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Discipline name D-Index World Ranking Current World Ranking National Ranking Current National Ranking Publications Citations
Mathematics 119 14 13 9 8 499 97783

Terence Tao publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Terence Tao between 1996 and 2025, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Terence Tao published across 30 years, from 1996 to 2025, averaging 23.7 papers a year. Output peaked at 149 publications in 2022. 35 of the 711 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications
25 50 75 100 125
Bar chart. Horizontal axis: year, 1996 to 2025. Vertical axis: number of publications, 0 to 149. Peak 149 publications in 2022. 1996: 3 publications 1997: 1 publication 1998: 8 publications 1999: 10 publications 2000: 10 publications 2001: 17 publications 2002: 19 publications 2003: 19 publications 2004: 25 publications 2005: 16 publications 2006: 52 publications 2007: 24 publications 2008: 24 publications 2009: 30 publications 2010: 39 publications 2011: 18 publications 2012: 26 publications 2013: 18 publications 2014: 26 publications 2015: 27 publications 2016: 18 publications 2017: 13 publications 2018: 11 publications 2019: 15 publications 2020: 17 publications 2021: 20 publications 2022: 149 publications 2023: 21 publications 2024: 13 publications 2025: 22 publications
1996 2025

711 publications in total across all disciplines

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Terence Tao: publications per year, 1996 to 2025
Year Publications
1996 3
1997 1
1998 8
1999 10
2000 10
2001 17
2002 19
2003 19
2004 25
2005 16
2006 52
2007 24
2008 24
2009 30
2010 39
2011 18
2012 26
2013 18
2014 26
2015 27
2016 18
2017 13
2018 11
2019 15
2020 17
2021 20
2022 149
2023 21
2024 13
2025 22
Total 711
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Terence Tao 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 Terence Tao sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
25 50 75 100
Bar chart with 100 bars. Horizontal axis: publications, 42–46 to 537+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 112. Most scientists, 112, have 142–146 publications. The last bar groups every scientist with 537 publications or more. The highlighted bar, 497–501 publications, is where this scientist sits. 42–46 publications: 3 scientists 47–51 publications: 5 scientists 52–56 publications: 7 scientists 57–61 publications: 20 scientists 62–66 publications: 14 scientists 67–71 publications: 25 scientists 72–76 publications: 19 scientists 77–81 publications: 35 scientists 82–86 publications: 50 scientists 87–91 publications: 60 scientists 92–96 publications: 86 scientists 97–101 publications: 84 scientists 102–106 publications: 83 scientists 107–111 publications: 90 scientists 112–116 publications: 99 scientists 117–121 publications: 90 scientists 122–126 publications: 91 scientists 127–131 publications: 109 scientists 132–136 publications: 110 scientists 137–141 publications: 98 scientists 142–146 publications: 112 scientists 147–151 publications: 102 scientists 152–156 publications: 88 scientists 157–161 publications: 106 scientists 162–166 publications: 83 scientists 167–171 publications: 102 scientists 172–176 publications: 77 scientists 177–181 publications: 81 scientists 182–186 publications: 78 scientists 187–191 publications: 71 scientists 192–196 publications: 92 scientists 197–201 publications: 64 scientists 202–206 publications: 69 scientists 207–211 publications: 64 scientists 212–216 publications: 62 scientists 217–221 publications: 58 scientists 222–226 publications: 53 scientists 227–231 publications: 50 scientists 232–236 publications: 46 scientists 237–241 publications: 46 scientists 242–246 publications: 46 scientists 247–251 publications: 43 scientists 252–256 publications: 29 scientists 257–261 publications: 45 scientists 262–266 publications: 30 scientists 267–271 publications: 33 scientists 272–276 publications: 34 scientists 277–281 publications: 30 scientists 282–286 publications: 31 scientists 287–291 publications: 21 scientists 292–296 publications: 34 scientists 297–301 publications: 26 scientists 302–306 publications: 10 scientists 307–311 publications: 17 scientists 312–316 publications: 23 scientists 317–321 publications: 13 scientists 322–326 publications: 16 scientists 327–331 publications: 26 scientists 332–336 publications: 13 scientists 337–341 publications: 13 scientists 342–346 publications: 16 scientists 347–351 publications: 17 scientists 352–356 publications: 12 scientists 357–361 publications: 18 scientists 362–366 publications: 18 scientists 367–371 publications: 9 scientists 372–376 publications: 11 scientists 377–381 publications: 8 scientists 382–386 publications: 8 scientists 387–391 publications: 9 scientists 392–396 publications: 9 scientists 397–401 publications: 8 scientists 402–406 publications: 11 scientists 407–411 publications: 6 scientists 412–416 publications: 6 scientists 417–421 publications: 9 scientists 422–426 publications: 8 scientists 427–431 publications: 5 scientists 432–436 publications: 8 scientists 437–441 publications: 8 scientists 442–446 publications: 4 scientists 447–451 publications: 4 scientists 452–456 publications: 4 scientists 457–461 publications: 2 scientists 462–466 publications: 2 scientists 467–471 publications: 4 scientists 472–476 publications: 3 scientists 477–481 publications: 3 scientists 482–486 publications: 6 scientists 487–491 publications: 3 scientists 492–496 publications: 5 scientists 497–501 publications: 5 scientists 502–506 publications: 1 scientist 507–511 publications: 6 scientists 512–516 publications: 4 scientists 517–521 publications: 1 scientist 522–526 publications: 3 scientists 527–531 publications: 1 scientist 532–536 publications: 4 scientists 537+ publications: 100 scientists
42–46 publications 537+

This scientist: 499 publications — 97th percentile

97% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

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Number of Mathematics scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 3,584 ranked scientists.
Publications Scientists This scientist
42–46 3
47–51 5
52–56 7
57–61 20
62–66 14
67–71 25
72–76 19
77–81 35
82–86 50
87–91 60
92–96 86
97–101 84
102–106 83
107–111 90
112–116 99
117–121 90
122–126 91
127–131 109
132–136 110
137–141 98
142–146 112
147–151 102
152–156 88
157–161 106
162–166 83
167–171 102
172–176 77
177–181 81
182–186 78
187–191 71
192–196 92
197–201 64
202–206 69
207–211 64
212–216 62
217–221 58
222–226 53
227–231 50
232–236 46
237–241 46
242–246 46
247–251 43
252–256 29
257–261 45
262–266 30
267–271 33
272–276 34
277–281 30
282–286 31
287–291 21
292–296 34
297–301 26
302–306 10
307–311 17
312–316 23
317–321 13
322–326 16
327–331 26
332–336 13
337–341 13
342–346 16
347–351 17
352–356 12
357–361 18
362–366 18
367–371 9
372–376 11
377–381 8
382–386 8
387–391 9
392–396 9
397–401 8
402–406 11
407–411 6
412–416 6
417–421 9
422–426 8
427–431 5
432–436 8
437–441 8
442–446 4
447–451 4
452–456 4
457–461 2
462–466 2
467–471 4
472–476 3
477–481 3
482–486 6
487–491 3
492–496 5
497–501 5 499
502–506 1
507–511 6
512–516 4
517–521 1
522–526 3
527–531 1
532–536 4
537+ 100
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Terence Tao 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 Terence Tao sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists
50 100 150
Bar chart with 57 bars. Horizontal axis: D-Index, 30 to 86+. Vertical axis: number of scientists, 0 to 174. Most scientists, 174, have 30 D-Index. The last bar groups every scientist with 86 D-Index or more. The highlighted bar, 86+ D-Index, is where this scientist sits. 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: 119 D-Index — 100th percentile

100% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 86 D-Index or more.

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Number of Mathematics scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 3,584 ranked scientists.
D-Index Scientists This scientist
30 174
31 151
32 174
33 117
34 136
35 127
36 145
37 153
38 150
39 150
40 138
41 136
42 93
43 108
44 115
45 112
46 103
47 75
48 59
49 67
50 60
51 57
52 59
53 62
54 60
55 50
56 42
57 54
58 50
59 42
60 41
61 35
62 40
63 21
64 31
65 27
66 29
67 19
68 25
69 17
70 18
71 12
72 14
73 13
74 18
75 9
76 11
77 10
78 9
79 16
80 12
81 10
82 5
83 5
84 13
85 6
86+ 99 119
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Mathematics in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Mathematics in United States Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Mathematics in United States Leader Award
  • 2021 - Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal For groundbreaking contributions to compressed sensing.
  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
  • 2010 - George Pólya Prize
  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2008 - National Science Foundation Alan T. Waterman Award Mathematics
  • 2008 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2007 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
  • 2006 - Fields Medal of International Mathematical Union (IMU) For his contributions to partial differential equations, combinatorics, harmonic analysis and additive number theory.
  • 2006 - Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation
  • 1999 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Terence Tao is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. The primary field of study for Tao is Mathematics, with a total of 204 publications. Their research spans multiple subfields including Mathematical Physics, Geometry and Topology, Algebra and Number Theory, Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics, and Applied Mathematics.

The main research topics covered in their work include:

  • Analytic Number Theory Research
  • Limits and Structures in Graph Theory
  • Mathematical Dynamics and Fractals
  • Advanced Topology and Set Theory
  • Mathematical Approximation and Integration
  • Cellular Automata and Applications
  • Mathematics and Applications

Significant recent papers authored by Tao include:

  • "Almost all orbits of the Collatz map attain almost bounded values," 2022, Forum of Mathematics Pi
  • "Quantitative bounds for critically bounded solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations," 2021, Proceedings of Symposia in Pure Mathematics

Other notable papers in the dataset by related or coauthor researchers published in venues of interest are "THE DE BRUIJN-NEWMAN CONSTANT IS NON-NEGATIVE," 2020, Forum of Mathematics Pi and "Pointwise ergodic theorems for non-conventional bilinear polynomial averages," 2022, Annals of Mathematics.

Tao has collaborated frequently with numerous researchers. Frequent coauthors include:

  • T. W. Körner
  • Joni Teräväinen
  • Rachel Greenfeld

The scientist has published extensively in several venues, notably:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Notices of the American Mathematical Society
  • Annals of Mathematics
  • Journal of the European Mathematical Society
  • Forum of Mathematics Pi

Books published by Tao include:

  • "Analysis I" (2022) and "Analysis II" (2022), both with Texts and readings in mathematics
  • "Fourier Analysis" (2022), published by Cambridge University Press

Throughout their career, Tao has received multiple awards, including:

  • Fields Medal of International Mathematical Union (IMU), 2006, for contributions to partial differential equations, combinatorics, harmonic analysis, and additive number theory
  • Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal, 2021, for groundbreaking contributions to compressed sensing
  • Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, 2013
  • George Pólya Prize, 2010
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2009
  • National Science Foundation Alan T. Waterman Award, 2008
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 2008
  • Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom, 2007
  • Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation, 2006
  • Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 1999

Best Publications

  • Robust uncertainty principles: exact signal reconstruction from highly incomplete frequency information

    E.J. Candes;J. Romberg;T. Tao

  • Decoding by linear programming

    E.J. Candes;T. Tao

  • Stable signal recovery from incomplete and inaccurate measurements

    Emmanuel J. Candès;Justin K. Romberg;Terence Tao

  • Near-Optimal Signal Recovery From Random Projections: Universal Encoding Strategies?

    E.J. Candes;T. Tao

  • The Dantzig selector: Statistical estimation when P is much larger than n

    Emmanuel Candes;Terence Tao

  • The Power of Convex Relaxation: Near-Optimal Matrix Completion

    Emmanuel J Candes;Terence Tao

  • Endpoint Strichartz estimates

    Markus Aloysius Keel;Terence Tao

  • Nonlinear dispersive equations : local and global analysis

    Terence Tao

  • Topics in Random Matrix Theory

    Terence Tao

  • The primes contain arbitrarily long arithmetic progressions

    Benjamin Green;Terence Tao

  • Additive Combinatorics: Frontmatter

    Terence Tao;Van H. Vu

  • The honeycomb model of _{}(ℂ) tensor products I: Proof of the saturation conjecture

    Allen Knutson;Allen Knutson;Terence Tao

  • Sharp global well-posedness for KdV and modified KdV on ℝ and

    J. Colliander;M. Keel;G. Staffilani;G. Staffilani;H. Takaoka;H. Takaoka

  • Global well-posedness and scattering for the energy-critical nonlinear Schrödinger equation in R^3

    James Colliander;Markus Keel;Gigliola Staffilani;Hideo Takaoka

  • An Introduction to Measure Theory

    Terence Tao

  • A SUM-PRODUCT ESTIMATE IN FINITE FIELDS, AND APPLICATIONS

    Jean Bourgain;Nets Katz;Terence Tao

  • Fuglede's conjecture is false in 5 and higher dimensions

    Terence Tao

  • Random matrices: Universality of ESDs and the circular law

    Terence Tao;Van H. Vu;Manjunath Krishnapur

  • Random matrices: Universality of local eigenvalue statistics

    Terence Tao;Van H. Vu

  • ASYMPTOTICS, FREQUENCY MODULATION, AND LOW REGULARITY ILL-POSEDNESS FOR CANONICAL DEFOCUSING EQUATIONS

    Michael Christ;James Colliander;Terrence Tao

Frequent Co-Authors

Ben Green
Ben Green University of Oxford
Van Vu
Van Vu Yale University
James Colliander
James Colliander University of British Columbia
Emmanuel J. Candès
Emmanuel J. Candès Stanford University
Monica Visan
Monica Visan University of California, Los Angeles
Michael Christ
Michael Christ University of California, Berkeley
Andreas Seeger
Andreas Seeger University of Wisconsin–Madison
Vitaly Bergelson
Vitaly Bergelson The Ohio State University
Igor Rodnianski
Igor Rodnianski Princeton University

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