Dirk Jacobs

879 total citations · 1 hit paper
6 papers, 633 citations indexed

About

Dirk Jacobs is a scholar working on Numerical Analysis, Mechanical Engineering and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Dirk Jacobs has authored 6 papers receiving a total of 633 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 3 papers in Numerical Analysis, 2 papers in Mechanical Engineering and 2 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Dirk Jacobs's work include Differential Equations and Numerical Methods (2 papers), Magnetic Properties and Applications (2 papers) and Numerical methods in engineering (1 paper). Dirk Jacobs is often cited by papers focused on Differential Equations and Numerical Methods (2 papers), Magnetic Properties and Applications (2 papers) and Numerical methods in engineering (1 paper). Dirk Jacobs collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom and United States. Dirk Jacobs's co-authors include Michael Shearer, S. F. Blake and Phil Rutter and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Computational Physics, Mathematics of Computation and IEEE Transactions on Magnetics.

In The Last Decade

Dirk Jacobs

6 papers receiving 561 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 State of the Art in Numerical Analysis.

1978 447 citations Dirk Jacobs et al. Mathematics of Computation profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Dirk Jacobs United Kingdom	5	184	127	105	91	89	6	633
G. J. Habetler United States	12	182 1.0×	167 1.3×	233 2.2×	45 0.5×	136 1.5×	26	658
Luis G. Reyna United States	13	203 1.1×	87 0.7×	135 1.3×	44 0.5×	124 1.4×	28	597
Hans Rudolf Schwarz Switzerland	16	120 0.7×	100 0.8×	215 2.0×	117 1.3×	50 0.6×	29	708
Richard C. Roberts United Kingdom	7	165 0.9×	107 0.8×	92 0.9×	136 1.5×	71 0.8×	11	919
Thomas Aird United Kingdom	4	97 0.5×	86 0.7×	157 1.5×	56 0.6×	56 0.6×	9	545
Terje O. Espelid Norway	12	132 0.7×	143 1.1×	134 1.3×	63 0.7×	86 1.0×	28	644
Rudolph E. Langer United States	11	160 0.9×	195 1.5×	193 1.8×	66 0.7×	178 2.0×	28	766
Ivar Stakgold United States	11	119 0.6×	145 1.1×	287 2.7×	124 1.4×	254 2.9×	27	869
I.G. Nidekker	6	85 0.5×	222 1.7×	188 1.8×	75 0.8×	105 1.2×	7	780
P. M. Prenter United States	11	284 1.5×	331 2.6×	125 1.2×	62 0.7×	136 1.5×	25	1.1k

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All Works

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6 of 6 papers shown

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Jacobs, Dirk, et al.. (1995). Traveling Wave Solutions of the Modified Korteweg-deVries-Burgers Equation. Journal of Differential Equations. 116(2). 448–467. 112 indexed citations

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Jacobs, Dirk. (1986). A Generalization of the Conjugate-Gradient Method to Solve Complex Systems. IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis. 6(4). 447–452. 52 indexed citations

3.

Blake, S. F., et al.. (1983). A magnetostatic 2 1/2- dimensional field calculation program for turbogenerators. IEEE Transactions on Magnetics. 19(6). 2317–2320. 1 indexed citations

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Jacobs, Dirk, et al.. (1978). The State of the Art in Numerical Analysis.. Mathematics of Computation. 32(144). 1325–1325. 447 indexed citations breakdown →

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Jacobs, Dirk, et al.. (1977). Calculation of losses in the end region of turbogenerators. Proceedings of the Institution of Electrical Engineers. 124(4). 356–356. 11 indexed citations

6.

Jacobs, Dirk. (1973). The strongly implicit procedure for biharmonic problems. Journal of Computational Physics. 13(3). 303–315. 10 indexed citations

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