Bruce W. Roberts

902 total citations · 1 hit paper
8 papers, 662 citations indexed

About

Bruce W. Roberts is a scholar working on Condensed Matter Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Bruce W. Roberts has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 662 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 3 papers in Condensed Matter Physics, 3 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 3 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Bruce W. Roberts's work include Semiconductor materials and interfaces (3 papers), Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies (3 papers) and Theoretical and Computational Physics (3 papers). Bruce W. Roberts is often cited by papers focused on Semiconductor materials and interfaces (3 papers), Silicon and Solar Cell Technologies (3 papers) and Theoretical and Computational Physics (3 papers). Bruce W. Roberts collaborates with scholars based in United States. Bruce W. Roberts's co-authors include James P. Sethna, Karin A. Dahmen, Joel D. Shore, Sivan Kartha, J. A. Krumhansl, Paulette Clancy, M. E. J. Newman, Weiwei Luo, Eberhard Bodenschatz and Kurt A. Johnson and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Journal of Applied Physics and Chemical Engineering Journal.

In The Last Decade

Bruce W. Roberts

8 papers receiving 637 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.

Hysteresis and hierarchies: Dynamics of disorder-driven first-order phase transformations

1993 537 citations James P. Sethna, Karin A. Dahmen et al. Physical Review Letters profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Bruce W. Roberts United States	7	381	228	173	134	117	8	662
Sasuke Miyazima Japan	12	322 0.8×	159 0.7×	187 1.1×	88 0.7×	168 1.4×	77	711
Joel D. Shore United States	15	793 2.1×	421 1.8×	487 2.8×	211 1.6×	155 1.3×	36	1.3k
Fan Zhong China	18	473 1.2×	439 1.9×	238 1.4×	94 0.7×	272 2.3×	88	959
Pascal Chauve France	8	727 1.9×	383 1.7×	272 1.6×	102 0.8×	81 0.7×	9	904
S. Bustingorry Argentina	18	614 1.6×	518 2.3×	280 1.6×	319 2.4×	66 0.6×	63	938
Olga Perković United States	7	366 1.0×	135 0.6×	82 0.5×	98 0.7×	108 0.9×	8	524
J. Merikoski Finland	19	482 1.3×	433 1.9×	275 1.6×	57 0.4×	104 0.9×	45	1.0k
Alessandro Magni Italy	15	342 0.9×	517 2.3×	96 0.6×	415 3.1×	82 0.7×	71	820
Ziqin Wu China	16	526 1.4×	359 1.6×	302 1.7×	220 1.6×	111 0.9×	49	1.2k
S. Stepanow Germany	14	517 1.4×	181 0.8×	473 2.7×	50 0.4×	78 0.7×	57	843

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All Works

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8 of 8 papers shown

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Roberts, Bruce W., Weiwei Luo, Kurt A. Johnson, & Paulette Clancy. (1999). An order(N) tight-binding molecular dynamics study of intrinsic defect diffusion in silicon. Chemical Engineering Journal. 74(1-2). 67–75. 8 indexed citations

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Clancy, Paulette, et al.. (1998). Tight-binding studies of the tendency for boron to cluster in c-Si. I. Development of an improved boron–boron model. Journal of Applied Physics. 84(5). 2471–2475. 24 indexed citations

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Luo, Weiwei, et al.. (1998). Tight-binding studies of the tendency for boron to cluster in c-Si. II. Interaction of dopants and defects in boron-doped Si. Journal of Applied Physics. 84(5). 2476–2486. 40 indexed citations

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Roberts, Bruce W., Eberhard Bodenschatz, & James P. Sethna. (1996). A bound on the decay of defect-defect correlation functions in two-dimensional complex order parameter equations. Physica D Nonlinear Phenomena. 99(2-3). 252–268. 12 indexed citations

5.

Roberts, Bruce W. & M. E. J. Newman. (1996). A Model for Evolution and Extinction. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 180(1). 39–54. 25 indexed citations

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Dahmen, Karin A., Sivan Kartha, J. A. Krumhansl, et al.. (1994). Disorder-driven first-order phase transformations: A model for hysteresis. Journal of Applied Physics. 75(10). 5946–5948. 13 indexed citations

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Sethna, James P., Karin A. Dahmen, Sivan Kartha, et al.. (1993). Hysteresis and hierarchies: Dynamics of disorder-driven first-order phase transformations. Physical Review Letters. 70(21). 3347–3350. 537 indexed citations breakdown →

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Roberts, Bruce W., et al.. (1979). Coreference in a frame database. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 729–734. 3 indexed citations

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