David W. McLaughlin

9.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
144 papers, 7.0k citations indexed

About

David W. McLaughlin is a scholar working on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, David W. McLaughlin has authored 144 papers receiving a total of 7.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 68 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, 34 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 26 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in David W. McLaughlin's work include Nonlinear Photonic Systems (48 papers), Nonlinear Waves and Solitons (34 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (26 papers). David W. McLaughlin is often cited by papers focused on Nonlinear Photonic Systems (48 papers), Nonlinear Waves and Solitons (34 papers) and Neural dynamics and brain function (26 papers). David W. McLaughlin collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and United Kingdom. David W. McLaughlin's co-authors include Alwyn Scott, Flora Y. F. Chu, M. Gregory Forest, Michael Shelley, H. Flaschka, David Cai, Robert Shapley, James P. Keener, Leo Kaufman and Esteban G. Tabak and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Physical Review Letters and Journal of Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

David W. McLaughlin

137 papers receiving 6.4k 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.

The soliton: A new concept in applied science

1973 1.2k citations David W. McLaughlin et al. profile →
Perturbation analysis of fluxon dynamics

1978 826 citations David W. McLaughlin et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
David W. McLaughlin United States	43	4.2k	2.4k	1.1k	876	820	144	7.0k
Ramakrishna Ramaswamy India	35	2.3k 0.6×	1.2k 0.5×	1.8k 1.7×	452 0.5×	317 0.4×	217	5.4k
Antonio Politi Italy	44	4.4k 1.1×	1.3k 0.5×	2.6k 2.5×	829 0.9×	862 1.1×	208	7.3k
Robert M. Miura United States	23	5.3k 1.3×	1.5k 0.6×	262 0.2×	1.6k 1.8×	159 0.2×	62	7.4k
Charles R. Doering United States	43	2.7k 0.7×	869 0.4×	1.1k 1.1×	1.4k 1.6×	276 0.3×	161	7.0k
Hannes Risken Germany	2	2.8k 0.7×	1.4k 0.6×	568 0.5×	180 0.2×	402 0.5×	2	5.2k
José A. Carrillo United Kingdom	48	1.5k 0.4×	300 0.1×	1.0k 1.0×	1.4k 1.6×	187 0.2×	342	9.0k
Bruno Eckhardt Germany	50	2.8k 0.7×	1.4k 0.6×	1.3k 1.3×	322 0.4×	223 0.3×	195	8.2k
Eli Barkai Israel	53	5.5k 1.3×	2.0k 0.8×	446 0.4×	1.5k 1.7×	195 0.2×	192	11.5k
M. C. Cross United States	46	3.5k 0.8×	5.1k 2.1×	6.1k 5.8×	187 0.2×	422 0.5×	157	13.3k
M. Lakshmanan India	53	9.5k 2.3×	3.8k 1.6×	3.4k 3.2×	920 1.1×	684 0.8×	385	11.3k

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McLaughlin, David W., et al.. (2025). Clinical Applications and Measurement Properties of the Digitized Archimedes Spiral Drawing Test: A Scoping Review. Movement Disorders Clinical Practice. 12(11). 1742–1755.

McLaughlin, David W., et al.. (2024). A biochemical description of postsynaptic plasticity—with timescales ranging from milliseconds to seconds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(7). e2311709121–e2311709121. 5 indexed citations

McLaughlin, David W., et al.. (2021). Modeling the role of gap junctions between excitatory neurons in the developing visual cortex. PLoS Computational Biology. 17(7). e1007915–e1007915. 3 indexed citations

Xu, Zhi‐Qin John, Xiaowei Gu, Chengyu Li, et al.. (2020). Neural networks of different species, brain areas and states can be characterized by the probability polling state. European Journal of Neuroscience. 52(7). 3790–3802. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Ziqi, Wei Dai, & David W. McLaughlin. (2020). Ring models of binocular rivalry and fusion. Journal of Computational Neuroscience. 48(2). 193–211. 3 indexed citations

Guillamon, Antoni, David W. McLaughlin, & John Rinzel. (2006). Estimation of synaptic conductances. Journal of Physiology-Paris. 100(1-3). 31–42. 16 indexed citations

Cai, David, Aaditya V. Rangan, & David W. McLaughlin. (2005). Architectural and synaptic mechanisms underlying coherent spontaneous activity in V1. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(16). 5868–5873. 53 indexed citations

McLaughlin, David W., Robert Shapley, & Michael Shelley. (2003). Large-scale modeling of the primary visual cortex: influence of cortical architecture upon neuronal response. Journal of Physiology-Paris. 97(2-3). 237–252. 18 indexed citations

Shelley, Michael & David W. McLaughlin. (2002). Coarse-Grained Reduction and Analysis of a Network Model of Cortical Response: I. Drifting Grating Stimuli. Journal of Computational Neuroscience. 12(2). 97–122. 27 indexed citations

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Shelley, Michael, et al.. (2002). States of High Conductance in a Large-Scale Model of the Visual Cortex. Journal of Computational Neuroscience. 13(2). 93–109. 68 indexed citations

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Snell, Quinn, Michael F. Whiting, Mark Clement, & David W. McLaughlin. (2000). Parallel Phylogenetic Inference. Conference on High Performance Computing (Supercomputing). 35–35. 7 indexed citations

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Cai, David, David W. McLaughlin, & Jalal Shatah. (1999). Spatiotemporal chaos and effective stochastic dynamics for a near-integrable nonlinear system. Physics Letters A. 253(5-6). 280–286. 15 indexed citations

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McLaughlin, David W., David J. Muraki, & Michael Shelley. (1996). Self-focussed optical structures in a nematic liquid crystal. Physica D Nonlinear Phenomena. 97(4). 471–497. 48 indexed citations

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McLaughlin, David W., et al.. (1996). Persistent homoclinic orbits for a perturbed nonlinear Schrödinger equation. Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics. 49(11). 1175–1255. 6 indexed citations

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McLaughlin, David W. & John Strain. (1994). Computing the weak limit of KdV. Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics. 47(10). 1319–1364. 15 indexed citations

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Morrison, Christine J., Steven F. Hurst, Sandra L. Bragg, et al.. (1993). Purification and characterization of the extracellular aspartyl proteinase of Candida albicans: removal of extraneous proteins and cell wall mannoprotein and evidence for lack of glycosylation. Journal of General Microbiology. 139(6). 1177–1186. 19 indexed citations

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Ercolani, Nicholas M., M. Gregory Forest, & David W. McLaughlin. (1990). Geometry of the modulational instability. Physica D Nonlinear Phenomena. 43(2-3). 349–384. 113 indexed citations

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Moloney, Jerome V., Alan C. Newell, & David W. McLaughlin. (1983). Transverse Solitary Waves in a Dispersive Ring Bistable Cavity Containing a Saturable Nonlinearity. FA3–FA3. 1 indexed citations

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Kaufman, Leo, et al.. (1970). Comparison of Macrocomplement and Microcomplement Fixation Techniques Used in Fungus Serology. Applied Microbiology. 20(4). 579–582. 3 indexed citations

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Kaufman, Leo, Brenda L. Brandt, & David W. McLaughlin. (1964). EVALUATION OF THE FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY AND AGAR GEL PRECIPITIN TESTS FOR DETECTING HISTOPLASMA ANTIBODIES IN ANTICOMPLEMENTARY SERA1. American Journal of Epidemiology. 79(2). 181–185. 6 indexed citations

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