B. Kent Harrison

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
25 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

B. Kent Harrison is a scholar working on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Numerical Analysis. According to data from OpenAlex, B. Kent Harrison has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, 9 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 6 papers in Numerical Analysis. Recurrent topics in B. Kent Harrison's work include Nonlinear Waves and Solitons (13 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (7 papers) and Nonlinear Photonic Systems (7 papers). B. Kent Harrison is often cited by papers focused on Nonlinear Waves and Solitons (13 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (7 papers) and Nonlinear Photonic Systems (7 papers). B. Kent Harrison collaborates with scholars based in United States and Greece. B. Kent Harrison's co-authors include K. S. Thorne, M. Wakano, John Wheeler and F. B. Estabrook and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Physics Letters A and Journal of Mathematical Physics.

In The Last Decade

B. Kent Harrison

25 papers receiving 1.1k citations

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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.

Gravitation Theory and Gravitational Collapse

1965 469 citations B. Kent Harrison, K. S. Thorne et al. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
B. Kent Harrison United States	11	780	508	433	122	102	25	1.1k
Gernot Neugebauer Germany	19	741 0.9×	635 1.3×	693 1.6×	192 1.6×	60 0.6×	43	1.3k
Reinhard Meinel Germany	18	563 0.7×	262 0.5×	365 0.8×	176 1.4×	81 0.8×	54	930
William Kinnersley United States	13	1.2k 1.5×	1.1k 2.1×	613 1.4×	179 1.5×	111 1.1×	20	1.7k
F. A. E. Pirani United Kingdom	15	789 1.0×	467 0.9×	352 0.8×	168 1.4×	64 0.6×	37	1.1k
Péter Havas United States	17	748 1.0×	317 0.6×	464 1.1×	551 4.5×	45 0.4×	63	1.3k
Frederick J. Ernst United States	20	1.7k 2.1×	1.6k 3.2×	848 2.0×	233 1.9×	131 1.3×	54	2.5k
Y. Nutku Türkiye	20	537 0.7×	537 1.1×	733 1.7×	109 0.9×	64 0.6×	55	1.2k
Metin Gürses Türkiye	22	915 1.2×	931 1.8×	841 1.9×	176 1.4×	52 0.5×	99	1.5k
Joshua N. Goldberg United States	18	1.4k 1.9×	1.1k 2.1×	540 1.2×	262 2.1×	104 1.0×	53	1.8k
Andrzej Trautman Poland	22	1.4k 1.8×	1.2k 2.4×	635 1.5×	247 2.0×	96 0.9×	65	2.1k

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Harrison, B. Kent. (2005). The Differential Form Method for Finding Symmetries. Symmetry Integrability and Geometry Methods and Applications. 11 indexed citations

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Harrison, B. Kent. (2003). Applications of Symmetry to General Relativity. Presented at. 131–141. 1 indexed citations

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Harrison, B. Kent. (2002). An Old Problem Newly Treated with Differential Forms: When and How Can the Equation y = f (x, y, y )B e Linearized?. 3 indexed citations

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Harrison, B. Kent. (2000). Matrix Methods of Searching for Lax Pairs and a Paper by Estevez. 5 indexed citations

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Harrison, B. Kent. (1997). Differential Form Symmetry Analysis of Two Equations Cited by Fushchych. Presented at. 21–33. 5 indexed citations

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Harrison, B. Kent. (1995). On Methods of Finding Bäcklund Transformations in Systems with More than Two Independent Variables. Journal of Nonlinear Mathematical Physics. 2(3-4). 201–201. 10 indexed citations

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Harrison, B. Kent, et al.. (1994). Lax pair, conserved currents, and hidden symmetry transformation for the Ernst equation. Physics Letters A. 189(1-2). 32–36. 1 indexed citations

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Harrison, B. Kent, et al.. (1994). Lax pair, conserved currents, and hidden symmetry transformation for the Ernst equation. Physics Letters A. 190(5-6). 407–411. 2 indexed citations

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Harrison, B. Kent, et al.. (1989). Local currents for the GL(N, C) self-dual Yang-Mills equation. Letters in Mathematical Physics. 17(4). 285–288. 2 indexed citations

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Harrison, B. Kent, et al.. (1988). Bäcklund transformations and local conservation laws for self-dual Yang-Mills fields with arbitrary gauge group. Physics Letters A. 127(3). 167–170. 6 indexed citations

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Harrison, B. Kent. (1983). Unification of Ernst-equation Bäcklund transformations using a modified Wahlquist–Estabrook technique. Journal of Mathematical Physics. 24(8). 2178–2187. 20 indexed citations

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Harrison, B. Kent. (1980). New large family of vacuum solutions of the equations of general relativity. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 21(6). 1695–1697. 16 indexed citations

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Harrison, B. Kent & F. B. Estabrook. (1971). Geometric Approach to Invariance Groups and Solution of Partial Differential Systems. Journal of Mathematical Physics. 12(4). 653–666. 156 indexed citations

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Harrison, B. Kent. (1970). Simplified Equations for Relativistic Rotating Perfect Fluids with Axial Symmetry. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 1(8). 2269–2271. 6 indexed citations

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Harrison, B. Kent. (1968). New Solutions of the Einstein-Maxwell Equations from Old. Journal of Mathematical Physics. 9(11). 1744–1752. 180 indexed citations

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Harrison, B. Kent. (1965). Asymptotic Behavior of Cold Superdense Stars. Physical Review. 137(6B). B1644–B1652. 17 indexed citations

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Harrison, B. Kent, K. S. Thorne, M. Wakano, & John Wheeler. (1965). Gravitation Theory and Gravitational Collapse. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 469 indexed citations breakdown →

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Harrison, B. Kent. (1965). Electromagnetic Solutions of the Field Equations of General Relativity. Physical Review. 138(2B). B488–B494. 22 indexed citations

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Harrison, B. Kent. (1963). A Discussion of Some Mathematical Techniques Used in Kron’s Method of Tearing. Journal of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. 11(2). 258–280. 5 indexed citations

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Harrison, B. Kent. (1959). Exact Three-Variable Solutions of the Field Equations of General Relativity. Physical Review. 116(5). 1285–1296. 39 indexed citations

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