Bruce Damer

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
40 papers, 965 citations indexed

About

Bruce Damer is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Sociology and Political Science and Human-Computer Interaction. According to data from OpenAlex, Bruce Damer has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 965 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 8 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 6 papers in Human-Computer Interaction. Recurrent topics in Bruce Damer's work include Origins and Evolution of Life (11 papers), Digital Games and Media (8 papers) and Astro and Planetary Science (8 papers). Bruce Damer is often cited by papers focused on Origins and Evolution of Life (11 papers), Digital Games and Media (8 papers) and Astro and Planetary Science (8 papers). Bruce Damer collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Denmark. Bruce Damer's co-authors include David W. Deamer, Vladimir Kompanichenko, J. R. Havig, Steve DiPaola, Tue Hassenkam, Amy Bruckman, Martin J. Van Kranendonk, Stuart Pilorz, Peter Jenniskens and Tara Djokic and has published in prestigious journals such as Leonardo, Astrobiology and interactions.

In The Last Decade

Bruce Damer

37 papers receiving 900 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

The Hot Spring Hypothesis for an Origin of Life

2019 279 citations Bruce Damer, David W. Deamer Astrobiology profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Bruce Damer United States	14	604	310	165	100	88	40	965
Carol E. Cleland United States	18	423 0.7×	199 0.6×	39 0.2×	130 1.3×	78 0.9×	33	1.2k
Marcello Barbieri Italy	23	601 1.0×	923 3.0×	54 0.3×	117 1.2×	54 0.6×	68	1.7k
Álvaro Moreno Spain	23	656 1.1×	449 1.4×	117 0.7×	380 3.8×	19 0.2×	67	1.8k
Chrisantha Fernando United Kingdom	16	282 0.5×	360 1.2×	176 1.1×	107 1.1×	19 0.2×	39	933
Matteo Mossio France	17	374 0.6×	381 1.2×	63 0.4×	278 2.8×	15 0.2×	28	1.3k
Sara Imari Walker United States	24	786 1.3×	595 1.9×	205 1.2×	140 1.4×	78 0.9×	70	1.5k
Frans Snik Netherlands	22	676 1.1×	35 0.1×	51 0.3×	42 0.4×	101 1.1×	101	1.5k
Juan‐Carlos Letelier Chile	12	176 0.3×	206 0.7×	75 0.5×	28 0.3×	31 0.4×	20	470
Vera Vasas United Kingdom	13	287 0.5×	291 0.9×	154 0.9×	79 0.8×	115 1.3×	21	701
Joana C. Xavier Germany	14	328 0.5×	418 1.3×	105 0.6×	20 0.2×	76 0.9×	22	672

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Fields of papers citing papers by Bruce Damer

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bruce Damer

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Deamer, David W., et al.. (2024). Could Life Have Started on Mars? Planetary Conditions That Assemble and Destroy Protocells. Life. 14(3). 415–415. 1 indexed citations

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Deamer, David W., et al.. (2022). Urability: A Property of Planetary Bodies That Can Support an Origin of Life. Astrobiology. 22(7). 889–900. 18 indexed citations

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Hassenkam, Tue, et al.. (2020). AFM Images of Viroid-Sized Rings That Self-Assemble from Mononucleotides through Wet–Dry Cycling: Implications for the Origin of Life. Life. 10(12). 321–321. 19 indexed citations

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Deamer, David W., Bruce Damer, & Vladimir Kompanichenko. (2019). Hydrothermal Chemistry and the Origin of Cellular Life. Astrobiology. 19(12). 1523–1537. 72 indexed citations

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Damer, Bruce & David W. Deamer. (2019). The Hot Spring Hypothesis for an Origin of Life. Astrobiology. 20(4). 429–452. 279 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kranendonk, Martin J. Van, Bruce Damer, Eric S. Boyd, et al.. (2018). Terrestrial Hot Springs and the Origin of Life: Implications for the Search for Life Beyond Earth. LPI. 2535. 1 indexed citations

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Deamer, David W., Bruce Damer, Martin J. Van Kranendonk, & Tara Djokic. (2017). An Origin of Life in Cycling Hot Spring Pools: Emerging Evidence from Chemistry, Geology and Computational Studies. 1967. 4130. 1 indexed citations

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Deamer, David W. & Bruce Damer. (2017). Can Life Begin on Enceladus? A Perspective from Hydrothermal Chemistry. Astrobiology. 17(9). 834–839. 40 indexed citations

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Damer, Bruce. (2016). A Field Trip to the Archaean in Search of Darwin’s Warm Little Pond. Life. 6(2). 21–21. 35 indexed citations

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Jenniskens, Peter, et al.. (2015). SHEPHERD: A Concept for Gentle Asteroid Retrieval with a Gas-Filled Enclosure. New Space. 3(1). 36–43. 4 indexed citations

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Damer, Bruce, et al.. (2013). The Virtuality and Reality of Avatar Cyberspace. Oxford University Press eBooks. 17–41. 3 indexed citations

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Damer, Bruce, et al.. (2010). The EvoGrid: A Framework for Distributed Artificial Chemistry Cameo Simulations Supporting Computational Origins of Life Endeavors. Artificial Life. 73–79. 5 indexed citations

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Damer, Bruce, et al.. (2006). Modeling Lunar Architectures Using 3D Real-Time Visualization and Simulation. 106. 1–8. 1 indexed citations

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Taylor, G. J., R. C. F. Lentz, S. J. Lawrence, et al.. (2005). SUPERBOTS ON THE LUNAR SURFACE: MINI-MOBILE INVESTIGATION SYSTEM (MINI-MIS).. LPICo. 1287. 86. 1 indexed citations

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Lawrence, S. J., R. C. F. Lentz, L. M. V. Martel, et al.. (2005). Superbots on the Lunar Surface: A Habitat Operations and Maintenance System (HOMS). 1287. 55.

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Damer, Bruce, et al.. (2003). Nerve garden: germinating biological metaphors in net‐based virtual worlds. Kybernetes. 32(1/2). 174–183. 4 indexed citations

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Damer, Bruce. (1998). The Cyberbiological Worlds of "Nerve Garden": A Test Bed for VRML 2.0. Leonardo. 31(5). 389–389. 1 indexed citations

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Damer, Bruce. (1997). Inhabited virtual worlds: a new frontier for interaction design. ACM SIGGROUP Bulletin. 18(2). 21–26. 3 indexed citations

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Damer, Bruce. (1997). Interacting and designing in virtual worlds on the internet. 174–174. 6 indexed citations

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Damer, Bruce, et al.. (1996). Inhabited digital spaces. 9–10. 13 indexed citations

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