D.S. Sivia

6.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
68 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

About

D.S. Sivia is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Radiation. According to data from OpenAlex, D.S. Sivia has authored 68 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Materials Chemistry, 14 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 14 papers in Radiation. Recurrent topics in D.S. Sivia's work include Nuclear Physics and Applications (13 papers), X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography (10 papers) and High-pressure geophysics and materials (6 papers). D.S. Sivia is often cited by papers focused on Nuclear Physics and Applications (13 papers), X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography (10 papers) and High-pressure geophysics and materials (6 papers). D.S. Sivia collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and France. D.S. Sivia's co-authors include R. N. Silver, J. E. Gubernatis, Mark Jarrell, William I. F. David, C.J. Carlile, Gregory S. Smith, S. Hull, D. A. Keen, S. F. J. Cox and William A. Hamilton and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and The Journal of Chemical Physics.

In The Last Decade

D.S. Sivia

66 papers receiving 4.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

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1996 2.0k citations D.S. Sivia profile →
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2006 634 citations D.S. Sivia profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
D.S. Sivia United Kingdom	28	887	710	647	310	303	68	4.7k
M. G. Brereton United Kingdom	26	1.5k 1.7×	1.2k 1.7×	446 0.7×	270 0.9×	303 1.0×	66	6.5k
F. Reif United States	37	2.3k 2.6×	619 0.9×	720 1.1×	201 0.6×	270 0.9×	79	7.2k
Dava Newman United States	23	1.3k 1.4×	1.9k 2.7×	514 0.8×	862 2.8×	360 1.2×	147	6.7k
Shuangquan Zhang China	40	1.5k 1.7×	517 0.7×	200 0.3×	91 0.3×	658 2.2×	327	6.4k
Harvey Gould United States	26	1.8k 2.0×	1.7k 2.4×	1.5k 2.3×	237 0.8×	913 3.0×	98	12.0k
George Smith United Kingdom	42	856 1.0×	533 0.8×	286 0.4×	165 0.5×	472 1.6×	347	7.2k
Peter Becker Germany	55	2.0k 2.3×	1.1k 1.5×	283 0.4×	205 0.7×	148 0.5×	399	10.6k
R. Schneider Germany	41	2.2k 2.5×	2.9k 4.1×	408 0.6×	162 0.5×	285 0.9×	447	8.9k
Michael P. Brenner United States	61	596 0.7×	3.4k 4.8×	918 1.4×	475 1.5×	1.7k 5.6×	224	14.9k
A. John Mallinckrodt United States	23	971 1.1×	1.1k 1.6×	410 0.6×	113 0.4×	1.4k 4.6×	71	10.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of D.S. Sivia

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Sivia, D.S.. (2011). Elementary Scattering Theory. 119 indexed citations

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Rawlings, Steve, et al.. (2009). Modelling the orientation of accretion discs in quasars using HÎ± emission. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 401(1). 633–665. 10 indexed citations

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Geoghegan, Mark, Lorena Ruiz‐Pérez, Andrew J. Parnell, et al.. (2006). The pH-induced swelling and collapse of a polybase brush synthesized by atom transfer radical polymerization. Soft Matter. 2(12). 1076–1080. 53 indexed citations

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Sivia, D.S.. (2006). On the kinematic approximation to specular reflectivity data. The Philosophical Magazine A Journal of Theoretical Experimental and Applied Physics. 87(10). 1575–1580. 1 indexed citations

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Sivia, D.S.. (2004). Some Thoughts on Correlated Noise. AIP conference proceedings. 707. 303–313. 3 indexed citations

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Larese, J. Z., D. Martín y Marero, D.S. Sivia, & C.J. Carlile. (2001). Tracking the Evolution of Interatomic Potentials with High Resolution Inelastic Neutron Spectroscopy. Physical Review Letters. 87(20). 206102–206102. 19 indexed citations

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Hull, S., D. A. Keen, D.S. Sivia, P. A. Madden, & Mark Wilson. (2001). The high-temperature superionic behaviour of Ag₂S. Journal of Physics Condensed Matter. 14(1). L9–L17. 55 indexed citations

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Sivia, D.S.. (2000). The number of good reflections in a powder pattern. Journal of Applied Crystallography. 33(5). 1295–1301. 10 indexed citations

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Cox, S. F. J. & D.S. Sivia. (1997). Spin-lattice relaxation in hyperfine-coupled systems: Applications to interstitial diffusion and molecular dynamics. Applied Magnetic Resonance. 12(2-3). 213–226. 24 indexed citations

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Sivia, D.S., et al.. (1997). Muon spin relaxation by electronic excitations moving in one dimension. Hyperfine Interactions. 106(1-4). 45–49. 5 indexed citations

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Geoghegan, Mark, Richard Jones, D.S. Sivia, J. Penfold, & A.S. Clough. (1996). Experimental study of surface segregation and wetting in films of a partially miscible polymer blend. Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics. 53(1). 825–837. 29 indexed citations

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Rawlings, Steve, Mark Lacy, D.S. Sivia, & S. A. Eales. (1995). The reddened quasar 3C 22 and its implications. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 274(2). 428–434. 21 indexed citations

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Inaba, Akira, et al.. (1995). Rotational tunneling and spin conversion in methane monolayers adsorbed on the surface of graphite. Physica B Condensed Matter. 213-214. 643–645. 3 indexed citations

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Sivia, D.S.. (1994). From Bayes to tunnelling spectroscopy. Physica B Condensed Matter. 202(3-4). 332–338. 2 indexed citations

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Cox, S. F. J., et al.. (1994). Muon spin-lattice relaxation and muonium diffusion in ice. Hyperfine Interactions. 85(1). 67–72. 3 indexed citations

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Sivia, D.S.. (1993). From dice to data analysis: Maximum entropy and Bayesian methods. Neutron News. 4(2). 21–25. 1 indexed citations

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Soper, Alan K., William I. F. David, D.S. Sivia, et al.. (1992). A pair correlation function study of the structure of C₆₀. Journal of Physics Condensed Matter. 4(28). 6087–6094. 29 indexed citations

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White, John W., et al.. (1992). Temperature dependence of the lattice dynamics of Rb3C60. Chemical Physics Letters. 191(1-2). 92–96. 22 indexed citations

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Jarrell, Mark, D.S. Sivia, & Bruce R. Patton. (1990). Gap states in dilute-magnetic-alloy superconductors: A quantum Monte Carlo study. Physical review. B, Condensed matter. 42(7). 4804–4807. 33 indexed citations

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Haniff, Christopher A., et al.. (1987). The first images from optical aperture synthesis. Nature. 328(6132). 694–696. 73 indexed citations

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