Benjamin Bergen

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
17 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Benjamin Bergen is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Mechanics of Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Benjamin Bergen has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 8 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 7 papers in Mechanics of Materials. Recurrent topics in Benjamin Bergen's work include Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics (10 papers), Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma (7 papers) and Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications (6 papers). Benjamin Bergen is often cited by papers focused on Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics (10 papers), Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma (7 papers) and Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications (6 papers). Benjamin Bergen collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and France. Benjamin Bergen's co-authors include K. J. Bowers, L. Yin, B. J. Albright, T. J. T. Kwan, W. Daughton, V. Roytershteyn, H. Karimabadi, Ulrich Rüde, D. S. Montgomery and J. L. Kline and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Nature Physics and Computer Physics Communications.

In The Last Decade

Benjamin Bergen

17 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

Role of electron physics in the development of turbulent ... 2011 2026 2016 2021 2011 100 200 300 400
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. Role of electron physics in the development of turbulent magnetic reconnection in collisionless plasmas
    2011 423 citations W. Daughton, V. Roytershteyn et al. Nature Physics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Benjamin Bergen United States 15 711 690 303 271 146 17 1.4k
T. J. T. Kwan United States 15 295 0.4× 816 1.2× 556 1.8× 444 1.6× 30 0.2× 24 1.2k
V. Roytershteyn United States 33 3.2k 4.5× 1.1k 1.6× 209 0.7× 61 0.2× 738 5.1× 100 3.6k
A. M. Dimits United States 23 1.5k 2.1× 2.1k 3.0× 177 0.6× 81 0.3× 29 0.2× 72 2.4k
S. H. Langer United States 17 285 0.4× 345 0.5× 205 0.7× 150 0.6× 10 0.1× 44 986
V. Grandgirard France 26 1.5k 2.1× 2.1k 3.0× 113 0.4× 25 0.1× 43 0.3× 125 2.3k
S. Ethier United States 22 668 0.9× 1.0k 1.5× 122 0.4× 58 0.2× 11 0.1× 103 1.7k
D. B. Batchelor United States 24 668 0.9× 1.2k 1.8× 240 0.8× 46 0.2× 18 0.1× 128 1.5k
Guillaume Latu France 22 836 1.2× 1.1k 1.6× 74 0.2× 25 0.1× 25 0.2× 84 1.4k
S. Ku United States 25 1.0k 1.4× 1.5k 2.2× 98 0.3× 20 0.1× 22 0.2× 94 1.9k
A. Ghizzo France 21 540 0.8× 1.2k 1.8× 504 1.7× 299 1.1× 12 0.1× 101 1.7k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Benjamin Bergen

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Benjamin Bergen

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Benjamin Bergen. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Benjamin Bergen 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 Benjamin Bergen. Benjamin Bergen is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

17 of 17 papers shown
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Albright, B. J., L. Yin, K. J. Bowers, & Benjamin Bergen. (2016). Multi-dimensional dynamics of stimulated Brillouin scattering in a laser speckle: Ion acoustic wave bowing, breakup, and laser-seeded two-ion-wave decay. Physics of Plasmas. 23(3). 24 indexed citations
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Camporeale, Enrico, Gian Luca Delzanno, Benjamin Bergen, & D. Moulton. (2015). On the velocity space discretization for the Vlasov–Poisson system: Comparison between implicit Hermite spectral and Particle-in-Cell methods. Computer Physics Communications. 198. 47–58. 52 indexed citations
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Yin, L., B. J. Albright, H. A. Rose, et al.. (2014). Stimulated scattering in laser driven fusion and high energy density physics experiments. Physics of Plasmas. 21(9). 23 indexed citations
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Yin, L., B. J. Albright, Harvey A. Rose, et al.. (2013). Self-organized coherent bursts of stimulated Raman scattering and speckle interaction in multi-speckled laser beams. Physics of Plasmas. 20(1). 45 indexed citations
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Yin, L., B. J. Albright, Harvey A. Rose, et al.. (2012). Self-Organized Bursts of Coherent Stimulated Raman Scattering and Hot Electron Transport in Speckled Laser Plasma Media. Physical Review Letters. 108(24). 245004–245004. 33 indexed citations
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Yin, L., B. J. Albright, Harvey A. Rose, et al.. (2012). Trapping induced nonlinear behavior of backward stimulated Raman scattering in multi-speckled laser beams. Physics of Plasmas. 19(5). 46 indexed citations
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Daughton, W., V. Roytershteyn, H. Karimabadi, et al.. (2011). Role of electron physics in the development of turbulent magnetic reconnection in collisionless plasmas. Nature Physics. 7(7). 539–542. 423 indexed citations breakdown →
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Bergen, Benjamin, et al.. (2010). A Hybrid Programming Model for Compressible Gas Dynamics Using OpenCL. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 1. 397–404. 9 indexed citations
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Bowers, K. J., B. J. Albright, L. Yin, et al.. (2009). Advances in petascale kinetic plasma simulation with VPIC and Roadrunner. Journal of Physics Conference Series. 180. 12055–12055. 146 indexed citations
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Yin, L., B. J. Albright, H. A. Rose, et al.. (2009). Onset and saturation of backward stimulated Raman scattering of laser in trapping regime in three spatial dimensions. Physics of Plasmas. 16(11). 113101–113101. 44 indexed citations
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Bowers, K. J., B. J. Albright, Benjamin Bergen, et al.. (2008). 0.374 Pflop/s trillion-particle kinetic modeling of laser plasma interaction on Roadrunner. IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics. 63. 35 indexed citations
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Bowers, K. J., B. J. Albright, L. Yin, Benjamin Bergen, & T. J. T. Kwan. (2008). Ultrahigh performance three-dimensional electromagnetic relativistic kinetic plasma simulation. Physics of Plasmas. 15(5). 345 indexed citations
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Bowers, K. J., B. J. Albright, Benjamin Bergen, et al.. (2008). 0.374 Pflop/s trillion-particle kinetic modeling of laser plasma interaction on roadrunner. 1–11. 40 indexed citations
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Bergen, Benjamin, et al.. (2007). Hierarchical hybrid grids: achieving TERAFLOP performance on large scale finite element simulations. International Journal of Parallel Emergent and Distributed Systems. 22(4). 311–329. 7 indexed citations
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Bergen, Benjamin, et al.. (2006). A Massively Parallel Multigrid Method for Finite Elements. Computing in Science & Engineering. 8(6). 56–62. 49 indexed citations
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Bergen, Benjamin, et al.. (2005). Is 1.7 x 10^10 Unknowns the Largest Finite Element System that Can Be Solved Today?. 5–5. 22 indexed citations
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Bergen, Benjamin, et al.. (2004). Hierarchical hybrid grids: data structures and core algorithms for multigrid. Numerical Linear Algebra with Applications. 11(2-3). 279–291. 30 indexed citations

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