Bryan W. Roberts

4.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
90 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Bryan W. Roberts is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Bryan W. Roberts has authored 90 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Organic Chemistry, 15 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 12 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Bryan W. Roberts's work include Quantum Mechanics and Applications (12 papers), Aerospace Engineering and Energy Systems (10 papers) and Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis (6 papers). Bryan W. Roberts is often cited by papers focused on Quantum Mechanics and Applications (12 papers), Aerospace Engineering and Energy Systems (10 papers) and Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis (6 papers). Bryan W. Roberts collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and United Kingdom. Bryan W. Roberts's co-authors include Claude S. Fischer, Joseph B. Lambert, John D. Roberts, Gerhard Binsch, Clive Fletcher, Fred Kaplan, King Banaian, Sylvia Chant, Norman Long and John Walton and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews and Physical Review A.

In The Last Decade

Bryan W. Roberts

82 papers receiving 2.0k 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.

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Bryan W. Roberts United States	19	1.1k	328	255	254	167	90	2.3k
Herbert H. Hyman United States	29	1.6k 1.5×	255 0.8×	127 0.5×	160 0.6×	348 2.1×	109	3.6k
Robert Moore United States	26	973 0.9×	106 0.3×	42 0.2×	78 0.3×	122 0.7×	107	2.6k
D. H. Morgan United Kingdom	30	1.1k 1.0×	175 0.5×	40 0.2×	2.1k 8.2×	193 1.2×	143	5.3k
David Byrne United Kingdom	32	960 0.9×	476 1.5×	92 0.4×	74 0.3×	111 0.7×	110	3.7k
David Horton Smith United States	30	2.3k 2.2×	504 1.5×	253 1.0×	22 0.1×	479 2.9×	169	4.2k
Robert D. Brown United States	27	605 0.6×	340 1.0×	75 0.3×	178 0.7×	871 5.2×	137	5.4k
Markus Christen Switzerland	25	362 0.3×	177 0.5×	23 0.1×	144 0.6×	246 1.5×	136	3.8k
Robert E. Stevens United States	21	315 0.3×	50 0.2×	36 0.1×	182 0.7×	81 0.5×	156	2.3k
Thomas Lemke Germany	24	1.7k 1.6×	329 1.0×	35 0.1×	441 1.7×	104 0.6×	133	4.5k
Mathew Joseph India	28	505 0.5×	104 0.3×	19 0.1×	40 0.2×	73 0.4×	120	3.7k

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Keillor, Martin E., et al.. (2025). Development and testing of a continuous maritime monitor for radionuclide aerosols. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity. 289. 107777–107777.

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Roberts, Bryan W. & Jeremy Butterfield. (2020). Time-energy uncertainty does not create particles. Journal of Physics Conference Series. 1638(1). 12005–12005. 2 indexed citations

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Roberts, Bryan W.. (2020). Regarding ‘Leibniz Equivalence’. Foundations of Physics. 50(4). 250–269. 15 indexed citations

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Roberts, Bryan W.. (2017). Illegal Immigration Outcomes on the U.S. Southern Border. Cato Journal. 37(3). 555. 2 indexed citations

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Prager, Fynnwin, et al.. (2015). Economy-wide impacts of reduced wait times at U.S. international airports. Research in Transportation Business & Management. 16. 112–120. 16 indexed citations

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Avetisyan, Misak, et al.. (2015). Competitiveness and macroeconomic impacts of reduced wait times at U.S. land freight border crossings. Transportation Research Part A Policy and Practice. 78. 84–101. 16 indexed citations

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Roberts, Bryan W.. (2013). When We Do (and Do Not) Have a Classical Arrow of Time. Philosophy of Science. 80(5). 1112–1124. 3 indexed citations

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Weidman, Patrick, Bryan W. Roberts, & Sarah Eisen. (2012). On the Instability of Spheres Settling through a Vertical Pipe Filled with HPG. Journal of Applied Fluid Mechanics. 5(4). 3 indexed citations

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Norton, John D. & Bryan W. Roberts. (2012). Galileo's Refutation of the Speed-Distance Law of Fall Rehabilitated. Centaurus. 54(2). 148–164.

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Roberts, Bryan W., et al.. (2011). Are U.S. Borders Secure. Foreign Affairs. 2 indexed citations

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Roberts, Bryan W., et al.. (2010). The 9/11 Terrorist Attack and Overseas Travel to the United States: Initial Impacts and Longer-Run Recovery. 5 indexed citations

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Roberts, Bryan W.. (2009). The Macroeconomic Impacts of the 9/11 Attack: Evidence from Real-Time Forecasting. Peace Economics Peace Science and Public Policy. 15(2). 341–367. 19 indexed citations

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Banaian, King & Bryan W. Roberts. (2008). The design and use of political economy indicators : challenges of definition, aggregation, and application. Palgrave Macmillan eBooks. 1 indexed citations

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Roberts, Bryan W. & P. D. Weidman. (2000). Oscillations of a sphere settling through a non-Newtonian fluid. APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting Abstracts. 53. 1 indexed citations

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Roberts, Bryan W., et al.. (1998). Is Privatization a Free Lunch? New Evidence on Ownership Status and Firm Performance. SSRN Electronic Journal. 5 indexed citations

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Roberts, Bryan W.. (1994). Inflation and the Monetary Regime During the Cuban Economic Transition. Annual Proceedings. 4.

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Kaplan, Fred, et al.. (1975). Synthesis of tricarbonyliron complexes of functional 1,2-disubstituted cyclobutadienes. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 97(24). 7076–7085. 24 indexed citations

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Roberts, Bryan W., et al.. (1975). Oscillations of a wedge in a free stream with particular reference to parachutes. Flow Turbulence and Combustion. 31(4). 279–308. 1 indexed citations

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Roberts, Bryan W.. (1968). A contribution to parachute inflation dynamics. 6 indexed citations

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Roberts, Bryan W.. (1966). The Steady Flow Through a Cascade of Closely Spaced Circular Cylinders. Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society. 70(669). 886–887. 3 indexed citations

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