B. A. Brown

37.6k total citations · 5 hit papers
593 papers, 21.5k citations indexed

About

B. A. Brown is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Radiation. According to data from OpenAlex, B. A. Brown has authored 593 papers receiving a total of 21.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 554 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 291 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 176 papers in Radiation. Recurrent topics in B. A. Brown's work include Nuclear physics research studies (546 papers), Atomic and Molecular Physics (218 papers) and Astronomical and nuclear sciences (149 papers). B. A. Brown is often cited by papers focused on Nuclear physics research studies (546 papers), Atomic and Molecular Physics (218 papers) and Astronomical and nuclear sciences (149 papers). B. A. Brown collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. B. A. Brown's co-authors include B. H. Wildenthal, W. A. Richter, E. K. Warburton, Takaharu Otsuka, T. Mizusaki, Mihai Horoi, Mareki Honma, W. E. Ormand, Vladimir Zelevinsky and P.G. Hansen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

B. A. Brown

580 papers receiving 21.0k citations

Hit Papers

Neutron Radii in Nuclei a... 1988 2026 2000 2013 2000 1988 2006 1992 2014 200 400 600
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. Neutron Radii in Nuclei and the Neutron Equation of State
    2000 612 citations B. A. Brown Physical Review Letters profile →
  2. Status of the Nuclear Shell Model
    1988 602 citations B. A. Brown et al. profile →
  3. New “USD” Hamiltonians for thesdshell
    2006 415 citations B. A. Brown, W. A. Richter profile →
  4. Effective interactions for the 0p1s0dnuclear shell-model space
    1992 398 citations B. A. Brown et al. profile →
  5. The Shell-Model Code NuShellX@MSU
    2014 312 citations B. A. Brown et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
B. A. Brown 19.6k 9.7k 4.9k 2.6k 1.4k 593 21.5k
P. Ring 22.1k 1.1× 12.2k 1.3× 2.0k 0.4× 2.8k 1.1× 1.2k 0.9× 402 25.4k
W. Scheid 8.2k 0.4× 5.8k 0.6× 1.4k 0.3× 588 0.2× 984 0.7× 494 10.3k
G. E. Brown 8.0k 0.4× 3.1k 0.3× 841 0.2× 529 0.2× 287 0.2× 388 16.1k
W. Nazarewicz 21.9k 1.1× 11.4k 1.2× 4.0k 0.8× 3.2k 1.2× 1.8k 1.3× 472 24.0k
W. G. Lynch 8.5k 0.4× 2.7k 0.3× 2.2k 0.4× 281 0.1× 1.9k 1.4× 257 11.0k
R. V. F. Janssens 9.3k 0.5× 4.8k 0.5× 2.8k 0.6× 932 0.4× 763 0.6× 527 9.9k
M. Bender 6.5k 0.3× 3.1k 0.3× 635 0.1× 998 0.4× 428 0.3× 110 7.0k
I. P. Grant 2.2k 0.1× 10.8k 1.1× 2.7k 0.6× 1.6k 0.6× 236 0.2× 198 12.3k
F. G. Kondev 5.9k 0.3× 2.4k 0.2× 1.9k 0.4× 522 0.2× 824 0.6× 213 6.9k
P. Möller 15.5k 0.8× 5.7k 0.6× 3.4k 0.7× 918 0.3× 2.6k 1.9× 163 16.5k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Brown, B. A., et al.. (2025). Improving the predictive power of empirical shell-model Hamiltonians. Physical review. C. 111(4).
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Kuchera, A. N., S. Anderson, S. Almaraz-Calderon, et al.. (2024). B11 states above the α-decay threshold via the B10(d,p)B11 reaction. Physical review. C. 110(5).
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Gade, A., B. A. Brown, J. A. Tostevin, et al.. (2024). First high-resolution γ-ray spectroscopy of Si41. Physical review. C. 110(1). 1 indexed citations
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Campbell, Scott E., G. Bollen, B. A. Brown, et al.. (2024). Precision Mass Measurement of the Proton Dripline Halo Candidate Al22. Physical Review Letters. 132(15). 152501–152501. 9 indexed citations
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Charity, R. J., L. G. Sobotka, B. A. Brown, et al.. (2024). Evolution of shell gaps in the neutron-poor calcium region from invariant-mass spectroscopy of Sc37,38, Ca35, and K34. Physical review. C. 110(3). 3 indexed citations
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Rainovski, G., J. Jolie, A. Blazhev, et al.. (2024). Study the structure of the low-lying states of 206Po. Physica Scripta. 99(6). 65307–65307. 1 indexed citations
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Longfellow, B., A. Gade, D. Bazin, et al.. (2023). Relative population of states in Mg21 from few-nucleon removal reactions. Physical review. C. 107(1).
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Beck, T., A. Gade, B. A. Brown, et al.. (2023). Probing proton cross-shell excitations through the two-neutron removal from Ca38. Physical review. C. 108(6). 3 indexed citations
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Weißhaar, D., B. A. Brown, A. Gade, et al.. (2023). Measurement of the B(E2↑) strengths of Ca36 and Ca38. Physical review. C. 107(3). 6 indexed citations
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Lee, Dean, S. K. Bogner, B. A. Brown, et al.. (2021). Hidden Spin-Isospin Exchange Symmetry. Physical Review Letters. 127(6). 62501–62501. 17 indexed citations
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Longfellow, B., D. Weißhaar, A. Gade, et al.. (2021). Quadrupole collectivity in the neutron-rich sulfur isotopes S38,40,42,44. Physical review. C. 103(5). 6 indexed citations
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Sun, L. J., M. Friedman, D. Pérez–Loureiro, et al.. (2021). Si25β+-decay spectroscopy. Physical review. C. 103(1). 2 indexed citations
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Leistenschneider, E., E. Dunling, G. Bollen, et al.. (2021). Precision Mass Measurements of Neutron-Rich Scandium Isotopes Refine the Evolution of N=32 and N=34 Shell Closures. Physical Review Letters. 126(4). 42501–42501. 18 indexed citations
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Spieker, M., Andréas Heusler, B. A. Brown, et al.. (2020). Accessing the Single-Particle Structure of the Pygmy Dipole Resonance in Pb208. Physical Review Letters. 125(10). 102503–102503. 13 indexed citations
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Richter, W. A., B. A. Brown, R. Longland, et al.. (2020). Shell-model studies of the astrophysical rp-process reactions S34(p,γ)Cl35 and Cl34g,m(p,γ)Ar35. Physical review. C. 102(2). 5 indexed citations
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Longfellow, B., D. Weißhaar, A. Gade, et al.. (2020). Shape Changes in the N=28 Island of Inversion: Collective Structures Built on Configuration-Coexisting States in S43. Physical Review Letters. 125(23). 232501–232501. 16 indexed citations
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Longfellow, B., A. Gade, J. A. Tostevin, et al.. (2020). Two-neutron knockout as a probe of the composition of states in Mg22,Al23, and Si24. Physical review. C. 101(3). 10 indexed citations
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Longfellow, B., A. Gade, B. A. Brown, et al.. (2019). Spectroscopy and lifetime measurements near the proton drip line: P26,27,28. Physical review. C. 99(6). 4 indexed citations
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Stuchbery, A. E., B. A. Brown, G. Georgiev, et al.. (2019). First-excited state g factors in the stable, even Ge and Se isotopes. Physical review. C. 100(4). 6 indexed citations

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