H-Index & i10-Index
| Database (snapshot October 27, 2026) | h-index | i10-index | Cited by |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex A5066728260 ↗ 729 works indexed |
97 | 326 | 70,665 |
| Google Scholar | no public profile found | ||
No public Google Scholar profile found — Tao's citation record is largely invisible to Scholar's public layer, a useful reminder that absence of a profile is a choice, not a metric. OpenAlex counts journal-era output conservatively; Scholar also indexes books, theses, preprints and grey literature — Scholar figures typically run higher.
Top-cited works in OpenAlex
Used for identity verification — the landmark papers you would expect to be here are.
| Work (top-cited first) | Year | Cited by |
|---|---|---|
| Robust uncertainty principles: exact signal reconstruction from highly incomplete frequency information ↗ | 2006 | 15,556 |
| Decoding by Linear Programming ↗ | 2005 | 7,127 |
| Stable signal recovery from incomplete and inaccurate measurements ↗ | 2006 | 7,041 |
| Near-Optimal Signal Recovery From Random Projections: Universal Encoding Strategies? ↗ | 2006 | 6,843 |
| The Power of Convex Relaxation: Near-Optimal Matrix Completion ↗ | 2010 | 2,061 |
| Endpoint Strichartz estimates ↗ | 1998 | 1,893 |
| Nonlinear Dispersive Equations ↗ | 2006 | 1,506 |
| Topics in Random Matrix Theory ↗ | 2012 | 875 |
Identity & disambiguation
- OpenAlex author ID: A5066728260
- ORCID: 0000-0002-0140-7641
- Google Scholar: no public profile found
- Verification: Top works are the compressed-sensing canon with Candès and Romberg (2005–2006). ORCID 0000-0002-0140-7641 confirms identity.
How does 97 compare to the field? The OpenAlex benchmark dataset (63,665 authors) puts a senior mathematics researcher's median h-index far below these numbers — profiles like Tao's sit in the extreme tail of the distribution. Compare against field × career-stage benchmarks.
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OpenAlex data snapshot October 27, 2026; Scholar values read from public profiles October 2026. Metrics drift over time and differ across databases — see methodology.