Davison E. Soper

16.6k total citations · 5 hit papers
113 papers, 9.4k citations indexed

About

Davison E. Soper is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Astronomy and Astrophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Davison E. Soper has authored 113 papers receiving a total of 9.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 104 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 7 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 5 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Recurrent topics in Davison E. Soper's work include Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (102 papers), Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (88 papers) and High-Energy Particle Collisions Research (84 papers). Davison E. Soper is often cited by papers focused on Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (102 papers), Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (88 papers) and High-Energy Particle Collisions Research (84 papers). Davison E. Soper collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Germany. Davison E. Soper's co-authors include John C. Collins, George Sterman, John B. Kogut, Stephen Ellis, Z. Kunszt, Zoltán Nagy, Fred Olness, Michael Spannowsky, James D. Bjorken and John F. Gunion and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Reviews of Modern Physics and Nuclear Physics B.

In The Last Decade

Davison E. Soper

112 papers receiving 9.2k citations

Hit Papers

Transverse momentum distribution in Drell-Yan pair and W ... 1970 2026 1988 2007 1985 1981 1982 1970 1997 250 500 750
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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. Transverse momentum distribution in Drell-Yan pair and W and Z boson production
    1985 839 citations John C. Collins, Davison E. Soper et al. Nuclear Physics B profile →
  2. Back-to-back jets in QCD
    1981 800 citations John C. Collins, Davison E. Soper Nuclear Physics B profile →
  3. Parton distribution and decay functions
    1982 591 citations John C. Collins, Davison E. Soper Nuclear Physics B profile →
  4. Quantum Electrodynamics in the Infinite-Momentum Frame
    1970 494 citations Davison E. Soper et al. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields profile →
  5. Improved parton distributions from global analysis of recent deep inelastic scattering and inclusive jet data
    1997 439 citations J. Huston, Fred Olness et al. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Davison E. Soper United States 46 8.9k 594 420 240 226 113 9.4k
George Sterman United States 55 9.9k 1.1× 585 1.0× 217 0.5× 178 0.7× 130 0.6× 145 10.2k
Andrzej J. Buras Germany 63 14.3k 1.6× 1.0k 1.7× 374 0.9× 123 0.5× 278 1.2× 221 14.5k
Guido Altarelli Italy 46 11.1k 1.2× 991 1.7× 232 0.6× 171 0.7× 167 0.7× 161 11.4k
Kirill Melnikov United States 51 8.1k 0.9× 827 1.4× 532 1.3× 155 0.6× 266 1.2× 187 8.6k
B.R. Webber United Kingdom 45 9.9k 1.1× 1.2k 2.0× 198 0.5× 232 1.0× 292 1.3× 157 10.2k
Bernd A. Kniehl Germany 53 9.1k 1.0× 1.1k 1.8× 222 0.5× 199 0.8× 139 0.6× 298 9.4k
K.G. Chetyrkin Germany 54 9.7k 1.1× 934 1.6× 471 1.1× 364 1.5× 192 0.8× 156 10.4k
R. Keith Ellis United States 49 9.6k 1.1× 624 1.1× 138 0.3× 79 0.3× 187 0.8× 109 9.8k
Aneesh V. Manohar United States 61 13.3k 1.5× 1.9k 3.2× 662 1.6× 365 1.5× 128 0.6× 186 13.7k
Vladimir A. Smirnov Russia 47 6.7k 0.8× 1.1k 1.9× 337 0.8× 669 2.8× 185 0.8× 200 7.5k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Soper, Davison E. & Michael Spannowsky. (2013). Finding top quarks with shower deconstruction. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 87(5). 91 indexed citations
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Soper, Davison E. & Michael Spannowsky. (2011). Finding physics signals with shower deconstruction. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 84(7). 93 indexed citations
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Soper, Davison E., et al.. (2005). Matching parton showers to NLO computations. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2005(10). 24–24. 62 indexed citations
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Soper, Davison E.. (2004). Next-to-leading order QCD calculations with parton showers. II. Soft singularities. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 69(5). 16 indexed citations
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Soper, Davison E.. (2000). Basics of QCD perturbation theory. CERN Bulletin. 267–316. 1 indexed citations
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Krämer, Michael, Fred Olness, & Davison E. Soper. (2000). Treatment of heavy quarks in deeply inelastic scattering. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 62(9). 119 indexed citations
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Soper, Davison E., et al.. (2000). Factorization scheme dependence of the NLO inclusive jet cross section. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 61(9). 3 indexed citations
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Soper, Davison E.. (1996). QCD & beyond : proceedings of the Theoretical Advanced Study Institute in Elementary Particle Physics (TASI '95), Boulder, Colorado, USA, 4-30 June, 1995. WORLD SCIENTIFIC eBooks. 10 indexed citations
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Sterman, George, John Smith, John C. Collins, et al.. (1995). Handbook of perturbative QCD. Reviews of Modern Physics. 67(1). 157–248. 235 indexed citations
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Ellis, Stephen, Z. Kunszt, & Davison E. Soper. (1992). Two-jet production in hadron collisions at orderαs3in QCD. Physical Review Letters. 69(10). 1496–1499. 80 indexed citations
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Rosner, Jonathan L. & Davison E. Soper. (1992). Tests of a composite model of quarks and leptons. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 45(9). 3206–3221. 8 indexed citations
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Ellis, Stephen, Z. Kunszt, & Davison E. Soper. (1990). One-jet inclusive cross section at orderαs3: Quarks and gluons. Physical Review Letters. 64(18). 2121–2124. 117 indexed citations
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Collins, John C. & Davison E. Soper. (1987). The two-particle-inclusive cross section in e+e− annihilation at PETRA, PEP and LEP energies. Nuclear Physics B. 284. 253–270. 23 indexed citations
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Soper, Davison E.. (1986). Supercollider physics : proceedings of the Oregon Workshop on Super High Energy Physics. WORLD SCIENTIFIC eBooks. 2 indexed citations
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Collins, John C., Davison E. Soper, & George Sterman. (1985). Factorization for short distance hadron-hadron scattering. Nuclear Physics B. 261. 104–142. 329 indexed citations
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Soper, Davison E.. (1980). Hadron structure in the ladder model (II). Nuclear Physics B. 175(3). 465–476. 3 indexed citations
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Soper, Davison E.. (1978). Construction of the functional-integral representation for fermion Green's functions. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 18(12). 4590–4595. 30 indexed citations
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Gunion, John F. & Davison E. Soper. (1977). Quark-counting and hadron-size effects for total cross sections. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 15(9). 2617–2621. 149 indexed citations
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Soper, Davison E.. (1977). Large-Transverse-Momentum Partons and Massiveμ-Pair Production. Physical Review Letters. 38(9). 461–464. 29 indexed citations
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Soper, Davison E.. (1977). Parton model and the Bethe-Salpeter wave function. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 15(4). 1141–1149. 139 indexed citations

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