B. D. Day

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
21 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

B. D. Day is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Condensed Matter Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, B. D. Day has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 15 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 3 papers in Condensed Matter Physics. Recurrent topics in B. D. Day's work include Nuclear physics research studies (18 papers), Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics (13 papers) and Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (6 papers). B. D. Day is often cited by papers focused on Nuclear physics research studies (18 papers), Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics (13 papers) and Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (6 papers). B. D. Day collaborates with scholars based in United States and Israel. B. D. Day's co-authors include R. B. Wiringa, F. Coester, A. Kallio, C. M. Vincent, S. Cohen, V. R. Pandharipande, Y. Eisen, John G. Zabolitzky, A. Goodman and Edward Friedman and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Reviews of Modern Physics and Physics Letters B.

In The Last Decade

B. D. Day

21 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

Elements of the Brueckner-Goldstone Theory of Nuclear Matter 1967 2026 1986 2006 1967 100 200 300 400
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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. Elements of the Brueckner-Goldstone Theory of Nuclear Matter
    1967 438 citations B. D. Day Reviews of Modern Physics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
B. D. Day United States 16 1.3k 1.0k 255 239 182 21 1.6k
Ryozo Tamagaki Japan 23 1.1k 0.9× 916 0.9× 531 2.1× 273 1.1× 121 0.7× 105 1.7k
L. S. Celenza United States 20 1.5k 1.2× 536 0.5× 139 0.5× 82 0.3× 119 0.7× 107 1.6k
Rudi Malfliet Netherlands 22 1.6k 1.3× 1.0k 1.0× 241 0.9× 200 0.8× 54 0.3× 48 1.9k
J.-F. Mathiot France 18 1.1k 0.9× 423 0.4× 226 0.9× 148 0.6× 78 0.4× 57 1.2k
T. L. Ainsworth United States 12 883 0.7× 589 0.6× 612 2.4× 284 1.2× 72 0.4× 16 1.4k
J. Zimànýi Hungary 20 1.3k 1.0× 370 0.4× 301 1.2× 98 0.4× 52 0.3× 63 1.4k
A. Lande United States 17 708 0.6× 663 0.7× 57 0.2× 83 0.3× 166 0.9× 33 1.1k
M. Beiner France 13 1.5k 1.2× 965 0.9× 88 0.3× 178 0.7× 143 0.8× 16 1.6k
J. A. McNeil United States 16 1.1k 0.8× 489 0.5× 94 0.4× 93 0.4× 77 0.4× 47 1.2k
K. Kubodera United States 28 2.2k 1.8× 411 0.4× 252 1.0× 116 0.5× 55 0.3× 113 2.4k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Day, B. D. & R. B. Wiringa. (1985). Brueckner-Bethe and variational calculations of nuclear matter. Physical Review C. 32(3). 1057–1062. 105 indexed citations
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Day, B. D.. (1983). Nuclear Saturation and Nuclear Forces. 11(3). 115–126. 12 indexed citations
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Day, B. D.. (1981). Nuclear Saturation from Two-Nucleon Potentials. Physical Review Letters. 47(4). 226–229. 98 indexed citations
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Day, B. D. & John G. Zabolitzky. (1981). Coupled-cluster calculation for nuclear matter and comparison with the hole-line expansion. Nuclear Physics A. 366(2). 221–244. 15 indexed citations
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Day, B. D.. (1981). Three-body correlations in nuclear matter. Physical Review C. 24(3). 1203–1271. 159 indexed citations
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Day, B. D.. (1979). Brueckner-bethe calculations of nuclear matter. Nuclear Physics A. 328(1-2). 1–16. 34 indexed citations
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Day, B. D.. (1978). Current state of nuclear matter calculations. Reviews of Modern Physics. 50(3). 495–521. 184 indexed citations
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Day, B. D., et al.. (1977). Computer-aided procedure for time-series analysis and identification of noisy processes (CAPTAIN). User manual. NERC Open Research Archive (Natural Environment Research Council). 5 indexed citations
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Day, B. D. & F. Coester. (1976). Influence of virtualΔstates on the saturation properties of nuclear matter. Physical Review C. 13(4). 1720–1740. 29 indexed citations
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Eisen, Y., B. D. Day, & Edward Friedman. (1975). Microscopic description of the real alpha-nucleus potenial at large distances. Physics Letters B. 56(4). 313–317. 7 indexed citations
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Pandharipande, V. R., R. B. Wiringa, & B. D. Day. (1975). Do lowest-order approximations adequately describe nuclear matter?. Physics Letters B. 57(3). 205–209. 60 indexed citations
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Day, B. D., F. Coester, & A. Goodman. (1972). Three-Body Correlations in Nuclear Matter. Physical Review C. 6(6). 1992–2010. 10 indexed citations
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Coester, F., B. D. Day, & A. Goodman. (1972). Variation in Nuclear-Matter Binding Energies with Phase-Shift-Equivalent Two-Body Potentials. Physical Review C. 5(3). 1135–1136. 10 indexed citations
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Day, B. D.. (1971). Short-Range Correlations in Quantum Liquids. Physical review. A, General physics. 4(2). 681–684. 16 indexed citations
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Coester, F., S. Cohen, B. D. Day, & C. M. Vincent. (1970). Variation in Nuclear-Matter Binding Energies with Phase-Shift-Equivalent Two-Body Potentials. Physical Review C. 1(3). 769–776. 201 indexed citations
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Kallio, A. & B. D. Day. (1969). Accurate calculation of the reaction matrix in light nuclei and in nuclear matter. Nuclear Physics A. 124(1). 177–198. 75 indexed citations
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Day, B. D.. (1969). Four-Hole-Line Diagrams in Nuclear Matter. Physical Review. 187(4). 1269–1302. 61 indexed citations
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Kallio, A. & B. D. Day. (1967). Accurate calculation of the reaction matrix in light nuclei. Physics Letters B. 25(2). 72–74. 27 indexed citations
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Day, B. D.. (1967). Elements of the Brueckner-Goldstone Theory of Nuclear Matter. Reviews of Modern Physics. 39(4). 719–744. 438 indexed citations breakdown →
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Day, B. D.. (1964). Application of the Reference-Spectrum Method to the Nuclear Surface. Physical Review. 136(6B). B1594–B1608. 19 indexed citations

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