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Sigurdur Helgason

Sigurdur Helgason

D-Index & Metrics

Mathematics

D-Index
33
Citations
24132
World Ranking
2969
National Ranking
1193

Sigurdur Helgason publications per year

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1955 2024

163 publications in total across all disciplines

Sigurdur Helgason 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 Sigurdur Helgason sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 537+

This scientist: 134 publications — 29th percentile

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

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

Sigurdur Helgason 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 Sigurdur Helgason 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: 33 D-Index — 17th percentile

17% 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

  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
  • 1970 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1964 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Sigurdur Helgason was affiliated with MIT in the United States. Their research focused primarily on fields such as Medicine, Neuroscience, and Psychology, with additional work in subfields including Physiology, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

The scientist's research encompassed topics related to obstructive sleep apnea, sleep and wakefulness, and sleep-related disorders.

  • Obstructive Sleep Apnea Research
  • Sleep and Wakefulness Research
  • Sleep and related disorders

Among the published work, Sigurdur Helgason contributed to a paper titled "Evaluating the feasibility of out-of-center sleep testing (OCST), level II polysomnography (PSG) - The experience of a Canadian service provider," published in 2024 in the journal Sleep Medicine.

  • Evaluating the feasibility of out-of-center sleep testing (OCST), level II polysomnography (PSG) - The experience of a Canadian service provider (2024, Sleep Medicine)

Frequent co-authors who collaborated with Sigurdur Helgason included:

  • J. Leech
  • Christian Guilbault
  • Tetyana Kendzerska
  • Nancy Morin
  • Carlos Teixeira

Their work was published notably in the journal Sleep Medicine, reflecting a concentration within sleep-related research domains.

  • Sleep Medicine

Throughout their career, Sigurdur Helgason received several fellowships, including:

  • Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2013)
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1970)
  • Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1964)

Best Publications

  • Differential Geometry, Lie Groups, and Symmetric Spaces

    Sigurdur Helgason

  • Differential Geometry and Symmetric Spaces

    Sigurdur Helgason

  • Groups and geometric analysis

    Sigurdur Helgason

  • The Radon Transform

    Sigurdur Helgason

  • Geometric Analysis on Symmetric Spaces

    Sigurdur Helgason

  • LIE GROUPS AND SYMMETRIC SPACES.

    S. Helgason

  • A duality for symmetric spaces with applications to group representations

    Sigurdur Helgason

  • The Radon transform on Euclidean spaces, compact two-point homogeneous spaces and Grassmann manifolds

    Sigurdur Helgason

  • Integral Geometry and Radon Transforms

    Sigurdur Helgason

  • Differential operators on homogeneous spaces

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  • Topics in Harmonic Analysis on Homogeneous Spaces

    Sigurdur Helgason

  • The Surjectivity of Invariant Differential Operators on Symmetric Spaces I

    Sigurdur Helgason

  • Eigenspaces of the Laplacian; integral representations and irreducibility

    Sigurdur Helgason

  • Multipliers of Banach Algebras

    S. Helgason

  • An analogue of the Paley-Wiener theorem for the Fourier transform on certain symmetric spaces

    Sigurdur Helgason

  • Fundamental Solutions of Invariant Differential Operators on Symmetric Spaces

    S. Helgason

  • A duality for symmetric spaces with applications to group representations, II. Differential equations and eigenspace representations

    Sigurdur Helgason

  • The bounded spherical functions on symmetric spaces

    Sigurdur Helgason;Kenneth Johnson

  • Radon-Fourier transforms on symmetric spaces and related group representations

    S. Helgason

  • Analysis on Lie Groups and Homogeneous Spaces

    Sigurdur Helgason

  • A duality in integral geometry; some generalizations of the Radon transform

    Sigurdur Helgason

  • Differential Geometry and Symmetric Spaces.

    Carl B. Allendoerfer;Sigurdur Helgason

  • A duality for symmetric spaces

    Sigurdur Helgason

Frequent Co-Authors

David Mumford
David Mumford Brown University
Raoul Bott
Raoul Bott Harvard University
Michael Atiyah
Michael Atiyah University of Edinburgh
Dana Scott
Dana Scott University of California, Berkeley
Carlos A. Berenstein
Carlos A. Berenstein University of Maryland, College Park

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