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Shiing-Shen Chern 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 Shiing-Shen Chern sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 537+

This scientist: 192 publications — 59th percentile

59% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Shiing-Shen Chern 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 Shiing-Shen Chern sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 86+

This scientist: 58 D-Index — 83rd percentile

83% 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

  • 1983 - Wolf Prize in Mathematics for outstanding contributions to global differential geometry, which have profoundly influenced all mathematics.
  • 1975 - US President's National Medal of Science "For developing and extending techniques that led to profound discoveries in geometry and topology.", Presented by President Ford at a White House Ceremony on October 18, 1976.
  • 1966 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1961 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1954 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Shiing-Shen Chern was affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their academic work spanned primarily the fields of Mathematics and Physics and Astronomy, with notable contributions to subfields such as Applied Mathematics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, and Geometry and Topology.

Their research focused on topics including:

  • Geometric Analysis and Curvature Flows
  • Advanced Differential Geometry Research
  • Geometry and complex manifolds

Among the published work, the scientist authored a paper titled Dupin Submanifolds in Lie Sphere Geometry (updated version) in 2020. This work was published in the venue arXiv (Cornell University).

Frequent collaborators included Thomas E. Cecil.

Shiing-Shen Chern received several awards throughout their career, including:

  • Wolf Prize in Mathematics (1983) for outstanding contributions to global differential geometry, which have profoundly influenced all mathematics.
  • US President's National Medal of Science (1975), with the citation, "For developing and extending techniques that led to profound discoveries in geometry and topology," presented by President Ford at a White House Ceremony on October 18, 1976.
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in both 1954 and 1966.
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1961).

Best Publications

  • An Introduction to Riemann-Finsler Geometry

    David Dai-Wai Bao;Shiing-Shen Chern;Zhongmin Shen

  • Lectures On Differential Geometry

    S S Chern;W H Chen;K S Lam

  • Exterior Differential Systems

    Robert L. Bryant;Shiing-Shen Chern;Robert B. Gardner;Phillip Griffiths

  • Real hypersurfaces in complex manifolds

    S. S. Chern;S. S. Chern;J. K. Moser;J. K. Moser

  • Characteristic forms and geometric invariants

    Shiing-Shen Chern;James Simons

  • Complex manifolds without potential theory

    Shiing-Shen Chern

  • Riemann-Finsler geometry

    Shiing-Shen Chern;Zhongmin Shen

  • Minimal Submanifolds of a Sphere with Second Fundamental Form of Constant Length

    S. S. Chern;S. S. Chern;M. do Carmo;M. do Carmo;S. Kobayashi;S. Kobayashi

  • A simple instrinsic proof of the Gauss Bonnet formula for closed Riemannian manifolds

    Shiing-Shen Chern

  • Differential Geometry: Cartan's Generalization of Klein's Erlangen Program

    R. W. Sharpe;Shiing-Shen Chern

  • Characteristic Classes of Hermitian Manifolds

    Shiing-shen Chern

  • Hermitian vector bundles and the equidistribution of the zeroes of their holomorphic sections

    Raoul Bott;Raoul Bott;S. S. Chern;S. S. Chern

  • On the Curvatura Integra in a Riemannian Manifold

    Shiing-shen Chern

  • On the Total Curvature of Immersed Manifolds

    Shiing-Shen Chern;Richard K. Lashof

  • Minimal surfaces by moving frames

    Shiing-shen Chern;Jon Gordon Wolfson

  • An elementary proof of the existence of isothermal parameters on a surface

    Shiing-shen Chern

  • Complete minimal surfaces in Euclidean n -space

    Shiing-Shen Chern;Robert Osserman

  • Some Theorems on the Isometric Imbedding of Compact Riemann Manifolds in Euclidean Space

    Shiing-Shen Chern;Nicolaas H. Kuiper

  • The geometry of $G$-structures

    S. S. Chern

  • Linear Differential Operators

    Robert L. Bryant;S. S. Chern;Robert B. Gardner;Hubert L. Goldschmidt

  • On Finsler geometry

    Shiing-Shen Chern

Frequent Co-Authors

Friedrich Hirzebruch
Friedrich Hirzebruch Max Planck Institute for Mathematics
Robert L. Bryant
Robert L. Bryant Duke University
Zhongmin Shen
Zhongmin Shen Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis
Phillip A. Griffiths
Phillip A. Griffiths Institute for Advanced Study
Raoul Bott
Raoul Bott Harvard University
Jacques Tits
Jacques Tits Collège de France
Jean-Pierre Serre
Jean-Pierre Serre Collège de France
Jürgen Moser
Jürgen Moser ETH Zurich
Elias M. Stein
Elias M. Stein Princeton University
Robert Osserman
Robert Osserman Mathematical Sciences Research Institute

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