David Pettey

839 total citations · 1 hit paper
8 papers, 668 citations indexed

About

David Pettey is a scholar working on Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, David Pettey has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 668 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 3 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, 3 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and 3 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in David Pettey's work include Liquid Crystal Research Advancements (3 papers), Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications (2 papers) and Radiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies (2 papers). David Pettey is often cited by papers focused on Liquid Crystal Research Advancements (3 papers), Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications (2 papers) and Radiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies (2 papers). David Pettey collaborates with scholars based in United States and Germany. David Pettey's co-authors include T. C. Lubensky, Nathan Currier, Holger Stark, Darren R. Link, James Walker, Randolph Wojcik, James C. Gee, C. Zorn, S. Majewski and Stan Majewski and has published in prestigious journals such as NeuroImage, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment and IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science.

In The Last Decade

David Pettey

7 papers receiving 654 citations

Hit Papers

Topological defects and interactions in nematic emulsions 1998 2026 2007 2016 1998 100 200 300 400 500
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. Topological defects and interactions in nematic emulsions
    1998 501 citations T. C. Lubensky, David Pettey et al. Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
David Pettey United States 6 551 283 186 158 147 8 668
С. В. Бурылов Ukraine 13 611 1.1× 160 0.6× 141 0.8× 57 0.4× 139 0.9× 26 702
L. Lejček Czechia 19 617 1.1× 186 0.7× 373 2.0× 200 1.3× 244 1.7× 95 923
A. N. Shalaginov Canada 12 319 0.6× 158 0.6× 139 0.7× 42 0.3× 124 0.8× 18 452
Nuno M. Silvestre Portugal 12 308 0.6× 161 0.6× 122 0.7× 105 0.7× 65 0.4× 26 427
Hatsuo Kimura Japan 16 511 0.9× 375 1.3× 348 1.9× 53 0.3× 167 1.1× 44 900
F. Semeria Italy 13 469 0.9× 134 0.5× 232 1.2× 75 0.5× 100 0.7× 17 511
Péter Salamon Hungary 17 712 1.3× 269 1.0× 142 0.8× 218 1.4× 167 1.1× 68 873
Jürgen Nehring Switzerland 7 490 0.9× 118 0.4× 167 0.9× 211 1.3× 81 0.6× 12 536
J. D. Parsons United States 8 464 0.8× 114 0.4× 375 2.0× 64 0.4× 197 1.3× 19 630
José A. Moreno-Razo Mexico 13 297 0.5× 97 0.3× 273 1.5× 43 0.3× 121 0.8× 40 501

Countries citing papers authored by David Pettey

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Fields of papers citing papers by David Pettey

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by David Pettey. 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 David Pettey. The network helps show where David Pettey may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Pettey

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of David Pettey. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of David Pettey 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 David Pettey. David Pettey is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

8 of 8 papers shown
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Pettey, David & James C. Gee. (2002). Sexual Dimorphism in the Corpus Callosum: A Characterization of Local Size Variations and a Classification Driven Approach to Morphometry. NeuroImage. 17(3). 1504–1511. 14 indexed citations
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Pettey, David & James C. Gee. (2001). <title>Characterizing populations and searching for diagnostics via elastic registration of MRI images</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 4322. 1636–1644. 1 indexed citations
3.
Hicks, R. Andrew, David Pettey, Kostas Daniilidis, & Růžena Bajcsy. (2000). Closed Form Solutions for Reconstruction Via Complex Analysis. Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision. 13(1). 57–70. 3 indexed citations
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Pettey, David & T. C. Lubensky. (1999). Stability of texture and shape of circular domains of Langmuir monolayers. Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics. 59(2). 1834–1845. 29 indexed citations
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Lubensky, T. C., David Pettey, Nathan Currier, & Holger Stark. (1998). Topological defects and interactions in nematic emulsions. Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics. 57(1). 610–625. 501 indexed citations breakdown →
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Pettey, David, T. C. Lubensky, & Darren R. Link. (1998). Topological inclusions in 2D smectic C films. Liquid Crystals. 25(5). 579–587. 71 indexed citations
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Majewski, S., et al.. (1989). A new radiation-resistant plastic scintillator. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. 36(1). 562–566. 38 indexed citations
8.
Majewski, Stan, et al.. (1989). A new radiation-hard plastic scintillator. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment. 276(1-2). 391–393. 11 indexed citations

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