Alex Klimas

914 total citations
21 papers, 679 citations indexed

About

Alex Klimas is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Molecular Biology and Geophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Alex Klimas has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 679 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 9 papers in Molecular Biology and 5 papers in Geophysics. Recurrent topics in Alex Klimas's work include Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics (18 papers), Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics (15 papers) and Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies (9 papers). Alex Klimas is often cited by papers focused on Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics (18 papers), Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics (15 papers) and Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism Studies (9 papers). Alex Klimas collaborates with scholars based in United States, Russia and Canada. Alex Klimas's co-authors include M. Hesse, Seiji Zenitani, V. M. Uritsky, D. Vassiliadis, M. M. Kuznetsova, G. K. Parks, D. Chua, A. Pulkkinen, D. N. Baker and E. I. Tanskanen and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres and The Astrophysical Journal.

In The Last Decade

Alex Klimas

21 papers receiving 661 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alex Klimas United States 12 552 248 171 154 97 21 679
Tom Chang United States 15 510 0.9× 288 1.2× 189 1.1× 59 0.4× 132 1.4× 39 667
Marius Echim Belgium 16 659 1.2× 257 1.0× 152 0.9× 72 0.5× 53 0.5× 55 739
M. Candidi Italy 15 552 1.0× 286 1.2× 237 1.4× 35 0.2× 57 0.6× 65 673
Nicole Vilmer France 25 2.0k 3.6× 319 1.3× 129 0.8× 247 1.6× 27 0.3× 99 2.0k
S. Savin Russia 13 517 0.9× 139 0.6× 59 0.3× 62 0.4× 27 0.3× 29 604
Yuri E. Litvinenko New Zealand 20 1.2k 2.2× 188 0.8× 46 0.3× 286 1.9× 18 0.2× 89 1.3k
Pablo S. Moya Chile 17 681 1.2× 181 0.7× 155 0.9× 96 0.6× 53 0.5× 68 803
M. J. Aschwanden United States 17 1.1k 2.0× 319 1.3× 38 0.2× 116 0.8× 20 0.2× 35 1.2k
Š. Štverák Czechia 10 821 1.5× 140 0.6× 192 1.1× 94 0.6× 15 0.2× 15 922
C. P. Price United States 14 465 0.8× 181 0.7× 92 0.5× 89 0.6× 63 0.6× 21 591

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alex Klimas

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Alex Klimas. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Alex Klimas based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Alex Klimas. Alex Klimas is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Klimas, Alex. (2015). New expression for collisionless magnetic reconnection rate. Physics of Plasmas. 22(4). 3 indexed citations
2.
Goldstein, M. L., M. Ashour‐Abdalla, A. F. Viñas, et al.. (2015). Mission Oriented Support and Theory (MOST) for MMS—the Goddard Space Flight Center/University of California Los Angeles Interdisciplinary Science Program. Space Science Reviews. 199(1-4). 689–719. 3 indexed citations
3.
Klimas, Alex, Kyoung‐Joo Hwang, A. F. Viñas, & M. L. Goldstein. (2013). Open boundary particle‐in‐cell simulation of dipolarization front propagation. Journal of Geophysical Research Space Physics. 119(1). 185–201. 2 indexed citations
4.
Klimas, Alex, M. Hesse, & Seiji Zenitani. (2012). Particle-in-cell simulation of collisionless undriven reconnection with open boundaries. Physics of Plasmas. 19(4). 4 indexed citations
5.
Zenitani, Seiji, M. Hesse, Alex Klimas, & M. M. Kuznetsova. (2011). New Measure of the Dissipation Region in Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection. Physical Review Letters. 106(19). 197 indexed citations
6.
Klimas, Alex, M. Hesse, Seiji Zenitani, & M. M. Kuznetsova. (2010). Particle-in-cell simulation of collisionless driven reconnection with open boundaries. Physics of Plasmas. 17(11). 11 indexed citations
7.
Klimas, Alex, V. M. Uritsky, & E. Donovan. (2010). Multiscale auroral emission statistics as evidence of turbulent reconnection in Earth's midtail plasma sheet. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 115(A6). 14 indexed citations
8.
Zenitani, Seiji, M. Hesse, & Alex Klimas. (2010). RESISTIVE MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMIC SIMULATIONS OF RELATIVISTIC MAGNETIC RECONNECTION. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 716(2). L214–L218. 43 indexed citations
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Zenitani, Seiji, M. Hesse, & Alex Klimas. (2010). SCALING OF THE ANOMALOUS BOOST IN RELATIVISTIC JET BOUNDARY LAYER. The Astrophysical Journal. 712(2). 951–956. 8 indexed citations
10.
Zenitani, Seiji, M. Hesse, & Alex Klimas. (2009). Two-Fluid MHD Simulations of Relativistic Magnetic Reconnection. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations
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Hesse, M., Seiji Zenitani, M. M. Kuznetsova, & Alex Klimas. (2009). A simple, analytical model of collisionless magnetic reconnection in a pair plasma. Physics of Plasmas. 16(10). 21 indexed citations
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Klimas, Alex, M. Hesse, & Seiji Zenitani. (2008). Particle-in-cell simulation of collisionless reconnection with open outflow boundaries. Physics of Plasmas. 15(8). 43 indexed citations
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Hesse, M., Seiji Zenitani, & Alex Klimas. (2008). The structure of the electron outflow jet in collisionless magnetic reconnection. Physics of Plasmas. 15(11). 38 indexed citations
14.
Pulkkinen, A., Alex Klimas, D. Vassiliadis, & V. M. Uritsky. (2006). Role of stochastic fluctuations in the magnetosphere‐ionosphere system: A stochastic model for theAEindex variations. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 111(A10). 31 indexed citations
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Pulkkinen, A., Alex Klimas, D. Vassiliadis, V. M. Uritsky, & E. I. Tanskanen. (2006). Spatiotemporal scaling properties of the ground geomagnetic field variations. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 111(A3). 50 indexed citations
16.
Klimas, Alex, V. M. Uritsky, D. Vassiliadis, & D. N. Baker. (2004). Reconnection and scale‐free avalanching in a driven current‐sheet model. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 109(A2). 47 indexed citations
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Uritsky, V. M., Alex Klimas, D. Vassiliadis, D. Chua, & G. K. Parks. (2002). Scale‐free statistics of spatiotemporal auroral emissions as depicted by POLAR UVI images: Dynamic magnetosphere is an avalanching system. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 107(A12). 102 indexed citations
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Uritsky, V. M., Alex Klimas, & D. Vassiliadis. (2001). Comparative study of dynamical critical scaling in the auroral electrojet index versus solar wind fluctuations. Geophysical Research Letters. 28(19). 3809–3812. 47 indexed citations
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Chang, Tom, S. C. Chapman, & Alex Klimas. (2001). Forced and/or Self-Organized Criticality (FSOC) in Space Plasmas. Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics. 63(13). 1359–1359. 2 indexed citations
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Klimas, Alex, J. A. Valdivia, D. Vassiliadis, et al.. (1999). The Role of Self-Organized Criticality in the Substorm Phenomenon and its Relation to Localized Reconnection in the Magnetospheric Plasma Sheet. NASA Technical Reports Server (NASA). 2 indexed citations

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