D.L. Hetrick

606 total citations · 1 hit paper
27 papers, 437 citations indexed

About

D.L. Hetrick is a scholar working on Aerospace Engineering, Materials Chemistry and Control and Systems Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, D.L. Hetrick has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 437 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Aerospace Engineering, 7 papers in Materials Chemistry and 3 papers in Control and Systems Engineering. Recurrent topics in D.L. Hetrick's work include Nuclear reactor physics and engineering (14 papers), Nuclear Materials and Properties (5 papers) and Nuclear Engineering Thermal-Hydraulics (3 papers). D.L. Hetrick is often cited by papers focused on Nuclear reactor physics and engineering (14 papers), Nuclear Materials and Properties (5 papers) and Nuclear Engineering Thermal-Hydraulics (3 papers). D.L. Hetrick collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and Canada. D.L. Hetrick's co-authors include D.A. Meneley, Tomaso Trombetti, Suheon Lee, O.A. Palusinski, Brown and W.N. McElroy and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and Physics Today.

In The Last Decade

D.L. Hetrick

24 papers receiving 391 citations

Hit Papers

Dynamics of Nuclear Reactors 1973 2026 1990 2008 1973 50 100 150 200 250
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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. Dynamics of Nuclear Reactors
    1973 259 citations D.L. Hetrick et al. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
D.L. Hetrick United States 7 327 128 107 77 72 27 437
S. Kaplan United States 8 99 0.3× 48 0.4× 43 0.4× 122 1.6× 58 0.8× 29 482
C.E. Cohn United States 10 272 0.8× 229 1.8× 99 0.9× 50 0.6× 17 0.2× 46 425
Sandra Dulla Italy 14 692 2.1× 304 2.4× 412 3.9× 23 0.3× 86 1.2× 146 810
S.B. Degweker India 11 255 0.8× 239 1.9× 93 0.9× 35 0.5× 17 0.2× 48 343
K. Behringer Switzerland 9 264 0.8× 169 1.3× 109 1.0× 32 0.4× 24 0.3× 35 450
J. P. Raymond United States 7 32 0.1× 33 0.3× 51 0.5× 66 0.9× 36 0.5× 17 446
R.F. Saxe United Kingdom 8 58 0.2× 9 0.1× 50 0.5× 24 0.3× 14 0.2× 28 293
Simone Santandrea France 11 346 1.1× 173 1.4× 253 2.4× 4 0.1× 68 0.9× 28 407
Alf Jonsson Sweden 15 39 0.1× 16 0.1× 38 0.4× 15 0.2× 41 0.6× 42 805
Y. Hamada Japan 13 211 0.6× 6 0.0× 56 0.5× 265 3.4× 16 0.2× 62 544

Countries citing papers authored by D.L. Hetrick

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Fields of papers citing papers by D.L. Hetrick

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by D.L. Hetrick. 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 D.L. Hetrick. The network helps show where D.L. Hetrick may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of D.L. Hetrick

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Hetrick, D.L.. (1999). PLUTONIUM-WATER CRITICALITY HAZARD IN NUCLEAR WASTE DISPOSAL. 1 indexed citations
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Hetrick, D.L., et al.. (1997). Large reactivity transients in dilute plutonium-water solutions. Transactions of the American Nuclear Society. 77. 2 indexed citations
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Lee, Suheon & D.L. Hetrick. (1995). Effect of axial expansion on the reactivity of a cylindrical fissile solution assembly. Transactions of the American Nuclear Society. 72. 1 indexed citations
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Hetrick, D.L.. (1992). Computer simulation of hypothetical criticality accidents in dilute plutonium-water solutions. Transactions of the American Nuclear Society. 65. 2 indexed citations
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Hetrick, D.L.. (1991). Computer simulation of hypothetical criticality accidents in aqueous fissile solutions. Transactions of the American Nuclear Society. 63. 3 indexed citations
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Hetrick, D.L.. (1987). Power plant simulation and reactor safety. 3(3). 173–194. 1 indexed citations
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Hetrick, D.L.. (1987). Introductory Nuclear Reactor Dynamics. Nuclear Technology. 76(2). 311–312. 6 indexed citations
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Hetrick, D.L., et al.. (1984). Some cardiovascular effects of noise.. PubMed. 24(1). 35–62. 11 indexed citations
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Trombetti, Tomaso & D.L. Hetrick. (1984). Multinode Reactor Stability and Optimal Estimates of Domains of Attraction. Nuclear Science and Engineering. 86(2). 129–135. 1 indexed citations
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Hetrick, D.L., et al.. (1980). A technique for efficient simulation of large dynamic systems. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. 17(17). 92. 2 indexed citations
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Hetrick, D.L., et al.. (1973). Dynamics of Nuclear Reactors. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. 20(1). 801–801. 259 indexed citations breakdown →
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Hetrick, D.L., et al.. (1970). Effect of Delayed Neutrons on Autonomous Nonlinear Power Oscillations. Nuclear Science and Engineering. 42(1). 10–15. 2 indexed citations
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Meneley, D.A., et al.. (1970). Weighted-Residual Methods in Space-Dependent Reactor Dynamics. Nuclear Science and Engineering. 40(2). 206–223. 7 indexed citations
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Hetrick, D.L., et al.. (1970). Nonlinear Oscillations and Stability of a Nuclear Reactor with Two Reactivity Feedbacks. Nuclear Science and Engineering. 42(1). 1–9. 4 indexed citations
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Hetrick, D.L., et al.. (1969). A COMPARISON OF SOME NUMERICAL METHODS FOR SOLVING THE EQUATIONS OF REACTOR DYNAMICS.. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 1 indexed citations
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Hetrick, D.L., et al.. (1968). Is Nuclear Power "Clean" Power?. Science. 159(3813). 376–376. 4 indexed citations
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Hetrick, D.L., et al.. (1966). Neutron dynamics and control : Proceedings of the Symposium on Nuclear Engineering at the University of Arizona, Tucson, April 5-7, 1965. 1 indexed citations
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Hetrick, D.L.. (1965). A LIAPUNOV FUNCTION FOR THE PROMPTJUMP APPROXIMATION IN REACTOR DYNAMICS. Transactions of the American Nuclear Society. 1 indexed citations
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Hetrick, D.L., et al.. (1959). NUMERICAL COMPUTATIONS FOR FISSION BURSTS IN PULSED REACTORS. Nuclear Science and Engineering. 23(6). 521–6. 1 indexed citations
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Hetrick, D.L., et al.. (1953). Experimental Determination of the Effect of Reactor Radiation on the Thermal Conductivity of Uranium-Impregnated Graphite. University of North Texas Digital Library (University of North Texas). 2 indexed citations

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