Bruce J. West

20.4k total citations · 5 hit papers
378 papers, 14.9k citations indexed

About

Bruce J. West is a scholar working on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Economics and Econometrics and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Bruce J. West has authored 378 papers receiving a total of 14.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 174 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, 96 papers in Economics and Econometrics and 60 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Bruce J. West's work include Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis (93 papers), Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (59 papers) and stochastic dynamics and bifurcation (50 papers). Bruce J. West is often cited by papers focused on Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis (93 papers), Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (59 papers) and stochastic dynamics and bifurcation (50 papers). Bruce J. West collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and Spain. Bruce J. West's co-authors include Paolo Grigolini, Katja Lindenberg, Ary L. Goldberger, W. D. Deering, Nicola Scafetta, Michael F. Shlesinger, Mauro Bologna, J. Klafter, David R. Rigney and V. Seshadri and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Physical Review Letters and The Journal of Chemical Physics.

In The Last Decade

Bruce J. West

377 papers receiving 14.3k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Fractional Calculus in Bioengineering

2007 1.7k citations Bruce J. West profile →
Fractal Physiology

1994 705 citations Bruce J. West et al. profile →
Physics of Fractal Operators

2003 668 citations Bruce J. West, Mauro Bologna et al. profile →
Science in Pictures: Chaos and Fractals in Human Physiology

1990 606 citations Bruce J. West et al. profile →
Lévy dynamics of enhanced diffusion: Application to turbulence

1987 589 citations Michael F. Shlesinger, Bruce J. West et al. Physical Review Letters profile →

Peers

Bruce J. West

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Michael C. Mackey Canada

Paolo Grigolini United States

Hölger Kantz Germany

John Guckenheimer United States

Philip Holmes United States

Harry L. Swinney United States

Michael F. Shlesinger United States

Leon Glass Canada

Itamar Procaccia Israel

Yuri A. Kuznetsov Russia

Michael C. Mackey Canada

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Countries citing papers authored by Bruce J. West

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Bruce J. West

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bruce J. West

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Partohaghighi, Mohammad, Roummel F. Marcia, Bruce J. West, & YangQuan Chen. (2025). Roughness-informed machine learning – A call for fractal and fractional calculi. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(6). 463–480.

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West, Bruce J. & Saba Mudaliar. (2025). Principles Entailed by Complexity, Crucial Events, and Multifractal Dimensionality. Entropy. 27(3). 241–241. 3 indexed citations

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Palatella, Luigi, Korosh Mahmoodi, Orazio Santo Santonocito, et al.. (2024). Cell motility in cancer, crucial events, criticality, and Lévy walks. Chaos Solitons & Fractals. 183. 114899–114899. 1 indexed citations

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West, Bruce J. & YangQuan Chen. (2024). Fractional Calculus for Skeptics I. 1 indexed citations

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West, Bruce J. & W. Alan C. Mutch. (2024). On the Fractal Language of Medicine. 1 indexed citations

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West, Bruce J., Paolo Grigolini, & Mauro Bologna. (2023). Crucial Event Rehabilitation Therapy. 5 indexed citations

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Łątka, Mirosław, et al.. (2023). EEG phase synchronization during absence seizures. Frontiers in Neuroinformatics. 17. 1169584–1169584. 7 indexed citations

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West, Bruce J., Paolo Grigolini, Scott E. Kerick, Piotr J. Franaszczuk, & Korosh Mahmoodi. (2023). Complexity Synchronization of Organ Networks. Entropy. 25(10). 1393–1393. 11 indexed citations

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Mahmoodi, Korosh, Scott E. Kerick, Paolo Grigolini, Piotr J. Franaszczuk, & Bruce J. West. (2023). Complexity synchronization: a measure of interaction between the brain, heart and lungs. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 11433–11433. 14 indexed citations

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Łątka, Mirosław, et al.. (2020). Changes in Interictal Pretreatment and Posttreatment EEG in Childhood Absence Epilepsy. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 14. 196–196. 10 indexed citations

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Grigolini, Paolo & Bruce J. West. (2011). Decision making : a psychophysics application of network science : Center for Nonlinear Science, University of North Texas, USA, 10-13 January 2010. WORLD SCIENTIFIC eBooks. 1 indexed citations

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Aquino, Gerardo, Mauro Bologna, Bruce J. West, & Paolo Grigolini. (2011). Transmission of information between complex systems:1/fresonance. Physical Review E. 83(5). 51130–51130. 46 indexed citations

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Aquino, Gerardo, Mauro Bologna, Paolo Grigolini, & Bruce J. West. (2010). Beyond the Death of Linear Response:1/fOptimal Information Transport. Physical Review Letters. 105(4). 40601–40601. 41 indexed citations

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West, Bruce J. & Thomas R. Clancy. (2010). Flash Crashes, Bursts, and Black Swans. JONA The Journal of Nursing Administration. 40(11). 456–459. 10 indexed citations

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Turalska, Malgorzata, Mirosław Łątka, Marek Czosnyka, Krystyna Pierzchała, & Bruce J. West. (2008). Generation of very low frequency cerebral blood flow fluctuations in humans. Acta neurochirurgica. Supplementum. 102. 43–47. 9 indexed citations

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West, Bruce J., et al.. (1999). Fractal fluctuations in cardiac time series. Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications. 270(3-4). 552–566. 32 indexed citations

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Bickel, David R. & Bruce J. West. (1998). Molecular Evolution Modeled as a Fractal Renewal Point Process in Agreement with the Dispersion of Substitutions in Mammalian Genes. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 47(5). 551–556. 11 indexed citations

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West, Bruce J.. (1992). The use of fractals in optical wave propagation through random media. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. 2 indexed citations

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West, Bruce J.. (1990). Fractal Physiology and Chaos in Medicine. 252 indexed citations

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Shlesinger, Michael F. & Bruce J. West. (1984). Random walks and their applications in the physical and biological sciences (NBS/La Jolla Institute--1982). American Institute of Physics eBooks. 2 indexed citations

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