Edmund Perfect

4.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
109 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Edmund Perfect is a scholar working on Environmental Engineering, Civil and Structural Engineering and Ocean Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Edmund Perfect has authored 109 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 62 papers in Environmental Engineering, 50 papers in Civil and Structural Engineering and 18 papers in Ocean Engineering. Recurrent topics in Edmund Perfect's work include Soil and Unsaturated Flow (47 papers), Groundwater flow and contamination studies (42 papers) and Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis (17 papers). Edmund Perfect is often cited by papers focused on Soil and Unsaturated Flow (47 papers), Groundwater flow and contamination studies (42 papers) and Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Analysis (17 papers). Edmund Perfect collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Spain. Edmund Perfect's co-authors include Chu‐Lin Cheng, B. D. Kay, Jianchao Cai, Álvaro Pires da Silva, Xiangyun Hu, Jie Zhuang, John S. Tyner, Hassina Bilheux, Ankur Roy and John F. McCarthy and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, Environmental Science & Technology and Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.

In The Last Decade

Edmund Perfect

105 papers receiving 3.6k 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.

Generalized Modeling of Spontaneous Imbibition Based on Hagen–Poiseuille Flow in Tortuous Capillaries with Variably Shaped Apertures

2014 522 citations Jianchao Cai, Edmund Perfect et al. Langmuir profile →
Characterization of the Least Limiting Water Range of Soils

1994 462 citations B. D. Kay, Edmund Perfect et al. Soil Science Society of America Journal profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Edmund Perfect United States	30	1.1k	1.1k	952	766	756	109	3.7k
Nima Shokri United Kingdom	43	1.3k 1.1×	1.6k 1.5×	375 0.4×	816 1.1×	656 0.9×	119	5.6k
Steffen Schlüter Germany	41	1.7k 1.6×	1.4k 1.3×	2.1k 2.2×	706 0.9×	867 1.1×	114	5.8k
Robert Ewing United States	29	792 0.7×	1.1k 1.0×	257 0.3×	626 0.8×	784 1.0×	51	3.2k
Markus Tuller United States	38	3.0k 2.7×	3.1k 2.9×	1.2k 1.3×	575 0.8×	613 0.8×	150	6.5k
Li Ren China	39	1.0k 0.9×	704 0.7×	308 0.3×	491 0.6×	1.7k 2.3×	230	4.9k
Peter Lehmann Switzerland	40	2.0k 1.8×	1.5k 1.4×	745 0.8×	927 1.2×	214 0.3×	118	5.2k
Carlos Manoel Pedro Vaz Brazil	27	822 0.7×	697 0.7×	652 0.7×	206 0.3×	243 0.3×	90	2.5k
S. W. Tyler United States	43	2.2k 1.9×	2.8k 2.7×	688 0.7×	482 0.6×	366 0.5×	144	7.0k
P. A. C. Raats United States	25	2.0k 1.7×	2.5k 2.4×	578 0.6×	743 1.0×	434 0.6×	59	4.8k
Diederik Jacques Belgium	39	2.5k 2.3×	2.6k 2.4×	405 0.4×	373 0.5×	311 0.4×	144	4.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Edmund Perfect

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McFarlane, Joanna, Lawrence M. Anovitz, Michael C. Cheshire, et al.. (2021). Water Migration and Swelling in Engineered Barrier Materials for Radioactive Waste Disposal. Nuclear Technology. 207(8). 1237–1256. 3 indexed citations

Hathaway, Jon M., et al.. (2020). The effect of stormwater infiltration and surrounding built infrastructure on local groundwater dynamics: a case study for regenerative stormwater conveyances. Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure. 6(3-4). 181–191. 4 indexed citations

Perfect, Edmund, et al.. (2020). Forward prediction of early‐time spontaneous imbibition of water in unsaturated rock fractures. Vadose Zone Journal. 19(1). 8 indexed citations

Xia, Yuxuan, Jianchao Cai, Edmund Perfect, et al.. (2019). Fractal dimension, lacunarity and succolarity analyses on CT images of reservoir rocks for permeability prediction. Journal of Hydrology. 579. 124198–124198. 138 indexed citations

McFarlane, Joanna, Andrew G. Stack, Edmund Perfect, et al.. (2018). Solvent-pore interactions in the Eagle Ford shale formation. Fuel. 238. 298–311. 42 indexed citations

Cai, Jianchao, Edmund Perfect, Chu‐Lin Cheng, & Xiangyun Hu. (2014). Generalized Modeling of Spontaneous Imbibition Based on Hagen–Poiseuille Flow in Tortuous Capillaries with Variably Shaped Apertures. Langmuir. 30(18). 5142–5151. 522 indexed citations breakdown →

Cheng, Chu‐Lin, et al.. (2013). Sensitivity of injection costs to input petrophysical parameters in numerical geologic carbon sequestration models. International journal of greenhouse gas control. 18. 277–284. 9 indexed citations

Kim, Jungwoo, Michael C. Sukop, Edmund Perfect, Yakov Pachepsky, & Heechul Choi. (2011). Geometric and Hydrodynamic Characteristics of Three-dimensional Saturated Prefractal Porous Media Determined with Lattice Boltzmann Modeling. Transport in Porous Media. 90(3). 831–846. 10 indexed citations

Perfect, Edmund, et al.. (2010). Comparison of Average and Point Capillary Pressure–Saturation Functions Determined by Steady‐State Centrifugation. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 75(1). 17–25. 18 indexed citations

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Zhou, Hu, et al.. (2010). EFFECTS OF BIT DEPTH ON THE MULTIFRACTAL ANALYSIS OF GRAYSCALE IMAGES. Fractals. 18(1). 127–138. 11 indexed citations

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Gentry, Randall W., et al.. (2010). Time and frequency domain analyses of high-frequency hydrologic and chloride data in an east Tennessee watershed. Journal of Hydrology. 387(3-4). 256–264. 19 indexed citations

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Zhuang, Jie, et al.. (2009). Colloid transport with wetting fronts: Interactive effects of solution surface tension and ionic strength. Water Research. 44(4). 1270–1278. 35 indexed citations

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Zhuang, Jie, John S. Tyner, & Edmund Perfect. (2009). Colloid transport and remobilization in porous media during infiltration and drainage. Journal of Hydrology. 377(1-2). 112–119. 46 indexed citations

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Tang, Guoping, Edmund Perfect, E.H. van den Berg, Melanie A. Mayes, & Jack Parker. (2008). Estimating Effective Hydraulic Parameters of Unsaturated Layered Sediments Using a Cantor Bar Composite Medium Model. Vadose Zone Journal. 7(2). 493–499. 4 indexed citations

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Perfect, Edmund, et al.. (2005). Anomalous Diffusion in 2-Dimensional, Random Euclidean and Prefractal Models of Heterogeneous Porous Media. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2005.

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Sukop, Michael C., et al.. (2002). Percolation Thresholds in 2-Dimensional Prefractal Models of Porous Media*. Transport in Porous Media. 48(2). 187–208. 27 indexed citations

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Perfect, Edmund. (2002). Soil fragmentation and seedbed characterization. Soil and Tillage Research. 64(1-2). 1–1.

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Perfect, Edmund, Michael C. Sukop, & Gerald R. Haszler. (2002). Prediction of Dispersivity for Undisturbed Soil Columns from Water Retention Parameters. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 66(3). 696–696. 18 indexed citations

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Perfect, Edmund, Neil B. McLaughlin, B. D. Kay, & G. C. Topp. (1998). Reply [to “Comment on ‘An Improved fractal equation for the soil water retention curve’ by E. Perfect et al.”]. Water Resources Research. 34(4). 933–935. 19 indexed citations

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Loon, W.K.P. van, Edmund Perfect, P. H. Groenevelt, & B. D. Kay. (1991). Application of dispersion theory to time domain reflectometry in soils. Transport in Porous Media. 6(4). 391–406. 18 indexed citations

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