Aidan Sudbury

2.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
68 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Aidan Sudbury is a scholar working on Mathematical Physics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Condensed Matter Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Aidan Sudbury has authored 68 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Mathematical Physics, 28 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and 24 papers in Condensed Matter Physics. Recurrent topics in Aidan Sudbury's work include Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics (40 papers), Theoretical and Computational Physics (24 papers) and Complex Network Analysis Techniques (22 papers). Aidan Sudbury is often cited by papers focused on Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics (40 papers), Theoretical and Computational Physics (24 papers) and Complex Network Analysis Techniques (22 papers). Aidan Sudbury collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United Kingdom and United States. Aidan Sudbury's co-authors include Peter Clifford, R. M. Phatarfod, Philip McCloud, Iain J. Clarke, Heather Francis, J. T. Cummins, Gregory B. Thomas, Crispin Wright, Norman Kaplan and Trygve Nilsen and has published in prestigious journals such as Endocrinology, Biometrika and Statistics in Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Aidan Sudbury

64 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

A model for spatial conflict 1973 2026 1990 2008 1973 100 200 300 400 500
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. A model for spatial conflict
    1973 582 citations Peter Clifford, Aidan Sudbury Biometrika profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Aidan Sudbury Australia 15 769 322 274 197 139 68 1.4k
Kevin E. Bassler United States 25 1.1k 1.5× 179 0.6× 136 0.5× 473 2.4× 32 0.2× 82 2.2k
Celia Anteneodo Brazil 23 1.4k 1.8× 50 0.2× 184 0.7× 201 1.0× 41 0.3× 116 1.9k
A. N. Samukhin Russia 13 1.3k 1.6× 184 0.6× 144 0.5× 258 1.3× 33 0.2× 23 1.6k
Eduardo López United States 17 620 0.8× 90 0.3× 138 0.5× 123 0.6× 19 0.1× 63 1.2k
G. J. Rodgers United Kingdom 20 877 1.1× 244 0.8× 117 0.4× 385 2.0× 141 1.0× 83 1.5k
J. Theodore Cox United States 22 372 0.5× 828 2.6× 135 0.5× 371 1.9× 382 2.7× 62 1.3k
Leah B. Shaw United States 19 429 0.6× 270 0.8× 131 0.5× 248 1.3× 128 0.9× 42 1.4k
T. J. P. Penna Brazil 18 456 0.6× 67 0.2× 232 0.8× 264 1.3× 24 0.2× 63 1.3k
L. Frachebourg Switzerland 14 390 0.5× 215 0.7× 227 0.8× 293 1.5× 30 0.2× 25 790
David Griffeath United States 26 536 0.7× 1.1k 3.3× 123 0.4× 682 3.5× 455 3.3× 64 1.9k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Sudbury, Aidan. (2012). Means and Variances in Stochastic Multistage Cancer Models. Journal of Applied Probability. 49(2). 590–594.
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Sudbury, Aidan. (2010). Two‐stage testing using selection schemes. Statistics in Medicine. 29(21). 2194–2199. 2 indexed citations
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Hamza, Kaïs, et al.. (2008). The mixing advantage is less than 2. Extremes. 12(1). 19–31. 2 indexed citations
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Brand, Michael, Jay Sanjayan, & Aidan Sudbury. (2007). Dynamic response of pedestrian bridges for random crowd-loading. Australian Journal of Civil Engineering. 3(1). 27–38. 2 indexed citations
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O’Hely, Martin & Aidan Sudbury. (2001). The annihilating process. Journal of Applied Probability. 38(1). 223–231. 5 indexed citations
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Konno, Norio, Kazunori Satō, & Aidan Sudbury. (1999). Lower bounds for critical values of a cancellative model. Journal of Physics A Mathematical and General. 33(2). 319–326. 9 indexed citations
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Sudbury, Aidan. (1997). The convergence of the biased annihilating branching process and the double-flipping process in Zd. Stochastic Processes and their Applications. 68(2). 255–264. 6 indexed citations
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Butler, Ernest, et al.. (1997). A comparison of methods used to detect changes in neuronal discharge patterns. Journal of Neuroscience Methods. 76(2). 203–210. 15 indexed citations
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Sudbury, Aidan, et al.. (1996). Quantum operators in classical probability theory: I. “Quantum spin” techniques and the exclusion model of diffusion. Stochastic Processes and their Applications. 61(2). 205–221. 14 indexed citations
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Sudbury, Aidan. (1993). The survival of various interacting particle systems. Advances in Applied Probability. 25(4). 1010–1012. 2 indexed citations
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Sudbury, Aidan, et al.. (1993). Assessing the evidential value of DNA profiles matching without using the assumption of independent loci. Journal of the Forensic Science Society. 33(2). 73–82. 10 indexed citations
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Tapper, Nigel & Aidan Sudbury. (1991). Mapping Odor Sources from Complaint Statistics I: Identifying the Major Source. Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association. 41(4). 433–441. 4 indexed citations
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Sudbury, Aidan. (1990). The Branching Annihilating Process: An Interacting Particle System. The Annals of Probability. 18(2). 38 indexed citations
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Clifford, Peter & Aidan Sudbury. (1985). Looking backwards in time in the Moran model in population genetics. Journal of Applied Probability. 22(2). 437–442. 1 indexed citations
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Clifford, Peter & Aidan Sudbury. (1985). Looking backwards in time in the Moran model in population genetics. Journal of Applied Probability. 22(2). 437–442. 2 indexed citations
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Sudbury, Aidan. (1983). The time taken for a population to grow from size m to size km. Journal of Applied Probability. 20(4). 728–736. 2 indexed citations
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Kaplan, Norman, Aidan Sudbury, & Trygve Nilsen. (1975). A branching process with disasters. Journal of Applied Probability. 12(1). 47–59. 31 indexed citations
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Clifford, Peter & Aidan Sudbury. (1974). Some results on the limiting behaviour of infinite particle systems. Probability Theory and Related Fields. 30(4). 273–278. 3 indexed citations
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Clifford, Peter & Aidan Sudbury. (1973). A Model for Spatial Conflict. Biometrika. 60(3). 581–581. 29 indexed citations
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Sudbury, Aidan. (1973). COULD THERE EXIST A WORLD WHICH OBEYED NO SCIENTIFIC LAWS?. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. 24(1). 39–40. 1 indexed citations

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