2026 Scott Sheffield: Mathematics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Mathematics	47	1280	1093	571	451	95	8423

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Mathematics

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Research.com Recognitions

2007 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Scott Sheffield is affiliated with MIT in the United States and specializes in mathematics, with a focus on mathematical physics, statistics and probability, nuclear and high energy physics, geometry and topology, and applied mathematics.

Their research covers several main topics, including stochastic processes and statistical mechanics, mathematical dynamics and fractals, random matrices and applications, Markov chains and Monte Carlo methods, black holes and theoretical physics, geometry and complex manifolds, and topological and geometric data analysis.

Frequent coauthors in their work include Jason Miller, Joshua Pfeffer, Ewain Gwynne, Minjae Park, and Sky Cao.

Scott Sheffield has published extensively in various academic venues. The most common publication venues are:

arXiv (Cornell University)
The Annals of Probability
Probability Theory and Related Fields
Journal de l'École polytechnique - Mathématiques
Acta Mathematica

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Scott Sheffield include:

Liouville quantum gravity and the Brownian map II: Geodesics and continuity of the embedding (2021, The Annals of Probability)
Liouville quantum gravity and the Brownian map III: the conformal structure is determined (2021, Probability Theory and Related Fields)
An axiomatic characterization of the Brownian map (2021, Journal de l'École polytechnique - Mathématiques)
The Tutte embedding of the mated-CRT map converges to Liouville quantum gravity (2021, The Annals of Probability)
Simple conformal loop ensembles on Liouville quantum gravity (2022, The Annals of Probability)

Scott Sheffield was recognized as a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2007.

Best Publications

Dimers and amoebae

Richard Kenyon;Andrei Okounkov;Scott Sheffield

556
Citations
Gaussian free fields for mathematicians

Scott Sheffield

542
Citations
Liouville quantum gravity and KPZ

Bertrand Duplantier;Scott Roger Sheffield

542
Citations
Tug-of-war and the infinity Laplacian

Yuval Peres;Yuval Peres;Oded Schramm;Scott Sheffield;Scott Sheffield;Scott Sheffield;David B. Wilson

499
Citations
Contour lines of the two-dimensional discrete Gaussian free field

Oded Schramm;Scott Sheffield

308
Citations
Tug-of-war with noise: A game-theoretic view of the $p$-Laplacian

Yuval Peres;Scott Sheffield

291
Citations
Imaginary geometry I: interacting SLEs

Jason Peter Miller;Jason Peter Miller;Jason Peter Miller;Scott Sheffield

262
Citations
Conformal weldings of random surfaces: SLE and the quantum gravity zipper

Scott Roger Sheffield

256
Citations
Exploration trees and conformal loop ensembles

Scott Sheffield

242
Citations
Conformal loop ensembles: the Markovian characterization and the loop-soup construction

Scott Sheffield;Wendelin Werner

224
Citations
A contour line of the continuum Gaussian free field

Oded Schramm;Scott Roger Sheffield

200
Citations
Liouville quantum gravity and the Brownian map II: geodesics and continuity of the embedding

Jason Miller;Scott Sheffield

198
Citations
Imaginary geometry IV: interior rays, whole-plane reversibility, and space-filling trees

Jason Miller;Jason Miller;Jason Miller;Scott Sheffield

196
Citations
Liouville quantum gravity as a mating of trees

Bertrand Duplantier;Jason Miller;Scott Sheffield

195
Citations
Critical Gaussian multiplicative chaos: Convergence of the derivative martingale

Bertrand Duplantier;Rémi Rhodes;Scott Sheffield;Vincent Vargas

174
Citations
Liouville quantum gravity and the Brownian map I: The QLE(8/3,0) metric

Jason Miller;Scott Sheffield

174
Citations
Renormalization of Critical Gaussian Multiplicative Chaos and KPZ Relation

Bertrand Duplantier;Rémi Rhodes;Scott Sheffield;Vincent Vargas

161
Citations
Random surfaces

Scott Sheffield

155
Citations
Quantum Loewner evolution

Jason P. Miller;Scott Roger Sheffield

141
Citations
Liouville quantum gravity and the Brownian map III: the conformal structure is determined

Jason Miller;Scott Sheffield

140
Citations
Harmonic explorer and its convergence to SLE4

Oded Schramm;Scott Sheffield

129
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Oded Schramm Microsoft (United States)

Wendelin Werner University of Cambridge

David B. Wilson Washington University in St. Louis

Richard Kenyon Yale University

David Jerison MIT

Assaf Naor Princeton University

Gigliola Staffilani MIT

Andrei Okounkov Columbia University

Gregory F. Lawler University of Chicago

Amir Dembo Stanford University

External Links

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