D. C. Handscomb

5.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
26 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

D. C. Handscomb is a scholar working on Condensed Matter Physics, Mathematical Physics and Computational Mechanics. According to data from OpenAlex, D. C. Handscomb has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Condensed Matter Physics, 3 papers in Mathematical Physics and 3 papers in Computational Mechanics. Recurrent topics in D. C. Handscomb's work include Theoretical and Computational Physics (4 papers), Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows (2 papers) and Computational Geometry and Mesh Generation (2 papers). D. C. Handscomb is often cited by papers focused on Theoretical and Computational Physics (4 papers), Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows (2 papers) and Computational Geometry and Mesh Generation (2 papers). D. C. Handscomb collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom and United States. D. C. Handscomb's co-authors include J. M. Hammersley, J. C. Mason, P. Prescott, C. L. Mallows, Lloyd D. Fosdick, George H. Weiss and John H. Halton and has published in prestigious journals such as Physics Today, Mathematics of Computation and Journal of the ACM.

In The Last Decade

D. C. Handscomb

25 papers receiving 3.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Monte Carlo Methods

1964 2.1k citations J. M. Hammersley, D. C. Handscomb CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) profile →
Chebyshev Polynomials

2002 916 citations J. C. Mason, D. C. Handscomb profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
D. C. Handscomb United Kingdom	14	488	401	394	377	367	26	3.7k
D. E. Barton United Kingdom	16	437 0.9×	208 0.5×	381 1.0×	391 1.0×	340 0.9×	47	4.2k
C. Reinsch Germany	14	384 0.8×	406 1.0×	271 0.7×	491 1.3×	260 0.7×	24	4.9k
Kiyosi Itô Japan	19	199 0.4×	132 0.3×	387 1.0×	236 0.6×	509 1.4×	32	3.4k
Erwin Kreyszig United States	19	266 0.5×	514 1.3×	242 0.6×	386 1.0×	315 0.9×	84	4.8k
Anthony Ralston United States	21	491 1.0×	575 1.4×	187 0.5×	358 0.9×	277 0.8×	100	4.7k
David J. Jeffrey Canada	27	635 1.3×	267 0.7×	296 0.8×	467 1.2×	1.2k 3.2×	104	11.0k
A. P. Prudnikov Russia	14	885 1.8×	290 0.7×	292 0.7×	204 0.5×	433 1.2×	27	3.9k
R. W. Hamming United States	21	486 1.0×	397 1.0×	164 0.4×	720 1.9×	310 0.8×	53	5.8k
George Marsaglia United States	36	245 0.5×	196 0.5×	802 2.0×	1.5k 3.9×	419 1.1×	87	6.3k
Juliette Florentin Belgium	12	1.8k 3.7×	274 0.7×	275 0.7×	352 0.9×	793 2.2×	21	6.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of D. C. Handscomb

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Handscomb, D. C., et al.. (2002). Smooth motion of a rigid body in 2D and 3D. 205–210.

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Mason, J. C. & D. C. Handscomb. (2002). Chebyshev Polynomials. 916 indexed citations breakdown →

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Handscomb, D. C.. (1998). Simulation of order transitions on a parallel computer. Mathematics and Computers in Simulation. 47(2-5). 319–327. 1 indexed citations

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Handscomb, D. C.. (1993). Local recovery of a solenoidal vector field by an extension of the thin-plate spline technique. Numerical Algorithms. 5(2). 121–129. 9 indexed citations

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Handscomb, D. C.. (1988). Proceedings of the 3rd IMA Conference on the Mathematics of Surfaces. 1 indexed citations

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Handscomb, D. C.. (1984). The mathematical description of shape and form. Applied Mathematical Modelling. 8(5). 371–371. 38 indexed citations

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Handscomb, D. C.. (1984). Spline Representation of Incompressible Flow. IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis. 4(4). 491–502. 10 indexed citations

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Handscomb, D. C.. (1973). The Relative Sizes of the Terms in Chebyshev and other Ultraspherical Expansions. IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics. 11(2). 241–246. 2 indexed citations

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Hammersley, J. M. & D. C. Handscomb. (1967). Les méthodes de Monte-Carlo. Dunod eBooks. 6 indexed citations

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Handscomb, D. C.. (1967). THE MONTE CARLO METHOD. Journal of the London Mathematical Society. s1-42(1). 375–376. 3 indexed citations

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Handscomb, D. C.. (1966). Methods of numerical approximation : lectures delivered at a summer school held at Oxford University September, 1965. Pergamon Press eBooks. 2 indexed citations

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Mallows, C. L., J. M. Hammersley, & D. C. Handscomb. (1966). Monte Carlo Methods.. American Mathematical Monthly. 73(6). 685–685. 48 indexed citations

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Handscomb, D. C., et al.. (1965). Monte Carlo Methods. Physics Today. 18(2). 55–56. 40 indexed citations

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Handscomb, D. C.. (1964). Remarks on a Monte Carlo integration method. Numerische Mathematik. 6(1). 261–268. 14 indexed citations

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Hammersley, J. M. & D. C. Handscomb. (1964). Monte Carlo Methods. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 2133 indexed citations breakdown →

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Handscomb, D. C.. (1962). Computation of the Latent Roots of a Hessenberg Matrix by Bairstow's Method. The Computer Journal. 5(2). 139–141. 4 indexed citations

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Handscomb, D. C.. (1962). The Monte Carlo method in quantum statistical mechanics. Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 58(4). 594–598. 104 indexed citations

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Fosdick, Lloyd D., et al.. (1960). Computation of Order Parameters in an Ising Lattice by the Monte Carlo Method. Journal of Mathematical Physics. 1(6). 547–558. 43 indexed citations

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Handscomb, D. C. & J. M. Hammersley. (1958). Proof of the antithetic variates theorem for n > 2. Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 54(2). 300–301. 21 indexed citations

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Handscomb, D. C.. (1958). On the Random Disorientation of two Cubes. Canadian Journal of Mathematics. 10. 85–88. 46 indexed citations

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