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Scott Sheffield

Scott Sheffield

D-Index & Metrics

Mathematics

D-Index
47
Citations
8423
World Ranking
1280
National Ranking
572

Scott Sheffield 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 Scott Sheffield sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 537+

This scientist: 95 publications — 8th percentile

8% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Scott Sheffield 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 Scott Sheffield 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: 47 D-Index — 66th percentile

66% 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

  • 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

  • Gaussian free fields for mathematicians

    Scott Sheffield

  • Liouville quantum gravity and KPZ

    Bertrand Duplantier;Scott Roger Sheffield

  • Tug-of-war and the infinity Laplacian

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

  • Contour lines of the two-dimensional discrete Gaussian free field

    Oded Schramm;Scott Sheffield

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

    Yuval Peres;Scott Sheffield

  • Imaginary geometry I: interacting SLEs

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

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

    Scott Roger Sheffield

  • Exploration trees and conformal loop ensembles

    Scott Sheffield

  • Conformal loop ensembles: the Markovian characterization and the loop-soup construction

    Scott Sheffield;Wendelin Werner

  • A contour line of the continuum Gaussian free field

    Oded Schramm;Scott Roger Sheffield

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

    Jason Miller;Scott Sheffield

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

    Jason Miller;Jason Miller;Jason Miller;Scott Sheffield

  • Liouville quantum gravity as a mating of trees

    Bertrand Duplantier;Jason Miller;Scott Sheffield

  • Critical Gaussian multiplicative chaos: Convergence of the derivative martingale

    Bertrand Duplantier;Rémi Rhodes;Scott Sheffield;Vincent Vargas

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

    Jason Miller;Scott Sheffield

  • Renormalization of Critical Gaussian Multiplicative Chaos and KPZ Relation

    Bertrand Duplantier;Rémi Rhodes;Scott Sheffield;Vincent Vargas

  • Random surfaces

    Scott Sheffield

  • Quantum Loewner evolution

    Jason P. Miller;Scott Roger Sheffield

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

    Jason Miller;Scott Sheffield

  • Harmonic explorer and its convergence to SLE4

    Oded Schramm;Scott Sheffield

Frequent Co-Authors

Oded Schramm
Oded Schramm Microsoft (United States)
Wendelin Werner
Wendelin Werner University of Cambridge
David B. Wilson
David B. Wilson Washington University in St. Louis
Richard Kenyon
Richard Kenyon Yale University
Assaf Naor
Assaf Naor Princeton University
Andrei Okounkov
Andrei Okounkov Columbia University
Gregory F. Lawler
Gregory F. Lawler University of Chicago
Amir Dembo
Amir Dembo Stanford University

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