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Mathematics
USA
2026

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Mathematics

D-Index
77
Citations
29682
World Ranking
179
National Ranking
105

Physics

D-Index
78
Citations
30383
World Ranking
3139
National Ranking
1499

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Mathematics in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Mathematics in United States Leader Award
  • 1999 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For contributions to statistical physics as applied to reaction kinetics, transport in random media and polymers

Overview

Sidney Redner is affiliated with the Santa Fe Institute in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, including Physics and Astronomy and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a particular focus on several interdisciplinary subfields such as Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Molecular Biology, Economics and Econometrics, Mathematical Physics, and Sociology and Political Science.

The scientist's work covers a variety of main topics including Diffusion and Search Dynamics, Complex Network Analysis Techniques, Stochastic Processes and Statistical Mechanics, Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation, Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence, Theoretical and Computational Physics, and Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis.

Sidney Redner has published extensively, with notable recent papers such as Optimization in First-Passage Resetting (2020) in Physical Review Letters, Optimization and Growth in First-Passage Resetting (2021) in the Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment, Divergence and Consensus in Majority Rule (2021) in Physical Review E, Universal Exploration Dynamics of Random Walks (2023) in Nature Communications, and A First Look at First-Passage Processes (2023) in Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications.

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Redner include:

  • P. L. Krapivsky
  • Benjamin De Bruyne
  • Julien Randon-Furling
  • Léo Régnier
  • Maxim Dolgushev

Sidney Redner has contributed to various publication venues, with multiple papers appearing in:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Physical Review E
  • Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment
  • Physical Review Letters
  • Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

In recognition of their contributions to the field, Sidney Redner was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1999, with a citation highlighting work on statistical physics as applied to reaction kinetics, transport in random media, and polymers.

Best Publications

  • A guide to first-passage processes

    Sidney Redner

  • How popular is your paper? An empirical study of the citation distribution

    S. Redner

  • Connectivity of growing random networks.

    P. L. Krapivsky;P. L. Krapivsky;S. Redner;F. Leyvraz

  • A Kinetic View of Statistical Physics

    Pavel L. Krapivsky;Sidney Redner;Eli Ben-Naim

  • Organization of growing random networks

    P. L. Krapivsky;S. Redner

  • Voter model on heterogeneous graphs.

    V. Sood;S. Redner

  • Citation statistics from 110 years of physical review

    Sidney Redner

  • Finding scientific gems with Google’s PageRank algorithm

    P. Chen;H. Xie;H. Xie;Sergei Maslov;Sidney Redner

  • Dynamics of majority rule in two-state interacting spin systems.

    P. L. Krapivsky;S. Redner

  • Fluctuation-dominated kinetics in diffusion-controlled reactions.

    K. Kang;S. Redner

  • A random fuse model for breaking processes

    L. de Arcangelis;S. Redner;H.J. Herrmann

  • Anomalous voltage distribution of random resistor networks and a new model for the backbone at the percolation threshold.

    de Arcangelis L;Redner S;Coniglio A

  • Voter Models on Heterogeneous Networks

    V. Sood;Tibor Antal;S. Redner

  • Wealth distributions in asset exchange models

    S. Ispolatov;P. L. Krapivsky;S. Redner

  • First-passage phenomena and their applications

    Ralf Metzler;Gleb Oshanin;Sidney Redner

  • Finding Scientific Gems with Google

    P. Chen;H. Xie;S. Maslov;S. Redner

  • Dynamics of social balance on networks

    T. Antal;P. L. Krapivsky;S. Redner

  • Degree Distributions of Growing Networks

    P. L. Krapivsky;G. J. Rodgers;S. Redner

  • On the role of zealotry in the voter model

    M. Mobilia;Alexander M. Petersen;S. Redner

  • Social balance on networks: The dynamics of friendship and enmity

    T. Antal;P.L. Krapivsky;S. Redner

  • A Kinetic View of Statistical Physics: Exclusion

    Pavel L. Krapivsky;Sidney Redner;Eli Ben-Naim

  • A Kinetic View of Statistical Physics: Conventions

    Pavel L. Krapivsky;Sidney Redner;Eli Ben-Naim

Frequent Co-Authors

Eli Ben-Naim
Eli Ben-Naim Los Alamos National Laboratory
Daniel ben-Avraham
Daniel ben-Avraham Clarkson University
Satya N. Majumdar
Satya N. Majumdar University of Paris-Saclay
Renaud Lambiotte
Renaud Lambiotte University of Oxford
Naoki Masuda
Naoki Masuda University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Joel Koplik
Joel Koplik City College of New York
Aaron Clauset
Aaron Clauset University of Colorado Boulder
Stephen W. Pacala
Stephen W. Pacala Princeton University
H. Eugene Stanley
H. Eugene Stanley Boston University
E. J. Hinch
E. J. Hinch University of Cambridge

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