Villani

  • A Riemannian interpolation inequality a la Borell, Brascamp and Lieb

    Dario Cordero-Erausquin;Robert J. McCann;Michael Schmuckenschläger

  • Hedonic price equilibria, stable matching, and optimal transport: equivalence, topology, and uniqueness

    Pierre-André Chiappori;Robert McCann;Lars Nesheim

  • Constructing optimal maps for Monge's transport problem as a limit of strictly convex costs

    Luis A Caffarelli;Mikhail Feldman;Robert J. McCann

  • Free boundaries in optimal transport and Monge-Ampere obstacle problems

    Luis A. Caffarelli;Robert J. McCann

  • A Family of Nonlinear Fourth Order Equations of Gradient Flow Type

    Daniel Matthes;Robert J. McCann;Giuseppe Savaré

  • Continuity, curvature, and the general covariance of optimal transportation

    Young-Heon Kim;Robert J. McCann

  • Optimal maps in Monge's mass transport problem

    W. Gangbo;R. J. Mccann

  • Exact solutions to the transportation problem on the line

    Robert J. McCann

  • When is multidimensional screening a convex program

    Alessio Figalli;Young-Heon Kim;Robert J. McCann

  • Ricci flow, entropy and optimal transportation

    Robert J. McCann;Peter M. Topping

  • Shape recognition via Wasserstein distance

    Wilfrid Gangbo;Robert J. McCann

  • Monge’s transport problem on a Riemannian manifold

    Mikhail Feldman;Robert J. Mccann

  • Uniqueness and transport density in Monge's mass transportation problem

    Mikhail Feldman;Robert J. McCann

  • A convexity theory for interacting gases and equilibrium crystals

    Robert John McCann

Frequent Co-Authors

Wilfrid Gangbo
Wilfrid Gangbo University of California, Los Angeles
Pierre-André Chiappori
Pierre-André Chiappori Columbia University
Elliott H. Lieb
Elliott H. Lieb Princeton University
Luis A. Caffarelli
Luis A. Caffarelli The University of Texas at Austin
Cédric Villani
Cédric Villani École Normale Supérieure de Rennes
José A. Carrillo
José A. Carrillo University of Oxford
Giuseppe Savaré
Giuseppe Savaré Bocconi University
Michael Loss
Michael Loss Georgia Institute of Technology
Nassif Ghoussoub
Nassif Ghoussoub University of British Columbia

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