Charles L. Critchfield

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
13 papers, 599 citations indexed

About

Charles L. Critchfield is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Aerospace Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Charles L. Critchfield has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 599 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 4 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 2 papers in Aerospace Engineering. Recurrent topics in Charles L. Critchfield's work include Quantum and Classical Electrodynamics (3 papers), Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (2 papers) and High-Energy Particle Collisions Research (2 papers). Charles L. Critchfield is often cited by papers focused on Quantum and Classical Electrodynamics (3 papers), Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (2 papers) and High-Energy Particle Collisions Research (2 papers). Charles L. Critchfield collaborates with scholars based in United States. Charles L. Critchfield's co-authors include Victor F. Weisskopf, John M. Blatt, E. P. Ney, George Gamow and J. L. Gammel and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Physical Review Letters and American Journal of Physics.

In The Last Decade

Charles L. Critchfield

12 papers receiving 554 citations

Hit Papers

Theoretical Nuclear Physics 1953 2026 1977 2001 1953 100 200 300
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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.

  1. Theoretical Nuclear Physics
    1953 374 citations John M. Blatt, Victor F. Weisskopf et al. American Journal of Physics profile →

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Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Charles L. Critchfield United States 7 361 295 153 90 61 13 599
J.S. O'Connell United States 17 532 1.5× 339 1.1× 175 1.1× 49 0.5× 67 1.1× 46 785
K. Strauch United States 17 626 1.7× 231 0.8× 224 1.5× 53 0.6× 88 1.4× 40 824
K. Winter Switzerland 17 759 2.1× 160 0.5× 140 0.9× 47 0.5× 46 0.8× 57 912
V. W. Hughes United States 16 510 1.4× 547 1.9× 102 0.7× 120 1.3× 83 1.4× 39 1.0k
Thomas Ypsilantis United States 13 711 2.0× 397 1.3× 214 1.4× 89 1.0× 65 1.1× 26 988
L. Gutay United States 9 436 1.2× 159 0.5× 100 0.7× 63 0.7× 69 1.1× 13 547
K. R. Greider United States 12 337 0.9× 338 1.1× 157 1.0× 50 0.6× 30 0.5× 19 554
M. L. Stevenson United States 20 925 2.6× 385 1.3× 119 0.8× 63 0.7× 48 0.8× 61 1.3k
G. Morpurgo Italy 18 922 2.6× 314 1.1× 119 0.8× 81 0.9× 31 0.5× 70 1.1k
G. Manning United Kingdom 18 588 1.6× 231 0.8× 229 1.5× 26 0.3× 52 0.9× 30 780

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Charles L. Critchfield

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All Works

13 of 13 papers shown
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Gamow, George & Charles L. Critchfield. (2011). Theory of Atomic Nucleus and Nuclear Energy Sources. Virtual Defense Library (Ministerio de Defensa). 13 indexed citations
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Critchfield, Charles L.. (1989). Computation of elliptic functions. Journal of Mathematical Physics. 30(2). 295–297. 3 indexed citations
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Critchfield, Charles L.. (1976). Scalar potentials in the Dirac equation. Journal of Mathematical Physics. 17(2). 261–266. 92 indexed citations
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Critchfield, Charles L.. (1975). Scalar binding of quarks. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 12(3). 923–925. 44 indexed citations
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Critchfield, Charles L. & J. L. Gammel. (1974). Rational approximants forr inverse functions of two variables. Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics. 4(2). 2 indexed citations
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Critchfield, Charles L.. (1972). ANALYTIC FORMS OF THE THERMONUCLEAR FUNCTION.. 186. 8 indexed citations
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Critchfield, Charles L.. (1967). Bargmann-Wigner Equations. Journal of Mathematical Physics. 8(5). 1037–1039. 1 indexed citations
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Critchfield, Charles L.. (1965). Internal Symmetry and Relativistic Wave Functions. Physical Review Letters. 14(15). 607–609.
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Critchfield, Charles L.. (1964). The WKB Method in Three Dimensions. American Journal of Physics. 32(7). 542–545. 4 indexed citations
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Blatt, John M., Victor F. Weisskopf, & Charles L. Critchfield. (1953). Theoretical Nuclear Physics. American Journal of Physics. 21(3). 235–236. 374 indexed citations breakdown →
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Critchfield, Charles L., et al.. (1952). Soft Radiation at Balloon Altitudes. Physical Review. 85(3). 461–467. 38 indexed citations
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Critchfield, Charles L., et al.. (1951). The Density of States in Light Nuclei. Physical Review. 82(2). 243–247. 19 indexed citations

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