Daniel S. Fisher

34.0k total citations · 15 hit papers
170 papers, 24.8k citations indexed

About

Daniel S. Fisher is a scholar working on Condensed Matter Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Daniel S. Fisher has authored 170 papers receiving a total of 24.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 99 papers in Condensed Matter Physics, 60 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 27 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Daniel S. Fisher's work include Theoretical and Computational Physics (75 papers), Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (39 papers) and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (26 papers). Daniel S. Fisher is often cited by papers focused on Theoretical and Computational Physics (75 papers), Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (39 papers) and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (26 papers). Daniel S. Fisher collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Germany. Daniel S. Fisher's co-authors include David A. Huse, Matthew P. A. Fisher, Patrick A. Lee, G. Grinstein, Peter B. Weichman, M. C. Cross, Michael M. Desai, Onuttom Narayan, D. J. Thouless and Elihu Abrahams and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Daniel S. Fisher

164 papers receiving 24.2k citations

Hit Papers

Boson localization and the superfluid-insulator transition 1979 2026 1994 2010 1989 1991 1981 1980 1988 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k
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.

  1. Boson localization and the superfluid-insulator transition
    1989 2.6k citations Daniel S. Fisher et al. Physical review. B, Condensed matter profile →
  2. Thermal fluctuations, quenched disorder, phase transitions, and transport in type-II superconductors
    1991 1.9k citations Daniel S. Fisher, David A. Huse et al. Physical review. B, Condensed matter profile →
  3. Relation between conductivity and transmission matrix
    1981 1.3k citations Daniel S. Fisher et al. Physical review. B, Condensed matter profile →
  4. New method for a scaling theory of localization
    1980 766 citations Daniel S. Fisher et al. Physical review. B, Condensed matter profile →
  5. Equilibrium behavior of the spin-glass ordered phase
    1988 724 citations Daniel S. Fisher, David A. Huse Physical review. B, Condensed matter profile →
  6. Nonequilibrium dynamics of spin glasses
    1988 648 citations Daniel S. Fisher, David A. Huse Physical review. B, Condensed matter profile →
  7. Critical behavior of random transverse-field Ising spin chains
    1995 614 citations Daniel S. Fisher Physical review. B, Condensed matter profile →
  8. Ordered Phase of Short-Range Ising Spin-Glasses
    1986 586 citations Daniel S. Fisher, David A. Huse profile →
  9. Anderson Localization in Two Dimensions
    1981 525 citations Daniel S. Fisher et al. profile →
  10. Finite-Size Scaling and Correlation Lengths for Disordered Systems
    1986 505 citations Daniel S. Fisher et al. profile →
  11. A new theory of the spin-Peierls transition with special relevance to the experiments on TTFCuBDT
    1979 498 citations Daniel S. Fisher et al. Physical review. B, Condensed matter profile →
  12. Random antiferromagnetic quantum spin chains
    1994 488 citations Daniel S. Fisher Physical review. B, Condensed matter profile →
  13. Random transverse field Ising spin chains
    1992 468 citations Daniel S. Fisher profile →
  14. Sliding charge-density waves as a dynamic critical phenomenon
    1985 467 citations Daniel S. Fisher Physical review. B, Condensed matter profile →
  15. The evolutionary dynamics and fitness landscape of clonal hematopoiesis
    2020 254 citations Caroline J. Watson, Winghing Wong et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Daniel S. Fisher United States 75 14.7k 11.8k 4.3k 3.1k 2.4k 170 24.8k
David R. Nelson United States 99 18.5k 1.3× 12.2k 1.0× 11.0k 2.6× 3.5k 1.1× 4.4k 1.8× 410 42.3k
P. C. Hohenberg United States 45 11.8k 0.8× 8.7k 0.7× 5.2k 1.2× 5.6k 1.8× 3.4k 1.4× 100 24.8k
Giorgio Parisi Italy 84 20.9k 1.4× 6.3k 0.5× 10.2k 2.4× 10.8k 3.5× 1.0k 0.4× 574 39.9k
James P. Sethna United States 61 4.5k 0.3× 4.4k 0.4× 4.0k 0.9× 1.7k 0.6× 2.1k 0.9× 210 14.8k
Mehran Kardar United States 63 7.7k 0.5× 6.0k 0.5× 3.8k 0.9× 4.2k 1.4× 450 0.2× 273 17.3k
Amnon Aharony Israel 70 15.5k 1.1× 7.7k 0.6× 6.9k 1.6× 3.8k 1.2× 4.5k 1.8× 409 26.9k
Leonard M. Sander United States 44 6.8k 0.5× 3.0k 0.3× 4.8k 1.1× 1.7k 0.6× 685 0.3× 176 15.5k
Leo P. Kadanoff United States 64 11.1k 0.8× 10.7k 0.9× 3.9k 0.9× 5.3k 1.7× 1.3k 0.5× 187 24.2k
D. J. Thouless United States 62 16.0k 1.1× 21.7k 1.8× 7.5k 1.8× 4.8k 1.5× 2.8k 1.1× 173 33.2k
Michael E. Fisher United States 101 26.5k 1.8× 15.3k 1.3× 11.5k 2.7× 7.9k 2.6× 7.0k 2.9× 404 42.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Daniel S. Fisher

Since Specialization
Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Daniel S. Fisher's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Daniel S. Fisher with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Daniel S. Fisher more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Daniel S. Fisher

Since Specialization
Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Daniel S. Fisher. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Daniel S. Fisher. The network helps show where Daniel S. Fisher may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Daniel S. Fisher

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Daniel S. Fisher. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Daniel S. Fisher based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Daniel S. Fisher. Daniel S. Fisher is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
1.
2.
Good, Benjamin H., et al.. (2022). Population genetics of polymorphism and divergence in rapidly evolving populations. Genetics. 221(4). 8 indexed citations
3.
Watson, Caroline J., et al.. (2021). Synonymous mutations reveal genome-wide levels of positive selection in healthy tissues. Nature Genetics. 53(11). 1597–1605. 28 indexed citations
4.
Belliveau, Nathan M., Griffin Chure, Christina L. Hueschen, et al.. (2021). Fundamental limits on the rate of bacterial growth and their influence on proteomic composition. Cell Systems. 12(9). 924–944.e2. 57 indexed citations
5.
Watson, Caroline J., Winghing Wong, Andrew L. Young, et al.. (2020). The evolutionary dynamics and fitness landscape of clonal hematopoiesis. Science. 367(6485). 1449–1454. 254 indexed citations breakdown →
6.
Fisher, Daniel S., Bimbisar Desai, Yuan Yang, et al.. (2017). High throughput photo-oxidations in a packed bed reactor system. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry. 25(23). 6203–6208. 28 indexed citations
7.
Fisher, Daniel S., et al.. (2017). Rapid adaptation in large populations with very rare sex: Scalings and spontaneous oscillations. Theoretical Population Biology. 129. 18–40. 7 indexed citations
8.
Blundell, Jamie R., Sasha F. Levy, Sandeep Venkataram, et al.. (2015). Quantitative evolutionary dynamics of one million barcoded lineages. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 1 indexed citations
9.
Jiang, Ning, Jiankui He, Joshua A. Weinstein, et al.. (2013). Lineage Structure of the Human Antibody Repertoire in Response to Influenza Vaccination. Science Translational Medicine. 5(171). 171ra19–171ra19. 247 indexed citations
10.
Jiang, Ning, Jiankui He, Joshua A. Weinstein, et al.. (2012). High Throughput Sequencing of the Human Antibody Repertoire in Response to Influenza Vaccination (58.14). The Journal of Immunology. 188(1_Supplement). 58.14–58.14. 1 indexed citations
11.
Weissman, Daniel B., Michael M. Desai, Daniel S. Fisher, & Marcus W. Feldman. (2009). The rate at which asexual populations cross fitness valleys. Theoretical Population Biology. 75(4). 286–300. 161 indexed citations
12.
Rust, Michael J., Joseph S. Markson, William S. Lane, Daniel S. Fisher, & Erin K. O’Shea. (2007). Ordered Phosphorylation Governs Oscillation of a Three-Protein Circadian Clock. Science. 318(5851). 809–812. 277 indexed citations
13.
Desai, Michael M., Daniel S. Fisher, & Andrew W. Murray. (2007). The Speed of Evolution and Maintenance of Variation in Asexual Populations. Current Biology. 17(5). 385–394. 225 indexed citations
14.
Mosher, D., et al.. (2005). High-resolution seismic reflection images crossing the Sumatran seismogenic zone: Sumatra Earthquake And Tsunami Offshore Survey (SEATOS), 2005. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2005. 3 indexed citations
15.
Dahmen, Karin A., Daniel S. Fisher, Yehuda Ben‐Zion, Deniz Ertaş, & Sharad Ramanathan. (2001). Gutenberg-Richter and characteristic earthquake behavior in Simple Models of Heterogeneous Faults. AGU Spring Meeting Abstracts. 2001.
16.
Fisher, Daniel S. & A. P. Young. (1998). Distributions of gaps and end-to-end correlations in random transverse-field Ising spin chains. Physical review. B, Condensed matter. 58(14). 9131–9141. 62 indexed citations
17.
Narayan, Onuttom & Daniel S. Fisher. (1992). Critical behavior of sliding charge-density waves in 4-ε dimensions. Physical review. B, Condensed matter. 46(18). 11520–11549. 137 indexed citations
18.
Huse, David A. & Daniel S. Fisher. (1991). On the behavior of Ising spin glasses in a uniform magnetic field. Journal de Physique I. 1(5). 621–625. 15 indexed citations
19.
Huse, David A. & Daniel S. Fisher. (1987). Dynamics of droplet fluctuations in pure and random Ising systems. Physical review. B, Condensed matter. 35(13). 6841–6846. 118 indexed citations
20.
Nelson, David R. & Daniel S. Fisher. (1977). Dynamics of classicalXYspins in one and two dimensions. Physical review. B, Solid state. 16(11). 4945–4955. 69 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact

Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by David R. Nelson Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by P. C. Hohenberg Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Giorgio Parisi Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by James P. Sethna Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Mehran Kardar Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Amnon Aharony Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Leonard M. Sander Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Leo P. Kadanoff Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by D. J. Thouless Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Michael E. Fisher
Rankless by CCL
2026