Dietrich Stauffer

18.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
223 papers, 12.6k citations indexed

About

Dietrich Stauffer is a scholar working on Condensed Matter Physics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Dietrich Stauffer has authored 223 papers receiving a total of 12.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 80 papers in Condensed Matter Physics, 61 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and 41 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Dietrich Stauffer's work include Theoretical and Computational Physics (79 papers), Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis (40 papers) and Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics (38 papers). Dietrich Stauffer is often cited by papers focused on Theoretical and Computational Physics (79 papers), Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis (40 papers) and Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics (38 papers). Dietrich Stauffer collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Brazil. Dietrich Stauffer's co-authors include Amnon Aharony, Sidney Redner, Ammon Aharony, Naeem Jan, Debashish Chowdhury, S. Moss de Oliveira, Paulo Murilo Castro de Oliveira, Didier Sornette, Gérard Weisbuch and Christian Schulze and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Physical Review Letters and The Journal of Chemical Physics.

In The Last Decade

Dietrich Stauffer

217 papers receiving 12.0k citations

Hit Papers

Introduction to Percolation Theory 1985 2026 1998 2012 1993 1985 2018 1000 2.0k 3.0k 4.0k 5.0k
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. Introduction to Percolation Theory
    1993 5.2k citations Dietrich Stauffer, Amnon Aharony et al. Physics Today profile →
  2. Introduction to Percolation Theory
    1985 2.9k citations Dietrich Stauffer, Amnon Aharony profile →
  3. Introduction To Percolation Theory
    2018 564 citations Dietrich Stauffer et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Dietrich Stauffer Germany 32 3.9k 3.2k 2.4k 1.6k 1.6k 223 12.6k
Sidney Redner United States 17 2.8k 0.7× 2.0k 0.6× 2.9k 1.2× 2.0k 1.3× 1.2k 0.8× 30 10.7k
A. Blumen Germany 54 2.4k 0.6× 3.2k 1.0× 2.3k 0.9× 1.3k 0.8× 957 0.6× 331 11.3k
Leonard M. Sander United States 44 6.8k 1.7× 4.8k 1.5× 1.7k 0.7× 2.6k 1.7× 1.5k 1.0× 176 15.5k
Paul Meakin United States 82 8.0k 2.0× 6.8k 2.2× 1.9k 0.8× 3.5k 2.2× 2.4k 1.6× 440 25.2k
Jayanth R. Banavar United States 64 2.6k 0.7× 3.6k 1.1× 1.8k 0.7× 617 0.4× 1.8k 1.2× 309 14.4k
Edward Teller United States 24 3.4k 0.9× 4.9k 1.6× 1.9k 0.8× 715 0.5× 2.3k 1.5× 122 28.3k
Hans J. Herrmann Brazil 72 2.1k 0.5× 2.6k 0.8× 3.5k 1.4× 651 0.4× 871 0.6× 500 17.3k
N. Metropolis United States 19 3.4k 0.9× 4.7k 1.5× 2.2k 0.9× 955 0.6× 2.3k 1.5× 71 28.3k
J. S. Langer United States 72 6.8k 1.7× 11.0k 3.5× 2.4k 1.0× 696 0.4× 1.6k 1.0× 171 22.3k
James P. Sethna United States 61 4.5k 1.2× 4.0k 1.3× 1.7k 0.7× 681 0.4× 1.3k 0.8× 210 14.8k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Dietrich Stauffer

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Dietrich Stauffer

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
1.
Hadzibeganovic, Tarik, Dietrich Stauffer, & Xiao-Pu Han. (2015). Randomness in the evolution of cooperation. Behavioural Processes. 113. 86–93. 24 indexed citations
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Stauffer, Dietrich, A. O. Sousa, & Christian Schulz. (2004). Discretized Opinion Dynamics of The Deffuant Model on Scale-Free Networks. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation. 7(3). 1–7. 30 indexed citations
3.
Martins, J. S. Sá & Dietrich Stauffer. (2004). Should retirement age be coupled to life expentancy. 7(22). 35–38.
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Fortunato, Santo, Amnon Aharony, Antonio Coniglio, & Dietrich Stauffer. (2004). Number of spanning clusters at the high-dimensional percolation thresholds. Physical Review E. 70(5). 56116–56116. 11 indexed citations
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Chowdhury, Debashish & Dietrich Stauffer. (2004). Computer simulations of history of life: speciation, emergence of complex species from simpler organisms, and extinctions. Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications. 340(4). 685–696. 11 indexed citations
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Solomon, Sorin, et al.. (2004). Socioeconomic interaction and swings in business confidence indicators. Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications. 345(3-4). 646–656. 18 indexed citations
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Chang, Iksoo, Dietrich Stauffer, & R. B. Pandey. (2002). ASYMMETRIES, CORRELATIONS AND FAT TAILS IN PERCOLATION MARKET MODEL. International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance. 5(6). 585–597. 6 indexed citations
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Stauffer, Dietrich, et al.. (2001). Stochastic Penna model for biological aging. Theory in Biosciences. 120(1). 21–28. 6 indexed citations
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Stauffer, Dietrich & Jan P. Radomski. (2001). Social effects in simple computer model of aging. Experimental Gerontology. 37(1). 175–180. 9 indexed citations
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Stauffer, Dietrich & M. E. J. Newman. (2001). DYNAMICS OF A SIMPLE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS. International Journal of Modern Physics C. 12(9). 1375–1381. 1 indexed citations
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Jan, Naeem, L. L. Moseley, Tane S. Ray, & Dietrich Stauffer. (1999). Is the fossil record indicative of a critical system?. Advances in Complex Systems. 2(2). 137–141. 11 indexed citations
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Oliveira, S. Moss de, et al.. (1999). Penna ageing model and improvement of medical care in 20th century. Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications. 273(1-2). 145–149. 17 indexed citations
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Stauffer, Dietrich & H. Eugene Stanley. (1996). From Newton to Mandelbrot. 30 indexed citations
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Stauffer, Dietrich. (1995). Annual Reviews of Computational Physics I. WORLD SCIENTIFIC eBooks. 73 indexed citations
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Stauffer, Dietrich. (1995). Annual Reviews of Computational Physics II. WORLD SCIENTIFIC eBooks. 43 indexed citations
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Stauffer, Dietrich, et al.. (1994). Limited universality at the percolation threshold in 2 to 6 dimensions. Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications. 210(3-4). 320–325. 19 indexed citations
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Stauffer, Dietrich, Naeem Jan, Yan He, et al.. (1994). Micelle formation, relaxation time, and three-phase coexistence in a microemulsion model. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 100(9). 6934–6943. 34 indexed citations
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Stauffer, Dietrich & Muhammad Sahimi. (1993). HIGH-DIMENSIONAL AND VERY LARGE CELLULAR AUTOMATA FOR IMMUNOLOGICAL SHAPE SPACE. International Journal of Modern Physics C. 4(2). 401–408. 5 indexed citations
19.
Stauffer, Dietrich. (1989). Classification of square lattice cellular automata. Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications. 157(2). 645–655. 16 indexed citations
20.
Stauffer, Dietrich & Armin Bunde. (1987). Introduction to Percolation Theory. Physics Today. 40(10). 122–123. 26 indexed citations

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